Summary

I sculpted this Alien creature that was inspired by the Discovery Channel special called "Alien Planet" which this special used originally off of Waynes Barlowe's "Expedition" book. The program that I use to sculpt this was Blender and used snapshots of the documentary special and images of the original art illustrations from Waynes's book. This model has a pretty high polygon density, and it has fine texture details of the skin and structure (sorry about that), so if you want to print the full detail/raw model of this, then you'll defiantly need to schedule or start this print early in the morning or have it print overnight, it depends on the size you want to print it. Anyways I made this because I saw this special back when it was released on TV, and it was something I never heard of before, it was a scitenfically accurate made-up alien world that took place in the "future" 2014, (Yikes) anyways It introduced me to the topic of "Speculative Biology", which I didn't knew existed (8 yr old mind). Couldn't find this model online for free, so I decided to do it myself. I originally posted about this make on my Reddit under a different name, https://www.reddit.com/user/AutismBawsome/ and here is the subreddit under r/SpeculativeEvolution
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeculativeEvolution/comments/1iwhph6/media_discovery_channel_wayne_barlowe_adaptation/
If you all like this one I can upload the others I made from that special as well? Just leave a comment.

My TikTok has other model/content https://www.tiktok.com/@autismbawsome0

Print settings-
layer height- Default 0.2 mm layer height (or lower for more detail, only if smaller nozzle or maybe on Resin printer (untested).
Infill- Default or your choice, otherwise use the 3MF file with the dense feet setting already contains
3 Wall Count (should be standardized by now)
filament type- PLA, probably work on other (Untested)
Printer- BambuLabs X1C, others Untested
Supports- YES - Type I used is tree, but you can try something else.
Skirt/Brim- Yes, just an added thing to secure it.
Model height is 160mm tall for my image results, but you can adjust it for bigger or smaller, depends since resolution decreases when scaling smaller.
CONTAINS NO COLOR INFO- I hand painted this with modeling paint.

For Instructions on how to Cut and increase density on the feet for other printers follow the two images at the end.
Step by step.
1.) In slicer, bring up splitting tool and then proceed to orintate the plane cut so its JUST splitting at the knees, and make sure its set to "Cut to parts" or something simillar on your slicer that doesn't make the seperated parts move, essentially stayed in postion.
2.) Under the Objects tab you should see the second group formed from the cut, select it and change the strength settings (or some other tab) that contains the infill setting density, change it from default to something about 50 percent. Could also instead changing the number of perimeters/Wall Loops to something like above 30 walls.
3.) Check your work by clicking slice, then view the layers to make sure that the legs/feet are a higher infill visually, it should look denser.

Files list-
Low_Res_Sea_Strider.stl for viewing on this site
dense_feet.gcode.3mf For Bambulab X1C PRINTER ONLY!