SIGGRAPH was in a word: overwhelming. I had never gone and so was
surprised at the size of it. The companies that are there range from
DreamWorks to Autodesk to Intel and some people put on an amazing
show. Our booth was tiny in comparison to the big boys(it was a bit
bigger than the cupboard that Pixar used to store its snack food) but
we were busy the whole time talking to members and met lots and lots
of people. We got a lot of questions about the materials, durability
and cost of printing but most of all people loved to touch the
materials and get a up close and personal look at the designs.
GasGuy got a lot of...
interest from the Zbrush crowd and we
used it to show people the level of detail that was possible with 3D
printing. Women swooned over FireHusky and Sophie. Robert(our COO)
and myself were completely adicted to Moebius Ants and could not stop
playing with them. Someone else actually liked that model so much
they stole it from our stand and we were lucky to have a second one
as a back-up. Sailboat fascinated people because they didn't think
that something like that was possible with 3D printing.The sci-fi
people loved the Mech v3 model and we were so relieved that we
managed to print it and get it there at the last moment.
On the last day it seemed like everyone was wearing a Shapeways
lanyard and it seemed like we all had been talking for 4 days
straight. Which in fact we had. We didn't have much time to attend
all the talks and lectures because all six of us had been so busy. By
far the most fun was talking to Shapeways community members that
stopped by. Brody, the designer of Little Lieutenant even dropped in
to say Hi and pick up his model. The only terrible thing about
SIGGRAPH was that it seems that all of us shapies are
photographically challenged so we didn't really get good pictures of
our stand or the models.So if any of the people that stopped by
managed to get good pictures, please send them to us!