Newsletter: 3D Print Super Mario Awards donated money to Medical Without Borders

In Minneapolis, there are two fast game competitions each year, which will bring together experts in all kinds of games. Each match will be presented to the audience in live broadcast. The ultimate goal of the competition is to raise money for charity. This summer's competition will begin on July 3, until July 10, the funds raised in this competition will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières. The game includes super-Mario, King Kong, Bioshock, Devil City and Tetris, which are well-known games.

Artist and designer Mike Copley has been following the fast game competition for three years. This year he made some designs for the game and the money sold will be donated to MSF. "This is my favorite design. I was wondering if I could make a 3D version of Super Mario, and I would use 300 modules to form a large 3D Super Mario," Mike Copley said.

It is understood that Mike Copley plans to print each small piece separately and then assemble it. However, this idea was quickly rejected because it was too wasteful of manpower and time. Finally, he broke the whole into several large modules, so that not only can print at the same time, but also save time and effort in the assembly process.

Mike Copley took about two months to design, print, assemble, and finalize. Among them, 3D modeling took more than a month, and then it took another two weeks to print. Each large module took about 7 to 10 hours to print 3D, and the final assembly took only a few days. Time is up.

Mike Copley's efforts were finally affirmed, and his Super Mario work won the award and will be put into a lot of production links tomorrow.