Nanuk the Polar Bear - Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Nanuk

A calm, powerful low-poly polar bear on the prowl, built for multi-material FDM printing. Fewer than 800 big flat facets and a clean snow-white coat with dark details - black nose, eyes, ears and claws.

It is the easiest animal in the series to print: a wide, heavy body on four broad paws gives it by far the biggest contact area, so it sticks to the bed and stands without fuss. A great first multi-colour print.

Nanuk is part of my Low Poly ZOO series - 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.

• Polar_Bear_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools

• Polar_Bear_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads

• Polar_Bear_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools

On a printer with two tools, print the white body and the dark details - that is all it takes.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Pristine White or a slightly warm white for the coat and Galaxy Black or Jet Black for the nose, eyes, ears and claws. Any colours work - a brown grizzly or a bright blue ice bear is a filament swap away.

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 polar bear 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 117 × 43 × 68 mm as delivered (length × width × height)

• Layer height: 0.2 mm (0.15 mm for smoother facets)

• Nozzle: 0.4 mm

• Infill: 10-15 %, any pattern

• Supports: about 10 % of the surface overhangs, mostly under the head and the belly. Let PrusaSlicer add organic supports where it suggests them; they leave little trace on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, standing on its four paws. The contact area is generous (about 700 mm² in total), so no brim is needed on a clean bed.

• Scaling: delivered at about 117 mm long. The thinnest parts are the claws and the ears, so don't scale it down much; scale up freely.

Show your print

Post your colour combinations as a Make under this model - I'd love to see them.

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.