MASSIVE 3D Printing with Neil Patrick Harris and MassivIT 3D 

How cool is that! I wonder if you could hide an object tracking camera in the frame and make the portraits' gaze follow people too... 😳

Best part of the video was when Harper kept Neil hanging on the high five 🤣

to make them look even more like real paintings there is a cool trick I have seen in Universal Studios. If you paint a transparent lacquer onto some sort of clear matte foil and dry it with a hair dryer, you'll get that "cracked oil paint" effect if you place this infront of the screen. It looked very realistic to me

So awesome to see Neil getting creative in a different way like this :) So super glad you guys met up! 😂😂

If they made giant color E-ink screens, they would be perfect, because they wouldn't actually give of light.

why do i feel like the next step on this is to get someone to super impose Neil's face onto a classic sculpture like michelangelo's David and print that on the massivit machine

That was really cool! And a great way to put a huge machine to use 💪💪💪

A) Neil seems like a lovely bloke. B) God the idea should be gaudy and horrible but they look fantastic. C) Neil should have a maker channel! Nice one all round.

They look amazing, massive high five to Garrett and Chelsey! These wouldn't look at all out of place in the Haunted Mansion or Tower of Terror lobby!

Always been a NPH fan and now I am even more now that I've found out he likes to do stuff like this!

I really love this because it was interesting to see Neil dive into 3D printing but then it became VERY interesting to see him create ideas and bring them to fruition.

Awesome to see the bromance between Neil and Joel

WOW. What an amazing human being Neil is. Great video.

I loved that. Not only an amazing job with all involved, but I like the idea of the slowly moving image. "The picture follows you around" - Classic but tired. "The pictures move around (like Harry Potter)" - More modern. "Every time you look at them, something is different because they slowly move" - Galaxy Brain.

Amazing that you have Niel on your channel. This is just the best.

I’d love to know more about how the displays were controlled. Would be even better to make them sense motion so the head follows someone up the stairs and has audio to say different phrases like “where are you going” or “quiet I’m sleeping“

Such a cool idea! Chelsey’s bundled-up Bernie 3d print on our fireplace mantel, hand-painted by moi, is quite the talisman😎

I am loving the amazing Neil projects! It’s so fun to see his ideas and your know how come tougher to make amazing things! I do hope to see more of these Neil projects ! ❤️🙏🏻 we are all one

This could make for a terrifying "Portrait of Neil Patrick Harris" for Halloween

NPH With the most Epic Highest of Fives.....DENIED!!!! That was a super good laugh. Daughter Dad Burn Ratio : 100%

Just WOW!! That is one of the coolest projects I've seen!

Wholesome overload!, must feel amazing to work with Neil! you did wonderful Joel.

What an awesome idea, interesting process and great result!

I love how NPH is impatient like a little kid. He's one of us. :)

“this is called an edit point” - ROFL - for one of “those” people (child actors - you were thinking something else?), Neil Patrick Harris is HILARIOUS! I love that guy.

WOW! That's incredible, the level of detail is mind-blowing! Congrats to the entire team!

I'm almost certain that someone already said it, but the Disney themeparks as well as wome others are using a similar effect on some of their rides. To make it mor realistic they applied a thin layer of canvas on top of the displays to matten the image and to give it some texture. If you are okay with permanently modifying the displays, this can be easily done by oneself.

NPH: I don't spend my free time playing video games or laying by the poolside. I love weathering frames. Joel: Oursources the entire project

The frames look great, congrats to everyone involved. Cool idea about the moving portraits. Thanks to Neil for being on the channel.

Great project and use of the printer! Point deducted for not doing the weathering yourself, but still awesome! Ceramark is great! But very pricey! I have often used Dry Moly spray as it does a similar thing. It came out reaaaaallllly nice! Next up we need to do sculptures of Neil and David! Happy to scan them with my Artec Eva!

A reflective led screen would be best for realism

I came here for the 3D printing and was more than astounded to find Neil Patrick Harris explaining his vision with such a passion. Makes me feel less like an enthusiast nerd. And I don't even own a 3D printer yet.

Aww love this. Neil as always being the embarrassing parent!! 🤣🤣 You gotta make the memories while you can though coz it flies by so damn fast!

I'm glad to see Chaos is doing great things I remember when they were just starting! Good for them! Good for Neil! And good for you!

That is one of the coolest projects I have ever seen. Truly phantasmagorical!

This is SO Excellent. The Frame Design AND the Content Capability. 60FPS Video slowmos at one frame every 10 secs would be ideal. Steam Trains, Rain Storms, Windswept landscapes, Blizzards, Waves coming on on the beach. Gotta Do !!! BRAVO !! Perfect watching for waiting rooms where ppl are sitting waiting to go inside. Pure Culture !!! NO MORE Annoying TV news noise to trash your brain.

Neil's primed to have an excellent haunted house.

This is a super cool idea, and I want to make a suggestion for how the video that goes on the screen should be shot. For a set of theater shows, I did essentially the same thing in that we had television screens that were part of the stage that during a show we would have what I called video props. I was a video producer for the theater, and so we wanted to set the scene using a pair of televisions, they were flat panel televisions, and what we discovered was that if we used a regular image or a video, it would be way too bright both for being on stage, and on camera. What I ended up doing was making the images be significantly dimmer than you would think he would want for a TV image. By doing this, it made the lighting in the image on the screens seem like it was part of the stage instead of a TV. So the short of it is, whatever you shoot, make it be close to 10% of the brightness that you normally have for video. You can do this with the controls on the flat panel, but I don’t recommend that. Instead, it’s better to do it in the source material. Especially if you’re using OLED panels, which I have a really good blacks and good color Fidelity. That will mean that it will be able to show the subtleties of a much dimmer image and look much more realistic. Of course, to really sell it, I would imagine you’re going to have somebody make the video look like it’s a painting by using filters like you can find in Photoshop or after effects. But to me, what really sells it is if the image appears to be an actual painting which does not have transmissive lighting. Instead, a real painting would only reflect some of the light in the room. That’s why the image Hass to be so much dimmer.

My first thought is "man, that's cool." My second thought is "man, I wish I could afford to pay professional artisans to bring my imagination to life." Which is not meant to diminish Mr. Harris (Mr. Patrick Harris? I assume Patrick is a middle name but I don't actually know) in any way, just to acknowledge that this video is about pros doing their jobs well, and I sure hope they got paid for their time! My third thought is that I would be genuinely interested in a time/cost/durability/usability comparisson between these frames and ones made from wood. This is totally the sort of thing one could make from wood - indeed, the goal was to make the high-tech 3d-printed frame look like an antique and those antiques would have been wood and brass. Now obviously 3d printing is a heck of a lot faster than hand carving from wood, but how would CNC carving compare? Which method would need more time and effort for final finishing? And so on. My final thought loops back to my second. Paying to turn one's imagination into reality has been possible since humans invented the idea of paying for things. But the effort require to produce those objects has been steadily dropping all that time, meaning the cost has been dropping. I could never afford something like this, right now - but I feel like a time is coming when "semi-custom" is the norm for all physical goods. Imagine going onto a website, "building" a bookshelf or picture frame or coffee maker in much the same way you "build" a car on the web these days, combining a number of stock templates in various ways, maybe uploading some custom images for engraving; and then a 3d printer + CNC spits out the basic parts, a finishing crew cleans them up and paints them, appropriate professionals install things like electronics, and then the object gets shipped to you. In a couple of weeks, one might have a not-quite-custom but still individualised item for a very affordable cost. That's an exciting thing to imagine.

Now this is really really cool! Neil Patrick Harris is from my hometown Albuquerque NM!

NPH is always so much fun, genuinely cool guy. Keep building Neil, keep building!

Neil is a treasure and love him!

Need a Mat OLED tv to make it look less like a tv. Led TVs have to much back light bleed and glair

Now NPH is even better. Awesome vid

Now we need a very large E-ink display

That's so awesome. Those picture frames look great, even Neil's look amazing.

Awesome Giant TV Frame 😎 Can't think about, how many filaments for this design 😳

I am now inspired to do this! But using an old I pad for the picture.

This was an amazing video to watch.

Neil is such an awesome guy. Love the colabs.

“This is called an edit point” Lmao I love when he’s in a video

Dad got left hanging at the end there 😂

What an amazing project! I was smiling the entire time. Love the final result!

at universal it appears they have mod poged glass over their screens to get the matte paint effect on the hairy potter ride paintings

Holy crap how are you friends with Neil???? I wanna be friends with Neil!!!

thats a crazy affect yes very cool

They look amazing Joel. (and I love the way you explain things and processes)

OOOO left him hanging at the end! 🥶

HOLY CRAP, SO PROUD

I kind of fell out of the 3D printing world for a few years and just now getting back in, so...ummm, when did Neil Patrick Harris come into the picture? lol

This is a COOL build!!!

Like the Arthur Guinness moving picture frame??? That things a hoot!

i love these NPH collabs keep them coming!!

Awesome project and amazing result! Love the collabs with Neil.

Another episode with the always wonderful and entertaining Neil Patrick Harris, oh how lucky we are. Thanks as always and keep staying Awesome :)

I can't believe she left him hanging! 🤣🤣

What's really cool is, Now Neil and David can be forever creative with digital art for the framed pictures, and i bet they will be... Loved this video !!

I would be interested if could do a short video with Neil on how to distress a printed picture frame. Neil said he likes to do the distressing of the frames but he has that love of DIY a short video would probably help a few of us wanting to do something similar.

Extra legendary for a project with two legends

This is awesome! Well done Joel! You gave NPH the maker bug! Also, Daniels Wood Land is an awesome company! They do awesome stuff like this for some many companies in themed entertainment and as someone who used to work in that industry, they are well respected!

These frames turned out gorgeous. You should both be proud of all the work you put into them.

I'm really surprised there weren't issues with viewing angle.

Man. They are absolutely awesome. Great job guys

Yep just brilliant "Nuff Said "

Impressive finishing.

What an amazing work! One more!

Whats up Neil... Grew up with your tv shows... always a fan...

If I were Joel, I think my favorite part of having all of my success on RU-vid would be becoming friends with NPH.

She left him hanging :D Great vid Joel :)

Question, If you had to put a cost into how much the first versions costs with the total time to print, prep, paint and build a frame compared to these new ones how does it work out.

That is just maaaaaad awesome!

Neil's live performances are insanely amazing. he's easily one of my top 5 favorite actors/actresses. as for these pictures, OMG doesn't cover it.

Very cool concept, I had the same concept many years ago and never followed thru with it.

Thoughts on adding a matte layer on the screens? May look a bit more like a painting...

Awesome idea. Looks really cool. It was harlious at the end when Harper didn't realize she left her dad hanging.

i fell like an oled screen would add to the realism, the backlighting and pixel shifting when the camera pans is slightly distracting, but the concept is absolutely fantastic

You can tell the paintings are backlit, some kind of anti-glare/roughness filter and maybe turn the tv brightness down

What an awesome idea 👍

I have made a similar (much smaller lol) project and highly recommend an air intake and exhaust fan. The display will build up quite a bit of heat (made my RPI run at roughly 85 deg C) and the heat will cause the display and all other electronics to throttle, degrade faster, and generally run less efficiently. My biggest concern would be the illumination source of the display (either OLED panel or LED backlight).

I think the slowmo video could look even better if they went through some kind of "painted" filter and also a matte layer on top of the screens kinda like those paper ipad screen protectors

Yes Joel 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

We want all the NPH videos you can give us!

diffusion style AI art to make the slow moving portrait hallucinations would work out of the box for NPH

Awesome project. IMO you guys could tweak the slo-mo a bit or edit the video. For example the blink should be real time, so people might just catch it, or doubt themselves. Also, a spotlight shining over the portrait (but only around the frame and surroundings) would help hide the fact that it's a glowing screen.

Samsung's The Frame line of TVs would be the best screen to put in these frames as they're designed to look like a canvas.

I love what you guys are doing. Neil, you a real "Maker"... Nice shop too!

Holy ****! I love NPH even more now :D

OMG OMG OMG i get to nerd out with NPH!

Have always been a fan of NPH, such a cool guy. Same with you Joel! Really loving the vids like these, keep up the awesome work!

NPH just seems like he would be cool as hell to hang out with.