WoW Insider interviews Ed Fries, founder of FigurePrints

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12-12-2007 @ 12:28PM

JeffDM said...

Frankly, the figures sound quite inexpensive to me. I looked into a rapid prototyper a few years ago, it was $25,000 then, it hadn't dropped much in the last couple years either. This machine sounds like it might be a custom unit, which could get very expensive, then there's the custom software too. Then it sounds like you have artists hand painting them. Even if it's called rapid prototyping, it can be quite slow, as mentioned.

12-12-2007 @ 5:06PM

vlad said...

color rapid prototyper with a 10" area is roughly $40k consumables for a intricatly detailed 10" multicolor object including inks and zp 131 composite polymer is about $20

y'all need to L2google

12-12-2007 @ 5:39PM

JeffDM said...

The figure I mentioned was for a rapid prototyper that couldn't add color - just pale / clear and making an object out of ABS. Still, those are far from the only expenses involved in making this though.

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