My new adventer into 3d printing.
 

So I finally decided to dive into 3d printing and I think I have found an aspect of 3d art that really sings to me. The last 2 weeks I have been modeling my first character that will be printed. He is almost done with only keying the parts left so they will glue together perfect when he is printed. In total he will be just under 5 inches when put together. I plan on making a few larger prints in the 6 to 8 inch ranges after this project. I will hopefully have him in my hands in about 3 weeks. Cant wait.

I have also be diving into jewellery as well which is a lot of fun. I'm actually becoming a dynamesh master lol well a lot better at it then i was a few weeks back.

Love the character mate, I think 3D printing is a good fit for you. If you plan to sell then when you're done? I'd buy one, i've been painting miniatures for over 30 years now so i love this stuff.

Dave :)

Cool I will keep ya updated... he's just for class so be about 4 inches just over printed on a lazer printer.. I want to get him about 6 inches.. I know how to mold and cast so I can make a lot of copies down the road which will bring the price right down instead of printing them each time.. Trying to convince Amber to let me get my own lazer printer....

Nice Kurt. Be good to see what the finished print looks like. The character looks solid. The jewellery also looks awesome.

Did you make the character in bits (individual printing pieces) or sculpt and then break him up/retopo' him somehow. That's the trick with 3d printing isn't it....no holes?

Bit of both actually Ben, a few parts where sculpted separate at the start, and a few parts where retopo's like the armour bits. Its a lot different work flow than for film lots and lots of dynameshing. Yes no wholes is the big rule to follow.

It surprises me that dynamesh would be heavily used what with its unpredictability - but I guess it's a quick fire one click way to make sure everything is meshed. hhmmm now i'm thinking about it, i'm not sure if its possible for a dynamesh to have rips/holes....

but it looks you know what youre doing!

Dynamesh is not too bad once you figure out the resolution settings to keep the details. It took me a bit as well to wrap my mind around it but the possibilities for making detailed stuff fast is crazy once you have a handle on it. The one thing about dynamesh is the ability to go back to quads on a duplicated subtool using the topology tool or if you're into the longer process re-top over all of it then just project the dymesh details on the new quad geo.

Keeping the details with dynamesh depends on the size of your geo also. So if your mesh is really small in z brush you will have to have a high setting in your dynamesh (goes up to 4000... usually around 1500 to 2000 is enough to keep the details I find). If your mesh is larger you will not need to have your settings up as high to get the same level of detail once you dynamesh (500 to 1000 seems like it works). If I have some free time I'll make like a 5 min capture so you can see it in action.

This is another project that will be printed in the near future as well. and is all dynameshed.

Most of the the final detailing is done just a bit more on the pack and some dents on the guns. Then its just keying left.

Love the character within this guy - cant wait to see it printed

Good luck with that mate. can't wait for the final result. :beer:

All keyed just have to hollow the larger parts out to save resin..

I'd happily have a stack of my WoW and Wildstar toons printed and painted to sit on my desk. This looks fantastic Kurt, well done!

Few more jewelry viking inspired

Pretty much all ready for print.just have to find someone with a form2 around my area to get some quotes. The alien with the guns should be in my hand in about a week and the jewelry in about 2 weeks

Looking forward to seeing how these look

Prints in.. its awesome, hes 4 inches tall in total. I have to sand up some edges and put some primer on him soon.

That is so cool

Ya its really cool once i get my own printer im going to make him about 6 inches.

First coat of primer on. I noticed a few spots I need to clean up that i didn't see before the first coat. Once hes totally clean then off to molding.

Looks really nice mate!! can't wait to try this with my characters. This is motivation for sure. :beer:

Very nice mate! Keep posting more images of this work please.

Got the camera out and took a picture of the ring that was made for class. I learned a lot from my first ring and over all for it being as small as it is 3.2 mm wide it still picked up a lot of the details in the silver print. Next ring will be a bit wider with more room to play and pull out the details.

My next miniature... I named him Terry Torch

Was a good day... I still have to add some things to the gloves before I pose the hands, once that's done I can play with his weight a bit more. It's close but needs a bit more work. After the pose is done I can move back into the fine detailing in the areas that lost a bit with the transpose master as well as a few more nik naks. This was a test for me as I didn't use very low geometry other then the hard surface parts like i normal do, this is straight up dynamesh work with him. Definitely a bit harder to pose with out using Maya.

You really should just bring out your own toy line - christmas is coming hahahaha

Great work as normal

Not so much a toy line but my own little miniature shop if things go to plan.=)

Sculpt all ready for keys.

If all goes well will have my own lazer printer in few weeks..IF this freelance job doesn't fall through.. Was bored and made a Tyrion Bust for printing. Still have to make the base.

My own form2 3d lazer printer came in today.. now its time to have some fun.

This will be my first print on my machine. She is all sliced up and just have to add keys and some final detailing like battle damage. I will post more once she is printed.

Sweet dude - so wish I had the spare cash to get one

Very interesting project Kurt, and it's great to see you're still part of the SimplyMaya community :). Your sculpting skills are impressive as ever. I bet it's really cool to see your art go from computer to real life. Look forward to seeing more

Ya its pretty cool to hold things i design on screen in my hand.

This is my first print on my own Form2 printer, just letting it sit for a bit before the clean up starts. So stoked about being able to work on her. I'll prime her up soon and all the detail will pop. She will be 8 inches tall once put together.

Just out of the printer 8 inch tall,will post better picture once is cleaned up...

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Torch and Kit all ready for casting..

They look sweeet as. Nice man - Bet its a great feeling holding your art

ya its pretty cool. I bought about 300 dollars worth of casting and molding silicon to make copies, should be cool to learn.

My next 3d print..

Almost done a illustration to go with the print when i get it done.

Great work kurt! It's surreal to actually see a physical model from the cg work. This makes me want to get back into maya. I haven't touched it in several years. I have some old models that would be cool to see printed. I remember an old member here years ago won a SM challenge, aaron I believe it was, had his model 3D printed.