The regeneration of Leelou Dalas - The Fifth Element -

In the cult classic The Fifth Element, Leelou is regenerated from a few fragments of DNA found in a glove after her craft is destroyed in space. She has none of the memories of the previous version of herself but seems to have some cosmic gained knowledge of her former life and purpose. This birth has always been one of my favourite scenes of the movie. Probably because it is essentially the introduction of a new character that no one had ever heard of before. She is born into the world and born into our consciousness with no preconceived notions as to who she is. She is immediately interesting to discover as a viewer. We learn about her as the movie progresses. As do all of the other characters and her as she develops. I like that this movie was a one off. It has never been ruined by beating the story to death and reinterpreting it to meet check box requirements of the times or to appeal to this audience or that or farm for money as a franchise. It just is what it is as it was made.

I have recreated the detailed parts of what is essentially a large oddly shaped bland room. The other elements beyond Leelou and the pod would be much more smartly and cheaply recreated with simple materials like foam, foam board, clay, tubes, wires, etc. than 3d printed.

There are two versions of Leelou included one with thermal bandages and one without.

The pod cover should be printed in clear material or used as a template to cut a clear part from packaging material or other clear material (ie: a binder or report cover or acrylic or...).

The Leelou figure is 128mm tall, so about 1/14 scale of her 1.74m real life height. She will easily re-scale to many sizes. See the table below for what percent to scale the original to match a scale. Once your scale gets smaller then we get into failures of parts that are thin. Like hair and control knobs. In many instance the slicing software will just delete or ignore them.

This is ideally for a resin printer to get the detail. On a fdm it may be beneficial for ease of printing to merge the bed and leelou into one part. Microsoft 3d builder can accomplish this with one button after aligning the parts. Likewise Microsoft 3d builder or even your slicer itself can be used to resize the model to your desired scale.

1:1 (1740mm)=1,359% (life sized) (mm figure only)
1:2=680% (870mm)
1:4=340% (435mm)
1:6=227% (290mm)
1:8=170% (218mm)
1:9=151% (193mm)
1:10=136% (174mm)
1:12=113% (145mm)
1:15= 90.6% (116mm)
1:18=75.5% (97mm)
1:24=56.6% (73mm)
1:25=54.4% (70mm)
1:35=38.8% (50mm)
1:48=28.3% (36mm)
1:64=21.2% (27mm)
1:72=18.9% (24mm)
1:87=15.6% (20mm)