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Project: Alieno in 3D
Large-format 3D printing for the entertainment industry: an alien figure taller than a person, printed in sections instead of built in a mould, light enough to move and set up by hand.
In the entertainment industry a stage figure taller than a person has to survive assembly, transport and stage lights, and stay light and easy to handle at the same time. In fibreglass it needs a plug and a mould, weeks of work that a one-off never pays back; machined from a solid block it becomes heavy to lift and to secure on stage.
A character at stage scale, faithful to the design down to the slender arms and the long fingers, light to move and to set up, with a surface ready for finishing.
The figure was 3D printed with the NUGAE system and split into sections: head and chest, body, arms and hands. No mould, no plug, no solid block to machine. The sections join together during the set-up and the arms go on last: they travel protected and, if one is damaged, only that one is reprinted.
No mould and no plug to build
Light to move and to set up, even in tight spaces
Separate sections: simpler transport and replacement of a single part
Slender arms and long fingers obtained with no core and no machining
Surface ready for filler, paint and stage lights
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