3d Modeling
Ergonomic, Engineered, & Surfaced to CAD
CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW
At Hot Buttered Elves, our 3D modeling team is extremely proficient in licensed character, human-likeness, and all types of sculpting through to licensor approvals, and prototyping. Our clients are fine artists, professional sculptors, movie prop houses, and Toy Designers, Product Designers, Inventors, and Corporations. All products that require internal mechanisms, motors, mounting brackets, and full assemblies are designed with engineering programs to consolidate both the form and function of your designs. Fine art, character and human-likeness sculptures are easily printed in our 3D printers, and can be made at any size.
Our workflow is structured to work with a large variety of programs, both sculpting programs like Z-brush, Maya, and Freeform through to CAD programs such as Solidworks, Rhino, and Pro-E. Our modelers are both hand sculptors, engineers, and model makers that understand the full nature of 3D. Some of the solutions that we provide are as follows:
- Sculpting 3D digital characters for licensor approval. We guarantee approvals for licensed characters.
- Sculpting ergonomic characters onto CAD engineered products.
- Turning 3D characters into CAD for tooling, for example, from STL to IGES, or STEP.
- Characters with articulated movement requirements and engineering assemblies, like action figures, gear assemblies, …
- Establishing material requirements for manufacturing, like wall thickness per material strength, living hinges, …
