Thomas Sanladerer your way!

I genuinely couldn't tell it was sponsored. Maybe a little tag in the corner before and after the video just to let us know that this is sponsored.

It does say, includes paid promotion

Cheers. I missed it, but to be fair I was also working while listening to the episode...

Thomas Sanladerer I like the integrated sponsorship like you did it here.

Shift-E, 1, enter (just in case you don't move the mouse far enough)

Thank you!

+Stephen Kongsle great tip!

Thomas Sanladerer great video and thanks for bringing Blender into the mix as it’s an awesome FREE tool that offers an insane amount of tools for creating,repairing, remixing and finishing 3D models. Taking the “Blender Course” is fun and very useful especially for their sale price of $10! Again thanks Thomas for your awesome Vids and you should definitely do more Blender and or Meshmixer videos!

You can actually do that right in blender! (alt-j in edit mode)

i looked behind me to check if someone was watching cause that was too pornographic

I also feel like you should've done one of the voxel ones in wireframe... could be neat.

+Erik Lawrence If you only know which buttons to press, everything falls into place like magic 😃

Thomas Sanladerer it's like that old story.... the part itself may be cheap, knowing which part is the expensive part. There are many buttons, knowing which one to press, that's the hard part. It's get each from there. Great work, truly.

Is there an add-on for exporting each frame as a separate model automatically?

There should be - someone in a blender forum should be able to answer that for sure. It would only be a script that is called every frame to do the export using current parameters.

Probably the biggest challenges would be dynamically generating the mounting points for moving characters and stuff (and even more so doing it in a way that won't be very noticeable and will be easy to remove in post when it's not possible to completely hide them behind stuff). And for the people actually using it, the challenge would be working out the exact offset required to match the precise perspective of the point-like pinhole 3d camera with a physical camera with complex lens arrangement, possibly off-center tripod mounting point, and huge size relative to the scene. Though, with the precise parameters of the camera, it might be possible to render a mask for the on-frame struts automatically; and for optimal results, a second set of models could be generated, with the moving/floating objects removed or with alternative mount points, with the same mounting points for the camera to provide for a clean backplate; and to save time, it perhaps could even project the mask and only keep high quality models where the mask would expose the alternative models, and have faster to print geometry everywhere else (though, an override would be good to have for shots where refractions and reflections would make the differences obvious in the parts seen thru the mask).

You've probably seen this example: Bears on Stairs vimeo.com/91711011 This was demanding enough, even using a 50 frames and a fixed camera, but a taste of what could be achieved. Yep, definitely lots of challenges especially with jitter of actors and viewpoint, and removing overhang supports. Deshaking and postproduction could take care of some of that with a fair amount of manual labour. Or entire scenes and actors could be printed frame by frame to ensure positioning. Colorizing could be used to cheat on using multicoloured printing. Would be fascinating to see a more complex movie... perhaps Aardman may have a crack at it.

Also, keep in mind Solidify is meant to make non-manifold into manifold; it basicaly makes each face two faces; not only it can produce overlaping meshes, but is also makes things hollow, you're growing a shell. But if the mesh you started with didn't had any holes, you can go into edit mode, select one of the faces, then go into the Select menu and click on Linked (Ctrl-L) and delete that set of faces to make the thing solid again. I'm not sure how to easily fix self-intersections automatically with Blender though.

I don't think there's something that's "just a filter", but if you wanna model the details in 3d, you could use the Boolean modifier to add and subtract shapes. Alternatively, if you can get the texture in the form of an image file, you could increase the resolution of the mesh in the areas you wanna add details (possibly with the help of the Boolean modifier to just add details to that part) and use that image with the Displace modifier (might need to mess with UV maps to get things the way you want, and maybe weightpaint some vertex groups to make the effect localized; or instead of UV, you could set the texture coordinates in the Displace modifier to Object, and add an Empty and select that as the object to let you move, rotate and scale the texture by manipulating the Empty). And something sorta midway between the two approaches would be to model the stuff, then increase the resolution of the area and use the Shrinkwrap modifier to deform the mesh with the stuff you modeled.

For the displace, you can also use some of the parametric textures instead of images; the colored ones can produce some interesting results with the direction set to "RGB to XYZ" instead of "Normal".

Play around with the parameters and stuff; and if you find something you like, remember to save the blend file with a unique name before trying to change stuff.

Thanks but I was thinking more in the sense of procedural generation and procedural textures. For parametric models as well so if you change the dimensions for a part, the art adapts intelligently too. You actually could designate some areas or a volume above the minimum surface of a part as "artistically" and then automatically generate UVs, textures and "fit" different shapes (like borders or bevels) in it. A mixture of just procedural generation and some of that AI based "deep dream" images just in 3D. I know it's a tall order but it would be possible to do. Of course you can do it by hand but engineers who design functional 3D printed parts simply don't do that.

It can be a little slow at first to get used to all the commands and stuff; but after a while, I often don't even think about what commands I'm trying to do, it's more like learning movements, I just hit the keys without even thinking about what the command is called. They need to make the beginner learning curve a little less daunting; but after a while using it, after a bit of practice, one day you'll realized you "know kung-fu" :)

Thanks. I haven't had the time to yet, but I still might jump back into it. Also thinking and hoping things have become a bit easier than fifteen+ years ago.

Thanks! Reds are _super hard_ to capture, next time I'll use a different, less saturated filament. Lesson learned!

It's not really noticeable in the detail shots, but in the shots of you against the desk, with the owl prints, it almost becomes crimson. And the blue owl has a weird halo effect (check the start of the video) - it might be a post processing filter. Going a little further, my new year's resolution is to contribute to the 3d printing community by sharing some designs, ideas and insights from the last 6 months since i started to build and refine my own 3d printer (itself being a remix of a remix of a remix of an implementation of a Core XY)! Thank you very much for all your videos and knowledge. I've become a big fan of yours (and Joel, and Angus) ever since getting into the 3d printing world.

It's not something you can tweak in the camera, or perhaps use some gels in the lights or something?

OnShape. Provided you don't mind making your model public...

Sounds like an awesome place to be!

Off-topic question since I have your attention and there aren't many comments yet: I've been printing with an i3 for years now and that printer is more mod than original Wanhao. I just built a CR-10 last night for larger volumes and I'm going to cannibalize the i3 to build my first from-scratch printer. That said, I want to build a delta. What do you think is a decent kit/learning experience for delta's that won't break the bank?

now all the images in my head...

... so much hair, hair everywhere!

Greg Johnson I've only heard good things about the Anycubic Kossel Delta and it definitely won't break the bank

Emmett Turner there are tutorials for that blender lego waves is one

Yes, that was with Blender.

Wireframe modifier

+Mechwd Gaming it's the ATOM 3D 2.5EX! Single nozzle, dual extrusion delta.

Thank you :)