3D printing, Mostly Toy making Magic!

Kazhiim

Iruka, I don't know if anybody has mentioned this, but that oblong thing under his leg clearly should be a ball. It's obvious that you haven't considered this, or else you would have done it.

(I like the green and black design the best, though that wing-looking detail could be fiddled with a bit.)

Iruka

Yeah, I may complex up that wing, I want to get some more circuit stuff on him anyway. Also I dont like the black mail on my dark secrerts foo. I will probably refine them.

ALSO, SCREW YOU GUYS.

bombardier

Now you know what Darren must feel like!

Kochikens

Love this. Know tons of people who would buy this. Armauguguhrhfghgh. What class is this? I want to freaking take it. God damn i'd have so much fun painting this.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

That is so far out!

I'm so completely unfamiliar with this process, can you explain why the photos look moist and delicious? What is that made out of?

Glal

It looks like it's made of marzipan.





Mmmm. Delicious toy.

Davoid

I lurk here, and rarely ever comment, but this is awesome.

Iruka

mars, The 3D printer makes really fine layers of adhesive, translating a 3D file in thin slices, and then laying dust of some shit on the adhesive, Repeating untill you have a solid object. we have the corn starch kind. Once you get the soft squishy cornstarch model, you coat the thing in superglue so that it soaks it up and hardens, so what you are seeing is superglue soaked cornstarch. It looks slightly less like its cut from a pear now that the glue is dry.

multimoog

How many of these are you able to make? It'd be cool to see more than one paint scheme, or how they look at various stages (like now that it looks a little more un-pear-y)

Iruka

It depends on the amount of change I can spend, I will have more than one for sure, I'm aiming for 6, actually. 3 the same size and 3 more slightly bigger. I'll take a pic of less pear-ish Foo when I get home.

DMAC

Digging the color mock-ups. Should make for a cool presentation with them all together.

Kealoha

the potential colorings are really sweet, and pretty varied. love how each of them has a distinct feel and makes the same object into something completely different. do you have to pay for each individual print out or are was the cost included in tuition/class fees? I know some people who have to pay for each individual one, that stuff builds up

Iruka

Gotta pay for them myself. Its all the final for my intro to 3D animation class, and Im more of a 2D animator, So I took on 3d printing instead. They arent as expensive as one may think, I did make him hollow, after all. We do have a Virtual to Real class that I want to take next year that is all 3D printing.

multimoog

How much does an individual model cost? How sturdy are they once you get them coated? I can't imagine cornstarch holds up well on its own, but are these things going to be able to hang around for a while? I'm wondering if you could actually eBay or Etsy them for a profit.

Iruka

Little guy is 2.50, bigger ones would be about oooh... 10-16 bucks. When you coat it with superglue it comes out like a kinda hard plaster, its pretty stable. I could potentially sell them for profit, but they take a long time to print and coat and paint so I'd to inflate quite a bit from that base price.

multimoog

Considering how unique they are I could see going up to about 20-25 bucks. Individually handcrafted toys like that fetch mighty fine monies if they're any good.

If you used a sphere instead of a football

NeoRedXIII

I wish I could paint one of those radlings.

Iruka

You wanna design one, red? I can give you the photoshop file. I'd love for someone else to make a mock up.

ALSO, DAMNIT MULTI, NO. SCREW YOU. But yeah, 25 would be a reasonable price.

NeoRedXIII

PM or what?

MagicToaster

Iruka, why don't you post the line art and let ppl paint it on this thread?

Iruka

Good idea MT.



Big files:
The blank template as a jpeg:
With gray 3d Overlay:
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/toy/Workfiles/fooTemplate3dgray.jpg

Clean lines no overlay:
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/toy/Workfiles/footemplateblank.jpg

***PHOTOSHOP FILE***
Lines, base colors, and grays on separate layers for easy filling
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/toy/Workfiles/fooTemplateblank.psd

Iruka

hey jerks, remember this?


I'll have some pictures of actual painted Foos for you soon. I haven't gone through and refined each one, but whatever, I've got tons of shit to do.

multimoog

I really like the green/armored one in the center. But...

it's too bad about that football.

Iruka

I'LL KILL YOU, MOOG

Kazhiim

is the red and grey cyclops delivering a mail ball?

beavotron

holy crap, these are looking wonderful!
i really like the tiger and the wooden one
third last is winning me over too

Asamof the Horrible

my personal favorite is the meat skeleton dog. These are awesome, can't wait to see the painted ones

Iruka

Kaz: Black mail ball. I was going to change my dark secrets foo's ball, but I moved on.

Heres a crappy pic of two of them. The black one I've just started painting, the gold one is about done. The Tech one is about as tall as a soda can, for size reference.

Mustang

I know you've probably mentioned this already but how long does a 'print' take for something of that size?

Kazhiim

I want the black and green one.

If you're gonna sell it, PM me. I'm calling dibs right now.


DIBS.

earthwormadam

Way fucking cool.

I've been really getting into the designer toy scene this past year, and I would love to put something of this caliber on my shelf. Your work really does stand up to anything else I've seen. The scope of your paintjobs thumbnails alone is astonishing.

The armor one, the see thru one, and the wooden one are far out.

beavotron

i'll also buy one off ya iruka

Scalfin

One crit: the second one in the bottom row looks too 2-D optimized, so I wouldn't recomend it as-is.

Iruka

I want to say I understand your crit... but I don't. Are you saying I should 3D it up in the mock up, or that I shouldnt paint it on an actual dog (Which I already have as its in the photo)?

and holy shit guys. If I had known people would actually want to buy one off me, I would have printed more than three. I'm Obligated to give one of these guys to my sister and I will probably be keeping one for myself, so I'll let you know if I decide to sell one.

If getting a run of these guys casted in vinyl wasnt so fucking expensive Id do that.

Kochikens

Holy snaps I would so buy the one next to the Foo symbol on the bottom row. These are amazing.

Scalfin

Iruka wrote: »

I want to say I understand your crit... but I don't. Are you saying I should 3D it up in the mock up, or that I shouldnt paint it on an actual dog (Which I already have as its in the photo)?

and holy shit guys. If I had known people would actually want to buy one off me, I would have printed more than three. I'm Obligated to give one of these guys to my sister and I will probably be keeping one for myself, so I'll let you know if I decide to sell one.

If getting a run of these guys casted in vinyl wasnt so fucking expensive Id do that.

Sorry, I mistook the painted one for the first on the bottom.
I was saying that while it looks quite good as shown, I'm not sure it'll look that good at 35*.

Kazhiim

Iruka wrote: »

I want to say I understand your crit... but I don't. Are you saying I should 3D it up in the mock up, or that I shouldnt paint it on an actual dog (Which I already have as its in the photo)?

and holy shit guys. If I had known people would actually want to buy one off me, I would have printed more than three. I'm Obligated to give one of these guys to my sister and I will probably be keeping one for myself, so I'll let you know if I decide to sell one.

If getting a run of these guys casted in vinyl wasnt so fucking expensive Id do that.

I hope your sister understands the law of dibs when she chooses which one she wants

Synthetic Orange

How much would casting runs of these cost?

Iruka

Casting an actual run of toys, from my limited research, would cost alot. Like a few thousand dollars. I may, Out of pure curiosity, try to get a quote from a company. But yeah.. these toy places get there stuff from china, and the minimum batches are 2-3 thousand units.

I would have to generate alot of intrest to make that worth it.

Allan

This is definitely some cool stuff. 3D art always impresses me.