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General Category => News => Topic started by: kat on July 03, 2014, 01:42:07 AM

Title: 3D Printed Kids' Toys Design Challenge
Post by: kat on July 03, 2014, 01:42:07 AM


Pinshape (https://pinshape.com) is happy to announce the 3D  Printed Kids' Toys Design Challenge (https://pinshape.com/3d-printing-kids-toys-design-challenge). We've teamed with some great 3D industry partners to offer an  amazing set of prizes to entrants, and hopefully brighten the day of sick kids through the magic of 3D printing. We'll not only provide physical prizes to the winners, but we'll will give them access to a huge audience on Amazon.com, who Pinshape recently teamed up with, and most importantly, we'll  donate 3D printed versions of the top toys to the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Theme
Kids Toys - static figurines, action figures, puzzles, games/game  pieces, etc

Partner Companies
Pixologic (http://pixologic.com/), Wacom (http://www.wacom.com/en/us/), Sculpteo (http://www.sculpteo.com/en/), Clara.io (https://clara.io/), Digital-Tutors (http://www.digitaltutors.com/)

Judges
Adam Ross (http://www.idolworkshop.com/ (http://www.idolworkshop.com/)) - Professional  3D print artist. Works include Iron Man 3, Wolverine, Captain  America, Robocop, Oblivion, Pacific Rim, and many more
Joe Menna (http://www.theartofjosephmenna.com/ (http://www.theartofjosephmenna.com)) - Professional 3D print artist. Works include DC Collectibles, McFarlane Toys, Dark Horse Comics, Gentle  Giant Ltd., Bowen Designs, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, and more
Greg Callahan (http://www.gcallahan.com/ (http://gcallahan.com/)) - Professional 3D Character and Toy artist. Works include Marvel, Sideshow Toys,  Dragon Age, Sony, Digital Art Masters, Serpa Power, and many more.
Klim Kozinevich (hpp://www.bigshottoyworks.com/ (http://www.bigshottoyworks.com)) - Over 20 years of experience in character based product design, and the  entertainment industry. Works include mascot characters, hand-sculpting prototypes to overseeing production of best-selling  toys for mass market. An innovator in every area of the industry.
Paul Gaboury (http://www.pixologic.com/ (http://www.Pixologic.com)) - Pixologic's 3D product Development Manager. Works with major studios including  Legacy Effects, Disney Animation, Bad Robot, Pixar, Hasbro, Sideshow Collectibles, and many more. Involved in everything ZBrush.

Dates
June 25 - August 1

Prizes
About Pinshape
We are a Mountain View based startup company that is creating a premier 3D printing marketplace. We are focused on making it simple to find  great 3D printed products from the industry's best designers (exclusive, manually approved designer pool) and allow people to print designs at home on your own printer, or have our professional print service print and ship them to their door. We are a combination of Etsy, Pinterest and iTunes for 3D printing.

We're different than the other people out there right now for a few important reasons:
The launch of the contest will coincide with our site redesign, which you can see some previews of here: https://dribbble.com/dembsky/projects/214336-Pinshape (https://dribbble.com/dembsky/projects/214336-Pinshape)

We are part of Batch 9 of the 500 Startups (http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/30/500-startups-accelerator-batch-9/) accelerator program.

Please get in touch at 650-889-6110, or info@pinshape.com


[Disclosure: this is not a paid listing nor is katsbits affiliated with the above competition]