Jun 30, 2015 | By Alec
With games increasingly becoming a term for the digital variety, one designer duo reminds us that our futuristic 3D printers can also be used to give physical shape to objects that only exist digitally. They have used their 3D printer to recreate the infamous Angry Birds app as a playable tabletop game, and has graciously shared all of his excellent designs for home use.
The designers in question are Marco Autilio and Lloyd Roberts, of which the Italian Marco was kind enough to talk to us about this original take on an App that everyone has already played. As he explained to 3ders.org, he is just a novice in the 3D printing business. ‘I'm an Italian product designer and just three months ago I first approached the huge world of the 3D printing. At the moment I'm working as an intern with the myminifactory design team, from which I'm learning the basic rules to get good prints,’ he explains.
Looking for a fun project to tackle that featured fun small toys, he teamed up with designer Lloyd Roberts to recreate the angry birds app in real life. ‘After a research about the existing 3D angry birds models, we realized that the average of the quality wasn't giving the right "dignity" (not even the industrially produced ones) to this beloved videogame , so I decided to design them properly for a 3D printed table version’ he explains. This was remarkably easy, using Rhino 3D for modeling – with a touch of Zbrush – while keeping a close eye on the videogame references.
The result is an impressive game set, complete with six birds(Terence, Red, Chuck, Matilda, Bomb, Hal and The Blues), four pigs(Minion, Foreman, Corporal and King), as well as three sets of fortress blocks (of which you can obviously print multiples). A fully functional slingshot for launching the birds is already provided. ‘Just like the app game version the purpose of the game is to destroy the pigs' fortress using the birds as "bullets" for the slingshot,’ Marco explains. This should be a very fun game for playing with your kids, so be sure to check out Marco and Lloyd’s designs on myminifactory.
If you do 3D print this fun game, the entire process should be fairly simple. ‘The version we've done, which I recommend, was printed in PLA with 0.2 resolution and 10% infill for the characters & slingshot. The blocks though had different densities (80% infill for the stone blocks, 60% for the wood ones and 20% for the ice ones) to make sure they would react differently when impacted with the birds,’ Marco explains. This means you can have plenty of fun with this set and your kids won’t be bored after day one. For what parent wants their kids sitting in front of PC screens all day? That can wait until they’re adults.
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