Ollie the Orca – Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Ollie

A low-poly orca caught mid-leap, built for multi-material FDM printing. About 650 flat facets and just three colours - black back, white belly and eye patches, and a deep blue eye.

Ollie joins my Low Poly ZOO series - a collection of animals made in the same style, scale and colour language, so they look good together on a shelf.

What you get

Three pre-painted project files with the colours already assigned as MMU painting. Open the one for your printer in PrusaSlicer, load your filaments and print - no manual painting needed.

• Orca_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools

• Orca_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads

• Orca_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools

Ollie uses only three colours, so all three files are painted the same way - pick the one that matches your printer. On a printer with two tools, print it in black and white and leave the eye black.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Jet Black (back, fins, tail), Pristine White (belly, throat, eye patches, flipper tips) and a deep blue for the eyes.

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 orca 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: about 119 × 85 × 104 mm as delivered (length × width × 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 a small part of the surface overhangs (about 5 %). Let PrusaSlicer add organic supports where it suggests them; they leave almost no marks on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, resting on the belly and tail. It sits on a wide base (about 890 mm²), so no brim is needed.

• Scaling: delivered at about 120 mm long. Scale up freely; if you scale down, check the tail flukes and flipper tips in the slicer preview first.

Show your print

The colours are yours to play with - a blue-and-white dolphin, a beluga, a pink-bellied fantasy whale. 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.