do you see yourself learning 3d 3d design software
um oh wow yeah do you think you would be happy with a completely 3d printed replica
yeah sure sure that's a tricky question to answer in the abstract because again
like i'm looking for an experience and the question is you know that experience has both
an aesthetic look but there's also a weight and a half and a feeling um and yeah i you know i've run
a bunch of prints through the form 3l and i'm my mind is kind of blown by some of the things it can
do and i'm a little annoyed by some of the things that take way more time than i thought they would
but absolutely uh there is a fully 3d printed prop replica in my in my future um
he's asking would all of my like the stock and trigger of the ambient blaster would
all of my builds need an element or two that were machined or handcrafted
it i can never say never it's possible but maybe not but maybe i'll have stuff printed out of metal
but your first question is the most interesting do i see myself learning 3d design software yes
and i've in fact purchased some 3d software um and i have not yet started to teach it to myself
um one reason is because my laptop is coughing up blood right now
uh and i'm planning on getting a new one but i'm waiting for the announcements for the next ones
and all that yeah it's i've just got to sit tight because my laptop every time i turn it up it goes
and i'm like reaching the limit of my hard drive which is shocking because it's two terabytes
and it's it's just all photos but yeah it is time for me to learn some 3d software um and go past
tinkercad and i will and that journey will be part of what we cover here on tested because it's time
back when i was in ilm i used 3d software all the time i did all of the laser cutting in autocad
2d but we used rhino constantly and rhino was fantastic i mean it had some severe limitations
back then compared to autocad but where it was really fantastic was in building stuff and then
being able to place the stuff you were building in orientation to each other and then to be able
to pull stuff and unwrap it that's what i mostly used rhino for back then but it's so funny like i
you can use a piece of complicated software like rhino professionally for months and still not
really know the program i used illustrator for a year and i still have no idea how to
use illustrator and i used it professionally like i was making generating output files for
it for like national packaging campaigns and still illustrator was i was like figuring it out
as i went and if you asked me to open illustrator now i would be completely completely mystified um
but yeah it's time for me to learn some 3d some 3d software um let's see here um
ben campbell wants to know would i ever attempt to build a one-to-one movie vehicle replica yeah
totally uh and it would be either rey's vehicle that beautiful like tractor with
the with the with the ape hangers on it uh or a landspeeder would be one of those two things
i love the lens beater and to be perfectly fair it's not that complicated of the build
don't i i don't mean to denigrate anyone that's built them because it's a big object and big
objects are pain in the ass and laborious but it's not technical it's not super technically complex
uh it's just a ton of detail and like it's a big thing but yeah i've always wanted to like
buy an old vw and then just like build a a build a landspeeder on top of it but at the same time i
love the vehicle ray drives in uh force awakens that thing is fantastic um i still may like
you know if uh if some car company wanted me to build whatever car i wanted i'd say land speeder
we will see um i think i've got time for one more oh oh oh here we go ah let's see here
ah let's see um john o wants to know are there any tips that you have on converting a toy bow caster
to look more like the real thing the one i got my wife is all bright colors yellows greens blues not
black or brown like the movies yes absolutely so let's say you took your
toy bow caster and it's all those bright colors um the first thing i would do is i would see how
take a partable it is um and in taking it apart does it have features that you want to maintain
like is it a nerf rifle and you want to still be able to shoot nerf darts well you just got to be
careful about how you take it apart take pictures of the disassembly so you'll know how it goes back
together once you have it apart yeah i do have a couple of really easy easy tips for doing this
really fast and well um matte black spray paint first off take that take that bow caster apart
paint the whole thing matte black uh probably take like two or three passes to get it right
um if it has a barrel that's a great place to hold it like to chuck it in a vise on a on a stick
and then you can spin it around and make sure you get all the parts once it is fully dry um
i would then hit it with the least expensive weathering tool i know of which is a silver
sharpie uh and with a silver sharpie what you can do you want to cut to a close-up and
i can just do it a little bit right here so here is the main arm of my bow caster
and i take a silver sharpie and if i if i go over the edge what i end up doing is i'm i end
up making it look like paint has chipped off the edge and maybe this isn't fully communicating here
um in this in this live stream simply because uh here i can do this here ah there you go so
basically any time you pull up a detail and you can see i'm like using my hand right after
while the while the marker is still wet to to move the paint around any time you hit a
high edge with silver it just your eye ends up telling you telling yourself the story that it
has been painted and the paint's been chipped off because it's been weathered and it makes
it feel like a more realistic object and if you didn't feel like you had any real aesthetic chops
you could simply take a bright sharpie and kind of run it along the edges and sort of munch it
in and run along all the edges and it would look terrific when you're done um further things you
could do you could take a uh a wet wash of some burnt umber burnt sienna raw umber raw sienna any
of those four acrylic paints i would choose two a light and a dark and you do a wash pass over the
matte black and the uh silver sharpie uh and then keep pulling that off put it on pull it off put
it on pull it off eventually you'll end up with something that looks like it's been sitting in a
junkyard for 20 years which is effectively the aesthetic of the entire rebel legion
it's also a really really fun project to do uh
i think that kind of weathering is is some of the most accessible and the highest yield like
do that with a kid and they'll be amazed at how realistically beat up something can look
with just a couple of hours of elbow grease that's a terrific question jono thank you
jack mead jack meads um are there any star wars prequel pieces that you've seen come up
in auctions that you know you either made or helped make i know no but that's also because
i worked on mostly uh sets and ships set extensions and ships and that kind of stuff
doesn't frequently leave the archives for auction um the stuff that comes up at auction are costume
pieces and prop pieces and that absolutely was not what we did at industrial light
magic that was usually done at the studios either in pinewood or australia um so no
i have never seen one of the things that i have built in the star wars universe come up
at auction i have seen galaxy quest pieces that i built come up at auction in fact someone just
reached out to me and asked if uh if it really was something that i worked on and i said yeah
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