This post may be a bit long, but if you read on, hopefully it will offer insight into why this might be my favorite test print I’ve done. 6 months ago, after a long time of playing Warhammer, Mage Knight, and Heroscape, I got back into Dungeons & Dragons thanks to my kids!
Being a lover of miniatures, my first priority became finding perfect figures to represent player characters for my kids, and now that I was back into the game, for myself. I’m really picky when it comes to player character models so I searched though every offering from Reaper, Wizkids, even looked at all my Games Workshop figures. Then I discovered Heroforge, and I was fascinated. I could create any character I wanted, with almost any equipment, in almost any pose, and they would 3d print it for me?!? Amazing! I offered up my $30 and ordered my Dwarf sword and board fighter as a test. It came and I was really happy, detail wasn’t the greatest but it was my character just as I wanted him!
But then I thought, how did they do that? And I started looking into 3d printing. Then I discovered Danny Herrero’s videos (3D Printed Tabletop), and Angus’ (MakersMuse), and Naomi Wu (SexyCyborg) and Tom Tullis of Fatdragongames. And I watched basically every 3d printing video and review I could find. And I joined a few FB groups as well. And I lurked, and I kept researching.
As I looked around I saw there were alternatives to Heroforge, such as Desktophero or joining a Patreon where the artist may make amazing figures I could use as PC’s. But honestly, in terms of Desktophero, I didn’t like it. The ability to actually create any pose you wanted fascinated me and was way beyond what Heroforge could do, but the assets weren’t nearly as good - and even for free it didn’t interest me. It didn’t compare in quality to Heroforge, and I’d personally rather pay to have quality than have something lesser for free.
And then I saw Desktophero 2.0 on Kickstarter, and I thought, well, if they take their original concept and make it as good in other respects as Heroforge, why, it will actually be way better than Heroforge…
Flashforward to today and I am test printing for that release. It excites me because this idea of being able to just make my own Player Character, or even NPC models, is what drew me into 3D printing in the first place!
So this example, I want to make a Female Fighter. I want to give her a big sword in each hand, and I want her hair up in a bun so it’s practical. I want an aggressive stance like she’s about to join battle, or maybe is engaged already.
Nah, I changed my mind. I want her wearing a helmet, and I want different swords. And I want them held out in front of her, and she’s glancing to the left from where the next enemy is approaching…
Actually no, I want her to look like she just sliced off a goblin’s head, I’m going to keep the same sword, but just one sword this time, and pose her like she just lopped off someone’s head with a horizontal stroke. I want her no helmet with flowing hair. From that kind of power swing her body will be titled a lot due to the momentum, and her off hand will be kind of down her left side, fingers extended, for balance. And the force of her swing has her up on one leg for extra oomph! Yeah, that’s it.
And so you can do it with Desktophero. Basically any pose you can imagine, you can pose your figure. You can control individual fingers, joint by joint! Quality level, well that’s what pics are for. Everyone can look and decide for themselves. These are basic assets, there are much fancier ones in the works for the release. I can’t wait to see the rest of the assets!
https://beta.desktophero3d.com/beta/request/
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