Hey everyone, I’m Sone.
I usually work as a director and designer at a motion design studio called WOW.
This is the kind of work I do:
With this I.CEBERG project, I’m diving into making original sculpted pieces, with the (somewhat ambitious) goal of eventually selling them at events like Wonder Festival.
That said—I’m a total beginner when it comes to sculpting. So I’ll be documenting my many struggles here in a kind of behind-the-scenes/making-of style.
Here are some of the things I’ve made so far in I.CEBERG:
robot!!!
ONI
I’ve been modeling stuff like this in ZBrush while figuring things out as I go.
But with the recent explosion of AI, there are now tools that can generate 3D models from a single image… and they’re surprisingly clean and usable. It’s honestly kind of wild. Makes you question—why even bother making things by hand anymore…?
Still, I want to believe there are places you can only reach by putting in the time and effort.So I burned my bridges and got myself a resin 3D printer to commit fully to this.
This time, I’ll walk you through the unboxing and first test print.
Here’s what it looked like on the day:
The printer I got is:
Anycubic Photon Mono M7 MAX
The biggest selling point for me was that it can print models up to 30cm tall.
Also, the “MAX” in the name makes it sound super powerful—which is a plus.
I roped in Funatsu, my fellow I.CEBERG buddy, to help crack this thing open.
Along with the printer, I also picked up a wash & cure machine and some consumables that are good to have on hand. Being surrounded by tools, a cutting mat, and this ridiculously huge machine… it honestly gets me pretty excited.
I’ll be setting this up in a corner of the office—fingers crossed nobody complains.
I followed the English manual step by step and slowly got everything set up. Once the gear was ready, I tried printing one of the models I’d already made.
I’ve been messing with the slicer software to add supports and all that. There’s something oddly cool and intimidating about how it looks with all the supports attached.
Feels like it could be used for something else entirely too.
I got a few models ready—one from me, and some from Sasaki and Matsunaga, my fellow I.CEBERG crew.
Since I had no clue what I was doing, I just threw in the model and used auto-supports.
Then I sent the data to the printer and hit start.
So… how did it go?
Next episode: “EPIC FAIL” — stay tuned!