Sometimes the strangest dreams can come to people and lend to the most interesting inspirations.
I hadn't known about Pacific Rim when I started my project on organic design with AutoCAD, but it seems that others were reading the same book. The drivesuits used by the Jaeger pilots (sorry, I don't know how to quickly make umlauts on a PC keyboard) were 3D printed using a polyjet method (each layer is made of photopolymer, but the layers are laid down using an inkjet printer head and hit with UV light to harden it).
It made me wonder how many suits got broken during the filming (okay, okay...ObJet makes resins that are tougher, but I only kn