I designed an octopus because it’s the mascot of the Valencia Roller Derby team, where I’ve been the bench coach for 5 years. My first design was the Cute Mini Octopus, which became quite popular back in the day. We noticed that most of your models are related to animals with articulated structures. Sketches of the 3D-printed articulated dragon And as I said before, my designs always have a long process of prototyping iteration. Then it was easy to apply all that expertise for my designs. Like many designers, I learned about printable angles, bridging, and I introduced that knowledge in my designs at work. Soon I started to learn what the printer is capable of, what are its limitations, and, more importantly, its advantages. By the way, I’m an electronic engineer, but I’ve always been involved in electronics-mechanics integration, which requires this kind of 3D knowledge. Well, I’ve been 3D printing since 2015, designing prototypes and enclosures at work. We would love to know more about the behind-the-scenes in designing the model.
The year of the dragon in 3d full#
Your design structures take full advantage of 3D printing. Probably nobody thought about making this kind of design, and now there are lots of similar Dragon variations around. I think it became so popular because it’s the first highly detailed articulated design (at least the first I’m aware of), and also because most people love Dragons. For the Dragon, I missed lots of comments for sure, because its popularity grew mainly on TikTok and I didn’t have an account back then. I try to be aware of everything related to my designs, but I don’t like to spend all day on social media. This process took a while until I was happy with the result and then I started modeling the Dragon.ĭid you read the comments on social media? Why do you think it became so popular? What makes it different? So I designed a bunch of prototypes, tested them, modified them, and went back to the test.
I wanted it to be very flexible, but also hide the joints as much as possible. The biggest difficulty was to develop a new kind of articulation that allowed me to make possible the idea I had in mind. I thought about designing an articulated dragon more than a year ago, but my design skills were still not enough and I had to wait. I’ve been drawing dragons since I was a child, so it has always been in my mind. I’ve always liked Dragons, and I was born in the Chinese year of the Dragon as well. What was the inspiration for designing the articulated dragon model and the biggest difficulty you met? Specialized in print-in-place articulated designs which don’t require supports and can be printed both with FDM and resin printers, he likes design challenges and adding something new to each model. Printing since 2015, he designed his first popular model in 2019, the Cute Mini Octopus. He has worked for 12 years in an R&D nuclear physics experiment, where he has developed his engineering and 3D skills. Electronic Engineer based in Valencia, Spain.
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