DICEE Mascot - Over 2 Metres

The brief

DICEE needed their mascot as a physical piece, not a still. Over two metres tall, for print, with the look of the character held at that size.

A cute cube on a die is easy at screen scale. At more than two metres it is a manufacturing problem: sections, joints, wall thickness, and a base that can actually carry the figure.

The challenge

Large-format print is unforgiving of geometry that was only ever meant to look good in a viewport.

• A character that still reads as DICEE when it is taller than the person standing next to it
• A model that can be cut into printable sections without the seams sitting on the face
• Walls and joints that survive print, sand, and assembly
• The die as a seat and a base, not a floating prop

How we approached it

The character was modelled for the printer first. The back, the limbs, and the hat were treated as parts that have to come off a machine and go back together, not as decoration on a still.

A clay pass from behind was used to check topology: where a seam can hide, where a wall is too thin, and how the arms leave the body. The colour render is the look. The sculpt is the print.

What we built

A print-ready mascot: the character, the die it sits on, and the files a large-format print can take. Over two metres when assembled.

We do not publish the printer, the material, or a part count. The work is the figure, designed so it can leave the shop as a physical mascot.

Results

DICEE has a mascot that can be printed at the height they asked for. We do not publish run counts or a cost figure.

In use

A later reprint starts from the same files. The character does not have to be remodelled because someone wanted it a different colour or a second copy.