>>12917687I've actually wanted to do that! I've used Blender for nearly a decade now but I mostly use it for prototype parts, so I've been doing my reps for human/character modeling cause that's a whole different beast. The hair always trips me up, because it really requires good sculpting, which I'm not as used to. I'm working on a little nedo-esque model of Salen from NijiEN for a short faux-claymation animation rn, and if that ends up looking good I'll try to make one of koragi.
>>12917694I've had to deal with my car being out in the northeast winter because of this, the price I pay...
Normally when there's something I'm wanting to build I try to find the respective hobby community obsessed with it and study there before going in on a purchase/build.
The 3D printer was pretty easy, there's a lot of designs people have made but I based mine on the popular Prusa i3 build. I made this one in college, spent about ~$250 in parts. Now you can buy one off the shelf that cheap, so it probably isn't worth it to build your own.
The laser cutter is a rebuild of a popular cheap cutter called the "K40" that you can find on ebay for ~$350. I swapped the gantry, control board, and added an air assist to the base model + built a custom control panel to replace the stock one, which gives better controls for getting the calibration right. This thing made it's money back because my ghetto uni didn't have one and I charged engineering students to use it.
The CNC was the most expensive by far... I built it this spring for about ~$2k, based on the OpenBuilds 1010 iirc, though I made some minor changes to the base design.
My next addition will likely be a manual injection molder, it looks especially appealing now that I can make the molds with the CNC.
...I'll stop sperging out about my hobbies in this thread now, I swear.
>>12917926I hope you get to live your dreams! It took me years of hiding this stuff in small apartments and going off shoestring budgets before I was able to go all out on it, it is an unfortunately expensive hobby but it's really fun!
