Two pals hanging out. To make it, I combined lordkylo's Elephant and blinkiet's sloth in Meshmixer. I repaired the end of the trunk in the elephant which had some issues. The sloth wasn't quite positioned properly to be grasping an object the size of the elephant's trunk. The sloth's claws were also too thin to print with good resolution at the scale I wanted. Rather then trying to repose the sloth's arms, I designed some thicker claws in SolidWorks. By custom configuring the placement and angle of the claws, I was able to make the sloth's appearance of grasping the trunk believable enough for my purposes.

Attached are the .stl file of the model and the .sldprt file for the claws (in case anyone wants it for some reason). If you use PrusaSlicer, the .3mf file can be loaded as a project containing my custom defined supports for printing. A slightly higher resolution .stl can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XQwye-q9MzusKPCtOiX1pU6V18YufPtA/view?usp=sharing (it's a little over the Thingiverse file size limit)

Creality

Ender 3 Pro

No

Yes

0.4mm nozzle, 0.2mm layer height

20%

It will need supports, and the supports do take time to remove. I printed it at 150% scale.

Supports removed, primed, and painted with acrylic paints. I use toothpicks for the finer areas, and for the really fine areas (ie. eyes) I break a tooth pick and get a tip with just a few wood fibers (finer than the standard toothpick tip). Damp Q-tips make great erasers.

Elephant Eyes – I redid these several different ways, but the way that looks best is to first outline a standard pointed oblong eye shape in the body tone of the elephant (maybe a shade lighter or darker for better contrast). Make this outline a bit raised, but don't fill in the inside. Once the outline dries, fill in the inside with an unraised coat of brownish black for the shadows in the corners. Once dry, paint a hazel/light brown circle for the eyeball. Finally, put a black dot in the center for the pupil. Due to the small scale, I used my finest broken toothpick tip for all of this.

Elephant Body – I did a two tone gray coat. For both grays, mix them as a combinations of black, white, and brown, not just black and white (brown makes for a more natural skin color). First a lighter gray full base coat. Then, a darker gray dry brushing over top. For the darker gray, I did a fuller coat at the top with a decreasing gradient as I went down to highlight the model's dimples and wrinkles around the legs.

Sloth Body – I did a dark brown base coat, then I came back over with more dark brown to create a fur-like texture. For this texture, I make raised streaks in the direction of fur flow with a tooth pic. For a rougher look, let these streaks dry most the way, then comb over them with a dry brush. Over the brown I dry brushed some tan (leaving it mostly tan with patches of brown). Over the tan I dry brushed some green mixed with the tan from before (for the algae sloths get). I maybe went a bit overboard with the algae.