SCANI-NAME - Your Name Comes Alive (Scanimation)

Slide the sleeve. Watch the name move.

SCANI-NAME turns any name into a little animation you hold in your hand. The card carries the name sliced into fine stripes; the dark sleeve is a grille. Slide the sleeve and the letters start to wave, hop, spin, dance or beat like a heart. It is the classic scanimation (barrier-grid) illusion, generated automatically for YOUR name, in two colours and with no glue, no supports and no assembly beyond sliding the card in.

Make your own in the Customizer

• Any name or short word (accents work: José, Zoë, João)

• 5 animations: Wave, Bounce, Spin, Dance, Pulse

• 5 bold fonts made for stripes: Fredoka, Poppins, Bebas Neue, Luckiest Guy, Bungee

• 2 card sizes: Standard 120 x 54 mm, or Long 150 x 54 mm for long names

• The name is sized automatically to fill the card

• Your own text on the back of the card

• Pick your colours

Two grille options

• Standard (0.8 mm slits): prints cleanly on any well-calibrated 0.4 mm nozzle printer. Start here.

• Ultra smooth (0.6 mm slits): finer stripes and a smoother animation. Use it on a well-tuned printer.

Cards and sleeves only work with the same grille. The grille size is engraved on the sleeve and on the back of every card, so you never mix them up.

One sleeve, many names

The card slides out of the sleeve, so one sleeve works with every card of the same grille. Print a card for each person in the family and swap them.

How to use

1. Slide the card into the sleeve with the coloured face towards the grille.

2. Hold the card by its ends.

3. Slide only the sleeve, slowly, left and right. The name stays in place and comes alive.

Every 3.2 mm of travel (2.4 mm on Ultra smooth) plays the whole animation once, so a short slide loops it several times.

Print notes

• The card prints FACE DOWN: the name is in the first three layers, on the build plate. Do not flip it.

• The sleeve prints GRILLE DOWN, so the slits come out crisp. No supports, no brim.

• 0.20 mm layers, PLA, 0.4 mm nozzle. The card needs an AMS or another multi-material setup (2 colours in the same layers); the sleeve is single colour.

• A light card colour, a bright name colour and a dark sleeve give the strongest effect (we used cream, red and black).

• The included profiles print the example cards Bella and Isa. Use the Customizer for your own name.

Files

• Std08_... / Ultra06_...: Sleeve.stl plus 4 example cards (Bella Wave, Isa Bounce, Bella Dance, Isa Spin), each as card_colour + name_colour STLs. Std08 = Standard 0.8 mm grille, Ultra06 = Ultra smooth 0.6 mm grille.

• SCANI_NAME_customizer.scad: any name, font and animation (OpenSCAD; fonts from Google Fonts).

• Bambu Studio 3MFs for both grilles (X2D, 0.4 nozzle).

• README.txt with print and slicer notes.

PrusaSlicer

Import the card_colour and name_colour STLs together and answer Yes to load them as one object with multiple parts. Give the name part the bright filament and the card part the light filament. The card needs a multi-material printer (MMU, tool changer or IDEX), because the name and the card share the first three layers.

The last three photos (black sleeve on a wooden desk, "Isabella" card) are real prints of a test card; the other images are renders of the model.

If you enjoy it, a Like or a Make with a photo of your name helps a lot. Thank you!NEW - Bambu Lab H3C: SCANI_NAME_Standard_0.8_H3C.3mf puts each colour on its own PrintTool (almost no purge), re-centred on the 330 x 320 mm H3C plate, with the official H3C machine G-code. Sliced in Bambu Studio 2.09.