https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wWvtzwLtzFhZvk3oiis33GD5N7zKEWJuMgfgs9ED9C54wgUiVV2dpZpUTNySJL8CKcg.png In my ever increasing list of hobbies that I think by some miracle I will magically have time for all of them... I have picked back up 3D printing and 3D modelling. And to celebrate that I decided to take another stab at using Local AI to take a png image file and converting it into a glb file which I can then convert to a stl and then 3D print it. But before we dive into this specific post and the outcome... Let's take a look at all my previous Hive/Holozing/Splinterlands 3D prints... |Holozing = Glimmo | Holozing = Glimmo | |-|-| |https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/ALD8aV64ZdT75kCk2hTSLyE1aUWrPVbgERtSipRq6gu1ZKtig8yj7PCsLZnESAF.jpg|https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/242ruTWph75EF6byJfYaSSjBog8S9bp94WjjbjxcBXfLt72H6jqVFv1UiG1oEfYNjn796.jpg| | Holozing = Gemino | Holozing = Wrackdoom | |https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/243WcZHN2xYt8wqTPaAGGq4UmVVSMRSv1chzUxkhFMmzqpkyqCDndijuKpPcfpG9HJeEd.jpg|https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23z7GDd6FMF6WK8FFeX5qcJk1TiHv5SxPcPKEDWP4giKabPa8QRndJkGcqAxtWT8kr8ta.jpg| | Unfinished painted Yabba's Pickle | Yabba's Pickle | |https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23ynUSsyk2eScW96R7u8K2mGoZaJ7zuYsCtAQLSVce3aR9oUAbJ8UDDdCn53KbEdXBKx7.jpg|https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/244UxEcLNHpbSXzLbZTQHDcNgtPQxhxB8BrXXtm1zdP8V3ihBHQ5pfToBks3JB6M1djDr.jpg| | Splinterlands = Brewmaster Abraxas | Just look at those teeny layer lines! | |https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/2432Pup934jbKqQik7N8Y6pgsoSUV6CYcgxBCosN4a1Zhb8VH1S8uGK6vds1Vj6Txz9nE.jpg|https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wX33b343TRLJ5SDM3hv9sqYt7crnLngUWbWuoc9jWQfGAvw7GwhuEtU8jFwuX42VL9T.jpg| Okay enough down memory lane! Now onto the main event! --- # Generating the GLB file Once again I use ComfyUI and a pretty simple workflow to take a image and make it into a 3D model. I decided on Fal because (s)he is just so cute! This is the image I uploaded to generate the glb file from https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/Ep3drWFcrPijsmymKQhagZFZAoXrPBotUYSj8AyFUuRv9HWH7NkbCH48iz3NyhnmBMM.png Here is the entire process in ComfyUI to generate the glb file. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23tRvMuL7yewiaKjecU8tgjULYxHuv7WSoYgBpCGHD4iNeouHipBteC1MmVLLMnAz5ugm.png It took 41 seconds from when I hit "Run" until it displayed the 3D model. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wgKmmyxUi2MTghjQcV4KB7C2Fg6tWqLfCijpkTZrbkQaEz9NCdFgW8hd3Jj9WCCMUGH.png And that is all it takes to Generate a 3D model from a 2D image! --- # Converting the GLB into a STL In order to 3D print this cute little birdy, we need to take the .glb file and convert it into a .stl file. And to do that I use Blender. You just import the glb file and then export it as a stl. You can make changes to it while you are in Blender if you want but honeslty he was pretty good so I am going to leave it as is and see how it prints! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23tbR7TgjZmBU1WCEFnYmDKVn6dvSi5i53DNWKeLAk2tUNFiHtGLLsNhkFjDki1fzWRji.png And I was also pleasently surprised at how clean the backside of the bird was. It usually takes way more fine tuning to get the backside to be clean looking. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/Eo8QufKS9XZaXxRpp8iGpFChhvayUn4LVNapLyfFqPsARWLiTgajW9FAe4ZHrwwvLg7.png Perfect Example is Miu.... Here is what my AI generated for the front... https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/EoAUVbjTrLcQUEQHKq2VPyNFH57dnhoPVSwBA35e7nsFrS2TyJaZuJTQX2rELMXp3mj.png And this is the backside.... https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/EoCbmE2giLyAZwfK9sq5BUeNz6EHEXfNHvHb4FgJ39XnUaec9xW56JzpWKy55HxupET.png Yeah, not great haha. But now we just need to export this bad boy as a .stl file which is easy enough! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23vhViJCQYCmcu5RmadLCDgYohhrgdA34kam96paWUwGNR4xfxjhTdR4ZcUyFQKGPxSoW.png --- # Now to 3D Print! I open up Creality Print (because I want to use my Creality K2 Plus for this print even though I am going to print it in 1 color). Import the stl file we created in the last step and it will look something like this: https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23u5WvAwB4rXH4yvznEDn2W1ePpUuNTD6dNhgBC6yssdsNMLKvWMp6EPk1P9j5yqvbBrK.png Now we could just slice this plate and print it, but I wanted to try to see how well I could paint the surfaces to see if it is even worth the effort to multi color print this one. (and yes... there are a ton of manifold edges... you can fix that in Blender but the Slicer software does a great job of it and so I leave it to the Slicer to fix those) ... yeah I say we just stick to 1 color and then paint it by hand after the fact haha https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23tkpRvftVoebNhpj4B4HjvbP3Loc9n9ncovtKqiD6MVVwK8LppgEs3uC64LWWKixZAgG.png After slicing the plate.... https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23tS2gBRcFjSKRmkPbgXM8ZQBLQthtQYw8aA65svpEPQvvm2nMS858GjETzRnmu1M9Pew.png It is estimated to take 3 hours and 42 minutes to print it. It will take 96.94 grams of filamanet (which includes the 21.57 grams used just for supports). Based on what I put in for the cost of 1kg of PLA, it will cost $1.94 to print this Fal 3D model. You can even view the print job layer by layer to see the insides of it 😀 https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23tbiDxf5teFZN39Z6Xej8G4GgeugNLZ4M3fY2iEZvbyPWhbG2Lhnx5XsfP7hhELc5tzp.png Now we wait 3 hours and 42 minutes! Here is the timelapse of FAL being printed! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23xV64wwTBzxh6uesQ8XzEPx92NTBU1shbirgHoFdx6AgYpizqFn2f9NPeHtSnqfjsSPu.gif ---- # The Finished Product Fresh off the presses here is FAL! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23w2jGRuKBZLcENm5seMNennxDZSrSJ3CQG8jjvar8hBF5GDxiDTN6rA29aV7Qah37pDL.jpg Cleaned up the supports and here he is. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wMaXc81ThuKHJE8sf8k3DFaLdPyPMByY5FkFdisWUEYiGkCQtRgu9ErQ4sGJDHJwWhF.jpg His underside could use some work though 😬 https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23x18qqJaiNRWq4LjRVn1dwFyzQqkNyuXd5eyK4yEWETUqRSsQF4m32eeZjCAYL4FE9cc.jpg --- # Post Processing Let's remind you all what FAL is supposed to look like though https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/Ep3drWFcrPijsmymKQhagZFZAoXrPBotUYSj8AyFUuRv9HWH7NkbCH48iz3NyhnmBMM.png So I decided to start painting! And I am not a artist by any stretch of the imagination! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/AKApU8tTsvKYHCzvpKbNyohn7yN4MrbtnMSYLwm3fzq8NTyEM8ptr3Ppsm9QoYc.jpg https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23xKxMJRqZFJAQcHPuVz5AKiq7DrLxLW4xDYwnMxfJrGRCiesY5rk3zVeDuuiTsa6CsAk.jpg And here he is in all his glory! https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wC5ZtAppvxtFSUkj7Yx7ph3TSs3UNsWHMHArh7qKhQqJ9iVaahmaJD786yTiojh9Cbc.jpg https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/AK7x3aKcQT2z4RqxeoBTu7JYngFm5mweYGtefdCbXLYiLQveCJGERMvhqQy6vhz.jpg

His chest could use some work... but it is what it is. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/AK7x3aKcQT2z4RqxeoBTu7JYngFm5mweYGtefdCbXLYiLQveCJGERMvhqQy6vhz.jpg And look, the paint and brushes I used are all from a Dollar Store... so that is why my painting sucks and not because I just suck at painting... 😉 This was a spur of the moment idea and thus article about Holozing and me 3D printing. I hope you like my little cute Fal guy. --- # The 3D Model Files + Legal Look, I am not sure how all this legal shit works. I didn't create the FAL character/creature. So I am "borrowing" the starter image and using AI to generate a 3D model from that. I do know that under USA law, I am allowed to do that and print my own 3D Model of the character and share images of what I made (I think this goes under the "Fair Use" policy). But what I don't know is if I am allowed to share the files with you all. So I put a request out to my good old friend @acidyo to see if he is okay with me sharing the stl and Blend files with you all so that you can 3D print your own FAL guy. I haven't heard back yet (hence why I am pining him here too, sorry bud), so I am going to assume the answer is NO just in case. If he does respond and tell me that it is okay to share the files with people and/or upload them to like MakerWorld, CrealityCloud, Printables, then I will do that. If you want the files though, just leave a comment stating that and if I hear back and am allowed to share them I will send you a Google Drive link to download them. No promises though since this is not my original work --- Hey if you are still reading then I want to tell you that I run a Hive Witness Node. I run it because I want a decentralized blockchain and that means even the little guys can contribute to the blockchain and it's not all controlled by a few accounts. If you want to vote for me I would appreciate it. If you don't want to vote for me... that's cool to! |[![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23wM2s18nnjEVEKsZbH8MSdTUxSq8PnAWnGiSxLNgd3v5zcJn4FtcerTYqmZDSPNYRMN3.jpg)](https://vote.hive.uno/@witness4all)|[![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cherokee4life/23uQvauCkxRkAp6TE5itJLaRpiQ2wuszUTBp2bdaKSJvS2KP4fpnPDrvaDFWqj2y65vk5.jpg)](https://discord.gg/ujBXNA6S6Y)| |-|-|

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