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AncientCritter ALTRO – sleek & smooth prototype (WIP)

pepe — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:49:55 +0000

Short update on my AncientCritters. Just applied basecoat filler and sanded down the ABS layers till everything is sleek & smoothed

Finished 3D-Print Proto with white NC-paint. Now this fella is good to go for a first mold! Check back soon…

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“Ancient Critter No1″ is alive! Designer Toy Rapid Prototyping

pepe — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:35:23 +0000

After reconstructing the “Ancient Critter No1″ information from a tiny bio-harddisk we were finally able to revive a first specimen of it! For the time beeing it’s growing fast and we feed it with fern and other ancients herbs. But see for yourself!

More about these long time died out “Ancient Critters” next week…

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2010 is here – “Ancient Critters” and ready for even more stuff!

pepe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:12:34 +0000

Happy New Year from smallstuffstudio to all!
The year is pretty young, but i have so much new stuff to show you!

First of all, the last few PEARBLOCK Angels will find a new home today at my grandparents and grandaunt’s shelfs. They where a great joy to give away as Christmas presents. So i have one last left (no. 01/16) and i will sell him here on the smallstuff page for you in a few days! Stay tuned if u want to grab this unique handcrafted 2.5 inch Wooden Designer Toy py pepe for your own collection.

Now to the fresh stuff: Ancient Critter #1 – Keep your eyes open, long gone species will revive 2010! Check the data-sheets I found deep burried in a secret vault of this ancient little fella… Strange things will come! Be warned!

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Aarting D.I.Y Designer Toy Challenge – MONOPEAR by pepe

pepe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:55:41 +0000

Last week i spoted on aarting.com a D.I.Y Designer Toy Contest. Check the submission guidelines, download the templates and design your own toy. This is your chance to design the toy’s actual shape. That’s right, designers from all over the world will be able to customize something that you designed! This means that you’re now free to come up with any original shape you want, in any style. The deadline for the toy entries is the 30. Sept 2009.

If you don’t want to participate yourself, please just register shortly over arting.com and vote for my designs, i would really appreciate it!

The last weekend i get over my weaker self and finally started to get into 3D Modeling with Autodesks Inventor. The reason for learning such a tool are obvious, first it’s a good practice for defining precise form and proportion of my own toy ideas and second it’s beside of clay and stuff like that another way to get my toys go alive! I can export the data as a .stl file and send it to the 3D-Printer and my toys assume shape in ABS for further production Maybe you wouldn’t choose such a technical program for organic forms and figurative modeling but because we do our architectural models at work with Inventor and to avoid compatible problems i give it a try.