With this sculpt I've tryed to combine my usual sculpting process in a product design version of it.

The ispiration came from Smaug, the Hobbit's dragon.

Given it's my first "product design style" apart from the Octopus, I decided to create an object with two different functionalities: a small bowl for chocolate/fruit/etc. or an hanger for your jacket.

For this second idea I had the precious help of my collegue Mark Ledwold , providing and optimized screw holder that I merged with my base. 

The Zbrush workflow that I followed this time was similar for the other models that I made in the past months:

- Reference image and plan the primary forms

- fix the volume of the objects

- add secondary forms: trym dynamic, move, standard, hpolish, dam standard, curve tube, form soft

- keep a flat and clean base to add some contrast between the detailed part of the concept and the product idea of it

- add details and fix some proportions

- optimisation for printing free support

This model can be printed without the supports need. However I tested the support needs on this objects and cura generated only couple of really thin supports that I clean by hand.

As final experiment I bought a packet of Lindt chocolate to test the usability of the product (still can be printed on a larger scale like 15x15x20cm to have a bigger capability.

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• This product will come unassembled and unpainted when you buy it. We encourage you to be creative, personalize it as you wish. Express your awesomeness and share a picture of the final result with us!

• Unless you have a particular request, the colour of your print will be chosen at random and will be printed in either ABS or PLA filament.

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