The Ladies Trailblazing the Tiktok 3D Printing Scene, Half 1 – 3DPrint.com

3D printing was as soon as solely seen as a know-how reserved just for professionals. It was tough and costly to acquire a system earlier than desktop 3D printers started proliferating at the beginning of the final decade. Nevertheless, at present, 3D printing is booming, and whereas we all know that it’s being utilized by almost each main producer on this planet at some degree, it is usually extraordinarily common on TikTok.

Although this can be the case, you may not comprehend it simply from seeing articles on LinkedIn. However, these customers could also be making simply as a lot of an affect within the 3D printing business, with TikTok as their platform of alternative.

As a 3D printing TikToker myself, I had the pleasure of interviewing my colleagues Sarah Hunt, Melissa Kaye, Kerrika Marshall, Breanna Wright, Britt, and Lewis Derogene. In my conversations with them outlined on this collection, I used to be in a position to study their processes, their outcomes, and the way we will entice extra ladies to the world of 3D printing.

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Sarah Hunt (she/her), aka @PinkLumenade on TikTok, has over 1.3 million followers. With 15 years in product design, Hunt jumped into 3D printing as a passion with an Ultimaker 3. She by no means anticipated it to turn out to be such a significant ardour in her life.

“I’ve all the time beloved the technical facet of design; it’s fascinating when you may take an concept that begins in your head and switch it into one thing you may maintain in your palms,” Hunt informed us.

She was notably drawn to the power to transform digital ideas into tangible gadgets. As Hunt realized extra about 3D modeling, she was “completely hooked” and rapidly realized that the know-how had a low barrier when it got here to prototyping ideas for scale. With out the necessity to put money into injection molds or minimal portions, it’s doable to 3D print solely what you utilize. Introducing social media to her work then opened up a brand new avenue for spreading data of those advantages to the bigger public.

“I used to do a whole lot of public talking on design to assist educate on the best way to use varied design instruments. I began TikTok in 2021, nearly by protest. I’ve by no means been an enormous social media individual, and my accomplice inspired me to publish a video of my 3D printing course of on TikTok. It went viral with over one million views, and every thing took off from there,” Hunt stated. “My TikTok channel began as a option to share the method of 3D printing gadgets for the small enterprise, however over time I advanced it to be extra instructional and inspirational, masking quite a lot of 3D printing content material.”

Alongside her accomplice Brett, Sarah owns a 3D printing enterprise referred to as Hype Shade, which sells 3D printed house décor gadgets made up of a mix of customized fashions from group artists and unique merchandise.

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Lewis Derogene (she/her), aka @PhenomenaLewis on TikTok, is a multi-disciplinary artist initially from Haiti, however who moved to america at a younger age. With 47,000 followers on TikTok, she depends on all kinds of media, together with oil paint, charcoal, yarn, wooden, satin cloth, cameras, and extra.

“I get impressed by a whole lot of various things in my life, from curiosity of what it means to be human to the essential concepts of aesthetics in artwork,” Lewis informed us.

Lewis incorporates 3D modeling into her work utilizing an iPad program referred to as Nomad Sculpt. Lewis plans on 3D printing her work sooner or later, sees the know-how as one other type of sculpting. For now, her spectacular, non-3D-printed works can be found for buy by means of her on-line retailer.

Within the subsequent set up on this collection, we study customized cookie cutters, 3D printed cosplay, and extra.