I understand you, and feel free to call my designs ugly, because I will probably agree with you. Your design is really detailed, and if you put side by side your design and mine everyone would prefer the lightsaber. As users are the ones who decide who has more or less votes, there are other things we should consider:
I’ve been designing low-poly models for more than a year, and my models are really easy to print as my priority was to make all the printing (and post-processing) as easy and smooth as possible. If we asked a group of 100 people with a 3D printer how many would make your lightsaber, maybe 5/100 would have the tools, time, passion for SW and money to make yours (being so detailed and using so many components reduces a lot the number of people who would make it). With my model, which can be certainly ugly, 100/100 people would be able to print it in 2 hours and with no extra material. I believe that can be the reason why my ugly Darth Vader is popular, and it’s because it’s so easy that everyone can make it.
I see your lightsaber design as a collector item and my Darth Vader as a Happy Meal toy.
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Never change Agustin! I’m hyped for your next release
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 11:03am
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Hi guys, just a quick update on the contest and rules. I’ve just had a call with Ultimaker and we look at the issue as “upvotes” as judging criteria for the entries. Indeed upvotes are not the clearest way to show the great work behind an innovative, inspiring Star Wars design. Together we decided on the following, based also on your feedback.
A jury composed by Ultimaker and 3D Hubs team members will decide on the 3 winners on March 21st . Upvotes will be used by the community to show appreciation for the design, but not as the mean to elect the winner.
Any question, please ask
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 11:16am
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Judging Criteria Update: Together with Ultimaker we saw the issues in the upvoting system for the design entries. For this reason we’ve changed the judging criteria system from upvotes to a jury, which will be composed by Ultimaker and 3D Hubs . The winner of the competition will be declared on March 21st. In this way everyone will have enough time to create and print the best Star Wars gadget around. Hope this can solve any issue around the competition. If you’ve any question, please ask
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 11:36am
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Hey! Thanks for your feedback on the competition. In order to maintain the fairness of the competition and its entries, the winners will be chosen by a selected jury of Ultimaker and 3D Hubs team members. The judging criteria will still be the same: the most innovative design on Star Wars topic. Do you have any question? Please ask.
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 11:38am
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Hey! This is really great feedback, thanks for it. In order to maintain the fairness of the competition and its entries, the winners will be chosen by a selected jury of Ultimaker and 3D Hubs team members. The judging criteria will still be the same: the most innovative and new design on Star Wars topic. Hope this helps. Cheers, Simona
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Thanks, that’s much fairer.
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 12:49pm
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Hi Geoff, hope with the new rules you would re-enter the competition. I really apologies for the rules making you uncomfortable. Hope the new setup, with a judging panel, is fairer for all the community.
Any question, please ask!
Simona
Simona
March 1, 2016, 12:56pm
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Hey! Thanks for your feedback on the competition. It’s important to say that this is not a contest made just for people who have a 3D printer. We’re a printing network connecting you to close 3D printers, so if you want to print your Star Wars designs you have the possibility to print it at nearby Hubs.
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 1:01pm
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Very true, however, after the complains on this topic, we felt the necessity to change some rules in order to make all the participants comfortable. The winners will be chosen by a selected jury of Ultimaker and 3D Hubs team members. The judging criteria will still be the same: the most innovative design on Star Wars topic. Thanks a lot for the feedback. Cheers, Simona
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It looks like peace has been restored again
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Mo3D
March 1, 2016, 5:25pm
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Will up votes still be considered by the panel of judges? Will someone with say 1000 up votes have a higher chance of winning than someone with 0?
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Simona
March 1, 2016, 6:29pm
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They will be taken in account as a mention of honour from the community
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Mo3D
March 1, 2016, 6:41pm
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So up votes still matter and count. Gotcha, good to know.
I guess I will participate with my favourite Star Wars character, the Low Poly Darth Vader ! There are two versions, with and without cape (Edna Mode would be proud of me!). It was designed so anyone with a 3D printer (or a 3D Hub near) could have one. It only has 3D printed parts, it takes only 2 hours to print it and it doesn’t need any post-processing.
For me, innovation means easier , not more complex, specially when we are talking about a limited technology such as 3D printing. Following the less is more idea, I’ve used a faceted style to simplify the printing process, creating this Star Wars souvenir. It was designed specially for kids, as printing and assembling the model doesn’t require any extra skills, tools or time. Just print it and enjoy it.
You can download it on the following YouMagine link:
https://www.youmagine.com/designs/low-poly-darth-vader
(Don’t forget to check my YouMagine profile, you will find more Star Wars models and other low-poly designs, all of them as easy to print as the one you can see here)darthvader_lowpoly_body.STL (107 KB)darthvader_lowpoly_bodycape.STL (122 KB)darthvader_lowpoly_connector.STL (2.62 KB)darthvader_lowpoly_head.STL (31.7 KB)
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Great news! This is a lot more fair. Hope to see brand new designs! March 21 is still the deadline and a winner is chosen on the 21st as well? Hopefully the jury doesn’t weigh too heavily on votes then for the sake of the late entries. Also you might want to state a specific cut off time on the 21st.
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haha +1 for the happy meal comment
Yes I will re-enter Simona, but I am working on a new one specifically for this competition - I have probably 50 or so I could enter that have been made previously, but that doesn’t require alot of effort and there’s no fun in that, also I think more exciting to see new designs from others also - so far all the entries are ones I’ve seen many times on other sites, so yeah it would be good to have a refreshing load of new starwars models come from this if anything. :p.
I absolutely agree with you and hope you win!!!
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Ok today I got my H-bridge, I will update the youmagine page, waiting for my bluetooth module
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