moreinfo@3dsystems.com www.3dsystems.com www.printin3d.com © Copyright 2011 by 3D Systems Corporation. All rights reserved. TM The traditional means of achieving stop-motion facial expression animation has been through the hand-crafting of clay models, and has typically been limited to a range of broad expressions with little in the way of subtle expression in-betweens. For this reason, many conventional stop-motion films have had an overall pantomime feel to them. With the introduction of 3D Systems’ full-color ZPrinter® 650 to LAIKA’s 2012 production of ParaNorman, however, animators were able to achieve a final product that was remarkably more life-like than ever before. With the ZPrinter, LAIKA was able to print over 8,000 unique expressions, up from the mere hundreds that were

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