Earlier this week I finally recorded melting my 3D printed walker dude. All the work of getting those models printed, cleaned up, and using a sharpie to make part of the base black, all that destroyed in one day. Once I had everything set up and tested, tested, and tested again, it took me only half a day to melt them all.

Since this is a destructive process, I set up three cameras (four if you count the stereo rig as two) to increase the chance of getting good, useable footage. Unfortunately a phone call distracted me when I was about to record print number 21, and I failed to restart the recording for the stereo camera rig. I may have let out an expletive or two when I realized. I had to re-print that model, clean it up, etc. Luckily that was the only one that (partially) failed, and I was able to redo that take the next day.

I have started processing the footage and the first results are… interesting. And I think in a good way.

Not sure what I am going to do with the left over plastic.

Could not help myself and recorded them separately. There are not quite enough of them to create and animation like the creepy military guy did in Tomasz Bagiński’s animation Fallen Art, but I still call this Melted Art. I think I will add some audio and make it into a YouTube short. [UPDATE: I did]

On to postproduction!