When the 3D printing storm into the people’s eye, many newbirds in animatronic dinosaur industry begin to panic. They worry about it that after the use of computer printing models, the industry’s sculptors/engravers and pasters would lose their jobs, how to do?

As an experienced manager who has been in dinosaur manufacturing industry for over ten years, I have to say my opinion, which although the current 3D printing saves a lot of human factors, it has a long way to go to directly replace our industry, so the workers and novices in the industry don’t panic.

Why our handwork animatronics industry don’t worry?

1. 3D printing is currently limited to small Gift-Style sculptures, and there is probably no machine to create Super-large Dinosaurs that is over tens meters body length.

2. Even if it took million dollars to build a machine, what color dye would be used to make dinosaur skin?

3. At present, the thickness of 3D printed sculptures is very thin. If a over tens meters long dinosaur model is printed, how to ensure its use strength?

4. Even if the intensity problem is solved, we want to make animatronic dinosaur models, how does the printed sculpture fit with our electrified equipment?

With these four problems alone, 3D printing cannot replace our mature and efficient handwork animatronic dinosaur products.

So does 3D printing pose no threat to our industry at all? There is no threat, but as someone who embraces new technology, what we see is a future of collaboration with 3D printing.

First: although it is impossible to print a dinosaur sculpture that is tens of meters body length, the head, claw, tail and other parts can be done, and can improve the efficiency of the sculptors to create a large dinosaur.

Second: a more practical way of cooperation is to print the head and claw of our popular dinosaur products, and which greatly improves the production efficiency and unified the standard.

Third: In the future, the size of these parts can be gradually increased to 7 meters, 8 meters or even 10 meters long.

I still believe that the development of high technology or new technology may replace some old and inefficient artificial industries, but there is a reason for the existence of irreplaceable industries. We need to look at new technologies both ways in the dinosaur industry, embracing them but also being reasonable about whether we can completely replace them in our industry.