Kobi the Koala – Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Kobi

A sleepy low-poly koala sitting on its bottom, with big fluffy ears and a chunky nose, built for multi-material FDM printing. About 1000 flat facets, four colours, no texture tricks - every facet is a real triangle, so the print looks exactly like the render.

Kobi opens my Low Poly ZOO series together with Penny the Penguin and Capy the Capybara - a collection of animals made in the same style, scale and colour language, so they look good together on a shelf.

It is also the most forgiving print of the whole ZOO: Kobi sits on a wide flat base, so there is nothing to tip over and almost nothing to support.

What you get

Three pre-painted project files - the grey fur, the cream ear insides and chest, the dark nose and paws, and the black eyes are already assigned to four extruders as MMU painting. Open the one for your printer in PrusaSlicer, load your filaments and print - no manual painting needed.

• Koala_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads

• Koala_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools

• Koala_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools

Only four tools are used, so it fits the 4-tool INDX exactly and leaves the spare heads free on the others. On a single-tool printer just print it in grey - it still reads as a koala.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Urban Grey (fur), Vanilla White (ear insides and chest), Jet Black (eyes, nose and paws).

See it before you print it Preview3D opens 3D models and G-code the way Quick Look opens a PDF -on a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Point your camera at the code and this koala stands on your own table in AR, at the size it will actually print. Nothing to install: it opens as an App Clip, shows the model, and leaves. Check the fit before the filament. See how big a print really is next to the shelf it is meant for. Open what can't preview. STEP, painted 3MF, STL, OBJ, glb, glTF, FBX and about a dozen more - plus G-code with a layer slider. Thumbnails in the Finder and Files, so a folder of downloads stops looking like a folder of blank pages. Publishing a model yourself? Make the same animation for it at preview3d.xfanta.com/qr - paste your model's link and get a QR code and a ready-made GIF for every file in it. Free, and it runs in your browser.

Print settings

• Size: 66 × 63 × 80 mm as delivered (width × depth × height)

• Layer height: 0.2 mm (0.15 mm if you want smoother facets)

• Nozzle: 0.4 mm

• Infill: 10–15 %, any pattern

• Supports: only under the chin — that is where nearly all of the overhang is (under 4 % of the surface). The ears, arms and everything else are self-supporting. Organic supports in PrusaSlicer leave almost no marks on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, sitting. The seat and feet form a large flat base, so no brim is needed.

• Scaling: designed for 80 mm height; the thinnest parts are the claws at about 2 mm. Scale up freely; when scaling down, stay above ~80 mm or the claws get thinner than the nozzle can print.

Show your print

The colours are yours to play with - a brown koala, a pastel one, a golden one for the collection shelf. Post the result as a Make under this model; I'd love to see the colour combinations you come up with, and the best ones get featured here.

Please don't re-upload the model itself: recoloured copies published as new models (here or elsewhere) aren't allowed.

More animals from the ZOO series are coming - follow if you want the whole herd.