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Saturday, December 22, 2018

New bird looks like an angry bird. Ildikko's pattern of the sparrow modified using some 3D printed parts.



This are both made using Ildikko's pattern.  In the yellow bird I 3D printed the legs and the beak and in both I used safety eyes with 3D printed eyeballs.




Here are the new Amigurumis added to the collection.



Monday, December 17, 2018

Ildikko Struning made us a present.

I made this cute sparrow with Ildikko's Christmas present:   This pattern.

I changed its eyes a little bit.

It made me try to 3D print a pom pom maker.

I have to make it better. But the pom pom came out Ok.



Little Big Foot with Sharon Ojala's pattern




SHARON OJALA tutorial: LITTLE BIG FOOT

Friday, December 7, 2018

Learning Blender with Sebastian Lague

For the first time I learned a little bit of UV mapping.  I still cannot get a render with the colors I painted in his UVs.

I am gaining confidence in modeling.  Now I could understand better about UVs.

I don't have photoshop but Pixelmator Pro worked very well.  The only thing I couldn't figure out is how to lock transparent pixels, but I think Pixelmator does this automatically because painting was rather easy.  I didn't separate exactly all the pieces, something I will have to remember for my next try.  But I think the guy is coming along fine.

Next video I will make the rigging.  Let's see how that works.

This is what I could achieve:


Sunday, December 2, 2018

3D printed dripping napkin holder

Buscando ideas encontré esta que me pareció buena para un servilletero, y diseñé uno.  Me gustó como quedó y lo comparto.


Se puede adquirir el archivo para imprimir en  CGTrader



Monday, November 19, 2018

I am learning Blender

I watched some tutorials to make this little guy.  Of course some parts of the tutorial are incomplete so I had to impovise but I am happy I could do this.  Specially understanding a little more about uvs. 

I have a lot to learn about everything but it is a lot of fun.  So I proudly introduce this little boy.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

3D printed Clothes' hanger with the shape of a hand.

So I am studying Blender.

I wanted to learn designing with Blender for 2 reasons.  One is to be able to design more complex  geometries to 3D print.  Fusion 360 is wonderful but it was hard to me to go to the sculpt environment.  I find it easier with Blender.

The second reason is would love to make animated characters like my sons'.  Of course I am ages from learning what he knows and he has a wonderful imagination with a sense of humor that I lack.  This that not mean I cannot develop it. So I am working on it.


Here is my first creation.




The problem is how to add really flat surface to be 3D printed.  How do I make these perfect holes, chamfers, etc that can be so easily done with fusion.  Importing the hand as an obj or stl file and then transform it to a body it very hard and you have to loose resolution.

But have the Windows 3D builder.  This helped me a lot.  I could make cubes, make holes with cylinders, cave the chamfers for the screws with cones. Not exact but it turned out pretty good.

I am very happy with my achievement.  Maybe if the coat is to thick the fingers aren't separated enough.  I should work on this.  One friend gave me the idea to change the position of the fingers like curving one of the middle ones.  But for now this is what I got.

Now I am working in a souvenir from Punta del Este.  The "dedos or hand" sculpture.

O by the way I don't imagine anybody is interested in buying the file but I uploaded it to cgtrader
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/house/accessories/hand-coat-hanger

and to sketchfab https://sketchfab.com/models/b430d72b0ae8405ea1fc10f4e4205356

I wish they let me sell it for less than 3 dollars.  But they don't allow you.  My idea is to get some money to help me buy the filament and mantainment of my 3D printer.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Stl files for Ildikko Chimp skeleton on CGTrader

I uploaded the stl files for the 3D pinted skeleton for Charles the Chimp designed in crochet by Ildikko Struning.

She made the cutest crochet pattern.  It is sold at: https://www.craftsy.com/crocheting/patterns/charles-the-chimp-amigurumi-pattern/604991

Her skeleton is made with copper wire.  I thought maybe it helps to add a skeleton to avoid the bending of wire in some parts.  So I made some bones with joints.  And added 3D printed eyes and teeth just for fun, as well as a 3D printed banana.

The stl files can be downloaded from:
 https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/games-toys/other/3d-print-a-skeleton-for-ildikko-charles-the-chimp

And you can watch a video tutorial on the assembling of the skeleton in the crocheted Chimp.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Now Chimp has two Bananas


When one of the items on your 3D printing fails.

It is good to be able to 3D print a lot of small items.  It saves you time.
But sometimes one of the items fails.  It doesnt stick and will ruin the rest of your prints. 

I have tried all type of solutions for this but nothing worked.  Sometimes I had to abort all of the printing loosing the good ones.

Today I solved it using the 3D pen.  I paused the printing and build an item in the place where the failed one should be with the 3D pen. 

And it worked!!.

The first time I did not build it right.




                                                                                                                The second time it worked:



New Moth Character for videogames


You can find it here:  Insects

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Monday, October 22, 2018

I am making the skeleton for Ildikko's Charles the Chimp

And here he is almost finished.



The hands and feet, long bones, hip, skeleton and torax, all with TPU.  All surrounding the PVC covered 3mm copper wires, and 1mm for the fingers.
In PLA the lower jaw with the teeth, and the eyes.  I printed some screws to hold safely the eyes to the crocheted head.  I glued the safety eyes to the PLA eyes.

I plan to upload the skeleton to CGtrader after I finish a couple of details.  I will also make the banana with pla and crochet the banana peel.

Next I am planning on making an orange chimp.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

3D pens help with crochet Amigurumis!

I am using my 3D pen not only to glue parts of my Amigurumi skeleton.  Now I found out it is useful to glue hair to the Amigurumi.  Pressing the pen while it is hot will stick together the hairs of a lock of hair.


First I applied some plastic to the crocheted body.  I pressed the pen between the stitches extruding plastic.  For this I am using black PLA.  But ABS would also work.


After gluing with plastic the hairs together I glue them to the body.  Softening the plastic with the tip of the pen while it is hot.

These were my first results:




And here is my new donkey with the previous one.   There others were bought by a brazilian guest that came to my house through Airbnb.







Thursday, September 13, 2018

Se fueron a esperar la llegada de Luna.

Alla se va Alice con su burrito.  Ellos se van al medio del campo, a esperar a una bebé que ya pronto va a nacer.  Le pusieron Luna.  Van a vivir en un lugar muy especial.  Varios jóvenes, entre ellos mi sobrina,  se juntaron para vivir en el  campo, produciendo y compartiendo, alejados del mundo loco de las ciudades. 




Sunday, September 9, 2018

Hoy se fueron a Sao Pablo, 3 de mis Amigurumis...

Tuve 2 huéspedes en casa, que vinieron de Sao Pablo a correr en la Maratón.  Les gustaron mis Amigurumis y me compraron 3:

El dragón de 3 cabezas


Cifford a quien bautizaron  Lula:




Por cierto, Pamela se quedó muy triste....


Y también se fue la Mula


Buen viaje!!!!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Aprendiendo Blender

Si quieren aprender a usar Blender, recomiendo estos videos tutoriales:  Blender Guru

Después de varios tutoriales he aquí mi obra:


Saturday, July 7, 2018

Mis Amigurumis están ahora a la venta por Mercado Libre

Si clickeando los links no los llevan a la página de Mercado Libre.  Copiar y pegar el link.








https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-454911251-amigurumi-burrito-articulado-para-posar-_JM




https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-454910502-amigurumi-burrito-se-puede-posar-_JM


https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-445029664-amigurumi-elfocon-esqueleto-_JM





https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-445028394-amigurumis-clifford-y-pamela-_JM




https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-445023925-amigurumi-clifford-_JM


https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-445025959-amigurumi-pamela-_JM