A Fresno man can literally hold his life in the palm of his hand. He owns a 3D printing company where he makes and sells scale 3D miniatures.

KSEE24’s Megan Rupe has more on the tiny technology in this week’s We Are Fresno.

The 6-inch miniatures cost about $ 90 at ProForm 3D in Clovis where owner John Elisarraraz is busy shrinking things down to size.

They’re tiny, detailed figurines. From a family to a bride and groom in a display case at ProForm 3D.

"Every day is different, you don’t know who’s going to walk through the door," said John Elisarraraz.

He was formally in logistics at a trucking company working 9-5, until he started playing around with 3D printers six years ago.

"Started printing little knick knacks, and uh, just started challenging myself and seeing what else I could print," he said.

Now Elisarraraz spends his days in a  tiny office making anything and everything. "We have had people come in for wedding cake toppers, people bring in their children in their team uniforms."

His big seller: mini me’s.

"We basically 3D scan you, and um, prep your model for 3D printing, and then we print you."

People of all ages are buying the service, such as 90-year-old Bob Hayes who decided to buy a headshot size of himself.

"I was curious and I thought it’d be a nice present," said three three-time war veteran. 

"We’ve jokingly been calling it a ‘Bob-blehead.’ Yeah, well it doesn’t bobble, but," joked his wife Diane Hayes.

 

Reporter Megan Rupe got scanned, too. She had to keep her eyes on a spot on the wall, while  Elisarraraz uses a computer to scan her image. He then makes a 3D model. The figurine is made off site.

"It starts off as a powder, and then layer by layer it’s, it’s glued, and then colored, and then we harden and, it’s born," said  Elisarraraz.

As with hayes,  Elisarraraz says the best part is helping people make their ideas reality, no matter how big or mini they may be.

 

Elisarraraz says business is growing slow and steady. He hopes to try making prosthetics some day. 

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