3D printing was used by Laika Studios the creators of 'Kubo and the two strings' in conjunction with Stratasys, to print 3D characters and sets as well as thousands of expressions for the characters faces. The protagonist "Kubo" used to create the film, is only 9 inches tall yet has 11,007 unique mouth positions, 4,429 brow motions and a total of 23,187 different faces. Combined this makes 48 million different possible expressions." (3dprintingindustrycom. 2016)
A variety of possibilities have been opened up by 3D printing not just including examples like 'Kubo's' many faces etc. but also their first fully printed puppet the 'Moonbeast' they were able to quickly print 881 pieces to build a articulated model. making this by hand would have been an extremely time consuming task especially when insuring that the same level of detail is achieved. 3D printing has meant that from just one sculpture of a character many versions can be made and for example different facial expressions can be printed in a small amount of time. (Anya jaremko-greenwold. 2015)
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