3D facemaking machine for dolls

January 14, 2011

3D facemaking machine for dolls

Here is a machine designed specifically to make tiny, 3D printed faces from photographs..

... which you can then use in doll- and plushmaking of your choice.

Beautifully specific and weird.

Posted by Alice at 20:02 | Permalink

Comments

Very cool - I wonder if it creates faces small enough to use in making pendants?

Posted by: Lonesome Road Studio | January 15, 2011 at 14:39

They don't show it in profile... that's the hard part. The one axis that the original picture doesn't provide, they don't provide here either. If they've done real work here (sensing for cheekbones, etc) then they should be proud of it, right?

Posted by: steve | January 15, 2011 at 15:35

From the picture, it looks like they're just printing the picture onto plastic, and then thermo-forming it over a face-shaped mold. No 3d printing involved.

Posted by: James | January 15, 2011 at 16:57

Great for the back window ledge and the car pool lane.

Posted by: Carson | January 15, 2011 at 18:30

They're not really using a 3D model of a face I'm assuming. That's shows really good reporting, btw, leaving your readers guessing the details.

Posted by: DNA | January 15, 2011 at 18:41

Haha, love it. I'd like to make a mine own copy of myself :D It should be fun

Posted by: starralex76 | January 15, 2011 at 23:34

I guess if you print onto a 3D form, it's 3D printing, but it's not what I imagined from the title. I have played with a 3D scanner and scanning a face for production in a real 3D printer would be interesting... the technology could be combined with this machine to achieve the coloring if a photo was taken at the same time. Now THAT would be creepy and cool.

Posted by: Dean Lilja | January 15, 2011 at 23:55

@James: Yes, that appears to b the case. Another sales catalog has a similar machine that makes it clearer what the process is:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/330013238/3D_Doll_Machine.html

Posted by: bob_d | January 31, 2011 at 20:37