Puppet Masters T
Walla Walla Foundry:
Using virtual engineering, the Washington art caster brought a 30-ft. statue of Pinocchio to life.
Shannon Wetzel, Senior Editor
o produce a 30-ft. bronze statue of Ge- petto’s puppet Pinnochio destined for a small town in Sweden, Dylan Farnum let virtual engineering be his guide. Us- ing 3-D optical scanning, the director of
special projects at Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Wash., and his team created a virtual model of artist Jim Dine’s sculpture, along with a 3-D CAD structure which was then fabricated in steel around a carved foam Pinocchio. The steel framework provided reference points to pinpoint the angles and positions of the nearly 100 cast pieces that would eventually make up the final artwork. “It was particularly satisfying to build
the steel framework,” Farnum said. “It was like a primitive central station that allowed us to be exact with our geometry.” Farnum and his team first scanned a 2-ft.-tall ma- quette (a scaled-down, 3-D model used in sculpting)
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Metal Casting Design anD PurChasing
July/august 2010
Photo by Stuart Chalmers
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