Star Wars 3D Design and Print Competition

Simona · 2016-03-01T11:16:49.000Z

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

Simona · 2016-03-01T11:36:00.000Z

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.

Simona · 2016-03-01T11:38:58.000Z

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

Geoff_Wicks · 2016-03-01T12:19:34.000Z

Thanks, that’s much fairer.

Simona · 2016-03-01T12:49:48.000Z

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 · 2016-03-01T12:56:13.000Z

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.
I have an update on criteria selection of the winner. 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. I’m very grateful for the feedback on this. Cheers, Simona

Simona · 2016-03-01T13:01:13.000Z

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

flowalistik · 2016-03-01T15:28:58.000Z

It looks like peace has been restored again

Mo3D · 2016-03-01T17:25:23.000Z

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?

Simona · 2016-03-01T18:29:00.000Z

They will be taken in account as a mention of honour from the community

Mo3D · 2016-03-01T18:41:22.000Z

So up votes still matter and count. Gotcha, good to know.

flowalistik · 2016-03-01T19:11:53.000Z

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)

edthomp · 2016-03-01T23:48:32.000Z

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.

Geoff_Wicks · 2016-03-02T06:57:41.000Z

haha +1 for the happy meal comment

Geoff_Wicks · 2016-03-02T07:02:02.000Z

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.

Laura_Patricia · 2016-03-02T13:01:57.000Z

I absolutely agree with you and hope you win!!!

Sturnino · 2016-03-02T13:09:12.000Z

Ok today I got my H-bridge, I will update the youmagine page, waiting for my bluetooth module

StarJeff · 2016-03-02T13:25:01.000Z

I am De-entering the competition as well.

For the same reasons as Geoff_Wicks: I have made these models in the past and not specifically for the contest so i feel kinda weird about that.

Plus all the fuss about the contest kinda sapped my moral so i don’t want to be a part of it anymore.

I’m still gonna let my designs available on Youmagine for people to enjoy. I usually post only on MyMiniFactory but what the hell… I might as well let these here.