This astounding image came from www.panzar.com
who are evidently a freelance 3d studio.
Their work seems to be inspired by 28mm tabletop wargaming figures…including iconography from Games Workshop’s Fantasy Chaos Warrior products.
The site includes a number of highly detailed figures like this one…I can only assume they’re going to be used either in a PC game of some kind or a movie. Various interviews with the creators seem to hint as much.
Nice. Now all we need is one of those 3D rapid-prototyping printers.
P.S. do you keep seeing oldposts popping up in Bloglines after every update? Happens with my blog too. Must be either Bloglines or Wordpress :(
Yes, rumor has it that Whizkids and Games Workshop have recently done exactly that to create their precision steel molds for plastic injection casting.