Combining traditional film-making with 3D printing
Berlin based French artist, Julien Maire has combined the principles of an age-old film technique with 3D printing technology to produce his latest piece for an iMAL exhibition, Relief.
Taking inspiration form the traditional flip book style of film making to produce the illusion of motion, the artist produced a series of stereolithographic 3D printed figures in clear material on a FormLabs Form 1 3D printer.
Each figure has been printed is a different pose to form the illusion of a man digging. These were positioned in front a light source on a moving belt which rotates the figures into position to become a still frame in the film.
iMAL explains the idea behind ‘Relief’:
“In French, "3D cinema" was also called "relief cinema" (relief as in "relief map" or "bas-relief"). The term went out of style when we were forced to admit that "relief cinema" didn't exist. "Relief" evokes materiality, while "3D" is commonly understood as a mathematical and computational concept. Through expanding & contracting pieces, and stereolithographic projections, Julien Maire's installations indirectly address new technologies, media archaeology and manipulate fiction.”
The project is a form of ‘Media Archaeology’, a new science which looks at how the view of our world is transformed through film. Maire has been using advanced technologies in his work for over a decade and has incorporated machines from Ultimaker, Mendel DIY and FormLabs into several pieces.
