{"id":40458,"date":"2020-05-28T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=40458"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:12:08","slug":"3d-printing-your-video-game-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/3d-printing-your-video-game-character","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Your Video Game Character"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Video gaming isn\u2019t all fun and games: it\u2019s a\nmassive and fast-growing global industry. Around two billion gamers around the\nworld are driving the $120 billion-plus market<\/a> — estimated to\napproach $200 billion in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both game and gamer are only going to continue\nto grow more complex. Graphics never dreamed of in my childhood with pixelated\nKool-Aid Man on Atari are showing detailed worlds with individually\nconfigurable characters. And with so many hours spent building, developing, and\nleveling up those characters, of course players are becoming attached to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So attached that it\u2019s becoming only natural to\nwant to bring those 2D characters into the third dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3D\nPrinting From A Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To date, most 3D printing of video game\ncharacters has been up to individual efforts and pretty labor-intensive.\nShapeways has developed tutorials<\/a> on how to export game files into 3D\nsoftware to clean up, make watertight, and 3D print. Here\u2019s a look at how\nZBrush can help there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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