Stoick the Vast 3D Print Video and More!

Below are some stills from the Stoick assembly process, check em out!
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Model: DreamWorks Animation
3D Print: Robert Vignone
3D Printer: Form 1 by Formlabs

The final print weighing in at a height of 8" from bottom to top. Completely solid resin!

Painting and prepping as the parts come together.

Stoick in my paintbox being primed and cleaned.

Spraying the cape

The mess that ensued during my assembly!

This is my Makerspace.

The base was printed hollow and then filled with smooth-on 2 part resin.

glued the key to match the bases together.

Putting the pieces out to dry.

Some beauty shots.

The coat is sharp. Watch out.

Picture Dean, myself and the 3D Print!

Easy Make Oven

Here is my Easy-Make Oven. I picked this contraption up a couple months ago to use it to speed up the curing process of the UV Curing resins from the Form1. So far it has been a pretty great tool! It also seems to harden the resins without having them discolor at all, but I have to test that theory a bit more.

New Bust, New Resin

I printed out this bust this week. One small one print (pictured) and one larger one (I will have that one at our Mold3D booth (107) at the 3D printer world expo).

The new white resin is amazing! You can see it pictured un-touched at the bottom of this post. It comes out really clean/silky smooth. It is hard to photograph without the right lighting conditions however. Even after fully curing, it really maintains a nice look to it after it solidifies with zero tinting (Clear resin turns yellow..sometimes).

Here are a few photographs of the print and sculpt below. Keep in mind, I am photographing this with a macro lens, and it sees EVERYTHING!

Watch for scale.

FormLabs White Resin untouched.

Stand up - sit down. Why not both?

Happy New Year everyone! I figure let's get this started by sharing my fist project of the new year. I rebuilt my workspace and I wanted to share with you my new adjustable height desk. I got the frame of it from Amazon here. On top I am using a cheap-o-ikea tabletop, I was able to mount that and my monitor arms on the back with the addition of a piece of hardwood and some metal hardware. I have my large monitor on an arm now and I am waiting to get the backplate for the Cintiq so they can both be on arms. Should be all finished off by next week!

Frame assembly. Fairly easy and it is very sturdy!!

Mandatory cat-in-box photo while building said desk. 

Almost complete. Sliding the old tabletop onto the new frame. This was easy because of the adjustability. 

Desk in down position (top) and up position (bottom)

Happy Holidays Dragon Lovers

Hey peeps,

Been a while since I last posted. I have been on holiday for the bulk of this month but I am back now and working away on some cool stuff (mostly for Mold3D). I wanted to share a trailer with you - How To Train Your Dragon 2 (even though I am a little late doing so). I worked on this project for most of 2012 and I am happy to see that it is nearly finished and will be in theaters before we know it! The first film is one of my all time favorite animated features, and it is looking like this one will be just as good! Enjoy.

How I 3D Printed Stoick?

Hi everyone. I have a very special announcement to make. Next January, my business partner Edward Quintero and I will be launching Mold3d.com, The first resource for digital artist, designers and sculptors interested in 3D Printing. I will be breaking down my entire process for 3D printing this Stoick model. I urge you to go sign up for our newsletter at www.mold3d.com to be the first ones to see the breakdown of this 3d Print! Along with this breakdown, we will have some really cool interviews and spotlights of other amazing artist pushing the limits of 3D Printing.

3D Print: How To Train Your Dragon's STOICK.

Two years ago I had the opportunity to join the DreamWorks Animation modeling team to work on How To Train Your Dragon 2.  With modeling finishing up this week on the project, we wanted to put together a gift for Dean DeBlois (Director of HTTYD2). For the past few weeks I have been crunching away at home to finish this 3D print using my Form 1 3D Printer and Zbrush. This has been the most ambitious 3D print I have done, being a final height of 8" and built from 11 separate pieces and then assembled by hand.

If you happen to be going to CTN Animation Expo this year I will be breaking down part of my process live at the ZBrush booth Friday, Nov 15 from 2:15PM - 3:15PM, Saturday Nov 16 from 4:30PM - 5:30PM and Sunday Nov 17 from 4:00PM - 5:00PM.

Want to know more about how Stoick was 3D printed? Check out my next blog post.

See you there!

Myself with Dean receiving the 3D Print. Thanks to Sean Choi for the awesome capture!

See you at the CTN Animation Expo!

I am happy to announce that I will be presenting alongside a slew of other awesome artist at the ZBrush booth  during the CTN Animation expo in Burnbank Nov 15-17.

Check out the artist lineup and the schedule for everyone's presentation time!

http://ugm.pixologic.com/registration/1311-CTN/

Friday, November 15th
12:00PM - 1:00PM: Louie Tucci
12:15PM - 1:15PM: Steve Talkowski
2:15PM - 3:15PM: Robert Vignone
3:30PM - 4:30PM: Jared Krichevsky
4:45PM - 5:45PM: Joseph Drust
6:00PM - 7:00PM: Danny Williams 

Saturday, November 16th
10:15AM - 11:15AM: Justin Fields
11:30AM - 12:30PM: Solomon Blair
12:45PM - 1:45PM: Joseph Drust
2:00PM - 3:00PM: Danny Williams
3:15PM - 4:15PM: Loic Zimmermann
4:30PM - 5:30PM: Robert Vignone
5:45PM - 6:45PM: Jared Krichevsky 

Sunday, November 17th
10:10AM - 11:10AM: Damian Szeibert
11:20AM - 12:20PM: Rod Maxwell
12:30PM - 1:30PM: Dominic Qwek
1:40PM - 2:40PM: Danny Williams
2:50PM - 3:50PM: Punn Wiantrakoon
4:00PM - 5:00PM: Robert Vignone

Dancer Print

This weekend I finished up my Dancer print. She is built from 3 separate prints. Before assembly I used a grey primer on all the pieces, then used a semi-gloss black paint for the base, a white primer for the shirt and left the body the grey. From top to bottom she is about 5." tall. At the bottom is some progress pictures. Thanks! Please follow/subscribe!

Base component

I printed out this component that will be the stand for the dancer bust. This is also my first successful grey resin print! The grey material is so cool! It is also really smooth. It really does smooth out the model between each layer just enough.

The Big Print (so far)

I made a few model tweaks to this sculpt in ZBrush recently and then printed out this larger scale bust. It is the largest prints I have done yet! The print time on her was about 18 hours at 50 microns. She was printed in clear and then finished with Tamiya Fine Grey Primer. This print was also hollowed out some to save resin and print time. Gentle sanding on the face (3800 grit sandpaper) and basic support cleanup were done on the print as well.

Releasing a print, the easy way.

Razor Print Release from Robert Vignone @ Polysculpture on Vimeo.

I put together a video to show an easier way to get the 3D print off of your form 1 platform.

• Get yourself a razor blade, place its edge against an area of the platform that sticks out the most.
• Gently wedge it underneath till it stays.
• Once in, lift the edge of the razor blade and then take your spatula and slide it under. 
• Work the spatula through the rest of the model. It should be very little work.

Engadget+gdgt Live Boston 2013

Not the greatest photo ever but my prints showed up on the Engadget blog gallery! Mid-Left side you can see all 3 of my earlier prints in cool glass cases. They will be going to London next I believe.

Old is new again

While I move forward with my newer models (which take forever, I know). I am chipping away on my past works to prep them for 3d printing. This is sometimes a tedious job and takes a bit of re-sculpting to get everything working together. Here is a wip image of my dancer. I will have to sculpt some hair,clean up some of the anatomy and cloth, then I can form it.

Young girl test print.

Finally had a moment to get some prints off this week. I just finished up this 2" print of my girl print. This is with the new supports from the Formlabs software. They are much more sturdy!

I will say I am happy that she stands up on her own. This was printed at 50 micron and is about 2" tall.

Will post a follow up with the final bust tomorrow. I will also be kicking off a larger print of her next.

Happy Printing!

Webinar and QandA with Form Labs, Check it out!

Check out the webinar about the form1 printer.Lots of great info here on maintenance, workflows and the future of form1 printing!