Gryphon

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A gryphon designed as a trinket for my robotics team as a giveaway item. How I Designed This Editing the STL The original file was highly decimated so I had to increase the triangles in the file before I did anything else. I used Blender to convert out of the STL format and into a file that Autodesk Maya and Mudbox could read (FBX I believe is what I eventually converted to). Importing to Maya and Mudbox I chose Maya as my program to use and I brought the Gryphon into the program. I first retopologized the file as quads are easier to sculpt. I ended up with the design below. The design did not fit what I wanted; I forgot that wings don't go all the way down to the legs... So I went further with the modification of the file. I tried 3D printing them, but the Makerbot Rep 5th gen didn't like how small they were; thus, some bad prints :( Final Product I decided to remix the file entirely and I cut the model in half, so that I could mirror it in the future. I modeled the body after a greyhound ( I should have done a lion, but I figured a greyhound looked similar enough). I finally printed the file, cleaned up the mesh as quads to STL wasn't the nicest transition. I printed the gryphon on a Form 1+ since I wanted to get the best results that I could, and the Makerbot didn't like the new file either. Sorry for the bad image, I stole it from my Instagram. Where I am now... Okay, so yes, it's been over a year since I last touched the files. I do want to revisit the file and try to make the gryphon look more like... a gryphon. Until then, my robotics team does love the not-so-final-final product, and my school does as well.