This project was my first foray into full colour PolyJet printing and Artec 3D scanners.

The full colour scan acted as a base from which to extract a digital skin for modification and replication.

The contour lines were added to one version of the swatch.

The workflow which developed spanned a number of programs and tools, taking raw noisy scan data, cropping, thickening, retopologising and UV unwrapping. The colour reproduction was an interesting result of the project and got me interested in the ways in which we could take sRGB scan data and faithfully reproduce true skin tones in the roughly CMYK gamut of the PolyJet system. Further developments in voxel printing make this an exciting field to follow.

I wanted to explore the special effects potential of the J750. The result was an alien lifeform with a soft translucent body and seven full colour, hard material eyes. These were printed separately using different polymer mixes and the eyes hand inserted.

As part of an ergonomics study I created a series of rings including this vertebrae ring. The translucent outer is fully flexible in contrast to the hard inner bones.