A good share of what leaves the workshop never existed as a file until someone asked for it. Somebody sends a photograph of a building, a sketch on the back of something, or a drawing with real dimensions on it, and asks whether we can make it. Usually the answer is yes. The interesting part is everything between the photo and the parcel.
A photo is not a model
A picture records one side of an object under one set of lighting. A printer needs a closed, three-dimensional shape with a defined inside and outside. Bridging the two is modelling work — someone sits down and rebuilds the thing, deciding what the back looks like, how thick a wall should be, and which details are worth keeping at the size you want.
What helps enormously
- More than one angle. Two photographs from different sides is worth more than ten from the same one.
- A dimension. One real measurement — the height, the width of a door — anchors everything else.
- The purpose. A display piece, a gift, a replacement part and a game token want completely different decisions.
If the object is someone else's design, we will say so. We do not reproduce commercial products or other studios' sculpts, however good the photo is.
How it usually goes
You describe it, we quote the modelling and the print separately so you can see what each part costs, and you see a render before anything is printed. Changes at the render stage are cheap; changes after a resin print are a second resin print.
Already have a file? Price it in seconds. Starting from a photo instead? Tell us what you have in mind and one of us will write back.