FROGBlog - 3D Foam Carving Central

New York is a BIG city, but these days Peter Woytuk's sculptures seem to be everywhere you look. That's because Peter's large scale sculptures are on display throughout the city as part of an impressive outdoor public installation hosted by the Morrison Gallery. Featuring 18 captivating sculptures including bulls, elephants and crows (and, fittingly, a few big apples), the installation includes works from throughout Peter's career.

Check out show details at www.woytuk.com.

The local CBS news station also featured the installation in this story.

Peter is not only an internationally renowned sculptor, but he's also directly involved in the foundry side of the business as well. The FROG3D® system is an important part of his team's sculptural enlargement and production processes. Peter enlarges his sculptures in foam using FROG3D® and then uses the enlargements as part of the casting process. As you can see below, many of the pieces featured in the Broadway installation we're created with the help of FROG3D®'s sculptural enlargement capabilities. We're proud to be associated with Peter and his fantastic art.

 

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Most folks in the signage industry are familiar with CNC equipment and how it can help their production processes. While automated 3D foam carving uses CNC technology as its foundation, its ability to bring full 3D elements to signage has really changed the game. The signage projects that our clients are able to create go far beyond the traditional fare - but the processes used to create these products are also far more efficient. The end result is signage that stands out from the crowd along with serious opportunities for signage companies that have 3D foam carving capabilities.

An article that we put together for SignMedia magazine provides a basic overview of the benefits that FROG3D® and 3D CNC foam carving offer for dimensional signage. Click the mag cover below to check it out.

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As we've mentioned before, automated foam carving has proven to be a great tool for accurately enlarging sculptural work. We've helped a range of foundries, sculptors and enlargement houses implement efficient enlargement processes that pump out perfect enlargements in a fraction of the time of conventional processes.

Our friends at SculpturesPacific magazine recently asked us to put together an article that sheds some light on how automated foam carving and our FROG3D® system have revolutionized the field of sculptural enlargement. We were happy to oblige. The article appears in SculpturesPacific's most recent addition. Click on the magazine cover below to take a read. While you're at it, check out some of the other great content in the magazine - Jock and his team at the mag are doing some fantastic work.

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While many are familiar with the theming and sculptural applications of automated 3D foam carving, the technology is also making serious inroads into the world of concrete. When it comes to concrete molds, foam carving technology can be used to bring significantly more efficiency to mold making processes, but it can also inject new levels of creativity and intricacy into the end products.

For companies involved with concrete forming, foam carving is proving its worth, allowing them to give a creative boost to their form liners and create them with speed and efficiency - a far cry from conventional methods. A significant players in the form liner market, one of Streamline Automation's newest clients Spec Formliners out of California has recently brought FROG3D®'s foam carving capabilities in-house.

With one of the largest selection of concrete form liners in the business, Spec Formliners has built a strong reputation amongst architects, engineers, contractors and dealers with a great range of products and the ability to help their clients at all stages of a project - from form liner design to on-site aid. They can also create custom patterns and designs for various form liner forming applications. Looking to take the next step and take their capabilities that much further than their competition, the folks at Spec have turned to automated foam carving.

Given the existing quality of their work (see some of their recent projects below), we're looking forward to seeing how 3D foam carving can make their products and processes even better. We're excited about highlighting their work in the future. Welcome aboard Spec Formliners!
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While 3D foam carving has a reputation for sculptural applications, it is a flexible technology that's being used in a number of industries. More specifically, we've helped a number of pipe insulation manufacturers implement our FROG3D® system to help them improve their processes and their products. The article below provides an overview of this unique application (click on 'Read More' for the full article)...

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Thinking about starting a 3D foam carving business?  Take a spin through our most recent article...

STARTING A 3D FOAM CARVING BUSINESS

The world of carving and sculpting has always been viewed as the domain of the artist – and rightly so. Working with only their imagination and hands, there’s no doubt that many who plied the trade were highly skilled artisans. The work could be time consuming and sometimes tedious, but like any artistic endeavor it was a labor of love. Unfortunately, that’s all it could have been given the productive limitations of manual methods. From a business perspective, the nature of carving and sculpting by hand created limited opportunities for mass commercialization and expansion. Digital technology, however, is quickly transforming the world of carving and sculpting – and it’s opening doors for those who want to bring creative carving and sculpting to the masses. Read more

An article highlighting how 3D foam carving can help printing companies differentiate their product line...

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