How 3D printed cars were created to spare the original while filming Skyfall

Thanks for posting. Wasn't my blogspam, just first place I saw it.

They made 3 copies of the car and used them for purposes that would clearly consume said car. That's 3 lost sales. So did they pay royalties or were those pirated cars?

It's not irony, it's hypocrisy. As it always has been. IP isn't about money per se so much as it's about power.

Don't do that. It isn't clever and doesn't belong here. They 3d printed pieces to assemble 3 non-functioning 1:3 scale models to be shot and blown up. That's awesome and exciting. Your irrational arguments on a completely unrelated topic have no place in this thread.

I wonder when "real-object-warez" becomes an actual reality. The technology is slowly getting there.

Oh, I don't know. The impressive part of things like that I think (and by impressive, I mean the part that I can't see myself being capable of, no matter the training or practice), is the artistic design.

Instead of spending their time gluing small plastic things together those artists can now use CAD and have a 3d printer to do grunt work. Less glamorous I suppose, but I think that 3d printers represent a far more modest change to them than CGI (how many physical models were created for the 3 most recent Star Wars films?).

For the lost 'tough innovation opportunity' - yes, too bad.

But those same artists can now create a hundred or thousand individually different Wookies or Tie Fighters or many fully animated Na'avi [or Gungan].

The creativity is not lost - it's now massively leveraged.