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Entries from April 2010
Thursday, April 29. 2010
Draw it Co-Creator Contest
Enter the Draw It Co-Creator Contest.
Artur lead the way in showing us all how anyone can co-design for 3D printing.
As a designer you can use that idea to work together with someone in
order to create something unique with them. We know that there is much
more creativity to explore in this area, that's why we're doing the
Draw it contest. Who can come up with the most interactive, fun and
expressive co-creator that has a hand drawn drawing as its input? Who can design the best combination of drawing and 3D printing?
- 1ste prize is $100 coupon for 3D printing
- the top 3 models will be featured on the Shapeways homepage for one week
- The top 5 winning models will get their model printed for free
- You can enter until the 30th of May.
Wednesday, April 28. 2010
Full Color 3D Print Student Contest
Calling all Students
Want to test your 3D modeling skills, have your object 3D printed in full color by Shapeways and win $100 worth of 3D printing?
The 2010 Shapeways Full Color 3D Print Student Contest is looking for the most creative and innovative model that can be 3D printed in full color. If you are an animation student you could 3D print your lead character, if you are an industrial design student you could 3D print your next prototype, if you are a medical student you could 3D print a dissected toe, the possibilities are open to you.
Simply upload your full color model to Shapeways by the 31st of May with the tag “Student Contest” and you will be in the running to win. The five best models will be printed for free by Shapeways and sent to your door. The winning design will also receive $100 worth of Shapeways 3D printing services.
Want to test your 3D modeling skills, have your object 3D printed in full color by Shapeways and win $100 worth of 3D printing?
The 2010 Shapeways Full Color 3D Print Student Contest is looking for the most creative and innovative model that can be 3D printed in full color. If you are an animation student you could 3D print your lead character, if you are an industrial design student you could 3D print your next prototype, if you are a medical student you could 3D print a dissected toe, the possibilities are open to you.
Simply upload your full color model to Shapeways by the 31st of May with the tag “Student Contest” and you will be in the running to win. The five best models will be printed for free by Shapeways and sent to your door. The winning design will also receive $100 worth of Shapeways 3D printing services.
Judging criteria will include:
- Beauty of Form,
- Use of Color,
- Originality and
- Community votes (so get your friends to register to vote).
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Wednesday, April 14. 2010
Co-Creator Creativity in Co-Design Contest winners announced
We had a lot of response to our “Co-Creator Creativity in Co-Design Contest” (seriously – who came up with THAT name?
. To recap, the aim of the contest was to create surprising, beautiful designs that are a good showcase of our Co-Creator platform.With a Co-Creator, a real designer somewhere on the internet will adapt his or her design just for you. They will tell you the kinds of changes that can be made, you give them your input and off they go!
Some participants ran into a problem with our tagging service, so we took a good hard look at the recently submitted creator models to make sure we didn't miss anything (and yeah, we fixed that pesky bug).
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