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ILLUMINATED SPOOKY STUMPS! (Patreon)

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2026-07-25 18:11:39
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2026-10

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AND A REQUEST CONCERNING YOUR OPINION ON A SUBJECT THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME!

Hello my fantastic friends!

Today, I'm presenting another Halloween project that's quick to print, but this is also a test and I'd love your honest opinion on it.

First, let's start by talking about the project! Three spooky-looking tree stumps, illuminated by battery-operated tealights. Three distinct characters that will add a touch of terror to your Halloween decorations.

They can be enlarged, if you wish, to create different sizes and lighting effects.

They require supports on the stumps openings, but they're very simple and easy to remove, without affecting the overall print quality.

The color diffusers are a completely separate piece from the stump, allowing you to print them quickly in any color you want, without any color changes.

Wood-look caps close the top opening. It's really simple: you put the diffuser in the stump, drop the tealight in, and close it with the cap. Another option if you wish, is to glue the cap to the diffuser so you don't lose it. The order then changes slightly; you put the tealight in the stump, and slide the diffuser-cap assembly on top. I chose the second option, but both work very well!

I haven't included instructions, given the simple and straightforward nature of the assembly.

However, I have included a complete Bambu Lab project file for the project, containing all three stumps in the same file.

I have used remote controlled tealights, so this way i don't have to remove the tealight each time i want to light them up.

THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS WHERE I NEED YOUR OPINION:

In the technological world we live in, no matter how hard we try to ignore it, sometimes we are forced to accept it and realize that it will take its place whether we like it or not.

I'm talking, of course, about AI. Despite using well-defined software to create my models and trying to ignore AI, software companies are increasingly adding their own personal touch and including AI generation modules directly into their major programs. Whether we're talking about Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, or others modeling softwares, they all come now with various AI-enhanced modules.

Ignoring this trend seems increasingly difficult, and I must admit that it allows me to share models I couldn't provide until now.

I'll add a quick note: I have absolutely no intention of abandoning my style or the way I've worked from the beginning. My buildings, my Hot Wheels dioramas, my large-scale projects like the Christmas "gingerbread" series, Christmas decorations and everything else I've created so far will still be built from scratch and entirely by me, just as I always have.

However, between my major projects I can quickly, thanks to AI, produce additions that were previously missing from my designs. Elements such as a small, slightly chiby or cartoonish Santa Claus to go with the train station, "figures" for various dioramas, and elements that can be printed quickly, like the spooky little tree stumps we have in this post.

In the case of this particular project, I combined AI with my usual software to create it for you. The beauty of it is that I haven't really been delayed on my other projects, because thanks to AI, I save an incredible amount of time and can focus on my regular projects while offering you more. It would therefore be easy to go from 4-5 projects per month to around ten projects per month, while maintaining my style, my unique creations, and offering a little more, with greater diversity.

What do you think? Be honest. Many people hate AI, and I must say I'm torn between the two lines of thinking. Would you like to have more content that complements what I already do, knowing that this content is partly created using AI?

Considering that some designers use only AI and that it doesn't seem to affect their audience, would you be open to me combining the two approaches by creating my usual projects AND adding elements that I've developed partly with AI? Especially considering that software companies are moving forward and forcing the integration of AI into the software I already use?

I look forward to reading your thoughts on this.

Finally, I want to be clear on this point once again: If I were to integrate this type of model more regularly into my posts, I would NEVER stop creating the models I already create. We're talking about additions at various levels that would be created without delaying my current work, not about taking the easy way out.

Thank you all for your time, thank you for being here and supporting me!

I'm going back to my current projects and I'll be back soon with another Halloween design!

Have fun, my friends!

Pascal

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ADHD Laser Focused LLC

Largest concern with generative AI is is trained with other peoples art most of the time without their permission. So despite it feeling helpful it still dances on theft. There are great uses for AI but I dont believe it belongs in the art sphere (personally)

Jeff Robinson

I love these awesome stumps! To me, this is the perfect way to use AI. I agree AI is becoming ubiquitous and I greatly appreciate your asking for feedback from us on how you would use it going forward. At its best, AI is helpful as a tool to improve speed of design, at its worst, AI becomes the designer. I am firmly in the first camp of AI as one of the tools, augmenting your own unique and wonderful creativity and design skills.

Jim

Your style us what we come for. I hate to say it but the more sophisticated these AI modules become, the harder it will be to justify the monthly fee without increasing output. I don't think you really have a choice. There are ways to block the AI using what you are doing to "learn" your style I hear

Brad M

A lot to unload here. I have strong opinions on Ai. As a software developer I can tell you it has removed the creativity and raw thinking that used to be there. It's OK if you already have it in the back of your brain... Because you have been writing software for 18 years.... But if you are fresh out of school... I'm telling you we are going to have a generation gap of learning missing... You ask it makes... You don't question... You just deliver... Its fast and easy. But it's crap code in the end. ... Some say who cares AI is the only thing that needs to read the crap code..... It's a lot of problems right now with upper management drinking the coolaid.... Now getting to the meat and potatoes.... If you don't use Ai, you are going to get behind. As for 3d designing it sounds like you are similar to me when it comes to coding... A hybrid approach. Ai will can improve output but still checking the art with your own eye and forcing Ai to do it the right way with... If you go that hybrid approach I think that is the future of a good designer developer... It keeps you still thinking, creative, and more productive.

Matt Marmet

I personally like your approach to AI. While I do agree with alot of precious comments, you are using it to fill in rather than replace. Your personal touch is still on each item. I am for this approach. I am in IT and completely understand the speed factor AI creates. I also like the fact that you are limiting it to the "extras" and not your main items that we've all come to love.

Rob Tippenhauer

I think your approach is the sweet spot for AI where it makes your more productive but doesn't change your creativity.

Kory L Lorenz

I think supplementing your work with AI is fine, thats not having AI generate it for you. I work in the technology field, have for over 39 years, there is no escaping it. The way you talk about it the way to use though. It's a tool, not a creator. Having it help you with things is exactly the perfect use for it. Same in the coding world. You gi e it skills and guide it properly, a d ot have it ge erase everything from scratch, you are golden. If it helps you, use it.

Eric C Hasz

I like the approach you are asking us about. AI generation can be used to help out but it cannot replace your creativity.

Brian Schoening

AI is here, you either accept it or get left behind unfortunately

Apostcalota Artworks

I like the fusion of AI being included in your work. I appreciate all you do.

Mike Wood

It's a tool. Crazy to ignore it.

Gwynnevere

Using AI to fill in wee gaps here and there rather than replacing your unique creative style would be a really nice balance, as others are saying, too. I feel the same about AI, wary about it, but also know that it's not going anywhere, right? :) I think your approach to it is just fine, Pascal. Also, I really love these stumps, so much pizzaz and spooky personality! Can't wait to print them. Take care, Pascal, thanks for all that you do for us.

Charlie Kent

I agree with your own thoughts and those that have posted. You still create your own awesome designs but “filler prints” or “quick prints”….i say let the robot do the work for you. As long as that’s as far as it goes.

Elke Reichert

In my opinion, we can’t and shouldn’t turn our backs on AI. It’s a tool just like any other, and we should use it to avoid falling behind. The key to creating designs isn’t the tool itself, but the idea behind it—and those ideas still come from you—so, in my view, there’s no reason not to let AI help you.

KAPIKOPRINTED

AI is here and will be here whether we want it or not (or until it takes over completely, like in that "documentary" about Skynet; then we don't have to worry anymore 😜). In my humble opinion, if you use it as help, without taking over, go for it!

Debbie Mack

I like your proposed solution to use AI as a tool to assist with productivity. As others have indicated, it’s here to stay and now it’s up to each of us to learn how to incorporate appropriate usage of it into our work or get left behind. Your work is clean and I’m hoping any use of AI won’t change that.

vera usselman

i don't mind some use of AI i would be very disappointed if you went all ai

Frédéric Lallement

IA is a tool ... as nuclear bomb is a "tool" ... the way you use it makes the difference .. and IA is not doing the job by itself either :)

Nicole Riggs

My personal opinion, you are obviously insanely talented. But sometimes we have to be ok with using other tools, and I feel in today’s world to stay competitive you are almost forced into it. I think no less of your work, and am hoping maybe this even means more designs more frequently due to the use of a helpful tool.

K and P

I agree with that this seems like a sweet spot with your ai situation. Also me and K LOVE the spooky stumps(our fdm printer won't print the top row teeth correctly with stump #1 but we're trying stuff with supports too see what happens and if that helps)but we are printing these stumps, but for a few of them we are printing the cylinders in glow in the dark filament for that spooky glow in dim lighting. 👻

Candice Honeycutt

I would love small add ons. I'm currently trying to find a fairy to scale down to size for the fairy houses.

Rob Tippenhauer

I'm kinda opposite of this, although I will say our company hasn't rolled out AI to all developers, only Manager and above, but I will say it makes me more creative, because I'm not bound by time to complete it or work out the tiny details. I can focus on what I want, but ultimately its my code, I'm responsible for it.

Brenda Waldera

I agree, using ai as a tool is a smart thing to do. For those that say ai is theft because it calls upon other people’s work, I say even our own imagination is based off something we’ve seen and we give our spin on it. If a carpenter builds a chair and it has a back, a seat and four legs they are using something they’ve seen before as the basis of their design. However, what makes it THEIR design is them putting their ideas about the shape of all the parts together into the final creation. As for it (ai) being a tool, no one begrudges an artist the use of a lathe and chisel. Use ai so that it makes whatever you tell it to make.

cindy robutka

I think it is a positive use of AI- go for it.

Penny

AI is going to be a part of "society" from now on. If you can use it to enhance what you do without losing your creativity, I say "Go For It!".

Izaul

I see AI as a tool and nothing more. You're pieces are beautiful and I do love printing them. If you want to add something to a model but you can't get it quite right but AI can, by all means. It's no different than using a computer for work rather than paper and pencil.

Euan Petrie

Is there any specific print settings or filament for the color inserts? I feel it should be transparent colors or is it 1 wall thin so the candle/lights can shine through? TIA

Chris West

Transparent filament will work just fine. But thin walls definitely allow more light to get through than normal. -Chris

Duinan

The only real problem that I have with AI in the 3dp world is when folks use it for a design *but never print the design to test it out!*. They then try to pawn off designs as their own, without going through the QA process - tweaking for strength where needed, making sure crazy supports aren't needed, etc. Using it as a tool to help you do your own work faster - that's just smart use of AI.

Shaun Fitzpatrick

I support a balanced and thought through usage of ai - it's a good tool to augment your process. Feedback on these stumps that I feel may be due to the AI inclusion - the files are inconsistent vs a lot of your other work - I think the biggest part I noticed it on was the bottom of the inside of the stumps, some were textured successfully, some unsuccessfully and a couple were smooth. Not a huge deal but something I noticed while printing.