Amnesty World Cup

3D printing, leveling & spray painting of wk cup, used in promo video

On behalf of IO Digital, we produced a version of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Amnesty International will use this to record an advertising spot calling attention to migrant workers whose human rights continue to be violated.

The cup is fully 3D printed and then finished with spray-paint techniques.

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A concept image and 3D model were provided to us from IO digital.

The challenge was to make it 3D printable within the week and then completely finished in color.

After we can print the model we split the cup into 3 parts.

These parts are then printed on 3 different printers.

That allowed us to prototype 3 times faster.

3D printed part for world cup

The parts are FDM printed with PLA filament.

This makes them easy to glue together and touch up with filler and sandpaper.

For example, we fully polished the countries on the globe to mimic the glossy effect of the FIFA cup.

Visible print layers are also sanded off to achieve an even effect.

Rough model filled with filler

After the cup is completely sanded, the seams and other artifacts must be filled with filler.

This fills in the volume and is then sanded completely smooth with P220-grit sandpaper.

Model completely evenly sanded with P220 grit

Then the cup is completely dusted and painted gold.

Then we taped off the rings and repainted them with primer.

After the primer, it was time to prepare the jade-like texture.

For this we used multiple layers of green spray paint.

Green spray painted edges with black stencil stripes

Then the marble drawing also had to be added here.

For this we cut out several stencils to then spray through with black paint.

Finally, we also applied a grain texture to the bricks.

Grain texture for contrast with green even bands

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