Creating the Scepter From Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

This scepter was a fun project! Can’t wait to start 3D Printing them!

First I started with the shaft and worked my way up.
The whole thing literally started with a  hexagon.. and built up the staff. I didn’t know the exact size of the staff seeing it differs from person to person. When the king is holding it, it literally looks like a wand, but when Nemo holds it, its a HUGE staff. Anyhow. .. Yes.. Extruded the hexagon and scaled it to match a similar scepter size.

Now that I had that part semi-done, now for what would seem to be the easiest part was actually quite difficult for me. Creating this part of the scepter.

going from a hexagon to a cylinder and to a diamond shape to a round sphere. I can make it work with a ton of vertices, but I wanted to use as little as possible for clean 3D Printable mesh. It does sound easy, but I had a ton of issues exporting the model as an STL. each time it would break the geometry. Making it un-printable. But that was not the case. I ended up creating something that looks similar but not exact which was what I was going for. Maybe someday ill attempt it again. But for now this will do. Once I created the shape, I used the Multiresolution Modifier to make it right, and threw it in Sculpt, to get somewhat of a better look.

I moved on to the base of the sphere. Which was easier than I thought. again I used the extra Add Mesh tools Diamond. added a 4 facet diamond and selecting the top vertices and ripped it each one to create what looks of a flower. I sub divided multiple times and turned on proportional editing and grabbed the for corners, moving them down the Z axis. Selected the Base of the model with SHIFT+ALT to select and create a circle. Extruded down and filled it in, last I used the solidify modifier to create thickness. used multi res until it was smooth, grabbed a sphere and place it on top and used the Boolean tool to subtract it from the base to make a nice resting stop.


that out lining is circled with what looks like rubies, I took the circle path and had a sphere array on circle.

With that part complete, I can now focus on the bottom of the shaft and the rings.

For the rings I used the Torus and scaled it to fit the shaft. Duplicated a few time. for the end of the staff, I subdivided a UV Sphere and with proportional editing on, i set my view to the front and scaled the sphere to look like the shape of the end.

With it now all complete, I can multi res it scale it a decent size. This was the outcome!

I added textures, made a small animation. Used some Dragon Ball Z sound affect which turned out awesome!

This was designed so that I can purchase some marbles and glue them to the top! First batch has been 3D printed! I can print 8 on one plate with the Elegoo Mars. I let them cure for 24 hours in UV light before I applied Gold Leaf paint. Used a red enamel paint pent for the gems. Now I wait for the marble!







Power Demonstrations.

3D Printable Raccoon Statue (Tanuki) from Animal Crossing!

Get this cool Raccoon statue in a High resolution!

The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), also known as the tanuki (Japanese: タヌキ or 狸; pronounced [taꜜnɯki), is a subspecies of the Asian raccoon dog.

The tanuki has a long history in Japanese legend and folklore. Bake-danuki (化け狸) are a kind of tanuki yōkai (supernatural beings) found in the classics and in the folklore and legends of various places in Japan.

Animal Crossing’s Lloid!

Lloid (ハニワくん, Haniwa-kun?) is a gyroid character first appearing in City Folk. He is polite, but can be dramatic. Just like the gyroid in Animal Crossing, he dances faster when you get closer to him. He doesn’t make typical gyroid sounds, and has the ability to talk.

Lloid has a tan colored body and eyes that give off a ‘hollow’ look, as they are just pitch black circles. He is speckled generously with darker brown spots. His mouth is always wide open. Unlike most gyriods, Lloid has a simple shape – a round body, two arms that are always moving in opposite directions, and a shape that resembles a hard hat on the top of his head. In the Auction House, Lloid can be seen slightly moving back and forth with his arms moving in two different directions the whole time. The closer the character gets to the gyroid, the faster he dances.

Little Nemo: Nightmare Key Sculpt

JAZAMA! PAJAMA! PAJAMA !!

Since I’ve started 3D printing I’ve always had the desire to sculpt, which I knew nothing of. It has taken me years to understand Blender enough just to sculpt.

I got the courage the other night to try my hand at sculpting a long time idea, and a model I’ve once tried to make, but came out looking like a donut with spikes.The model??
The key from Little Nemo!!

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Simple Gifts.

Have a loved one? Want to get them something special? Why not make them something special?!

It’s awesome to be able to make things within virtual space and turn them into a physical item in the real work.

In passing I was discussing with my wife what type of shows she use to watch back in the day. Turns out she really loved Star Trek Next Generation.
As for myself, iv never really been a “Treky” but she has been turned on by the latest Picard show. So while she was upstairs thinking i’m down stairs working on random resin casts, I was actually creating her a Badge is her initials on it.

I have been using the Elegoo Mars Resin Printer, and let me tell you. This is my first Resin Printer. And its simply amazing. I’v always been worried about getting the resin printer because of all the cons, smells, and cleanups. But its not bad at all. Smell is next to nothing, the cleanup is fine, just have to IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) on hand.. A lot. But its well worth it. If you’re looking for reliablilty and resolution, this is the printer for you!

This print took 4 hours and came out beautifully. Started it last night and and woke up to a perfect print (Can’t beat that!)


as you can see, it came out awesome!

To say the least, this was a perfect “I Love you!” gift. She absolutely loves it! Caught her by surprise!

Till next time
Happy Printing!