Moby Whale

When we first got our 3d printer one of the first things I wanted to design was our Moby logo. People always remark at how fun it is, and how friendly the whale is floating there in the middle. Translating an illustration/logo into a 3D model can be a bit tough, but I thought that I could do a decent job while maintaining the all important whimsy of the logo.

In the illustration I spent a lot of time playing with the proportions and exaggeration of the defining features so that it would read really well as a "whale" at many sizes. Additionally, the illustration isn't based on Moby Dick, but rather on a small passage from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where a whale is contemplating its short existence while falling to its demise. Thus, the flying/floating feel of the illustration _had_ to be translated in the 3D version.

I started the process off by creating a really basic whale shape, and refining the proportions so that they're somewhat in-line with the illustration. Since