After investing in an Elegoo Mars resin printer, I starting a 3D printing journey, designing sculptures and figurines to print. Resin printing is also called SLA printing and involves bottles of liquid resin, a UV light screen, and an upside-down build plate that builds each print with very thin cured layers. Prints also have to have supports strategically added to them in order to form correctly, there's been a lot of trial and error along the way.
I designed these figurines with ZBrush by first posing and taking a character model (not created by me), remaking the hair to be blockier and then thickening small and thin areas around the model and removing potential holes. Next, I separate certain sections of the figure that will fit together and later be glued or be removable. Finally I dynamesh it into solid objects, decimate it, boolean the parts where pieces connect, set up supports in ChituBox, and print it.
Hair made in ZBrush
Model combined and decimiated
5 inch tall resin model
two part model, cut for print time and stability
my Mars Pro 2 is much quicker, allowing for me to print full models
A 4 piece statue to be printed in parts and glued together
A 3 piece statue, separated because of the fragile bow and arrow
My latest statue design, a highly detailed dual figure statue. The hair was completely remade by me, as was the base and the connections. I made this statue with a larger scale in mind.
