3D Print A TCAF-Inspired Souvenir
The 2014 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) will welcome an exciting lineup of artists and illustrators from around the world to the Toronto Reference Library on Saturday May 10 and Sunday May 11.
The Digital Innovation Hub at the Reference Library has partnered with TCAF on a fun 3D printing project.
Starting on Friday, May 9, you can download three different 3D objects from the Hub's Thingiverse page that are based on this year's TCAF poster (see above) by award-winning Canadian illustrator Michael DeForge.
You can'then print these files using the Hub's 3D printer.
The 3D objects were created by Digital Innovation Hub staff member Alex Dimitrov (pictured below) – with permission from and thanks to TCAF and Michael DeForge. Thanks also to Nicolas Di Lollo for suggesting this project idea.
Check out a photo gallery below of the three 3D objects that you can 3D print. Each image shows a screenshot of the 3D design file on the left; and on the right, the resulting 3D print is shown juxtaposed against the portion of the TCAF poster that it was inspired from.
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That is Amazing work by Alex of the Digital Innovation Hub, taking the 2D objects in the 2014 Toronto Comic Arts Festival poster and bringing some of them to life by developing them as 3D printable objects
TCAF is The Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It is a week long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world. Other Festival events include readings, interviews, panels, workshops, gallery shows, art installations, and much more. Since 2009, TCAF has been held at Toronto Reference Library in Toronto, Canada, and presented by Toronto Public Library.
I invite everyone to come down to the Toronto Reference Library this Friday with the kick off the whole weekend of free events with the 2014 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9th 10th & 11th!
Starting with a two Canadian cartooning dynamos in conversation of their art and how the industry has changed over the years.–to take place this Friday, May 9th, 2014 in The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon from 7:30pm-8:30pm. The event is free to attend, so get your tickets now
Lynn Johnston the creator of the popular newspaper strip Better Or For Worse
and Kate Beaton, a Canadian cartoonist. Her first strip collection, Never Learn Anything From History, has been a bestseller for Publisher Topatoco since its release in 2009, and her 2012 release, published by Drawn & Quarterly also called Hark! A Vagrant, was a New York Times Best Seller.
Below is a link to the floor plan of exhibitors at the Toronto Reference Library to help you a long the way .. Enjoy !
http://torontocomics.com/attending-tcaf/schedule-and-floor-map/
I wish every school will soon have 3d printers such as this one: http://htpoint.com/news/the-next-generation-of-printing-3d-printers/ that will make learning just so much fun and more creative.