{"id":59401,"date":"2012-07-19T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=59401"},"modified":"2012-07-19T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:32:05","slug":"weta-workshop-moves-to-3d-printing-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/19\/59401-weta-workshop-moves-to-3d-printing-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Weta Workshop uses 3D printing for helmets, axes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/kiwi-ingenuity-behind-weta-workshop-s-latest-technology-4977588\" target=\"_blank\">this One News report<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Richard Taylor<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pietro Marson<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rod Sheeny<\/span> (Weta Workshop Animatronics) talk about how  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Weta Workshop<\/span> is using 3D printers to make weapons and props for The Hobbit and the Lord of The Rings trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>Animatronics engineer, Rod Sheehy, says that the printing technology is an advantage because it keeps costs down with the items made in-house, saving a lot of time and Taylor says that they&#8217;ve used the tech to make helmets, sword hilts and axes. Thanks to Ringer Marc for the heads-up!<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTRwtLCNRAk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this One News report Richard Taylor, Pietro Marson and Rod Sheeny (Weta Workshop Animatronics) talk about how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,99,495,496,77,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-miscellaneous","category-production","category-taylor","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fs5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59401"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59430,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59401\/revisions\/59430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}