Halloween is the perfect time to unleash your creativity and craft unique accessories that amplify your spooky style. If you’re into 3D printing, you can design and create custom jewelry right at home. This exploration delves into crafting two distinct Halloween-themed necklaces using Tinkercad and Vectary: the chilling “Bloody Design” and the eerie “Stitched Design,” perfect for adding a personal, macabre touch to your Halloween attire.
Designing the Dripping “Bloody Design” Halloween Print
Creating the “Bloody Design” necklace began in Tinkercad, focusing on achieving a natural, organic look for the dripping blood effect. Initially, using spheres and cylinders felt too rigid and mechanical. The solution was Tinkercad’s drawing tool, which offered the freeform flexibility needed. The base of the necklace, a simple slit, was formed first, followed by meticulously drawn drips cascading downwards. This process involved iterative adjustments – adding, erasing, and refining the blobs until the desired gruesome aesthetic was achieved.
To prepare the bloody design for 3D printing, it was finalized and placed on the Tinkercad design bed. The depth was adjusted to a mere two layers for comfortable wear, and holes were added at each end to later attach a chain and clasp. Maximizing the print size within the printer bed’s dimensions was crucial, so the design was positioned diagonally. While a full wraparound necklace wasn’t feasible due to bed size limitations, printing it as large as possible ensured it would be substantial enough, with a chain completing the necklace. For added visual depth, the design was imported into Vectary. The extrude and smoothing tools in Vectary enhanced the drips, giving them a more pronounced, three-dimensional appearance. Although this improved the look of the drips, it slightly reduced the necklace’s flexibility. A key printing tip learned during this process is the necessity to lower the design below the Z plane in the slicer software to guarantee correct printing orientation.
Crafting the Eerily Elegant “Stitched Design” Halloween Print
The “Stitched Design” necklace presented a different set of design challenges. The base, like the bloody design, remained at a two-layer thickness for flexibility. To create the stitched effect, Mobius shapes and circles were employed, arranged and intersected to mimic stitches. Varying the stitch sizes intentionally avoided a uniform, artificial appearance, enhancing the handcrafted, slightly unsettling vibe.
Similar to the “Bloody Design”, the “Stitched Design” was also oriented diagonally on the print bed to maximize its printable length. Expanding on the stitched theme, matching bracelets in 5, 5.5, and 6-inch sizes were also designed, completing the spooky jewelry set. For those interested in printing these designs, Tinkercad links are available for both thinner and thicker versions of the “Stitched Design,” catering to regular and flexible filaments respectively: Thinner Tinkercad – for regular filament and Thicker Tinkercad – for flexible filament.
In conclusion, these DIY Halloween Print necklace projects showcase how 3D printing can be used to create personalized and striking Halloween accessories. Whether you choose the gruesome “Bloody Design” or the subtly spooky “Stitched Design”, these necklaces are sure to add a unique, handcrafted element to your Halloween look.
