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This is the first of a series of articles I’m going to post about the process of creating individual figures with the Fabjectory Service.
Pathfinder Linden (John Lester) contacted me about creating a figure based on one of his avatars and we met at the Fabjectory headquarters in SecondLife.
In reviewing his avatar, we found a couple things that probably wouldn’t fabricate so well. Most problematic was the lower half of his cloak; which was a tapered hollow cylinder. The cloak was thin enough that if fabricated it would just fall apart.
I had him detach the cloak and made a new plywood (the default secondlife object texture) one that would mimic the shape but be much stronger; the substrate has high compressive strength, but low tensile strength (not very elastic). We then just textured the cloak with the correct texture in our post processing.
In post-processing, we also did a few tweaks like moving the back of the hat down to touch the brim and thickening up the brim itself.
We ended up shipping the figure directly to John’s Hotel so that he could show off the figure at the NMC 2006 Regional Conference
From all accounts it was a big hit and helped to show off some of the neat open aspects of SecondLife.
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