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Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:22 pm
by daz
Hi! Long time CG artist but new to 3D printing. Love love love my Makergear so far. It was a recent gift from my wife for our anniversary and I'm just blown away by the machine.

My 4 yr old wanted to be Luke Skywalker on a Tauntaun for Halloween. I spent a few hours in Zbrush on the head sculpt, printed it out on a super low infill setting (1% iirc) to keep the weight down and medium quality.
Spent many many more hours on the rest of the costume with upholstery foam, fur and lots of painful burns with a hot glue gun.

Zbrush Tauntaun head:

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Luke's radio headset:

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Head print:

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Finished costume:

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And a little video I made of him goofing around in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCECSasHXA

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 12:21 am
by rpollack
That is fantastic!! Thank you for posting.

Rick

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 12:50 am
by Jules
One of the best I've seen! Absolutely amazing job! (And what a cutie!) :D

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:46 am
by theboz1419
This gives me ideas for next year when my boy is over 2 years old. Looks awesome

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:11 pm
by sthone
So AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:06 pm
by Bratag
"...spent a few hours ...." And came up with something AWESOME!!!

I would love to be able to toss off phrases like that :)

I need to get back to becoming Blender proficient.

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:38 pm
by 3dPrintingMD
Totally impressive job.

I've equally impressed that this was achieved with such low infill.

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:24 pm
by daz
*edit*: double post sorry

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:19 am
by daz
Thanks all. 3dPrintingMD: The 1% seemed pretty...sketchy. As I watched the machine lay down the infill it did seem somewhat stringy and messy. But the end result was exactly what I was looking for which was negligible weight. There were a few small breaks and holes in the surface but nothing I couldn't patch. Having said that, If I use such a low infill in future I'd like to be able to increase the outer wall thickness, to have a thicker 'skin' as it were. So If anyone knows what the actual setting in Simplify 3D is for that I'm all ears, because I can't see it.

Thanks for any info!
3dPrintingMD wrote:Totally impressive job.

I've equally impressed that this was achieved with such low infill.

Re: Printed kids Tauntaun costume (well, the head at least)

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:08 pm
by Jules
You want to up the number of Outline/Perimeter Shells on the Layer tab to increase the skin thickness.