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Physically replicating my character from Daz Studio

sterlenejcsterlenejc Posts: 180
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There have been a few discussions about 3D printing characters users made, but none of the threads satisfied my answer, so I decided to open a new one, with a new idea. Please note: This is project for personal use, not commercial. I am aware you cannot normally 3D print figures, but this is personal use. I have been looking on different forums, cheapest and most effective ways of reicating 3D characters. I stumbled upon this thread, where a guy replicates his creatures using CNC machine and a cardboard. Tje result is amazing! It's much cheaper than a regular 3D printing with fillament. It's also faster, but you print in several stages, so you have to assemble figure yourself. I forgot to me tion my figure is about 140-160cm tall, and roughly 1m wide. It is a creature mixed between a monster and a human, so it has some horns, fangs etc as an addon. So I was wondering, has anyone ever done somethi g like this? I am looking for any option (affordable, though) to replicate my created figure in real life. Using materials such as wood or plastic seems the best choice, as they are quite affordable and lightweight. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,846

    Interesting concept. Curious to see what ideas get posted.

    I have been enjoying DAZ figures in VR for the past year and seeing life size figures in front of me daily made me wonder about how cool it would be to have actual printed figures that size. I doubt the tech is there for that (for normal users) or even close to affordable, but it would still be cool.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,356
    edited April 2020

    you probably could just render cut through sections

    animated sliding down the ground plane front and back lying down and cut those out of paper as templates or project it from a video projector and trace with a felt pen on your particle board, use your jigsaw  and glue and file the result devil

    you would only need a cheap mini projector as doing silhouettes 

    if keen project the render on it and paint it to match

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  • sterlenejcsterlenejc Posts: 180
    FSMCDesigns said:

    Interesting concept. Curious to see what ideas get posted.

    I have been enjoying DAZ figures in VR for the past year and seeing life size figures in front of me daily made me wonder about how cool it would be to have actual printed figures that size. I doubt the tech is there for that (for normal users) or even close to affordable, but it would still be cool.

    Update on the thread: The guy who told me about the idea just replied to his original thread. The product you see in attached image is a result of cardboard and clay. I asked him for detailed process and I'm cureently waiting for response. He said the total cost excluding paint and glass was about £130/150€/180$, mostly for CNC machine working hours, which are approximately 25€/h in my country. He said there was about 80 additional hours of "sculpting". I guess that was adding clay over the cardboard and smoothing it, adding details. I will update the thread when I find out the exact process. Btw, how did you get your characters in VR? If it's against ToS, can you send me a PM?
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  • sterlenejcsterlenejc Posts: 180
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    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    you probably could just render cut through sections

    animated sliding down the ground plane front and back lying down and cut those out of paper as templates or project it from a video projector and trace with a felt pen on your particle board, use your jigsaw  and glue and file the result devil

    you would only need a cheap mini projector as doing silhouettes 

    if keen project the render on it and paint it to match

    That would work, but it would require a lot of cardboard, cutting and gluing everything together. Did you come across any videos showing the process? I think 3D printing by sections would be the best option, but quite expensive. Unless there was a cheap material we could use
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,356
    sterlenejc said:
    Tha
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    you probably could just render cut through sections

    animated sliding down the ground plane front and back lying down and cut those out of paper as templates or project it from a video projector and trace with a felt pen on your particle board, use your jigsaw  and glue and file the result devil

    you would only need a cheap mini projector as doing silhouettes 

    if keen project the render on it and paint it to match

     

    That would work, but it would require a lot of cardboard, cutting and gluing everything together. Did you come across any videos showing the process? I think 3D printing by sections would be the best option, but quite expensive. Unless there was a cheap material we could use

    not yet but toyed with the idea myself for cutting out  digital clothes and furniture too but still don't own a projector 

    I would use wood though as I said, medium density particle board, you can file and sand it and sit on the result 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,356

    or a CnC router!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,356

    I found a weirder alternative on youtube though

     

    you would want to polyreduce your obj export in Blender first and probably do it in bits

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