Comments on: Mannequin or Memorex

Mannequin or Memorex

Orb — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:08:43 -0800

The making of Lauren ... from woman to mannequin, step by step. (mild sculptural nudity - link via A Complete Waste of Time)

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:12:09 -0800

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to clone her?

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:18:46 -0800

Or get Andrew McCarthy? ... OH WE CAN BUILD THIS THING TOGETHER, STANDING STRONG FOREVER, NOOOOTHING'S GOING TO STOP US NOW...

By: lagado

lagado — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:46:02 -0800

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to clone her? No, her head would be too big.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:57:55 -0800

Wow. That site killed Mozilla.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:03:25 -0800

It takes more than a month to make one of those things? Lauren must be working pretty cheap. Pretty interesting, though, for a standard girl-meets-mold story. (And it rendered fine on my Mozilla, though it is unnecessarily java-heavy.)

By: shoepal

shoepal — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:22:37 -0800

Very cool, Orb! I've always wondered about the mannequin creation process. (I once visited a warehouse with hundreds of mannequins and their various body parts in piles. It was a pretty freaky place and not somewhere I'd want to be trapped after dark)

By: Songdog

Songdog — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:24:34 -0800

It crashed my Firefox browser the first time I clicked on a photo and then back, but after restarting the browser I had no problems. I wonder what did it. On preview: shoepal, that's a great concept for a hide-and-seek sequence in a noir thriller!

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:26:05 -0800

Ah, the eternal struggle to make the perfect woman Seriously, though, interesting stuff. I had always imagined that mannequins were life-castings, a la Dwayne Hanson (tried to scare up some links to his work, but couldn't find anything). PS: Crashed Safari too, after a few minutes of browsing.

By: Orb

Orb — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:58:25 -0800

Duane Hanson Life Casting It didn't crash for me, but I suspect it has something to do with the stupid Anfy applet on that page. Applets are evil (IMO).

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:30:52 -0800

I just thought they did it like in House of Wax.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:21:55 -0800

On preview: shoepal, that's a great concept for a hide-and-seek sequence in a noir thriller! Yeah, just like Pris did in Blade Runner! ;)

By: spazzm

spazzm — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:40:23 -0800

Now this is a good FPP.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:19:35 -0800

Neat! I want somebody to make a Lauren for me, now.

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:51:26 -0800

Fascinating.

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:27:17 -0800

Neat. I'm wondering when (or even if) this method will be supplanted by 3D printer (a.k.a. rapid prototyping) technology. They could just laser scan the human model and build the plastic model as needed.

By: Orb

Orb — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:43:52 -0800

I'd think rapid prototyping a real person to create a mannequin mold won't take off for a while at least. First off, I'd imagine that the sculptors are cheaper. Secondly, even though some mannequins today, though appearing quite realistic, are still very stylized and created to make clothing look as enticing as possible. When you look at the side by side comparison photo, you can see that though it does look somewhat like the life model they started with, it's not an exact duplicate of her. It's still a little stylized (neck longer, waist to shoulder lengthen, knees smoother, etc). Even the most beautiful human being has defects of some sort. Though it would be great if normal, average women (and men) could walk into a store and see clothing on mannequins that were equally normal and realistic, I don't see that happening. Besides, it would put all these sculptors out of work, and we can't have roaming bands of unemployed sculptors out on the streets. :D