Deadpool Bust HD (With Supports)

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It's really frustrating when you find a great 3D model to print, only to discover it's been ripped straight from a game without any effort put into improving it. The creator probably just made the mesh solid and uploaded it with a flashy screenshot that lured you in for a few seconds before disappearing between mouse clicks. Every single Deadpool model on Thingiverse is a game model rip, taken directly from the game and then uploaded to Tf3DM.com, where it's been shared repeatedly as one of the most popular models around. As most people know, textures or bump maps that make a 3D model look great in a game don't translate well to the actual mesh itself; they're just graphical effects designed to give a flat object a bumped surface. Sadly, when you print these models, all that detail is lost, and you're left with a plain surface. There is a way to convert bump maps into displacement maps to get them onto the finished model, but at the time I didn't know how to do it. So I decided to take the game mesh and add stitching details to it, which will really help when painting it. The file size is a bit hefty at 45mb, but that's as low as I could go while still keeping the stitching intact. The slices on the side are done at 50 degrees, so they don't need any support. I've already mesh-mixed both versions and netfabb'd them with supports set to max 40 degrees, so they should be fine. However, I've included the unsupported version if you want to generate your own. Here's an image of the original game character model that I used as a base for comparison. The original game mesh came from Tf3DM.com: http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/deadpool-42722.html