Post Summary

Designing a toy is one thing. Turning a digital sculpt into something you can hold, sanded, primed and painted, is a different skill, and it’s the one I know the least about. I found Karmieh Design while researching Project C, and his new course goes straight at that gap.

One of the dreams was to design toys 🧸 as a designer and 3d printing them out.

Writing this so that I can come back to this in the future to try out his course might have to get zbrush for this next time.

What is in the course?

you learn the basics of preparing a model and finishing a toy after 3d printing, sanded and primed, he goes through the post process and the pitfalls to avoid. All self paced.

Who is the course for?

if you have a ready Zbrush sculpt or model read to be printed it goes through the post process to make it ready for smoothing or for display. How to make the surfaces not so rough and look more polished after 3d printing.

It does not include the design process of the toy for that you can check out some of his YouTube videos but it’s not that in depth.

the process of designing Dog

Designing Darth Bear

check out the YouTube channel and his courses page

Plan and Decision Checklist

Now I am just going to re look at proper modelling courses in Zbrush and Nomad Sculpt. Cause one of their key steps is to make a good sculpt for the toy. 🧸

There is a mentorship course but it might be too much for me at this stage. I still and trying to finish up my concept design portfolio.

Will relook at this when I have a finished sculpt ready.

Questions I might have

I also feel you need to learn industrial design first and have good drawing and modelling skills. The course discuss the post process

I probably would take a general toy design course and surprisingly I found one on Google.

https://elvtr.com/course/toy-designer

Other Notes

Join me in the exciting world of toy design, digital sculpting, 3D modeling, and rendering tools. Let’s dive into the fun of creating toys, bringing virtual sculptures to life, and mastering 3D design software.

https://www.karmieh.com/blogs/toy-designer/the-course-i-wish-existed-when-i-started

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