That Was The Week That Was — 28th June 2026

There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
— Mr. McQuire, The Graduate.

In order to further explore the 3D printing of the Descendants series, I added a new 3D printer to the studio in the form of an Elegoo Saturn Ultra 16K. Having owned a PLA printer since 2010 with the original Makerbot and then the Replicator 2, an SLA based printer was a new excursion for me.

With SLA printing the post-process is a lot more involved: wash, remove supports, cure but once you get the hang of it everything is pretty straight forward.

The first three robots to be printed turned out pretty well. The detail is so much better than using PLA. For the forth one I switched the resin to a translucent red which looked great.

All of these were created by mating random parents from the original Descendants, with their DNA being passed down into the child. So right now I'm exploring the idea of a new series but this time instead having some token-gated prints available to collectors, might also offer physical version of each creation.