Interviews

Tomasz Rozkosz, the founder and leader of one of the best known 3D design teams – SQUIR, doesn’t attempt to sugar-coat the career in 3D industry – it’s tough and competitive, and occasional cheating clients can inject a lot of disappointment into your professional life… But he also agrees that the idea of his work outliving him makes it all seem worthy the hard work. Tomasz confessed he's so swamped with work he doesn't have...

Humster3D is a team of designers passionate about cars. If you adore cars just as much as they do, it's very likely you'll enjoy their portfolio containing 3,425 models. Recently they have begun developing gadget and weapon models and have also designed an extraordinary 3D printable character from a fantasy book... When it comes to leading a diverse business, these guys know how to do it all. Tell us about yourself - what do you...

Alexander Bereznyak (aka OneSkullADay) works in video game industry. He came across 3D printing as he was fascinated by the opportunity to materialize his ideas and believes the technology will go as far as printing humans. His disappointment with reality inspires him to create well-known characters in a form of skulls. Alexander is aware of the trends that can please the crowd and is quite sure of what one should do to be as popular...

Woody64 is a graphic designer, who is into creating 3D printable LEGO parts. He was initially inspired by the lack of available LEGO parts for Napoleonic times. Woody64 claims that his LEGO items are not only for children, his target audience ranges from 15 to 60-year-olds. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the 3D printing industry? I've started 3D printing more then 6 years ago as a simple...

Posted on Dec 9, 2014 by Stijn van der Linden This article originally appeared on medium.com For a couple of years I have been publishing 3d printable designs via sharing platforms such as Thingiverse and Youmagine. But I got more than I bargained for. Sharing is fun I wanted to share these designs, so people could print them for personal use and enjoy them at home. Hence I decided to publish them under a Creative...

NoneCG is a team of talented designers from Japan and Spain. They mostly design computer graphics designs, but are looking into 3D printing too now. NoneCG think that a computer is an amazing tool in the hands of talented artists, but in the end it is just a tool. They claim that great models can be produced with much simpler tools depending solely on the skills and masterly of the designer. They are now releasing...

John Hoagland also known as Vanishingpoint is a CG artist from the US, who started making models in the 80s. John was always into drawing and sketching, but he could never draw a human, hence chose to become a programmer. He is self-taught, but the first one to make X-Wing Fighter, B-Wing Fighter, AT-AT, and other Star Wars vehicles that were fully rigged for the use in Poser. Currently he is focusing on vehicles and...

Xavier Dabrowski is a French stone carver, who began making 3D models as a hobby. He truly believes that nothing is impossible to design. Though he makes 3D models of sculptures, buildings, horses, movie characters, he genuinely enjoys designing pinups. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the 3D printing industry? Born in 1972 in Paris, I discovered 3D modeling on Autocad as a Stone carver when designing the...

Clint O'Connor has devoted his life to driving change in the world and has never been short of ideas how to do it. He got his B.A. degree in Physics, went to MIT for Electrical Engineering supplemental courses and then started a PhD degree, but went on to start a company instead. Afterwards he worked for Dell and retired as a Distinguished Technologist having 35 US and 9 international patents to date. As a deaf...

One of the most important rules in life is to surround yourself with inspiring people. It isn't always easy to talk to the heads of high-flying start-ups in person - not because they look down their noses at aspiring entrepreneurs, but simply because they're often overrun with targets, projects and commitments... So here we are, stealing a precious hour of Niko Klansek's, the CEO of the urban cycling start-up FlyKly that has already recognized the...