Great Thread and great questions here. I just started working for sculpting toys and it is nice for me to read your experience so far. Thank you Wetterschneider :D
wow this is amazing! Im not sure if you already said this or I missed it, but do you have to model to the actual size of the final toy or is it just a scaled size obj that the 3D printer reads?
I've been posting a few images sporadically in the running "What are you working on" thread but there's no reason to flood that one with older images, and it might be helpful for anyone who has questions if there was a single thread. I've been making toys for a number of years now. Some of them are based on the designs of…
There's been progress on the development of the Instagram Mascot. Here's a parts breakdown for rapid-prototyping. When making a toy like this, I divide the model up not just to make it come out to the mold easily, but also to be able to cast the different parts in different colored resins. This is why the lens is a…
Thanks for posting this! I've always found this subject interesting and have been looking into it more recently. The biggest drawback I have with game art is that unless it's a truly amazing game it's usually forgotten in a couple years and doomed to a life in the bargain bin. I love the idea of taking digital art and…
Awesome man! Thanks for posting those process images. Very interesting, I was curious how you did the chains for the guy on the right. After it's cut for printing (Stage six), the pieces are made, are those individual pieces then connected back together before the wax mold stage? Also, if the final toy is articulated, do…
These look amazing Scott, and I love all of the rest of the figures on your site! Big thanks for helping explain the practices and sort of pipelines that need to be dealt with. I'd love to produce some physical prints someday soon, as it always seems a shame to me that all of the work I do, never really leaves a monitor…
You know, we don't have a printer, we use a couple of great output services. We also have a few factories overseas that handle output, cleanup and reproduction for us, so we don't need to have an in-house device. It would be great to have a rapid-prototyping machine in-house, to play with and print little toy tests on, but…