Got Printed for Posterity as Plaster Figurine at My 3D Agency

raymi — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:01:10 +0000

Last week I got 3D printed. read about 3D Printing in Toronto at My 3D Agency and you will see the whole deal and Jason Priestly too. Jason wasn’t there that day. He doesn’t work there. Not sure the connection to be honest, but his picture and 3d figurine are front and center on their site. Should be me.

Now I have a 3D figurine that perfectly represents my image at this time in my life. I’m elated.

Maybe I should go into business selling figurines of my likeness all over the free world.

How did this happen, you ask?

I signed up to be 3D scanned, computer modeled, and made into a digital 3D media file, and then a few minutes later I was printed layer upon layer and reproduced as a photo-realistic plaster figurine. A doll. An action figure. A femme fatale, a villain.

Here’s Michael Gossack the owner of My 3D Agency checking me out. Hey Michael take a picture it will last longer.

Here’s how it went.

Michael used his mobile scanning technology to take a full body scan of me in my desired pose.

I was challenged to come up with an interesting pose. This is how I respond to a challenge. I struck a confrontational pose

Michael took multiple scans to get the best possible data for the 3D print .

Michael asked me take my glasses off as it seems easier to ‘add’ these in post.

Once the data was captured,

Michael had to put on his graphic designer hat and flush out the design even more – adding and improving the glasses and who will combine, edit and texturize all the data collected for a
print-ready 3D model.

Now that the file is ready, it is uploaded into a final print software for last- minute fixes and positioning. In a few hours, the full- colour model comes to life.

this is gypsum – a special powder used in 3D printing.

Gypsum (CaSO₄^.2H₂O) is the most common sulfate mineral, but i bet its still expensive as hell when put into a 12 pound pail with a lid and a handle.

I don’t have any shots of the figurine being printed, but if i did I’d put em here.

Once the model is finished printing, it goes through a few steps of post-processing and finishing . . .

It gets a stabilizer and treatment.

Then it dries.

And is then ready to be shipped out.

What does that mean for you? It means you too can be 3D printed.

and get a digital 3D file and then get 3d printed in full colour.

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