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Modeling a Vinyl Toy Tutorial
I wrote this tutorial for Computer Arts Projects: Vinyl Toy Modeling Tutorial -
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cool stuff, and a neat tutorial I haven't had a chance to read it all yet. I have a couple questions for you. -any recommendations on rapid prototyping places that do good work for this sort of thing? -there are many different types of rapid prototyping machines, STL, 3D printers etc. Do you have a certain type that you… -
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So say I've got a model all ready to go. Can anyone post links and recommendations to a place that will bust one out? Preferably milled, though if the printing is high enough resolution would be acceptable. -
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Cheshire: yes they can, check out this thread at zbrush central. -
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I mostly want to do it hobbyish. It'd be great to have a figure made by yourself. Most likely if i did this it'd be something more comples that i was pretty proud of. Can Zbrush models be printed out in 3d? -
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Thanks for the info. Ya I was mainly just enquiring as a hobbyist. It doesn't seem like there really is anywhere that caters to small run art pieces of a high enough quality. Obviously this is probably because of the crazy prices of the high end RP machines, but none the less its a market waiting to be catered to. No… -
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Jay, we have a couple factories in the far far east that do the production work for us. Depending on the purpose of the output, we either use a CNC device (which is a multi-axis router) or a printer. The piece of equipment that we are most excited about using is the Eden 330, a printer with an extremely fine resolution.… -
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[ QUOTE ] I don't know that it is tough to break into. We use a lot of contractors, we even have an ad up in the job section for riggers and animators. It's funny how much carry over there is from the game industry in terms of skill sets. If you want to do your own small run of figures, look into resin casting and silicon… -
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Thats really cool. I think I'd really enjoy doing a little toy creation for a living at some point. Probably a hard field to break into though. -
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There are some inexpensive online services, but you will definitely need to sand, prime etc yourself.
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