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I’m back from the japan Expo tradeshow (180 000 visitors expected!) and this edition has been a real success! If you read the french, I advise you to read the french version of this post which have more details!

This year, we had a booth shared with Sculpteo, a 3D printing company and a 3D color printer from ZCorp (Z650). It has been a good way to do presentation from virtual to real, with sculpted objects made in ZBrush and then, 3D prints!

I also learn a lot of new things related to 3D printing, which will be a great help for future productions…. and tutorials!

Our booth!

The crowd was impressive, especially on saturday, with a good mix between girls and boys (55% / 45% I think) with nice cosplay to look at :p Unfortunately, I didn’t really have a lot of time to visit the trade show as we were only two on the booth for the Pixologic side. But, well.. it’s my 5th Japan Expo, then I guess I didn’t miss something huge (perhaps a sign from Tsukasa Hojo…)

Some Cat's Eye girls

The crowd!

We also had on the booth some speed sculpting done by Bibouik, Pam / Pandorabox and Cyril, in addition to my speed sculpting and demos. I also did a comic character… a dog! with the artist beside me. I’ll do a dedicated post later as it was very interesting!

But the real crazy aspect was the printer on the booth. It has been a real magnet for visitors, to see how easy is to sculpt with ZBrush and then, how easy it was to have your own 3D models in your hands. Then it has been a good opportunity to have some of my models and speed sculpting printed! I also had my Mangalore (from the movie the Fifth Element) and Liu Lin models printed in 30cms height!!

Some sculpt-on-booth models. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo...

Liu Lin and the Mangalore. In the middle, a 15cms height robot

Hey, it's me!! Photo by Benoit Rogez from 3DVF.com

During the tradeshow, I recorded the printing process. Sorry for the poor quality and the captions are in french…

Then, it has been a very good tradeshow, a lot of cool visitors which were peased to discover ZBrush and the 3D printing, with a lot of questions. I hope to see you next year at this tradeshow!

And to finish, a short gallery. Sorry, the pictures comments are in french !

For the 5th time, I will be at Japan Expo this year, on the Pixologic booth to do live presentation of ZBrush. Japan Expo is a real large event with 180 000 visitors expected this year!

For this new edition, Pixologic decided with our partners Wacom and Sculpteo to do everything big! We are sharing the same booth to do a full presentation from 2D to “real” 3D: Create a concept in 2D on a Wacom pentablet, Sculpt it in ZBrush in 3D and then… print it directly with the help of Sculpteo! Yes, we will have a ZCorp Z650 3D color printer on our booth!

Then come and say hello at our booth, ask for help on ZBrush and if you want to demonstrate your skills, feel free to do it, even in live in front of everybody!

If you want to visit us, the tradeshow will be from July 1st to July 4th in Villepinte, in the north of Paris. We are in the booth BH 38 and if you are looking at me, ask from Thomas from Pixologic on the booth, we are three Thomas!

This is a close up of the 3D printing. It’s a small one, then some details are missing. We should have the same but in 30cms height, which will be a lot better

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