See it in action

Everyone posts the finished print

You spent eleven hours printing it, sanded it, painted it. Then you photograph it on your desk next to a coffee mug, post it, and it disappears into the feed like everything else. The photo shows the object. It doesn't show the making — and the making is the part people can't look away from.

That's the whole reason timelapses of 3D printers do so well. But a real timelapse means a camera rig, hours of babysitting a machine, and one fixed angle you can't change afterwards. If the print fails at 80%, so does your content.

This add-on gives you that shot from the file you already have. No printer running, no camera, no failed print. And the camera can be anywhere you want it.

What your audience actually sees

Not a mesh sliding up out of a plane. A print happening.

• A nozzle that traces the real outline. It follows the actual contour of the layer being printed, moves between separate islands, and hops over gaps on travel moves — instead of drifting around at random.
• Filament that looks hot. The layer just laid down glows and cools as the print rises above it. You choose the colours of that glow, how far it fades and how bright it burns.
• Supports that look printed, not modelled. Tree branches grow out of the overhangs, lean toward each other, merge into tapered trunks with a flared foot, and always land on the plate — never on your model. They're built from stacked horizontal slabs with a bead lip, so they read as printed material, not smooth tubes. Or switch to a plain grid of towers.
• The nozzle prints those supports too. Because a real printer does.
• Surfaces with real print character. Layer lines, stair-stepping on the curves, nozzle wobble, extrusion noise, drag marks, speckle, colour variation, top-infill width — all on dials. Turn them up for a rough draft print, down for a clean showpiece.
• Several parts on one bed, one shared layer. Print a whole product family in the same shot, all growing through the same plane, the way one printer really works.

Your own filament colours, your own materials, your own nozzle model if you have one. The hot glow is injected into whatever material you assign and removed cleanly when you switch it off — your shading is never overwritten.

Four steps, then coffee

There is no node graph to wire, no expression to write, no Python to touch. The whole add-on lives in one sidebar tab.

Every number stays editable afterwards. Change a colour, a support angle, a camera move, and the animation updates — you are not rebuilding anything.

The camera move is already done

This is where most product clips fall apart, so it got its own rig. Seven ready-made moves — Half Orbit, Full Orbit, Turntable, Static Front, Top Reveal, Pull Back, Hero — one click each, all editable after.

• Auto framing solves the distance from your lens and your render aspect ratio, so the part stays in frame from the first layer to the last — including vertical video.
• Layer tracking slides from framing the whole part to riding along with the layer being printed.
• Depth of field focuses on the layer being printed, so the hot bead stays sharp while the rest falls away.
• Prefer your own camera? Drive it with the same rig, or bake the move to keyframes and finish it by hand in the Graph Editor.

Framing, pitch, roll, easing, focal length, start and end zoom — all there when you want them, none of it required to get a good shot.

It works on the messy files too

Real production models are not clean. Character kitbashes, dozens of interpenetrating solids, open edges, self-intersections — the kind of mesh that makes a layer-by-layer cut collapse, either by making the model vanish or by dumping a giant box over your whole scene. The add-on animates from a repaired hidden copy of your mesh instead, diagnoses what it's dealing with and picks its approach accordingly. Your original mesh is never modified. If you'd rather decide yourself, the repair mode and the solver are both in the panel.

What it is not

It is not a slicer. No G-code, no machine profiles, no real print times — pointing it at a file tells you nothing about how that file will actually print. It reproduces the look of slicer output for animation and rendering. If you need a visual, it's built for you. If you need to send a job to a machine, use your slicer.

Why this one is easy to promote

Most affiliate offers ask you to talk about a tool. This one asks you to post a clip — and the clip is the pitch. A model growing layer by layer, a nozzle tracing the outline, a glowing hot layer. People stop scrolling for it, then they ask how it was made.

And it is your model, not stock footage handed to you. Your audience already knows the things you print. Watching one of them build itself lands in a way a demo file never will — which is exactly why it converts.

What you get

• 30% commission on every sale from your link — the top of the range Superhive itself suggests. Tracked by the marketplace, with a 14-day window: someone can click today and buy next week and it still counts as yours.
• 35% once you have brought 10 sales. Permanently, on everything after that — above anything else on this marketplace. Superhive emails you the moment the rate goes up.
• A free licence when you are approved. No trial, no watermark, no strings — the full add-on, so the clip you post is your own work from start to finish.
• A tutorial that leaves nothing out. Model in, animation out, in one sitting. If you can drop an STL into Blender, you can make the shot.
• Your video on this page. The best clips from affiliates get featured right here, credited and linked to your channel.
• New versions before anyone else, so you post the feature the day it ships and not a month later.

How to join

Answers usually come the same day. If the fit is not right I will say so plainly rather than leave you waiting.