{"id":625,"date":"2010-10-25T04:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/625-dot-the-worlds-smallest-animated-character-3d-printed-of-course.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:59:30","slug":"dot-the-worlds-smallest-animated-character-3d-printed-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/dot-the-worlds-smallest-animated-character-3d-printed-of-course","title":{"rendered":"Dot, The Worlds Smallest Animated Character: 3D Printed, Of Course."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video behind the scenes at Aardman and what went in to making the world&#8217;s smallest character animated film using <b>50 3D printed models, hand painted with microscope and tweezers.<\/b>&nbsp; The models were printed at only 9 mm in height which according to the Guinness Book of World Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CD7eagLl5c4&amp;feature=channel\" target=\"_blank\">Dot<\/a> is the smallest model of her type, and was shot using a Nokia N8 to celebrate the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blumcenter.berkeley.edu\/global-poverty-initiatives\/mobile-phones-rural-health\/remote-disease-diagnosis\">Cellscope<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Note: This does not mean it is ok to do all your images &amp; videos on Shapeways with your cell phone!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XTbzSiwbRfg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" name=\"movie\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\"><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\"><embed width=\"640\" height=\"385\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XTbzSiwbRfg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Warning! 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