Custom Action Figures of your Hero just came a step closer.
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Posted on: 2012-08-03 10:30 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
That would help a ton of game companies actually, yeah. Slick.
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that would be awesome if you could go to a store (or at home), use CoX costume creator to make a character look, and print out an action figure
The big problem is keeping copyrighted characters under control.
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Interesting and fun news!
Aside from the uses of this in geekdom for things like making action figures, I can also see applications of this kind of technology in things like the development of prosthetics, as well as a variety of artistic uses.
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Right. This also explains one reason (aside from the desire to given the people and entities involved in working on the thing some reward for their effort) why something like this is unlikely to be flung out into the wilds of the internet for anyone to use for free.* It'd open the process's developers to tremendous potential liability if third parties start using to create (and, practically speaking, sell) items that infringe another person or entity's trademarks or copyrights. At least, I imagine that's one major concern.|
Originally Posted by JayboH
The big problem is keeping copyrighted characters under control.
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*Not that it isn't likely to end up there in one way or another, sometime down the road.
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Er. Ma. GERD!! That's awesome! That'd be a perfect way for Paragon Studios to bleed-I mean raise some extra money by selling action figures of your characters!!
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I saw this article earlier today and thought the same thing. I'd love to be able to buy little 6-8" plastic action figures of my CoH characters.
Actually, I thought of something else too:
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Excellent.
This is awesome, would really love to a a few of my Spore creations as action figures.
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The technology is already being explored for that. For example, it's been used to develop a lightweight powered exoskeleton for a crippled little girl.
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Originally Posted by Olantern
Interesting and fun news!
Aside from the uses of this in geekdom for things like making action figures, I can also see applications of this kind of technology in things like the development of prosthetics, as well as a variety of artistic uses. |
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Mmm. Tasty.
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It already has been flung open: http://www.thingiverse.com/|
Originally Posted by Olantern
This also explains one reason (aside from the desire to given the people and entities involved in working on the thing some reward for their effort) why something like this is unlikely to be flung out into the wilds of the internet for anyone to use for free.* It'd open the process's developers to tremendous potential liability if third parties start using to create (and, practically speaking, sell) items that infringe another person or entity's trademarks or copyrights. At least, I imagine that's one major concern.
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As an intellectual property lawyer, this is a particularly fascinating area. Here's an interesting article exploring some of the intellectual property issues: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...-comes-of-age/
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It already has been flung open: http://www.thingiverse.com/
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That Ars Technica article clearly illustrates why this is going to be a big deal someday. Probably too late for most of us to care much about it, barring a big leap in technology, but certainly something our kids will be dealing with.
That is just awesome.
Action figures of my heroes?
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Today's pretty amazing as it is. Technology's going at light speed, the future comes a lot sooner than all of us think.
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That Ars Technica article clearly illustrates why this is going to be a big deal someday. Probably too late for most of us to care much about it, barring a big leap in technology, but certainly something our kids will be dealing with.
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Very interesting article, Slick, thanks. I have been ready to buy these since forever. And I want to buy a bunch of them.
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That was a really interesting article (the other links were interesting, too). It's also nice to see an IP specialist commenting on this sort of thing.
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
As an intellectual property lawyer, this is a particularly fascinating area. Here's an interesting article exploring some of the intellectual property issues: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...-comes-of-age/
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As a player and artist I am constantly amazed at how we are progressing. Some years ago (maybe 8-10?) I went to the San Diego comicon. I really enjoyed the Artist's Alley area. There were people with oil works, and really fine stuff. This year I went to theSeattle Comiccon. They had an artists Alley, but the only "Old School" art (made by hand, 100% drawn/painted were pencil and charcoal sketches.) Anything more was done half or more on the comp, then printed and worked. No artist seemed willing to share their personal technique. I have drawn a long time, and do some oil painting as well. I have taken many college level art classes. I can only surmise everyone is using various programs to generate characters/models (like our beloved City of Heroes character generator) then getting an output and adding a few flourishes. There is nothing inherently wrong in this, it is just a new and evolving technique. I bring this up because of these 3-D printers. Soon we will be able to render full characters in glorious 3D. This will not detract from traditional sculptors work. It is just a different way to get an output. However, just cause you hit the print button on the first random generated character that CoH threw your way doesn't make you Michelangelo either lol.
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Technically, since technology is still increasing in speed, then we know it's not yet at light speed, because that's the cosmic speed limit, and we have yet to develop working FTL devices.
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Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
Today's pretty amazing as it is. Technology's going at light speed, the future comes a lot sooner than all of us think.
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Go to YouTube and search for Objet. It a 3d printer, if you have $20,000 you can have a desktop printer for yourself.
According to this Harvard Gazette Article:
The really cool thing here is that the "printed" product is pre-assembled and fully articulated. It just needs a paint job.
According to the article, the software is being shown next week as part of a Siggraph presentation. Harvard is already in the process of acquiring a patent. Given that and also given the backing of the project by big names like Pixar, it seems unlikely that we'll see any version of it released to the hobbyist space. They're going to try to find a way to commercialize the Hell out of it, I reckon. Still, it's the kind of thing that makes me excited enough to consider trying my hand at building one of the hobbyist 3-D printer plans that are out there.
One of the interesting things about it is that "action figures" were reasonably hefty. Many of these sorts of things that people have attempted in the past tended to be in the 3" - 4" size range. The figures in the video are more like 6"-8", which is about the size you'd like to see in something you were going to pose on your desk or a shelf.
There are a ton of applications beyond just "action figure of my Hero or Villain". Imagine a City of Heroes board game with custom-printed playing pieces featuring your super group. Imagine your own customized Heroclix, for instance. Imagine a PnP RPG makes it to print one day, and in addition to generic figures, you have figures based upon your characters from the game.
Something like this would also be of great help to the development staff of a MMO like City of Heroes. Matt holds a brainstorming session with the graphics department. David draws up some concept art. Dink creates some preliminary models. Then they print actual 3-D articulated models of her concepts and at the next meeting everyone can see the first draft of their ideas in real life.
Pretty exciting stuff, IMO. I will be very interested to see what Harvard and Pixar,et al end up doing with this software once they decide to package it and make it available for general purchase.