Using 3-D Printing to Build a Small-Scale Figure of a Giant Creature-WIRED

Lead systems engineer Jason Lopes walks us through the process of creating a maquette—a 10 to 18-inch 3-D figure—which gives the team a tangible and highly detailed representation of the creature.

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Using 3-D Printing to Build a Small-Scale Figure of a Giant Creature-WIRED

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HOW TO MAKE A GIANT CREATURE - The Webseries

Produced by Stan Winston School for the WIRED channel:

In Association with:

Legacy Effects
Condé Nast Entertainment
Stratasys

Executive Producers - Matt Winston & Erich Grey Litoff

Producers - John Ales & David Sanger

Director of Photography - John Ales

Production Coordinators - Maggie Sayer, Teresa Loera

Camera Department:
Camera - John Ales
Camera - Jake Borowski
Camera - Ben Saltzman
Camera - Peter Gould
Sound - Chris Trueman
Production Intern - Nick Norton

Post-Production:
Lead Editor - Damien Acker
Editor and Live Editorial Lead - Yukako Shimada
Editor - Peter Gould
Editor - Jacob Goodman
Assistant Editors - Jake Borowski, Ben Saltzman

Giant Creature LIVE Team:
Live Coordinator - Christopher Vaughan
Live Editorial - Yukako Shimada
Camera - Jake Borowski
Camera - Peter Gould
Camera - Ben Saltzman
Sound - Chris Trueman
Giant Creature Live Assistant - Ryan Cultrera
Production Intern - Nick Norton

Social Media for SWSCA - Andy Franco

GIANT CREATURE CREATED BY LEGACY EFFECTS

Giant Creature Project Supervisor - Alan Scott

DESIGN:
Jim Charmatz
Kourtney Coats
Darnell Isom
Scott Patton
Greg Smith
Won-Il Song
Bodin Sterba

RAPID-PROTOTYPING:
Jason Lopes

ART DEPARTMENT:
David Monzingo - Supervisor
Vance Hartwell
Trevor Hensley
Akihito Ikeda
Mark Maitre
Mike Manzel
Jason Matthews
Paul Mejias
Rob Ramsdell
Christopher Swift

FABRICATION DEPARMENT:
Dawn Dininger
Ted Haines
Bruce D. Mitchell
Tracey Roberts
Amy Whetsel

PAINTERS:
John Cherevka
Jamie S. Grove
Derek Rosengrant

MODEL DEPARTMENT:
David Merritt - Supervisor
Brian Claus
Ken Cornett
Jesse Gee
James Springham

MECHANICAL DEPARMENT:
Peter Weir Clarke
David Covarrubias
Rich Haugen
Seth Hays
Hiroshi 'Kan' Ikeuchi
Jim Kundig
Richard Landon
Lon Muckey
Brain Namanny

ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT
Rodrick Khachatoorian

MOLD DEPARTMENT:
Damian Fisher - Supervisor
Javier Contreras
Tony Contreras
Lou Diaz
Jeff L. Deist
Chris Grossnickle
Mike MacFarlane
Jacob Roanhaus
Jaime Siska
Gary Yee
Chris Zega

FOAM DEPARTMENT
Cory Czekaj - Supervisor
Ken Culver
Jacob Roanhaus

HAIR DEPARTMENT:
Michael Ornelaz - Supervisor
Connie Grayson Criswell