Besides making assets for video games and applications I also make models to be 3D printed in all kinds of scales. Most of the clients I have worked with as freelancer were looking to be able to 3D print my work.

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A big chunk of my 3D printing work came from one of my very first clients, Hooman Mehdizadehjafari. We have worked together on at least 32 projects since 2017. All of my projects with him that are built in real life are exact replicas of my 3D models as they’re used as blueprints for building. Here are some highlights:

Infinity Cycle

Commissioned by the City of White Rock in 2017 to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the Tour De White Rock cycling race

Location: Corner of Oxford Street and Marine Drive, White Rock, BC, Canada

The project was commissioned by the City of White Rock, BC and I worked with Hooman Mehdizadehjafari to bring his design to 3D, alongside Chris Choi from 3DSmith Studios Inc. who helped a lot with feedback and 3D printed the prototypes. This happened around February 2017 and was our first project together.

What I did was turn this:

Following the direction of my client, into this:

It took me around 12 hours, including the changes made with feedback. First I made the models as any other, closed surface, made a quick rig to pose it, and then played with Blender’s modifiers (decimate, wireframe, remesh, subsurface) to get my result while tweaking it and cleaning up. Lots of cleaning because the wires not always behaved like you would expect, they would get super thin in some parts so I would need to make a cylinder, superpose it and then use booleans, which also not always behave as you expect with high-poly models.

The only software I used was Blender. For the real-scale structure to be made I sent a file with the wires as curves (no mesh), the printed prototype was made with the model I uploaded to Sketchfab:

You can see the full gallery of photos from the unveiling here.

This is how it looks like in small scale, the prototype printed by 3DSmith Studios Inc.

Soar

City View Park Project – Burlington, Ont – 2019

A Request for Expressions of Interest was released in October 2019. Over 50 artists’ submissions were received and reviewed by a community jury made up of residents, local artists and project stakeholders. The jury selected three finalists to develop preliminary artwork concepts.

These three submissions were shown to residents for feedback on Get Involved Burlington and at two in-person displays at Brant Hills Community Centre and Burlington Public Library – Central Branch. More than 400 comments were received. Public feedback and the artist’s technical proposal were factored into the jury’s final scoring and decision.

Burlington.ca

Reflective Drop

Lions Gate Community Recreation Centre – North Vancouver, BC – 2018

Convergence

Century Street Parkette Public Art Project – Hamilton, Ont – 2022 (x)

Waves

Runner up for The International Lion’s Gate Town Centre Public Art Project – District of North Vancouver (BC) – 2017

Rising Drop

The International Fraser Heights Recreation Centre Public Art Project – Surrey, BC – 2017

Embrace

Canmore National Public Art Contest finalist – Canmore (Alb) – 2018

For this one I provided plain renders without background and Hooman implemented the rest.

The Silver Lion

This lion was made following another of my clients’ direction. I modelled it using both Blender and Z-brush, then it was 3D printed to make the cast and it’s now available to buy in gold, gold plate (on silver), silver, and brass.

Rings

For these rings I worked with the jeweller to be able to provide a clasp for the gem that then he worked with to secure it in place.

This one I made to sell the STL online:

More 3D printing projects