How much access do you have to a 3D printer? What would you do if you had weeks of time on your hands and a couple spools of filament lying around? Perhaps you would make a two second stop-motion ...

[Jame’s] work shows that there many ways to do stop motion animation, perhaps a part of what makes it so much fun. One of those ways is to 3D print a separate object for each character shape.

The film achieved a new level of expressiveness in its animated puppets ... other stop-motion films like "Coraline" laid the groundwork for the implementation of 3D printing technology in "Pinocchio." ...