A Question to the Fanart Community:
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Diminish,
Posted on: 2006-10-30 01:10 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
hmm 1-2 microns eh? My brother works in the nanometer range 
(chip fabrication )
Now i'd love to see an image of Rowr on the next AMD processor core But sadly that'd never happen hehe 
I'd probably be interested in something like this (well, after I get a job anyway), depending on your skills and the price, of course. Could you show your skills as an artist on paper, then I could just imagine it on metal?
Also, would your work be so intricate like that of the example you showed?
Well Migrayne, I'm not much of an artist on paper, but I seem to do better with the design software than a lead pencil 
As I had mentioned in one of my other post in this thread, I'd have to expand my knowledge of the program I'd use to plan out the piece. These pieces would be rather complex 3D pieces, as opposed to simpler 2D pieces. So I cant exactly show anything of my expertise, and the fact I've no pictures of anything I have made.
Once I take and complete the courses for complex 3D pieces, I will repost and show what I'd be able to do. But that will be some time in the new year.
I do have my limitations. If line art can be provided, it would make my work much easier. This could have its own complication with the original artist though. This is one way to do this. If I've got to create something from scratch, then the process is much much longer.
This is basically like trying to design a piece solely from what a costumer has said over the phone, as opposed to one who has a technical drawing provided. Not the best analogy but hopefully it gets the point across.
All this is to see if people would be interested in such a product. And as it seems, answer any questions people have.
Glimmering Mark - Fire/Fire Blaster
Who knew clocks burned so well?
For the record, you'd be doing what is called a relief. The inverse of it (etching into rather than sticking out of) would be called a bas-relief.
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Well I guess it depends on the resolution of said machine. Couldn't you find a machine shop that already has this machine, just bring the designs and then they can do it, or rent it to you or something? I dunno.
What about doing it in wood, or something?
Or by hand! Hammer and chisel baby! :P
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machines of the caliber i work with are accurate to within 1-2 microns (thousandeths of a millimeter) depending on what material i worth with. as a comparison, stanadard printer paper is about 110 microns. the only limit to what the machine can do are the tools at hand and the person programming.
and as much as i'd want to work with wood, i'll leave that to the cabinet makers and those guys on The New Yankee Workshop
Glimmering Mark - Fire/Fire Blaster
Who knew clocks burned so well?