Ziggy the Zebra – Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Ziggy

A low-poly zebra standing square on all four hooves, built for multi-material FDM printing. About 2 700 flat facets, and every single one of them is painted - because on a zebra there is no such thing as an unpainted triangle.

Four colours: white coat, black stripes and mane, a sand-coloured muzzle and hooves, and a turquoise eye.

Ziggy 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.

• Zebra_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools

• Zebra_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads

• Zebra_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools

Ziggy uses four colours, so all three files are painted the same way - pick the one that matches your printer. On a two-tool printer, print the stripes in black and white and let the muzzle, hooves and eye take the body colour; the stripes are what carry the animal.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Pristine White (coat), Jet Black (stripes, mane, tail tuft), a warm sand or beige for the muzzle and hooves, and any turquoise for the eye. A single-colour print in white or black works too - the facets alone read as a zebra.

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 zebra 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 145 × 48 × 146 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: a standing four-legged animal has overhangs under the belly and the head. Let PrusaSlicer add organic supports where it suggests them; they leave almost no marks on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, standing on all four hooves. Four small contact patches, so a brim is worth it - and it comes off the flat hoof faces cleanly.

• Scaling: delivered at about 145 mm long. Scale up freely; if you scale down, check the legs and the tail in the slicer preview first - they are the thinnest parts of the model.

Show your print

The colours are yours to play with - a brown-and-cream quagga, a blue-striped fantasy zebra, or stripes in two shades of the same colour. 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.