Entertainment
3D printing and casting of parts, props and models for stage and screen
Paragon’s talented team of designers, engineers, and model makers have been transforming imagination into reality since 2003. Using cutting-edge industrial technologies—including 3D printing, CNC machining, and specialist moulding and casting—combined with exceptional craftsmanship, we create prosthetics, props, models, costumes, and miniatures, from one-off pieces to large-scale productions.
We’ve collaborated with some of the biggest names in entertainment, film, and television, delivering work that’s trusted on the world stage. Our clients include Disney, Makinarium, Lucasfilm, Asylum Models and Effects, Millennium FX, Dancing on Ice, BBC, Walls, Hugo Boss, Schwartz, and many more.
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Maximise Creative Potential Explore multiple additive manufacturing and 3D printing options to bring your ideas to life.
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Rapid Prototyping for Fast Launches Accelerate time-to-market with quick, reliable prototyping support.
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Flexible Low-Volume Production Reduce inventory costs while maintaining agility and responsiveness.
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Custom Tools for Precision Improve production quality and repeatability with bespoke jigs, fixtures, and gauges.
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Additive Manufacturing for Entertainment
Tool-free solutions for production parts
Everyone, from the investor to the studio manager, demands costs are kept down. As a result, model makers, set designers and costume designers have to be even more creative in their thinking and resourcing. It’s good to know that 3D Printing materials are some of the cheapest available to the entertainment industry.
- Research & Development: When character design and development involves multiple modifications, 3D printing can offer rapid, cost effective solutions. Utilise our large bed capacity to turn multiple iterations of your detailed digital model into physical models.
- Fashion and Armour: 3D printing enables you to push the limits of fashion design and avoid costly moulding processes. Create visually impressive, wearable parts with intricate details, from headwear to footwear, each personalised in fit for the wearer.
- Prop Production and Manufacturing: Scan real artefacts and models and create exact replicas and effects closer to reality than ever before. 3D printing enables multiples to be produced quickly and effectively. When 3D printing materials don’t suit the product, the process can be used to make superior pattern masters for other manufacturing processes.
- Animation and Stop Motion: When your backdrop is a strange universe and your animation is in 3D, 3D printing will enable you to create custom-made settings that blend seamlessly into the atmosphere of your story. They can be painted and blended to your heart’s content. Representing myriad emotions and myriad stances of the same character can easily be achieved with 3D printing. Recreating 100s of minute adjustments of a single character in a short space of time can be achieved quickly and cost effectively.
Casting Solutions for Entertainment
Quick turnaround on prototypes and low-volume production parts
Bring your ideas to market faster and with greater confidence using our comprehensive suite of rapid validation, prototyping, and testing services. From 3D printing and vacuum casting to reaction injection moulding (RIM) and silicone casting, we provide the tools and expertise to turn concepts into highly accurate, production-representative parts.
Our experienced technicians and skilled model makers ensure each part meets your exact specifications, enabling functional testing, fit verification, and design validation before committing to full-scale production. By leveraging low-cost tooling solutions, we deliver high-quality prototypes quickly and cost-effectively, helping you reduce development cycles, mitigate risk, and accelerate time-to-market.
CNC Technologies for Entertainment
Our CNC machining capabilities allow you to flex your designs, produce parts quickly, develop tools for manufacture and achieve outstanding quality.
- Cutting and design: In metals, model board, wood, plastics and foam, we can deliver items as raw machined parts, or can deliver them in combination with other in-house services to provide a comprehensive finished solution.
- Machine-led sculpting: Cut, chisel, sculpt, shape and manufacture large, lightweight pieces for stage and film sets.
- Component parts and tooling: Manufactured on demand for parts of complex machinery, costume pieces, camera stands, and equipment adaptations. Create tools for manufacture, forming and pressing ensuring repeatability and quality.
