3D-printed Chess Set

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/336308170794336257/519605577546989588/20181204_130601.jpgto begin designing this set, I did a handful of initial thumbs for the pawn, which is, as far as I'm concerned, the most important piece for establishing the aesthetics of a set. I decided on a low-poly aesthetic, using actual humanoid figures rather than totally abstracted pieces. Right away I knew this would be a massive undertaking so I decided to design the set in such a way that I could re-use much of the geometry between pieces.
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 These were the first two models where I established exactly how I was going to approach this set, The pawn and both of their faces had a quite a few flaws in construction that I would later revise in the final set, but otherwise they provided a strong baseline
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to make these pieces involved a heavy amount of lofted shapes and manually joined planar surfaces. I found I had to do the majority of the problem solving directly in 3D to get the results I wanted, and it was rather tedious work, you have to be very careful in making sure all of their edges are aligned properly when you are drawing individual planes to attach together

Each piece was quite a large time investment on it's own, and I'm quite happy with their final appearance. The printing technically went fine, but due to lack of consideration on my part, I printed them way too small, and with way too much support material, and accidentally broke off the knights sword while cleaning it off. This is kind of upsetting, but it does not bother me too much because I know the models themselves are 100% sound and good to print- I just needed to be more wary, and overall I'm still quite proud of the project.
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