@@UCKY5very good point. I actually figured this out when I I wanted to render the dragon on the die after it was finished. I had to split the UV map so I could plop it in there. I did not think about splitting before hand though. Great tip! Sorry for interrupting your view.
“heheh, ive been wanting to do that forever!” i love people who cut gems, they play with such an unforgiving medium and its so lovely to see them be able to actually play and experiment.
Now we need a crossover video! You prospect with him then he rolls a character 😅 hey, I can dream right? I hope Dan Hurd is aware of the beautiful one of a kind D20 piece of art you made from his findings. Great job and thank you for your content!
@@Dean_F he has seen a few. So I know he knows of them. I would love to protect with him. I think I would learn so much. And, The area that his ocean picture stone is in looks so pretty!
Congrats on the sponsorship! It's so awesome that new channels are being given more exposure on RU-vid nowadays, I wouldn't have ever discovered this channel and these beautiful dice a couple of years ago.
It looks super cool! If you wanted the numbers to be a bit more readable you just need a slightly more contrasting color, but I love the way the copper and orange went together!
I think going with an existing flame font might help too. fantasy fonts are usually pretty bad, so it might take a while to find a decent one, but since you'd only need numbers, the improper spacing of characters that is so common in amateur fonts wouldn't be as much of an issue. Though I have to admit, the numbers look better on the actual rock than I'd have expected. The material imperfections from the engraving process make for an organic feel that mitigates the faults of the design.
Incredible workmanship. The Amethyst cut popped up on my feed and I’m hooked. You’ve a new subscriber here. Looking forward to seeing your future masterpieces!
I used to collect any pretty rocks I found on the ground and just imagine them as magical sources of power. Seeing you turn such unique pieces of stone into these beautiful dice is reawakening my love of shiny pebbles!
The artistic expression in these video's isn't just represented by the beautiful D20's you produce, but your camera work, music choice, editing, cinematography is all on point. I don't know anything about making videos, cutting gems, and i'll probably never use a D20 in my life, but i can appreciate when any of those things are done well and you sir are a prime example. Keep up the good work
Do you ever make full-sets? Would love to see what the process looks like for other size die-what challenges each poses, which one's easiest, and how long the whole process takes.
I’m not sure what is easiest. They all have challenges. D12 does not have meet points. So it’s hard to get all the faces even D10 is pretty easy D8 makes me pull out the table adapter for a very small facet to save the fingers from the sharp corner D6 is easy shape wise but has a really big faces. D4 maybe this is easiest. But I make them pretty complicated
The dragon engraving in the dice looks nice. Have you tried making citrine, blue sapphire, jade , or obsidian D20? I'm sure they would also look nice with different elemental dragon designs on them
Another beautiful creation. Glad you also got to experiment with the cutting wheel technique as well as the Blender imaging. Its always great to push new skills and techniques to grow as an artist
Yay i live on van isle and ive been a collecter ever since i watched dan hurd on dallasite , its so nice to see someone crafting something out of dallasite especially a d20, keep making dice that i dream for!
that looks So therapudic (Spelling) I would love to try but can't justify the expense on another thing I probably won't use enough. Dang me and my bad habits LOL I'll just have to enjoy watching you craft beauty :)
I'm a geology graduate so your videos bring me a lot of memories. Let me ask you, is this craft of lapidary expensive to get into? Your videos made me search for faceting machines and they are way out of my budget (at least I think they are called faceting machines) keep up the amazing work
If I sent you a 500lb assortment of many different kinds of rock, gems, and other things. Would you be willing to make me one from each(maybe more if they look sick), and let you keep the rest of the material for yourself?
i was thinking, wow you should be more popular! and then i realized that people would then try to copy the trend and then i started wondering how fake channels would fake videos like these, but then i thought, maybe it would be so hard to fake that nobody would make fake dice making videos! keep up the good work i hope you get more popular!
Id love to see a video where you make one out of bismuth and clear resin. Yeah, 2 different materials, but itd be awesome to see the geometry of the bismuth through the resin.
It's so awesome to see you experimenting and trying new things and continue to gain new skills! Definitely inspiring, and a beautiful die too! Love the dragon design, never seen a numbering system like that before, I really love your work :)
I think you have something that could be big in more then just DND, this is something that's interesting. The issue is you need it to be a bit more accessible. If you could add susinct descriptions of what you are doing. IE: "This is the stone, to rough out the shape, Im cutting it into a _________." "Next we will be moving onto ______ grit, for _______." If you lower the barrier to entry like this, people will stay for the craftsmanship. You have 131k people who are interested in this enough to not only watch videos on it, but find the channel in the first place, I don't think you really have many more people available who even know what to look for. I stumbled upon the videos trying to find some nice dice to buy, and stayed for the craftsmanship. RU-vid has to see that and be promoting you, but if someone doesn't understand what is going on, they are much less likely to stick around. Im not your manager, life coach, etc. I just think you do great work and I want to see you succeed. I personally think this would help people like me, who don't know how this sort of thing works stick around. Again I stayed for the craftsmanship, I have almost no idea how you are achieving it. Maybe a caption to learn how things work as you are doing them lol. Much less work then recording your voice after the fact and editing it in.
I wanna use a dice like the ones you make because they're freaking awesome, but I'd be terrified of chipping or scratching the thing attempting to strangle a goblin or something.
This is the best thing ever. I absolutely adore your works of art with these stones. It’s truly impeccable work and I applaud you for your patience and skill. Thank you for making these videos because it really puts me at peace. Much love! Keep it up! ❤❤❤
I'm not even joking, this is my absolute favorite channel! Whenever I see a new video, I'll make my favorite lunch and make watching it a whole thing. Thank you, mate!
You have quickly become one of my favorite maker youtubers and am so happy you're getting so much success so fast here! I'll likely never be able to afford one of your creations but I'll enjoy watching from afar.
That dragon numbering looks awesome! Any plans to do other dice besides D20s? I would love to see a video where you make a full matching set out of one of these cool materials.
Just watched all your videos after the amethyst one found its way into my recommended! Absolute STUNNING work!!! I find the whole process so mesmerizing, and your videos are so high quality, from the camera work to the music to the voiceovers. Can't wait to see what you do next! I would love to see something just like explosively colourful, like ammolite or something 😍
Tbh; I’d love to see something just like this but in Nephrite Jade from BC Or Alaskan. As the serpent like dragon and the mineral jade are renowned in Chinese culture/history
Love the result!! Gorgeous stone and awesome work. Do have one question: where'd you get that splashguard extension? I love how much coverage it's giving compared to mine.
I feel like it would be cool if you had a "first roll" as a part of the glamour shots at the end, as a sort of "breaking in the new dice" or something. There's just something a bit magical about the first roll.
I just want to say, you have some of the best taste in music Ive seen in a while, and could you please tell me your favorite classical artists so I can go listen to them? Thank you, XD
Holy shit! I'm sitting here with my jaw dropped just flabbergasted at the beauty of that die. That's the most unique and stunning die I have ever seen. I'd easily shell out $80 - $100 USD for that die alone. As a dice hoarder, it would be the Arkenstone of my entire collection. I can't wait to see more! Thank you!
clearly you've not seen the actual prices of these things. You're missing at least a 0 at the end... (they start at 1200 USD for the basic ones). Not saying they're not worth that, because they are absolutely stunning and even though these videos are fairly short, you can tell there are MANY MANY hours of grinding and polishing involved...
That is amazingly beautiful! I didn't think the dragon would look that good on the die, but it really works. I know it's an art piece, but it would be fun to see a DM pull that out when a party encounters a dragon. It has a real intimidation factor to it, especially at that size.
I was afraid the dragon design would take away from the natural beauty of the stone. But the flame pattern you chose allows the natural beauty to shine through without covering up too much. Grade A job as always!
Amazing as always. The music was super distracting though. I can't speak for everyone, but I do believe most of us like these videos without music. It's like... craftsman ASMR almost lol.
THANK YOU for adding proper subtitles, it's really appreciated, love the content, very comfy and fascinating, but also super accessible, in terms of both your presentation and the captions
I love the epic editing you used in this video. It totally enhanced the journey of witnessing your amazing skills into making this super awesome d20 gem. Thank you! 🥰 more power to you and your channel! ❤️
You can unwrap in different ways in Blender, including making your own seams to get UV layout you want. That way you can skip aligning islands in photoshop. Is just a regular icosahedron, without bevels you added to your die, enough for a mask? I did not notice that geometry in blender.
Yeah you are correct about seams. I learned about them after I did that. It was just an icosahedron, no bevels in the mask. I kept these bevels pretty small and just ignored them in the mask
@@hedronrockworks 👍 This wont be a problem with simple shapes like this, but if you plan on experimenting with uv unwrapping and packing islands in blender it is useful to visualize stretch DisplayStretch option in UVEditor, to make sure your UVs represent the actual shape.
Im really curious. Have you every considered doing this with Industrial Grade/Artificially made precious crystals? Like Ruby. You can purchase a huge piece of Artificial Ruby used for Laser Lens's.......chop it down and turn into dice. You could potentially try it with industrial diamonds as well. Ive been looking for precious stone/crystal dice for a while.....and NO ONE makes them. I understand its a huge waste/risk to use a real stone for that (also probly not big enough, and if it was....super super expensive) but......using artificial gems for this purpose seems like it would be pretty affordable. Its just no one seems to have thought about it yet. Please let me know if im not understanding something obvious or not thats a deterrent from making these kind of dice.....but it just seems like the way to go for me.
Ohh nooo, the "epic" music😨 I liked the classic from previous videos so much☹ It was such a nice touch from you to create timecodes with compositions names. And those was granting great feel of an adventure, best fit for D&D-related product. But with epic music it immediately started feeling like a Marvel trailer😅 Dont want to harm your work in any way, sir, i love your product so much! Just my humble opinion.
This is work of a master artist. Just as an offer: if you happen to make a Rainbow Gemstone D20 Dice. I will literally pay you for it. I love Rainbow colors and I love gemstones. I'm serious, I will pay you for it.
Just found this recently and it's super interesting! You do a great job both with carving the dice, and with making a compelling video approachable by people with zero knowledge of how you would carve a stone or gemstone. Makes me wonder how a decent-sized piece of quartz I found recently would look as a D20, but I have no idea if it even has the structural integrity - it looks like it might have some cracks in it. I have no idea about stone integrity for carving though, and the quartz will probably just end up on a shelf.
Hey, just to let you know the link to Dan Hurd in the description is broken. It's giving me a 404 error. Working link for anybody who wants: www.youtube.com/@Danhurd
Hi! I laughed at the intro. "in the british columbia..." like its some sort of mysterious place lol. Greetings from British Columbia! I have relatives on the island and I've always wanted to visit them more... maybe I'll do that and go rockhounding!
Subscribed within like 2 minutes of watching your opal cut video last night, and have now watched every video on your channel. You're a great artist when you get subscriptions from the quality of your work, without even asking for people to "smash that subscribe button". You're an awesome craftsman, I can't wait to watch more of your stuff!
Ive been wracking my brain trying to decide what stone to use for my first d20. I have a 1.5" thick slab of nephrite jade that would make an awesome Dragon/Chinese themed set. That will have to wait a couple years or at least a couple practice runs first. Lol.
7:30 "The best way to get experience is to try really hard things like this." Yes! So much yes! It always pains me when people say they're not "good enough" or "too much of a beginner" to try . Your only chance to get better at is to actually try it! In my case it's mostly about knitting/sewing, but it really applies to anything.
I love these videos! I'd love to do something like this with wood. I have a collection of boards from various renovations, a century old barn that fell down, offcuts of various harwoods, etc. Just need to figure out how to get precise angles cut off small bits off wood... Maybe I could get a small bandsaw, 3d print some jigs, hope that tearout isn't too bad... You've given me inspiration and much to think about, thanks!
Would you mind sharing what it takes to become a faceter? Like tools, equipment, etc? I'm curious to see how costly/doable this would be as a hobby. Thank you! ❤
