Video: "Creation of a Genie" - 3D Printed Model

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The theme of this video is supposed to be POV of a person sitting at their computer, creating a character model, using Blender then exporting and printing it in 3D.

I like the way the video turned out but I’m not completely satisfied. I think that there’s room for improvement… a lot of improvement.

I’m not beholden to this as a finished product. I an thinking about going back and changing things. I have some ideas but I’d rather let people watch and come up with their own opinions before I say what I think.

Thanks for watching! :slight_smile:

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With this kind of resin printers there is no need for that massive amount of support structures you show in the model.
IMHO the modeling part is way too long, Id shorten that. And I’m wondering, why your printer commands are repeating and seem to be commands for a FDM printer instead of DLP or LCD which you show as printer later in the video.

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The supports were auto-generated. There still needs to be quite a few of them but, you’re right, there doesn’t need to be as many. The reason why the program generated so many is because there are lots of little islands. When I redo this, I’ll have to go back and revisit islands and support.

I agree that the computer part is too long. Believe it or not, I’ve actually shortened that down by half. I also sped up the clips to 200% speed. The problem I see is that there is too much “clicking around” with the mouse on an, otherwise, static screen. It’s boring to the uninitiated viewer and, for the interested, it goes by too fast. I think I’m going to have to go back and re-record those screencasts. I’m going to need some time to plan them out, better, next time.

I’m pleasantly surprised to see that you noticed the G-code scrolling by! I didn’t think anybody would read it, let alone get past the first few lines.

All of those interstitials and titles were generated with a bash script… basically a couple of while loops and an echo. The text comes from a text file on the hard drive. In order to change the text, all you do is edit the .txt file and re-run the bash script.

Yeah, that text was all randomly copied from various locations. I was considering whether to change some or all of that. Now that you mention it, I probably will.

You, pretty much, echoed what I was thinking:

  1. Tighten up the screencast parts.
  2. Edit the interstitials.

The only thing I was thinking of that you didn’t mention was to fix up the reveal shots at the end. They are just still photos with KB-effect. Maybe I will want to redo them with a video camera. Put the model on a turntable. Do a little pan and zoom. Ditch the KB stills.

Thanks for your comments! Much appreciated!

It’ll take some time for me to cogitate. If I make a redux, I’ll let y’all know!

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I’m looking forward to it.

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