Creator, writer, singer and all-round talented type Felicia Day needs little introduction to STARBURST readers. She has worked on everything from Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Supernatural, and is even producing a musical version of her hit web series, The Guild.
We caught up with her to find out more about her miniatures and gaming project, Felicia Day 3D.
How did you end up working with Thangs.com?
It came about because I had been seeing so many wonderful works of art at conventions with fans and every time somebody walked up to me I would gasp and say where did you get that and turned out they had a 3D printed. So I’d already been really intrigued for a long time.
I ran into Paul from Thangs.com at a convention in Indiana. Thangs is a website where you can search for models that you’re interested in, and they also have a sort of subscription service for artists and designers and things like that for people to support and download their work.
When I got to talking with him, I was grilling him on what printer I should get, so he sent me a printer, and he’s like You need to get in this now. Let’s work together and develop your own line of 3D prints. And here we are.
What was the first thing you made?
The first thing I made was a prefab thing from the bamboo Labs files, and it was a puzzle of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I know now that I should have made a benchy first. I did make a benchy second. But I did it out of order because the tradition in the whole 3D printing world is to do a benchy, which is again preloaded into the Bamboo.
Which Printer are you using now?
So I use a Bamboo X1 Carbon, and yes, I don’t have extensive experience with other models. I have seen them and tried to play with them just as a hobbyist, but the Bamboo from what I hear and also what I’ve experienced it’s almost Plug and Play. It’s very, very easy, and it’s kind of making it much more accessible for people like me who are a little intimidated with the space to get into it in an easy way.
What sort of files to print can we find on your site?
Yeah, the wonderful thing is that Thangs is allowing me to collaborate with designers and artists to make the prints, and we work together to develop what we think is cool. And what I would personally want in my life. So I am not a 3D modeller at this point. I haven’t learned Blender or zBrush to get in there and Design. I love learning things most of all, but for now, I’m working with these incredible designers. Three of them at this point, and we’re working on three different categories. One is toys that you can make for and with your kid. I’m working with a wonderful designer, Memetics3D, on that. We made this really cool spider and some cool dragons.
Is the second category TTRPG minis?
One of the first things I wanted to do was The Guild minis because I’ve never been able to take the guild into an RPG space physically.
I’m working with this wonderful designer, Moonlight Minis Christine Van Patten, and she is astounding and how fast she works, but also how she just nails the style that I like, which is very artistic and flowy in a way, but also just embodies the characters in a great way. So we’re gonna be doing all of The Guild characters.
So does that mean we’ll have a chance to own your avatar?
You will be able to, and if you’d like to, maybe blow it up to life size. I’m not gonna judge you if you date it. Lastly, we have a category of jewellery,…
Isn’t jewellery tricky to do? 3D printed textiles are famously a bit hard to work with
I’m passionate about this, and I love good jewellery. I always have way too much of it, and I’m working with Kaizen 3D, this wonderful textile designer, with whom we made this really cool necklace that you could print on fabric that kind of floats on the skin.
We have a whole line of horoscope D20 kind of talismans that are necklaces as well. And we’re gonna be accelerating our output to be able to get all 12 horoscope signs out. And yes, so those are the three categories: jewellery for cosplay, minis and toys you can make with or for your kids.
Felicia Day 3D can be found on Thangs.com
