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LAIKA,,,,the studio behind films such asBoxtrolls,Coralineandpar虫are releasing their newest stop-motion animated film next week,Kubo and the Two Strings。如果您不熟悉,定格动画涉及创建现实世界的对象和木偶,并将它们慢慢移动到单独拍照的框架之间,从而使它们具有运动的幻想。我上大学时曾经制作了20秒的停止动作电影,只花了几个小时才能拍摄(而且……很糟糕)。生产Kubo and the Two Stringstook LAIKA an incredible94周to complete, and is (of course) far superior to my own pathetic attempt.

This visually amazing film was achieved through the ingenuity and creativity of all the different film’s departments coming together, but a partnership with 3D printing companyStratasysis what helped bring the characters to life. After sourcing one of their printers as the best for what they needed, LAIKA approached Stratasys to develop software that was bit more robust for the needs of Kubo. The Moon Beast is thefirst fully 3D-printed puppetthat LAIKA has ever created. Comprised of a series of 3D-printed shells that bolt over a centralized gooseneck armature, the Moon Beast was a unique undertaking on the part of LAIKA’s Rapid Prototyping department. Ordinarily they look after just the faces and heads of the characters, while the puppet department handles the rest. For the Moon Beast, though, separating the body from the head wasn’t really an option.

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3D打印的月亮野兽和不同的木偶面。图片:inverse.com

“头部和身体之间没有明确的描述,”Director of Rapid Prototyping Brian McLean explained.“He had a very similar scale pattern across his entire body.”

月球野兽由总共130个单独的3D印刷碎片组成。尽管月球野兽的最终外观是通过一些互补的VFX工作实现的,但其中很多归结为3D打印技术本身 - 莱卡(Laika)急剧改变了这一技术Kubo

“For the first time, we could actually print translucency with color,”麦克莱恩说。

LAIKA’s unique approach to 3D printing for replacement animation earned them a Scientific and Technical Oscar, and have been using that approach sinceCoraline

“We realized that we had really pushed the performance of a stop motion character into a whole new realm,”麦克莱恩谈到这项工作Coraline,,,,“以前从未实现过的事情,但是必须绘制每个人的面孔的技巧非常费力且耗时。所以之间Coraline和我们的下一部电影par虫,我们试图建立我们的开创性的东西,并致力于使用其他类型的打印机,这是颜色的3D打印机。”

角色设计的复杂性和巨大的生产规模Kubomeant the collaboration with Stratasys was key.

“……我们一起开始合作,meant that during the course of the production ofKubo,,,,we were producing plastic color 3D printed part that literally no one else in the world had the technical capabilities of doing.”said McLean.

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The completed Moon Beast and trays of faces and features. Image: Inverse.com

Aside from the amazing technical achievements with the Moon Beast, the 70 person rapid prototyping team also printed character faces in two main sections (the brow section and the mouth section). In addition, they also printed all of the elements that go inside of a character’s head (not the brains guys, think eyeballs, eyelids, ears). This allowed the animators to use pieces to create more combinations and make characters more expressive. The more moving parts a character has, the easier it is for them to become more sophisticated in their performance on screen, and the more facial expressions it is able to articulate.
2009年,卡洛琳(这个角色)207000改性ible facial expressions. Norman, from 2012’spar虫有140万个可能的表情。Kubo拥有超过4800万个可能的面部表情,而猴子拥有3000万,甲虫拥有1300万,这部电影迄今为止,这部电影是莱卡(Laika)最雄心勃勃的项目。

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Monkey’s face was 3D printed in cyan, magenta and white. Image: Collider
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不同的牙齿插入以更大的表达。图像:对撞机
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Kubo的许多面孔被打印到3D,然后绘制。图像:对撞机

Kubo and the Two Stringsis in American cinemas on the 19th of August and stars Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey and Art Parkinson as Kubo.

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