How To Make the Daft Punk Helmet. Wouldn’t a 3D Print Be Better, Faster, Stronger?

by Josh on July 22, 2010 · View Comments

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Carve it. Shape it. Cut it. Smooth it.

Knick it. Clip it. Daft Punk Helmet.

Yeah, you know what’s good for you. 3 minutes of prop building madness from Volpin Props. The prop? The helmet of electronic, supersonic duo supremo, Daft Punk. The process took all of 17 months… yeeeeeah. So ya gotta think, especially after watching the video, couldn’t some of this have been done faster, if 3D printing were used? Yes, yes I think so. Work it.

More images at their Flickr page.

Via The Awesomer – Thanks also to the others who sent this in. You will all make a fine Daft Punk army.

Tagged as: 3d printing, daft punk, How-to, prop building

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Jon July 23, 2010 at 3:04 am: That helmet is amazing! I noticed they had to make it much taller than the original mold… all the batteries and electronics had to be put somewhere I guess… looks great!

Jon @ WoodMarvels.com
R* July 23, 2010 at 2:22 pm: The opening lines on this post pretty much made my Friday.
asango July 27, 2010 at 1:58 pm: it most likely took 17 months because this is a hobby for him. His site says he is a graphic designer during the day.
Could you print it? sure. Would you have to still do a ton of finish work to achieve the results he did? Yes. Once all of the finish work is done on the master, they you can cast quite a few before having to make a new mold.
You could print the master (which would cost hundreds of dollars), but then you have to spend time in CAD for the master and I'd be willing to bet the time investment is a wash.