the INFESTATION of 3D printed SLOP

There’s a couple in my town that started off as a 3D printed slop booth in the shopping centre and have since upgraded to an actual floor space in a shop. Recently a fully booked nail salon went out of business because it couldn’t afford rent in the same shopping centre. I have no clue how they are managing to thrive the way they are.

It’s a cliche but truly the need to capitalize on everything really does ruin a lot of things. We see people who get into learning the basics of 3D printing, cake decorating, tattooing, crocheting, resin figure making, woodworking, as quickly as they can with the intention of making a buck off of their products as soon as they can, without even appreciating? The process beyond the profit it can provide. These people give a bad name to these forms of craft. while those who actually wait and use current available fads as practice and slowly develop their own style and become great at the craft — simply because they enjoy improving in their chosen medium and care about making a good product — eventually become satisfied with their skills enough to attempt selling their products — only to find a market that’s already fed up with their craft simply because of the slop that preceded them.

You bought a swimsuit… on an auction… as in not a new swimsuit…

Y'all sure do love to run with a new word when you learn it. "Slop this, slop that"lzip it

Taking HEAVY notes from this because i do want to sell 3D prints but like props, masks and hopefully weapons for cosplays and stuff like Borderlands, Fortnite and so on

the fairs near me have 3d printer people and I see the same stuff and they are all alike. Only a few that actually put work into it besides just printing. Before I buy I talk to the people and see if they indeed make it themselves but thats what I do. My dad uses the 3D printer to make RC parts for RC cars. I tend to stay away from 3D printing.

Outside a museum they had 3d printed dinosaur skulls, based on real dinosaur fossils around the world. Thee guy who made them was so cool he knew every model and those were sanded and painted as to show different kind of soils where they were found. They had like 20 skulls and he came with a box full of new ones and everyone was so excited. I'd say that was art. But the usual dragons… yeah, not nice.

The thing these venders don't get is that you don't even have to have a creative or environmental reason to "boycott" them. Their stuff is incredibly boring and repetitive. Go to one craft fair and you can confidently skip every 3D booth after that because it's all the same stuff.

People want to sell things and get money without much effort, thats it, there is no other reason, its an understandable reason. If they are still there its because it sells, and you cannot control what people buy. If they preffer those pieces of shit over anyones art then you are screwed, sorry, thats just reality, and as long as people keep buying them, they will keep selling. This should be thr whole argument. Saying individuality and creativeness means shit today for the most part. Like those pokemon cards you buy, massively produced, millioms sold, most of them end up in the trash cause nobody wants the fillers. I dont care of its 3d printed, if the item is well done, it does the thing i need it to do, and the price is right, i will buy it, why wouldnt i? If an art piece is the same i would buy it too, most of the time ive seen that little art piece go for 50 dollars, so they are pricey too and i pass, i dont care how long you took doing it, i only care about the measurements i already mentioned. One small coffe table for 500$ ? No thanks i will go for the mass produced ikea every day.

If you go into a discussion calling anything you don't like "slop," you're not looking to have a discussion in good faith.

I am not particularly perturbed by the unsanded 3d printed products, a well tuned printer will produce a fantastic end product, and even seeing stepping doesn't both me, it lets me know it 3d printed, however I detest these little trinkets that are available on printables/thingiverse/bambustudio etc for nothing being sold at almost nothing as it drives down the perceived value of stuff people design and print themselves. So I make car interior parts that can no longer be obtained from the manufacturer, I spend the time to replicate the item in CAD, prototype it, improve it, until it is fit for purpose and looks and functions as per the original item, that takes time, and my time is worth money. Yes the part may cost $5 to print once you have a final design when you take into account the cost of filament (I use specialty filament on custom machines that I built myself to withstand the environmental conditions faced in a car interior, specifically ASA CF and PPS CF etc which withstand the heat, the stresses it faces and the UV impact, not cheap PLA). And people will turn around and say its only worth the $5, but what about the 5 hours that went into designing, refining it and making it. Also agree it doesn't belong in the art space unless someone spent the time to create the original model, and gain the skills used to create said model. I also paint, have printed models and statues in resin, then spent the hours to prepare, prime and paint said model or statue to be told its just 3D printed and its value driven down by these trinket makers. Its the Markets and people who run these Artist Alley that need to take a lot of the responsibility for this as well, they enable it. Maybe they need to step up to the plate and curate their event a little better, maybe only allocate a single space to this slop. And this 3d printed crap well predates the AI slop by many years.

God I agree so hard. Holy shit. Im a 3d modeler, a printer and it pisses me off to see these sloppers selling their garbage that they DID not make. They will CLAIM to have made the models. But fucking guess what? They dont…. Because 3 other venders are selling the same exact models. No Ai, no slop.

Before even watching the video, my personal opinion is that if you DESIGNED something in a 3D software and printed it out (and sanded OMG sand for the love of God) it would be art, and belong in art alleys, because you created the render. Just like if you made a digital painting and sold prints of it.

The unsanded fidgets are if you printed someone else's art onto printer paper and sold stacks at an art alley. You didn't do anything creative. You bought ink and a printer and are taking up space.

I’ve been seeing those dragons at cons since the dawn of time I swear

I really appreciate the emphasis on hearing both sides of an argument or remembering the shades of gray in a topic while also expressing and believing your own (informed) opinion!!!! Definitely a skill that gets more lost each day!

Damn whatnot fucking sucks, but the rest of your video is great. Try to steer clear of less than honest companies like them so it doesn’t tarnish your image. You’ve got great content!

Saw loads of these at a renfaire I was at recently, just trash tbh like who is buying these

Honestly its fine as long as you charge it as much as something made in a factory which is basically how you actually made it.

there are scientists, engineers, and doctors trying to 3d print actual body parts meanwhile every time i go to a market or fair my younger siblings are trying to buy a 3d printed tung tung sahur