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Prague-based software developer Additive Appearance has signed an agreement with stop-motion studio LAIKA to add its PrismSlicer renderer to the 3D printing tools available to the studio’s artists. The software estimates how color and translucency will look in a PolyJet print before the part is produced, with the goal of a predictable match between a digital design and the physical object.
The agreement addresses a recurring problem in full-color 3D printing: what appears on screen does not always translate to the printed part, and each mismatch can mean another print. For LAIKA, which prints hundreds of thousands of detailed faces for every film, reducing those extra rounds affects both production tim