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Monstermatic App is Here and (For a Limited Time) It’s Free!

I very rarely download apps for my iPhone, unless they’re free. Once, I downloaded Myst for $4.99, played it once, and have regretted it ever since. So, even if they’re 3D printing related, I am stingy in the app store. Monstermatic, a customizable monster designer for 3D printed monster figurines, that we covered awhile back, is releasing their app for free for a limited time.  Free app, here I come! Update: It turns out that, for now, the app is only available in the US. Outside of the US, we’ve had word that the app will be released in the EU and Canada by the end of this month.

unleash Monstermatic App 3D PrintingThe app is, as you might expect from an app about monsters, extremely easy to use. You swap eyes and skin textures and headware and such like. You can modify the colours of most features, changing the hue of your monster’s eyes or skin or ‘whatevs’. Plus, there are some characteristics that you can add to your monster that you wouldn’t normally think of — ideas that took the sort of creativity you’d see in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters — such as sticking eyeballs all over your monster’s body. After you’re done customizing, you can put your creature into an augmented reality mode and watch it come to life in your home. Finally, you have the option of printing out a 2” tall figurine through Shapeways. The whole experience is cuter and more fun than I’d expect from such an app and, all the while, music slightly reminiscent of the “Monster Mash” plays in the background.

I modelled my monster after the “creature from between dimensions” in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly.  “Creature from Between Dimensions” had too many characters, so I decided to name him Lil Wee Wee.  Read the passage from PKD below and let me know if you think it matches up with my design:

The next thing he knew, a creature from between dimensions was standing beside his bed looking down at him disapprovingly.

The creature had many eyes, all over it, ultra-modern expensive-looking clothing, and rose up eight feet high. Also, it carried an enormous scroll.

lilweewee Monstermatic 3D Printing

“You’re going to read me my sins,” Charles Freck said.

The creature nodded and unsealed the scroll.

Freck said, lying helpless on his bed, “and it’s going to take a hundred thousand hours.”

Fixing its many compound eyes on him, the creature from between dimensions said, “We are no longer in the mundane universe. Lower-plane categories of material existence such as ‘space’ and ‘time’ no longer apply to you. You have been elevated to the transcendent realm. Your sins will be read to you ceaselessly, in shifts, throughout eternity. The list will never end.”

Know your dealer, Charles Freck thought, and wished he could take back the last half-hour of his life.

Source: Monstermatic