Kickstarter Hero Forge Kickstarter Announcement! Customizable, 3D printed miniatures!

[HeroForge]

Hey there folks! I've been working on an exciting new kickstarter lately which I think will be right in your wheelhouse. I was hoping to generate a little buzz and maybe even get some of your thoughts and feedback on my new project: Hero Forge!

Hero Forge is an upcoming service that will take the miniatures market by storm! We are looking forward to bringing an entirely new option to the tabletop:
highly customizable, highly detailed, 3D printed miniatures.

Check out our Kickstarter here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heroforge/customizable-3d-printed-tabletop-miniatures

We’re employing two new technologies to make our service easy to use while providing fantastic results. Using a plugin-free WebGL character builder and the new Shapeways developer API, we can offer freedom, control, and options never before seen. This exciting new application of WebGL means you’ll be able to see your character in 3D as polygons on-screen long before you see the model as atoms in your hand. This innovative use of the Shapeways Developer API means that manufacturing and shipping will be handled by one of the leading names in the commercial 3D printing industry, leaving us to focus on what we’re passionate about: making beautiful 3D models and a clean, easy to use interface to help you build your perfect mini. With our crack team of artists, modelers, technical wizards, and roleplaying fanatics, we believe we can offer something that no other tabletop gaming company ever has: a way to breathe your creativity and vision into your miniatures.

[video=youtube;rP5eXV1BsXo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5eXV1BsXo[/video]​

Our team has a roster of truly epic proportions. My co-founder, Teagan Morrison, is technical art director for the video game company Naughty Dog and has worked on critically acclaimed games like the Uncharted series, owned and operated his own web design company, and is a master of all things 3D. Our concept artist Molly Maloney works for Telltale games and is a master of making art with en eye on future digitization. Our concept artist Nicole Cardiff has done art for Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition, the reboot of tomb of horrors, and countless pieces for Warhammer, Game of Thrones, and Call of Cthulhu cards for Fantasy Flight Games. Our 3D modeler, Margaret Dost, has worked on films like Pacific Rim and games like Mortal Kombat vs. DC. Our web infrastructure and pipeline expert is employed as the Chief Technical Officer for South Park Studios. Our rigger, Beverly Sage, works as a character technical director for Nickelodeon. All that to say: We have pretty much as amazing a team as we could possibly hope to have. And we are all super excited about this project.


I would invite anyone who is interested to visit our Facebook page which has more pictures, video content, and links. You can check out our blog if you want a little more of an inside peek, too! We're aiming for January 13th for our Kickstarter launch, so stay tunes for more news, exciting pictures of 3D printed miniatures, and hopefully a new, exciting option for minis!


Let me know if you guys have any questions! If you happen to run a blog or news site, let me know and I'll put you on the list for receiving a press packet!


Thanks again for taking a look, guys!


http://www.HeroForgeMinis.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HeroForgeMinis
http://heroforgeminis.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/HeroForgeMinis

 

[HeroForge]

Thought this was a good example of one of the many cool things that 3D printing can do!

[video=youtube;FhrORiDqwxc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrORiDqwxc[/video]

 

[HeroForge]

Good news to mini fans out there: We've expanded our scope! Since I last posted, we've reached the goal to add science fiction parts to our character builder, and will soon be adding Western parts once we get a little father! This is exciting for us, because it helps us reach a new audience (wild west, weird west, space western, fantastic science fiction...) and helps us follow our plan to, as we've said "Become a one-stop-shop for minis, regardless of what genre or world you play in."

 

[Starfox]

Putting a link to the kickstarter itself would make these post much more generally useful

 

[darjr]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heroforge/customizable-3d-printed-tabletop-miniatures?ref=live

 

[Starfox]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heroforge/customizable-3d-printed-tabletop-miniatures?ref=live

I could find it on kickstarter search, was just being lazy. But lazy potential customer are still potential customers.

 

[darjr]

I could find it on kickstarter search, was just being lazy. But lazy potential customer are still potential customers.

No worries. I've been putting in links for folks that might not be able to yet just cause. Though it looks like the account is good to go.

 

[Mecha.vs.Kaiju]

Are you related to the Hero Forge team that created the outstanding character generator for D&D 3E? Because that thing was amazing.