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#1

Sherman is one of my most popular sculpts. I get a lot of requests for him in other poses. That isn’t practical for me to do anymore, space and money are low. I’ve also had a lot of requests for him in various scales. The price of 3D prints have gone down significantly, making multiple scales a tangible option. I worked on the Sherman mesh all week, with this goal:

  1. Sculpt a fully clothed water tight mesh
  2. Rigg the mesh so that it could be posed with its cloths on without any or little distortions to clean up.
    I am very close now to acheiving that goal and the short video below is Proof of this concept. The animations were stock animations include with DAZ3D. They are compatible with Genisis and Michael 4 but not really made for my mesh, but appear to do very well with minimal distortion of the mesh as you can see in the video.
    http://youtu.be/6xZGYGJ8wSc
    In the past I would pose the unclothed mesh and add the clothing later because my rigging was poor and posing the figure usually resulted in some very odd distortions. I’m getting better at it now as this video should prove.
    http://youtu.be/JyOAGuuNOD0
    Once I prefect the mesh completely, I will make this figure available in any pose any scale.
    All that is needed from the buyer is the dimension of the objects the figure needs to interact with ie… chairs, ladders, doors steps what have you and the scale or the exact height of the figure needed. He will only be available in a hollow 3D print to keep the costs down, each figure will be unique to the buyers requests.
#2

Very cool Richard. 3D printing fascinates me :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks Jon, I got most of the issues worked out with the mesh and now it’s easy to pose him anyway I want. I need a 7/8ths one for my live steam Kauila so I made this one.

(http://richard.kapuaala.com/projects/casualsherman.jpg)

#4

Richard; Way cool. I watched all the vids up on utube. The mesh works really well, but (there’s always a but) he seems to be a little crotch heavy in some of the poses. I don’t know if thats a factor of the video rendering for the screen angle or an error in the mesh that needs adjusting. Just my $.02

Great work!!

Dave

#5

And I just thought he was well endowed :slight_smile:

#6

A little bit of both I’m sure. Sherman’s overalls weren’t designed for serious booty shaking so they tend to get overly stretched in the crotchy, luckily polygons are very flexible otherwise you might get a peak inside his mesh, if you know what I mean :wink:

#7

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(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/rkapuaala/_forumfiles/pippinprimed.jpg)

My print arrived yesterday. After a vigorous cleaning and some sanding here and there, I colored my primer with some acrylic ink and laid down my base coat as seen in the image above.

#8

Wow. Very impressive. It’s hard to believe that technology is moving along so fast!

#9

Thanks Bruce. It still needs improvement, its very inconsistent on quality of prints.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/rkapuaala/_forumfiles/pippinposedsm.jpg)

Finished painting the figuer today and I could not resist posing it in my 7/8ths scale Ruby. I am casting this one. If you are interested in ownign a 7/8ths casting pre order it for 17 bucks, after pre order it will be 20 bucks. You can pre order at http://scalehumans.com/orderform?PREORDER

#10
Bruce Chandler said:
Wow. Very impressive. It's hard to believe that technology is moving along so fast!
I agree....a bit to fast for my taste ..... Nice work Richard looks too real. :)
#11
David Russell said:
Nice work Richard looks too real. :)
What David said. The face is unbelievable.
#12

Great figure… ? How much clean up is there on a figure like this? Time , effort and etc.? Sanding, scraping filing or what? All of this is so new, and we are so ignorant. Could we see a figure before clean-up?

#13

Dave,
I’ll try to get a shot of the new prototype coming in before I clean it. I am assuming the curiosity is over the 3D prints and not the castings I will make of the cleaned up and parted print?

#14

Yah, I’m curious as to the post printing work up of parts. I’s completely non train related, and I assume that the “post printing” work up would be about the same for anything thats made, and the followup procedure would be comparable.

#15

With the exception that the prototype is completely hollow. This actually makes jointed pieces easier to make. There is also a lot of cleanup. But that is easy compared with sculpting the same exact figure in several different scales. All I need to do to convert this to another scale is enter some numbers in a field and click two buttons :slight_smile:

#16

I’m considering doing Sherman in 1:20.32 scales and 1:29 scale. How much interest is there in this?