It finished up just like a fiberglass prop at this point though: roughly sand bondo, fill scratches with spot putty, spray will filler primer, and fine sand to gauge smoothness. After a few tries, I abandoned it for my old standby, Bondo.īondo worked a lot better, and I feel silly not getting more pictures of the crown during this lengthy stage. It was also hard to sand, the difference between it and the PLA meant I had to recoat it if I sanded through. Though it did fill the striations, I wasn't able to coat it thinly enough to prevent runs. It quickly became apparent that this was a horrible idea - the material only seemed suitable for sealing finished pieces. Turning to advice from the internet, I decided to try some of Smooth-On's XTC-3D. Sanding off the excess strings was easy, but the intense striations between layers required a lot of attention.
#Sora no game no life how to
The next hurdle was deciding how to clean up the piece. Coming from a background of fiberglass props though, this was a glorious step forward. It's just a basic PLA print, and it was clear that the machine needed more fine tuning. Below are pictures of how it came out of the printer. It didn't matter much though, as I was soon to find out.Ī friend of mine had recently purchased and assembled a delta 3D printer kit and was kind enough to perform the prints for me. At the time I didn't know about the glorious combination of Subdivide Surface / Creasing that would have cleaned up those rough polygon shapes. Using the Boolean modifier I carved into them so that they'd lay flat on the crown. I decided to build these separately for ease of sanding and painting down the road. Once it was done I just added a solidify modifier.īy the time I knew enough to make the crown, the gems were much easier. I tried to do the same technique with the crown tips, but it didn't work as well as I'd liked (overlapping surfaces everywhere). I only needed to do half of it, while mirroring the rest. With it I drew the basic shape on a cylinder, proportioning it as best I could to the pictures. I finally went and found a wonderful addon called Snap Utilities Line. Having played with Google SketchUp before Blender, the lack of line drawing tools enfuriated me. Getting anywhere in Blender took a while. I spent a lot of time flailing around with the program until I had learned enough of the basics to get on with.
In the end I went with Blender because it's versatile and because apparently I'm a masochist (dat learning curve).
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There were a surprising number of free options.
Once I had pictures, I picked a 3D modeling program to learn. To put it nicely, anime allows for a lot of freedom when costuming. Namely the crown, which he usually wears on his arm rather than atop his head.Įven with these references you can see how loosely defined the dimensions are. Posting a quick project I used to dip my feet into the 3D modeling & printing world, part of a Sora costume from No Game No Life.
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