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Here I step through some of my projects and explain the process.

2D Logo to 3D Design

I agreed to do this for a friend because I enjoy challenges, however, I didn't realize my buddy's logo had skeleton hands. Had I realized that initially I probably would have said no. That being said I think this is some of my best work at turning a logo into a 3D object.

First step was the basic logo lettering trace of the image and extrusion in Fusion, super easy. The skeleton hands I decided would be a "remix" from some skeletal hands found on thingiverse.com. In the logo image, it shows the hands sort of grabbing around the letters from the edge of the logo so I thought it would be cool to attach some 3D hands to the frame of the logo.

I'm getting faster. This took me about one afternoon to complete.

I really wish I had green and pink filament to keep the Miami theme but the copper on black has an elegance about it. So anyway traced and extruded shapes and letters, super easy. Now for the hands. I downloaded the object as shown here.

I am not a professional 3D sculptor.

However, I can do some pretty ok things when I'm determined. I wanted these hands to really pop out and they made me a bit nervous, so naturally it became my favorite part. I had to cut away some pieces and reshape the fingers to match as closely as I could get to the 2D logo. Rotation helped a ton.

Here's the final 3D rendering!

Another happy accident, I wanted the back hexagonal shape to be black. I paused with one layer left so it ended up copper.

I so wanted the shapes to be two-toned too but when the filament was changed over to copper I still unknowingly had a single layer left. (Noooooo!!! Yay?)

I printed it with all supports on so the hands printed nicely. What a painstaking removal process (with tweezers) and truth be told a finger or 2 ended up superglued. All in all though I'm super stoked with how this challenge turned out! My buddy liked it too!

Ari Pantoja

I enjoy making anything that may come to me as a good idea. I'm constantly thinking of new ways to solve a problem or create something (hopefully) beautiful and cool.