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Welcome to this article on a student's journey through my course Create Miniatures and 3D Printing, this journey focuses on one student's experience..
Welcome to this article on a student's journey through my course Create Miniatures and 3D Printing, this journey focuses on one student's experience and highlights the achievements they made and problems they faced before entering the course.
My name is David and I am the instructor of this workshop on Create Miniatures and 3D Printing you can read more about me here, if you're new to 3D printing and Sculpting you might want to check out my 10 Mistakes when 3D Printing or/and also my 10 Top Tips for 3D Printing with the Anycubic Photon S articles.
Here is a brief intro summary to what the course is all about;
This course will guide you through the process of Resin Printing and Painting 3D Miniatures from start to finish, for 3D Sculpting we will be using ZBrush exclusively! and the course will include full workshops added throughout the year.
I also include FREE Section lectures on the Anycubic Photon S to help people get better results and understand the printer better.
All assets are included with this course as well as brush, alpha, and tools plus any reference I am using!
The Journey
Reason for the student to take the course?
John has very little experience of 3D printing but can create a simple 3D files (in ZBrush) that he has been printing with limited sporadic success. He wanted to be more confident and print files for resale rather than paying for an external company to do all the work for him, he also wanted to sell the digital files online, this was his underlying goal.
As the Course has different Workshops focusing on Fantasy, Military and Boardgame based D&D and Warhammer miniatures and is step by step from beginner to advanced he felt this was a perfect fit. Plus as an extra painting techniques are also shown!
John already has ZBrush and a Photon S so he was set!
The course took John through the base mesh creation and reusing this base saving hours of work later for repeat projects of the same ilk.
As we have a private Facebook group he could post his work for critique and also join live Q and A sessions for FREE he felt he had the support he needed. In john's case, he worked on the projects trying to produce the same look and feel like the workshop example, I always recommend this approach before creating your own so you do not get lost. But I have had many students do their own from the start and purely use the workshop for reference.
Feedback from the student tole me what he loved about the course, he loved the ability to create parts that could be slightly modified per project and reused we call this Kitbashing during the course you build a library of parts like Guns, Backpacks, Jackets, Helmets, Axes, etc
These are all reusable and with the base, mensh means it can literally save days of time when starting new projects, only creating new parts when you need them, and yes you guessed it they go into the kitbash kit as well for reuse.
John worked through workshops 1 and 2 and produced a Soldier and fantasy Vampire, and did not ask for any help during this process, with his deepening knowledge of ZBrush he now feels empowered to create his own only using the course for guidance or to refresh his skills.
John also downloaded the workshop files to get access to loads of brushes and the final project file himself which he used to examine this in itself identified things he could do better!
Moving onto the 3D Printing of his miniatures he realized he had not set the size of his prints, no problem he ducked back into ZBrush and resized the files.
Working through the 3D Printing part of the workshops he understood and followed best practices avoiding common mistakes and utilizing top tips leading to a perfectly printed miniature.
At this point he posted images of his print to the group and said how pleased he was with the course, he was not even painting them!
Since then he has painted some of his prints and loves that the course shows a variety of different painting techniques he is busily filling a shelf up with custom-made miniatures!
Feeding back to me he is now selling his print files and also creating custom figures for the D&D community groups he mentioned the course gave him all the tools he needs to move forwards and jump-start a business plan he is setting up with a friend.
This is an actual student of the course and his experiences with 3D Resin Printing and Painting for Miniatures Workshop, if any of this chimes with you check the course out and receive the first-year subscription at 50% off!!
Please note I will be adding more workshops and doing more assignments and lives for 2021!
All the best
David mojomojo
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