Digital modeling & talk panel report in which professional creators speak in detail how to make figures with latest full color 3D printers

An exhibition of works by digital modeling software and the latest type full color 3D printer by the group of artists and creators who are active in various fields " Ultra Modelers " was held in Osaka from 23rd to 25th November, 2018. At the venue, various talk panels were held for 2 days, entitled "Ultra! Seminar", as well as exhibitions of works. Mr. Wada's work is shown at the talk panel " Flame Conversation with Creator " by BLESTAR Koichi Wada, an official instructor of 3DCG modeling software " ZBrush " and Yakuhiro Nakuragi , Wacom 's enterprise evangelist, exhibition work summary. It was told in detail how it was made.

You can check all the exhibits at the exhibition of the day with the following articles.

The forefront of new modeling made possible by the latest type full-color 3D printer was peeped at "Ultra Modellers" exhibition - GIGAZINE

Shinichi Wada (Wada):
I'd like to introduce the making of my work "Followers of Jungle" to everyone.

Mr. Yurihiro Noriki (hereinafter referred to as Yoriki):
Please.

Wada:
I was photographed by firefly corporation that I used this time, but it is a printer by Mimaki Engineering Co. , Ltd. , a UV curable ink jet type full color 3D printer.

Yoriki:
This is a check at once, everyone.

Wada:
It is a model called " 3DUJ - 553 ", but it is huge.

Yoriki:
Is not it big?

Wada:
I think that you can understand if you see it in the picture, it is very big. There are as many works as you can exhibit in this way, but this printer has been developed and it is the 1st anniversary at last this month.

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
My work is at the entrance of the exhibition, so I really would like to see it. This is a picture of "Followers of the Jungle", but it is quite "out".

Wada:
I also did figure prototype at work, so I know how to make legacy digital data and I also know very well about "tying" how to make 3D data for output.

Yoriki:
I understand promises for manufacturing.

Wada:
I agree. At first I thought "I must make it based on that," but when I was watching a story I was told that "Please do not think too much". "Well, can you give out this !?" With the feeling (laugh)

Yoriki:
With the challenge to the limit (haha)

Wada:
It's like the limit, "It's impossible to put out with a printer". In the meaning of data structure and details, I did not think about anything, I got sculpted in Gorigoro already,

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
So I actually got the output done. I came out (lol)

Yoriki:
That's right.

Wada:
It was like touching "Can you put out this data?" I will show you the structure of the data, but this is not a picture.

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
ZBrush is CG data, so I can take it to other software and render it, but this is what I rendered.

Wada:
It will not change with rendering and photos? There is almost no difference between CG and thing. That's why what you see on the screen comes out as it is and you can pick it up. Just like a dream!

Yoriki:
I agree!

Wada:
When a 3D printer first came out, color was impossible but it was a solid color, I thought "Wow! I'm happy" in hand, but this is colored. "It's colored and it's gone out!"

Yoriki:
There is a sense of penetrating it all at once.

Wada:
That's right. So, I photographed the patterns actually outputting, but it comes out like this.

Yoriki:
This is right side right?

Wada:
I was falling beside him. The spear is breaking a bit, but the body itself comes out in one shot, right? So, I want you to see this milky part. This is support, that is, it is supportive. This is taken after all the output is taken. I have the main body excavated from the support material.

Yoriki:
It is supposed to be the support material added to print the shape stably.

Wada:
After all it is not possible to laminate the floating part or the like. You have to put support from the bottom, you have to be the foundation is useless.

Yoriki:
I feel like printing while lifting.

Wada:
There is a black line around that part of the main part of the main body where the bright white part becomes the substance. This is a layer of color.

Yoriki:
Oh ~.

Wada:
This is the color, is not it? So, not all of the resin's contents have color, this part of the inside contains white resin, it is a mechanism that has a full color on one thin skin of its surface.

Yoriki:
It is amazing ...

Wada:
So I think I can see that the skirt part is exactly this layer.

Yoriki:
This is the easiest to understand.

Wada:
Some parts of the wild boar come out like this.

Yoriki:
I can hardly believe this. Because Dokarn is integrally formed.

Wada:
That's right. Come out with this as it is.

Yoriki:
It is usually funny, is not it.

Wada:
Is not it amazing?

Yoriki:
I also thought that "I'm doing about 3 divisions somewhere" with thighs and legs. Then, at the moment when Mr. Wada's data came, I thought, 'I am writing with one shot, this can not be believed for a moment ...'.

Wada:
That's right. Under normal circumstances the back waist is equipped with a naked leg and will be able to gather from there afterwards. It comes out in one shot (laugh). I feel that I have not done anything extra.

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
In this wild boar part, there are a lot of support materials, but craftsmen sharpen it guts. That's why it really is "carving out", is not it?

Yoriki:
That's right.

Wada:
The texture of this support is ... ... As a craftsman says, it feels like "calorie mate".

(All lol)

Wada:
It seems to be like a wet cookie and goes seriously, but since there are also fine places in particular, I have practiced with small output once. I practiced once with the small ones to the right and then moved to the actual.

Yoriki:
The place where things of different sizes can be output is a good place for digital.

Wada:
I agree. It's free to make it big or small.

Yoriki:
It will also be a variation of the scale. After all the figures are the most expensive to make molds. In that sense I think that it is an advantage unique to digital.

Wada:
I agree. And, since this support material is soluble in water, eventually you have to wash it. It is a feeling that it sheds with water, it has melted cleanly and has finished it.

Yoriki:
It is like washing the release agent.

Wada:
Oh, yes. I do not file files. Rather it is impossible because color is on the surface layer.

Yoriki:
It will peel off.

Wada:
I will also carve out all the details. My work is a gorgeous shape so I think that it is still easy to carve, but the part behind the work of Mr. Tanioka (lol)

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Yoriki:
How did Mr. Wada's work make the data?

Wada:
When making data, the first thing is to get the Atari with ZBrush and making the wild boar. ZBrush has a function called "ZSphere", which has a function to touch something like a spherical joint, but it uses its mannequin to shape the layout. Ultimately it is different, but thinking about this, I am already making gorigorigorigori from here.

Wada:
And this is actually the actual ZBrush screen.

Wada:
If you look at the screen of ZBrush, you can see that it is made up of a lot of "sub tools" consisting of disjoint parts. Legacy 3D print data has to be roughly Wanskin. A state in which the contents are not overlapped by combining the data together. For example, it is possible for a sphere and a sphere to overlap, a shell and a shell overlap each other, it is possible for CG, but such data is disliked in 3D printers, is not it? So, it is necessary to integrate it properly and erase the place where the contents are overlapped, but this "3DUJ - 553" does not need that work. This printer will output even if the models are overlapping or if the parts data are scattered.

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
Rather than modeling, people who are making CG and game models often understand, but what is merit in terms of what is merit is that when texturing "UV map" is done, I can not make textures unless it is divided. Once you put it together, reopen the UV ... ... just thinking is like getting nauseous. You do not have to do it. That's why my model uses poly paint (vertex color) with ZBrush, of course, but I am using texturing a lot.

Wada:
For example, when it is a wild boar, the parts of the body and the ears are all textured and rough. Of course there are parts that you draw with hands using Adobe Photoshop.

Yoriki:
Do you also use Substance Painter ?

Wada:
Of course I am using it. I draw textures using Substance Painter software which I made very well. This is a hard story, for example, the metal part is when you use Substance Painter, we decide the grayscale information "how rough is this place"? But this time it is a color print, so you have to put out it in color. So, I bought a UV viewport with a screenshot and join them together.

Yoriki:
(Lol)

Wada:
It is a hard time to work, but the export function was added the day before yesterday (bitter smile)

Yoriki:
Hahaha (haha)

Wada:
I wanted it six months ago! I thought I.

Yoriki:
The fact that such a function is added means that the developer knows well that the user wants it. As I thought, this dull luster is very difficult to draw with pictures.

Wada:
I agree. After all it is a color printer, you can not express metal or reflective. This time it is a little challenging, I am doing "What will happen when I paint it like a metal?"

Yoriki:
This is not a metal part.

Wada:
It is not a metal part. If you look at the shakeda parts on the hunter's chest in a jungle, it seems that the deception is working.

Yoriki:
The feeling and dirt that struck the metal of the armor are very outstanding, too.

Wada:
I was able to draw as much as I wanted, with the power of software as well. So it is an actual part, although it is an image explanation while interacting with Firefly Corporation, this is measuring the size with 3ds Max .

Wada:
There is roughly 33.053 cm in height, and this one blue frame is a part, is not it? It has not become Wanskin, and it seems like "one part in the place surrounded by this blue" "One part by the head", the parts are disjointed. I am submitting the data in a state where the pieces fall apart. It is amazing at the time that the method of output can be done first because it is being outputted to the output machine as it is.

Yoriki:
I agree.

Wada:
So, from here, it is an image that we submitted with the firefly corporation during the output. I prepared an image with the data and gave an explanation like "I want you to do it like this". "About the wild boar comes out in what size, so I want you to put out with this size feeling of size" It is this picture like explanation. Parts that I actually output are divided into folders, but the body of that hunter divides the previous spear and the back spear and divides it and just places a single shot out of the middle, so the folder There are only three. I am submitting it with feeling that there are only three folders containing each part. After all, because there are characteristics of resin, these long objects, heavy objects will bend, so I'm drawing a kind of explanation like "I'm opening a hole to put brass (shinku) in there".

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
As my setting, there is a poison jar in the spear part, it is a mechanism that poison is injected from here. When I told that I wanted to make the venom bottle a transparent resin, I was told that "If you want to make it transparent resin you should put the file separately". I could set the bottle only for the bottle, and for the poison part if you make the object file of only the poison, the whole object becomes transparent. If you divide the object, it is a mechanism that makes it all transparent.

Yoriki:
Well, this transparent part is another file, is not it?

Wada:
Yes. You can name it "make it transparent here" in a separate file.

Yoriki:
Well then, this is the feeling that when attached to the original data it comes out.

Wada:
That's right. It is a form that you synthesized at firefly corporation's place.

Yoriki:
I see.

Wada:
Actually, I was able to exchange data and photos with Mr. Firefly Corporation, "There is also a case that the bottle shifts when it is output as it is" (laugh). Actually the bottle is a bit more complicated. It looks like a cork lid is sticking with a pon ... ....

Yoriki:
It's a small difference, but it's important.

Wada:
I interacted with such things. Ultimately, I was piercing a hole to put brass, but it was difficult when I built it up, so from the firefly corporation, "From the original data, I can open the spear with confidence Please designate "please. This is the condition that you use LiveBoolean in ZBrush, which uses a very convenient function to add, subtract and multiply shapes, and divides it with Bonn in one shot.

Wada:
That model is like this. I think that it is good to have a combination of this and see a little about the gaps and joints around the place.

Yoriki:
I agree. Then, after shaping it in print, is it feeling that it reinforced by loading brass wire?

Wada:
Oh, it seems so.

Yoriki:
It will gradually bend due to the weight of the resin. I figured that it will be aged over time and it will be deformed after all. I hate it when I get to a certain extent, I reinforced brass in order not to bend. This is also knowledge of the garage kit.

Wada:
Just that is right. Next, like this, from firefly corporation, you sent me the contents "I'm somewhat useless" is not it?

Yoriki:
This is when you are analyzing the structure.

Wada:
Yes, this is a screen of software called Materialise Magics , but there is a yellow line for example.

Yoriki:
Yes.

Wada:
All this, I forgot to close the face. It is useless if the face is open. This will come out if it is not in the closed shell state (lol)

Yoriki:
I'm getting out of the way.

Wada:
As expected it is using this resin and it can not fail because of this. "ZBrush certainly opened a hole, I am sorry", so ZBrush has a function to close the hole called Close Holes, so it seems I sent the data after closing the hole.

Yoriki:
I see.

Wada:
This is the actual model. As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of sub tools, but it will output in this state. I was doing my 3D printer, as a human being who was making data ... .... I can not believe it.

Yoriki:
This is reproduced to the wild boar's place?

Wada:
That's right. The part of the drool was made transparent resin. I will also challenge the details "How much will it come out?", I have peeled off once because there are various things such as texture now. There is a function called "Clean Tool Master" of the ZBrush plug-in, which causes all the textures to peel off at once. Did you know that?

Yoriki:
Oh, it will disappear.

Wada:
The details are also carved in this way. I think that you can understand in this covered area, but the skin also feels texture.

Yoriki:
I feel a texture.

Wada:
It is quite aggressive modeling.

Yoriki:
I'm offensive!

Wada:
Clearly, I do not think much about outputting on a printer, right? Because I'm thinking that "please give it out if it can do it."

Yoriki:
This is challenging as an expressionist, do not you?

Wada:
Yes. So it was a little surprising that all this was out. In addition, the hunter is also finer data, which also has a huge amount of sub tools. As for what it is supposed to be, since each part of this waist has become one part and it is outputting with all it being separated completely, I thought that it came out well.

Yoriki:
It is amazing. I feel that this tattoo place is also out very often. This is probably the usual figure technology, you do a way of doing a tampon printing (pad printing), right?

Wada:
Well, I print with Boyon.

Yoriki:
Even in the case of tampon printing, I can express quite a bit now. Even without sticking a decal, action figures etc. are pretty much made by tampon printing. Recently there are technologies like spraying on 3D and printing. But it is a feeling that it is not yet precise so far.

Wada:
I agree. It is not easy to show out this color taste as a bag. Speaking of full color, I think that everyone knows ZPrinter etc. that you know well, but I guess that it is a quality that makes a close line with that one.

Yoriki:
As expected after all it is for business use.

Wada:
Hair is also sculpted like this.

Yoriki:
It is amazing. Normally the detail will collapse at the output stage. If you make it smaller, the details will be unmodified to a certain extent.

Wada:
I really thought that I was out often. There are 4 million vertices of data.

Yoriki:
It is the number of vertices of a polygon.

Wada:
It was a bit of a surprise to accept data with 4 million vertices.

Yoriki:
It is amazing. Usually it's 3D print, it is about 200 thousand polygons and it is always restricted so you can not read it. To some extent there is no choice but to give up.

Wada:
Depending on the vendor, you may specify "megabytes of file" as megabyte. My data was awesome megabytes, so I really thought that it was "well served". Like that, my making of this "follower of the jungle" has been completed so far, but Mr. Noriki has seen the work of this exhibition. how is it?

Yoriki:
Well ... I already want any one.

Wada:
(Lol)

Yoriki:
I really want it. I feel like 'gloomy' already. I think that it is already epoch making for a moment that each of the twelve people's works has various styles and reproducibilities. Of course, when I first talked from Mr. Wakua Kira (who is presided by Ultra Modelers), I thought that this was interesting, so let's go to the wonder festival for the time being, so I suddenly developed it at the Wonder Festival in July We had a digital prototype stage on stage.

GIGAZINE has also posted articles on digital prototypes and 3D printers exhibitions held at the Wonder Festival in the summer of 2017.

How far is the figurative model with 3D printers? Digital shaping to realize in one fest and progress of 3D printing technology - GIGAZINE

Yoriki:
The digital prototype stage is done from the wonder festival of 2015 [winter], but first, I came with a guest saying "There is Ultra Modellers". Although the exhibition finally came true at this time, I asked you to do something like a commitment to resolve that "Creator will be able to express so far using Mimaki Engineering's printer. It was. From there it is already like Don Don Dawn, the creators who participate will also increase something somewhat (laugh) There is a feeling that it has really gathered so much.

Wada:
I agree.

Yoriki:
I already have plenty to see. I think that it is incredible if you see actual shaping. Actually, now that this figure market is growing abroad abroad. Some major figure toy maker also seems to be having a paradigm shift saying "overseas are selling more than the Japanese market", in other words, "I want a wonderful creative work of Japanese creators Users around the world are outrageous ", is not it?

Yoriki:
Kaiyodo also did a wonder festival in Shanghai of China, but it is already a lot of momentum. In the case of the other side, rather than Moe figures, I will have a real system like Mr. Wada, if anything. Dragons and Genbu and creatures like those appearing in China's story are getting uptight, but there is a difference in the taste that is accepted, but there is a chance that shapers will make prototypes and data around the world I feel very much.

Wada:
I hope you listen to the story and wish to see the work again. Mr. Noriki this time, that liquid crystal tablet ... ....

Yoriki:
Our company's liquid crystal pen tablet. We have the world 's largest class 32 - inch liquid crystal pen tablet that you can write directly on the screen today.

Wacom's " Cintiq Pro 32 " was installed next to the talk panel venue, and anyone could freely operate ZBrush.

Yoriki:
Since ZBrush is actually included, you can do gorillies and sculpt.

Wada:
The size is Tatami, Tatami (haha)

Yoriki:
Well (laugh). I wonder if she could sculpt directly with clay balls, feeling like waving a sculpture sword or a spatula. If you come to understand how to use, including the operation of the Pentab, I'd hope to hear from you soon.

Wada:
Thank you.

Yoriki:
It was just your time. We will end the talk panel here.

Wada · Noriki:
Thank you very much.