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Cloud9: from wedding ring set, Ms Spikydo to Weemee monster …

Posted by: anarkik3d on: May 6, 2011

There is a new ’Resources’ section on the anarkikangels website with additional forms and objects that Cloud9 users can download to get into doing stuff more quickly. This got me into a roll and I admit that I have been a bit carried away creating things that range from sublime pleasure to crazy fun.

The first is not trivial as I have been working on designing my daughter’s nestled wedding and engagement rings (http://annmarieshillito.wordpress.com/). In between waiting for the prototypes to come, I started on some other design ideas, and then moved on to using a part for a figure who developed into Ms Spikydo. And I also created my own wicked weemee monster. This prompted me to look at Kidrobot and the MoshiMonsters online game for small and grown up kids and ended up adopting my own Diavlo. Be great if I could have introduced my own creature creation. In Spore it is possible to do that but the creator is prescriptive and the game seems complex and about power and destruction. I am into construction and creativity.
As CEO of Anarkik3D shouldn’t I be dealing with Company business instead? Marketing is a very important part of the business and our current markets for Cloud9 stretch from designers, Design and Engineering Companies who use it for ‘quick and dirty’ concept generation, prototyping and communications, from designer makers both prototyping and creating finished, directly saleable objects using 3D printing, through to kids creating jewellery, fantasy worlds, faces, spaceships and ghouls.

To work with Cloud9 in such focused way gives me an intimate insight into its functionality and usability issues – with this knowledge I am more likely to better understand the feedback from our users, and particularly the nuances that are difficult to put into words. This is all fed back into development – just wish this could proceed faster.

Tom Anderson, CEO of Novint and manufacturer of the Falcon haptic device we use with Cloud9, is closely involved with usage and users and I have always admired him for getting a good balance between the business side and understanding your customers.

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