Happy Friday, everyone! Thanks for sharing your summer-themed projects made with the LongMill/AltMill.
We are happy to announce that Chuck Lalonde, @georcote, Brian Slevin, and @Tom_P are the summer-themed projects contest winners. Watch out for a prize!
This week’s theme is “photo art projects.” Share your beautiful photo art made with your LongMill/AltMill/LaserBeam for a chance to win prizes!
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I posted this one before and hope that is not a problem.
Ever since I ordered the longmill I wondered if I could make 3d art out of a photograph combining laser and carving. It took me some 1.5 years to get from shredded wood to this one.
I ended up adding painting to the list aswell, to get as close to the origional photograph as I could.
I posted this one a while ago too. It was one of my first projects and 3d art as well. I didn’t have any idea how to make super detailed cutouts for what I wanted.
I ended up buying and using a 1/16” diameter tapered ballnose to slowly cut through 1/8” baltic birch.
I made layers in vectric according to the back mid and foreground of the image I was using and made tool paths for each one. Ran them all separately to get my pieces cut out - a total of 8 layers for a 1 inch thick piece.
Then I glued them up in pairs then pairs 3 times to minimize the stress of aligning them all at once.
Then finished with a spray lacquer to seal it up and mailed out to my friends out west as an anniversary gift. As it was their proposal photo that I re-created.
I pulled inspiration from my dogs playing in the backyard and turned a few stills into a fun collage. After carving the frame on my LongMill, I used Nixplay to loop the final photos as a slideshow…it worked great to show the whole process and result. It’s nice seeing the progression run on the frame right in my shop.
