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First custom ever! She was modeled and sculpted in 3d using modo and 3d printed the parts through shapeways. The goal was to create a reusable base for future figures that can be printed at (almost) any size. For the articulation I wanted something between marvel legends and DC direct. Marvel has the articulation and DC has the looks, so I tried to marry a bit of the 2. Painted with regular (cheap I guess) acrylics and coated with Krylon. Lacking any experience in painting figures, I went for clean and save. I kinda messed up her eyes and had to redo them which didn't turn out so good anymore. Overall it was a fun experience and I'm looking forward to the next figure. Thanks to everyone in the forums keeping me motivated!. I'll be making this figure (unpainted and unassembled) available through shapeways soon, just need to tweak some small things first.  |
| Tweedledee and Tweedledum |  | Submission Order |  | Batman the Dark Knight Returns |
| Iron Man 3 Mark 42 Tony Stark | | Marvel Legends Series | | Doctor Doom |
| None | | Created by Strangefate | | Powergirl |
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I've seen a few other 3d printed figures. People are really getting the details of articulation and size down right. With $200-300 home 3d printers coming out this year, it's great to think we could all be able to have something like this one day soon.
This is still overall cheaper than buying all the chemicals and equipment needed to mold and cast entire figures over and over again. I can't wait to buy my 3d printer around christmas!
I'd be careful with 3D printers, especially if you want to use them for something that needs a clean and/or accurate finish, you won't get that from the cheaper ones.
The ones I know for around $300 have a 0.4mm accuracy, meaning that there's almost a half milimeter error marging per layer, which is a lot. You woulnd't be able to do small details / parts or accurate joints. Plus you also want to keep an eye on what printing technology is used and it's limitations.
In comparison, the one used for my figures has a 0.15mm accuracy. I personally wouldn't go for anything over 0.2mm if possible. The others will be fine for things with simple shapes and details.
The $200-300 printers I mentioned were just to point out how far we've come in a few years and how these are becoming more and more available for a regular house, not necessarily for making these kind of detailed figures. I would never try it on one of those.
I'm afraid I don't do commisions. Doing a good quality new body type with all articulation would be a few thousand dollars worth of work, so commisions are only worth it if they can use an existing body as base... and right now I only have the one
I work on the games industry and we've used actor scans before, usually getting that kinda stuff done is part of an actor's movie contract these days and once they do them once, the studios will pass the scans along to whoever is using their IPs. So yeah, most high profile actors will already have scans ready or will be bound to make them as part of their contracts.
I'm afraid I don't have a cam, I'll post more info about the articulation she has when I make her available.
How she was made: she's like any other hipoly 3d model, you have to model and sculpt her as you would do for a video game or digital cinematic etc. The articulation is cut in later.
Her WIP forum thread has more info and answers on the process: http://www.figurerealm.com/forums/viewt ... d34faa2489
Hope that helps.
Ball joint head, ball joint torso, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbows, swivel hands, Ball joint hips, hinge knees, hinge feet.
Joints are tight, comparable to a new figure and I tried to give all hinge joints a movement range as close as possible to 90 degrees without destroying the natural look of the affected area.
The rest, you could check out in the WIP thread linked earlier, plenty of shots with poses and you can see the different parts that make up the figure.
I think the price for the 6.5 inches figure will come to around $65-69 and the 6.2 inches versions usually prints for around 4 bucks less.
On the other hand, once a mold is done it can be printed at any size, allowing you to print bases for larger characters and such that maybe can't be easily done now.
Then, 3D printed figures still need to be assembled which with current technologies still involves some cleanup and tweaking for everything to work properly, plus they need to be painted and I think those are steps most end users / collectors would like to avoid, and instead pay someone else to do a good job and just deliver the final figure.
This is like is like someone making a custom figure, and then casting and molding each part so they can reproduce the figure as many times as needed. Except, this way is faster and more cost effective for making the copies. You won't be able to buy a full custom casted figure for $60.
For anyone curious about the process, there's a WIP thread in the forums showing WIP 3d prints, renders etc:
http://www.figurerealm.com/forums/viewt ... 4b9ba16454
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please keep making them!
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