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martin.m25
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Gargoyle

Recently, I wanted to stop my caliper from lying on the desk (it won't stay in the drawer, I tried several times) and made an Apollo style stand for it:

which worked absolutely well - but was also absolutely boring. I thought there must be more in life than angular forms so I started sculpting with ZBrush. As messing up proportions when sculpting humans quickly makes them look like eerie zombies, I thought I'd start learning ZBrush by designing a monster right away (anyway this is what ZBrush is made for). Searching for good ideas, I found the "Alien Gargoyle" Pete Lindsay http://www.stoneworksonline.co.uk/ sculpted in 1993 during a renovation of Paisley Abbey https://www.paisleyabbey.org.uk/ . Pete, as an "Alien" fan, designed this together with 11 more traditional gargoyles to replace the decayed ones on this medieval monastery.
Sculpting this turned out to be quite a challenge. ZBrush has a steep learning curve from the start even with more organic designs, but the mechanical structures added quite an extra challenge to a beginner. People say with ZBrush the sky is the limit - which is probably true, but they don't say how to get there... So here's a rendering:

For my first sculpt in ZBrush, I find this acceptable. Printing this thing turned to be much more difficult:

In addition to ZBrush dynamesh making a mess of all fine detail (I found out how to work around that later), printing without soluble support was rather messy and there's just too much detail for this printer to handle.

- Martin

Posted : 11/03/2018 5:20 pm
martin.m25
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Re: Gargoyle

... and a side view.
I can't really claim this to be a masterful print, I just loaded the repaired model in Slic3r PE, set 0.1 mm and printed it. It came out OK, but would definitely profit from soluble support and less stringing.

- Martin

- Martin

Posted : 11/03/2018 5:23 pm
Bytor
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Re: Gargoyle

could you share the STL file for this? I would like to try printing it on my MK3

- 1st "printer" TIKO 3D
- 2nd PRUSA i3 MK2S with MMU v1
- 3rd PRUSA i3 MK2S
- 4th PRUSA i3 MK3 with MMU v2- 5th?? PRUSA i3 MK4 (upgraded from MK3) with MMU v3 (waiting for…

Posted : 11/03/2018 9:22 pm
martin.m25
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Finally it's online: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3245288 - it took some time to ask for permission from the original creator.

- Martin

Posted : 07/03/2019 6:49 pm
PJR
 PJR
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Re: Gargoyle

Interesting. It looks to be more a grotesque than a gargoyle though 😉

Peter

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Posted : 07/03/2019 9:11 pm
Aeropunk
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Re: Gargoyle

Very nice. A hint of H.R.Giger influence there.

I got my first 3d printer, a Prusa3 Mk3 back in January and I have found it takes a bit of experimenting to find the minimum size your can make the detail. The orientation it is printed can also have an effect. All part of the fun though!

Posted : 25/03/2019 12:14 pm
Sembazuru
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Re: Gargoyle


Interesting. It looks to be more a grotesque than a gargoyle though 😉

Peter

There are lots of interesting gargoyles (and other grotesques) on churches/cathedrals. Check out this article (and yes, the first picture is an H. R. Geiger inspired grotesque): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pop-culture-gargoyles-in-gothic-architecture

See my (limited) designs on:
Printables - https://www.printables.com/@Sembazuru
Thingiverse - https://www.thingiverse.com/Sembazuru/designs

Posted : 16/04/2019 4:50 am
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