Remember Ben Simond's Master Class? He had his spider 3D printed, and it's looking awesome!
Ben writes:
This guy just arrived at the office. I think he’s looking pretty cool. If you haven’t seen him before, he’s one of the projects in my book, Blender Master Class. The book covers making him in blender, through the processes of modeling, sculpting, and texturing, then creating materials and rendering with the cycles render engine.
With the book finished I thought I’d get him 3D printed as a bit of a momento. I made some modifications to the model to make it more suitable for 3D printing, and sent the model files off to Shapeways to be printed. I’ll document the process soon in another post, but for now I just wanted to put up a few pictures. Also, if you want one of your own, you can find it on the Gecko Shapeways store.
Full disclosure: I'm community manager for Shapeways, where this spider scared the crap out of my colleagues ;-) If you're into spiders, we have some more for you.
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At first glance, I assumed this was a Blender render...and was astounded by the realism!
Ah, if only...
I think that Blender render will by more realistic than this picture.
I put together a tutorial/how-to post about getting it ready for 3D printing here:
http://bensimonds.com/2013/06/18/3d-printing-the-spider-bot/
Thank U
Thanks so much for this! I've always wondered how much of a hassle it would be to make some of my models 3D printable. You're thorough article was very helpfull. And encouraging:)
Are you gonna give him a paintjob?