Puppet for artist - Kolya the Horse

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I would like to share with you the story of the creation of a model of a horse by the name of Kolya. It is known that children do not like to do the homework that they are asked at school, and my daughter is no exception. Once I noticed that during the next "torment", out of boredom, she drew a horse on a piece of paper (later it turned out that it was a horse) with different objects and in different situations. I try to support my daughter's creative endeavors, and "caught" on this horse. We drew a couple more pages together, I offered her more and more situations in which this horse could find himself. In the end I came up with the idea to make a puppet with movable limbs for positioning the horse in different racks, with the subsequent redrawing of the sheet. Such puppets are often used by artists to draw human figures. In addition, this task could be used to acquaint your child with all stages of production puppet, from the idea and the image on a sheet of paper to the finished product, which can be turned in his hands. I decided to design in Tinkercad, because this "Playground" is suitable for children (with blackjack and ... with Minecraft and LEGO) and there are many ready-made connecting elements. After-hours joint modeling turned out quite tolerable horse, which was given the name Kolya, don't ask me why, I don't know. Printer UP mini 2, plastic ABS from ESUN, color - white. The print settings of all parts besides the body: he layer height - 0.15; fill 99%; speed - low. Body: layer-0.2; filling 20%; speed - high. During the production of this model was killed two "hare" to introduce the child with the process of moving their ideas out of the plane in four-dimensional world, as well as motivation for further development of artistic abilities, with the aid of a horse.