Jubo Vanve

Progress is moving along fast on our competition entry! To give the scene the scale and depth it needed, we upscaled the entire base design and keyed it into four main quadrants to fit the print volume.

Naturally, no big print run goes completely without a twist—we ran out of our white spool midway through a tall rear section. Rather than scrap hours of printing, we hot-swapped to grey to finish out the top layers. It looks funky on the plate, but a solid coat of primer will bring everything together seamlessly.

Once the main base pieces and columns finished, we ran a rough assembly test on the counter (featuring a banana for scale) to verify tolerances and make sure the geometry lined up. During a quick fit test, we caught a half-assembly view over the printer's glass, where the chamber lighting crept up through the pieces a fun preview of how dynamic the shadows will look once painted.

Right now, our focus is on seam-filling, sanding, and surface prep for the terrain while the characters run on the printer. We can’t wait to get everything primed and start laying down color!