Roundtable Productions, LLC

A few years ago, we greatly increased our production capabilities by purchasing a 3D Printer. This month we began experimenting with consumer-oriented products that would showcase the capabilities of our designers and the 3D Printer. As an experiment, we posted some specially designed dice, like those used to play board games, on the craft marketplace Etsy.

Here is an example of the Steampunk Six-sided Dice:

Roundtable helped out a friend with a personal project and and needed to deliver a quality costume with props in a short time frame.  The client wanted to create a screen quality costume of a character from one of his favorite TV shows to go to MegaCon (Sci Fi convention), complete with wardrobe, badges and emblems, a prosthetic forehead and ears, and even a prop replica weapon of a Romulan disruptor pistol.

Roundtable helped out a friend with a personal project and found another application for our 3D printer to deliver a quality prop in a short time frame.  The client wanted to create a screen quality costume of a character from one of his favorite TV shows to go to MegaCon (Sci Fi convention), including a prop replica weapon of a Romulan disruptor pistol.  We began by doing research into what the original prop looked like on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

At Dragon*Con 2009 we (Stefan Price, owner and assistant Erin Kelly) met an individual in the hall while waiting for the elevator.  He was painted green and carrying a large battered prop.  When he told us that he was the Incredible Hulk and that he was wielding a scaled Abrams tank it all made sense.  In that Dragon*Con is one of the largest Sci Fi and Fantasy conventions in the nation and people in unusual costumes are the norm.

These photos show some of our earliest 3D printed projects.  Some of them were 3D modeled in house by various crew members and some models were provided by colleagues and DAVE School students.  They also represent a wide array of programs used:  Rhino, Lightwave, 3D Studio Max, and Sketch Up.

Some close friends of Roundtable invited us to join them in competing in the 2011 Orlando 24 Hr Film Festival because they needed some professional grade special effects.  The film had to be shot and finished in 24 hours and could be no longer than 5 minutes.  Which meant that it was short notice to prepare and arrive on set and we had to deal with some difficult weather conditions (torrential rain storm).

Three dimensional (3D) printing has revolutionized our ability to realize designs, concepts, and ideas in a way previously only available in science fiction.  We may still be a far way from walking up and requesting, "Earl gray, hot." and watching cup and saucer materialize with a delicious brewed tea in it, but we can now bring ideas from our minds into the physical world faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before.  Unlike CNC machines which are subtractive in nature, removing material until the desired shape is reached.

• Production Hub
• Indipendent Filmmakers Alliance
• IMDB
• Dead By Friday
• Miss Julianne
• Forensic Files
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition
• M&M Video
• Orlando Scene TV
• The Neco
• Barak's site
• Doug's site
• Winter Garden

Roundtable recently provided some "high caliber" effects for the TV show Forensic Files. In an episode entitled "All That Glitters", a man chases down a young girl in a high speed car chase that ends when he fires several rounds into her car with and AK-47 assault rifle. We provided both blank fire and non-firing AK-47's for the actor and stunt driver to use. As well as, spark hits and glass breaking shots to simulate real gunfire. Throw in a little blood and all in all it was quite a fun shoot. You can watch the episode and others we've provided effects for on TrueTv.

Roundtable and the DAVE School (Digital Animation and Visual Effects) collaborated on a project to test the capabilities of our 3D Printer and to create a unique graduation gift for their students.  We took the 3D model of the featured monster from the short film their students were working on and coordinated the best way to separate the pieces in the computer and add tabs to the connection points.  We printed the model on our Zcorp 310 printer and infused them with our economical infiltrant before sanding to achieve the desired texture.