Yeah, the sculpt is most important thing, if we have to sacrifice articulation, so be it. Hopefully (if you do it) it can at least look like it has articulation though. And if you could get any in there at all it would do wonders for it.
How do you think you would handle the ears? I dont think I’d want ears that were hard plastic. Maybe someone could buy a yard of this faux leather to make them out of?
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How ever since I don’t own a slinky dog I could use some dimensions for reference if any would be willing to take some dimensions of there slinky dog so I could get it in actually size I’d really appreciate it. Also what expression should I do I figured toy mode would be best any thoughts.
As for the ears I figured I’d fine some material but the one you posted sounds promising though if I did make the ears they would be one piece and would slide into a slot that would avoid unnecessary cuts
I’d help but I never bought a Slinkydog myself.
One thing worth noting, there seems to be different sizes?
Which one is the more screen accurate scale?
For the expression, Im a bit torn. I would say toy mode, but next to the rest of the toy story collection it might look better if he too was smiling, like here.
Otherwise he might stick out like a sore thumb being the only “dead” toy. But a neutral expression would be fine as well. Ive always had a fondness of his deadpan look.
I was thinking perhaps something like this as desing wise
Slinky is about the same height as hamm and the body is about an inch wider then the slinky plus the 3d rotation on the toy story site will help me alot
[b]By when do you think you will have the Mr. P parts? I would love to add Mr.Spell to my collection I think he’s fairly simple to make. I remember seeing someones 3D model once I believe maybe you can contact that person. If I find it again, I’ll post it here.
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That would be me, heh.
lol I should have known so are you going to work with him?
I was in talks with Slink to get it 3D printed/produced, and that might still happen, but I haven’t talked to woodbuzz about 3D printing outside of this thread. Its a bit soon to talk about it too seriously just yet though, as my model still needs work to be screen accurate.
I want mr. Spell and the robot from ts1 
It depends on the measurements of the model you made and if you can export it as an STL file as that is how the 3D printer reads the file. I found this model of a mr. spell and its really good [url]CgWhat.com is for sale | HugeDomains I’m gonna try to recreate what they did only in solidworks
Thats the thing, I did no measurements, I layed out a basic model, but completely eyeballed it. Backwards I know, heh. Slink has a buddypack figure (that I believe is accurate, just not not in scale)of Mr spell that he’s going to get me photos of for reference so I can adjust it to make sure the proportions are correct. I don’t have a great way of handling exact measurements however, so your methods might be better than my own.
I can export as a .STL with a script, though I’m not sure its been thoroughly tested.
well how about you email the stl file of the slinky as is I’ll check with shapeways on how much it cost
to be printed and let you know what they have to say on what to do to make the printing as low as possible
My last post was about my Mr. Spell model. When I mentioned slink, I meant Brian’s username. Not sure if I confused you, but I just wanted to clear that up.
I’ll have to figure out how to get the STL export working either way, so I’ll let you know.
Oh ok thats cool btw you can also upload an OBJ file on shapeways not sure if that helps but its worth a try. Update on the Eyes I’m ordering the prototype to night and they should arrive in early January when I get them I’ll post pics of before and after they been painted
Yes, OBJ works much better for me actually, because anim8or can export and import obj natively, and no information gets lost, except for texture and color information, which will get thrown out anyway when printing.
Oh good then if you want I’ll pm you my email so you can email me the obj file and I’ll see how much printing it would cost
It’s like you guys are speaking another language. ___
Ha ha I can get more technical then that what with all the different tools used to build a 3d model
my brain hurts jk x)
I’m drawing up some blue prints for slinky dog I’ll pics in a bit
