TM Thingy Model

Thingy Model is an editable three-dimensional version of Jamie’s librarian. The cream robot, navy coat, orange bow tie, and raised finger come from the original illustration. A body beneath the clothes gives the character joints that can be posed and animated.

Jamie described the idea in his interview: “Thingy should actually be a 3D model and be able to move around and engage with people”. He began building the model with Codex in November 2026, reviewing renders and the character live in Blender. The original image stayed beside the work. The artifacts below keep the intermediate models as well as the corrections.

The first prototype established the clothed character. Then the work went underneath the jacket: shorter mechanical legs, ankle collars, shallower feet, and arms built from the same vocabulary. Later passes returned to the head and hands, separated the shirt from the lapels, lowered the bow tie, and fitted the pockets to the coat. Lighting studies made the navy fabric easier to read. The bow tie’s dots and the badge’s letters became images wrapped onto their surfaces.

Four outfits now share one skeleton. The librarian wears the navy wool coat. The trail companion has a forest-green shell, orange daypack, and folded map. The workshop builder wears an indigo canvas vest and carries a laptop. The concert companion has a charcoal jacket, orange sound-wave shirt, wristband, and over-ear headphones in place of the usual ears. The antenna light can be switched on or off.

The latest checkpoint is v0.10. Its standard ears have a continuous tapered shape and sit against the head’s surface. The rig and short performance studies are working prototypes. More animation controls, facial acting, and clothing adjustments remain, as does preparing and testing a physical print for Jamie’s Bambu P2S. The page keeps the building process; it does not offer a finished print file.