Most figurines people print on this kind of forum are resin or filament on a desktop machine. This build goes the other way entirely: dragons fused from solid cobalt chromium powder in a laser powder bed fusion machine. The maker's department normally does dental work, mostly partial dentures, removable cases and full mouth rehabs, and the same material serves those denture frameworks. The dragons themselves are printed mostly for fun, which makes the whole thing delightfully extravagant.
The machine is a Chamlion M-150 selective laser melting printer, and the footage shows dual lasers sintering two dragon shapes while a recoater spreads fresh powder between layers. Support pillars weld the model to the build plate starting around layer two so the layers can adhere. Skip that weld and the layers peel away and the print fails. The parent company nests the print files for the lab.
Some numbers stand out. The printer runs about a quarter million dollars plus a monthly license, and the complete setup lands near a million all told, yet the powder in one dragon is quite cheap and the real expense is running the machine. Post processing is a proper pipeline: a metal band saw slices the prints off the plate, wire cutters snip the supports, bench lathes with diamond grinding bits smooth the parts, then a sandblaster and an Ecod electropolisher finish things off. Annealing furnaces and electropolishers need extra power infrastructure, and the maker says the smoothing and polishing makes a huge noisy mess.
One open question remains on the alloy itself: the maker guessed the powder is roughly 96% chromium but could not verify without checking a container. Finishing all those supports is also a fair hit of work, though the results come out great, and the finished dragon has a nice weight to it.