Digital solid prints are favored by public. Most of us do not familiar with the 3D printer price and the cost. We all want to find cheap 3D printer. 3d printers have so many different kinds, such as 3d color printer, digital camera printer, digital copier printer, digital photo printer, solid ink color printer and so on. Within a couple of days of this we got an enquiry from Matthew Long at the West Wales School of the Arts to 3D print his model “Flake the Dust mite” which he had sculpted using ZBrush. The STL file came to us with only a few errors which were easily fixed with our specialist software so we were able to give a quick quote for a 3″ high printout in our White Detailed material.
This was our first ZBrush 3D print so we were intrigued by the process that the designer goes through and how the detail of the model would come out from the 3D printing. Coming from an engineering background where primitives and Boolean operations are the order of the day I could only imagine being able to produce a model like this, the photo below shows the workflow for the subdivision modeling process from the initial idea sketch to the final rendering.
As for the 3D printing it was a straight forward print apart from the removal of the support material which had to be carried out by hand rather than the waterjet because of some of the features being so thin. As you can see from the photo and video below the model came out really well and to quote Matthew “Just had the model delivered, looks fantastic! Better than I imagined”. I can’t say more than that apart from I can’t wait to see what character model comes through next……