Brawl trophies, additional photos
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I have a few of beauty shots of the Brawl trophies for your perusal. As well as a bit of information as a lot of people have inquired as to what these are.
They are 3d printed in a hard thermal plastic. It's similar in properties to the stiff plastic parts of a PS3/Xbox controller. They are not very heavy and will break if you drop them repeatedly cause you weren't paying attention. [facepalm] A prototyping place here locally, Austin, Texas, worked with me to get them printed using their equipment. Once I had the raw prints in hand, I hand sanded them down to as smooth as I could get them and painted them with some extremely temperamental mirror finish metallic paints. I can't tell you how many times I painted these things to get a decent surface. It's been an interesting project for sure. While everyone else has been working on the contest or participating on it, I've been scrubbing on these little guys. And a thank you needs to go out to divii as well. I concepted the trophies and handed it off to him to produce the model that I had printed for us. It's nice having minions. ^_^
And here is some in progress shots I had taken:
They are 3d printed in a hard thermal plastic. It's similar in properties to the stiff plastic parts of a PS3/Xbox controller. They are not very heavy and will break if you drop them repeatedly cause you weren't paying attention. [facepalm] A prototyping place here locally, Austin, Texas, worked with me to get them printed using their equipment. Once I had the raw prints in hand, I hand sanded them down to as smooth as I could get them and painted them with some extremely temperamental mirror finish metallic paints. I can't tell you how many times I painted these things to get a decent surface. It's been an interesting project for sure. While everyone else has been working on the contest or participating on it, I've been scrubbing on these little guys. And a thank you needs to go out to divii as well. I concepted the trophies and handed it off to him to produce the model that I had printed for us. It's nice having minions. ^_^
And here is some in progress shots I had taken:
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Was the black mouthpiece added in at a later stage or something? In some shots, they seem to be completely hollow, in some not.
They all look hollow to me. You can see the light from the eyes shining inside of them.
Great job!
It would make a great contest to allow polycounters to buy one of these, customize it, and paint it.
Inspired by the DIY stuff that kidrobot has going on http://sites.kidrobot.com/munnyworld/
The basic idea is they would add air flowage pipes with wax to the areas that need it (like the teeth and eyes. Then cover it in the soup a few times and let it dry. Stick it in a high temperature oven for a few hours to burn out the plastic. Then the hollowed version they would use to poor the bronze in. After it cooled, they break it open and cut/sand off the piping.
http://www.shapeways.com/materials/silver
I first read that as "singlet". And the answer is VERY cool.
and i considered shapeways, but i managed to get a better deal locally. Plus i really wanted to see the machines and the samples before i gave them the job.
You made an official polycount green one for you didn't you.
They really work well as trophies, very nice.
Were they really pricey?
Nice job. Did you manage to paint onto the interior, too?
the close-ups look really smooth. good job on the sanding - i know what a pain that can be
great job.
Did you by any chance use a flavoured paint?
Errr, I guess what I'm trying to ask here is, uhm....
Can I lick your balls?
i want one. =[
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW! I WANT!
Those are fucking rad. I want one. Bad. I must compete in a serious way next time.
Yes, I too would like r13's fingers inside me.
Awesome trophies, I'd love to have one.
Now time to get my Flava Flav / Green Tooth piece made. Mad repping at all the conventions!
- BoBo
It's even better when it happens twice !
I did get some nice t-shirts and a graphic card from Epic Game for achieveing my 3rd place in the UDK ~
so thanks again polycount, and thanks Epic Game !
The funny thing is that I get more prizes in a polycount contest where there is supposely nothing to win than with the unearthly challenge where I was supposed to get something ! xD
eh I knows someone that could cast these out in bronze...
awesome idea making it brawl prizes..
Cheers again!
/mega fucking jealous of hawkins!
Man those are awesome, No simple contest price can live up to the badass aditude of a win like this.
~ Showcasing the winners on that place on the other side of the interwebs.