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This is a print-in-place octopus with flexible legs, in the same style as McGybeer's Cute Mini Octopus. Just for fun, as a toy or fidget, or to show off the possibilities of 3D printing. Unlike the original, this one has no mouth on the side, which allows to print it entirely without supports. It also makes it slightly more realistic because real octopuses (or octopodes for the linguistic fanatics) have their mouth at the bottom. This is where the striving for realism ends though, because real octopuses obviously do not have a nose or eyebrows either.

Although inspired by McGybeer's Cute Mini Octopus, this was re-created from the ground up in Blender, which means it is not a remix.

License: what to do when selling prints

This model has an ‘interesting’ licensing history which you can find on its GitHub page, but this history is not important.

What is important, is that this model is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license and this requires you to follow specific rules if you want to sell prints of this model, or remixes of it.

Go to the GitHub page of this model by following this link, and read the instructions there. Please do not message me with questions unless you have read those instructions at least twice and you still haven't found an answer in there. I don't like having to answer the same questions over and over again.

Common Sense

Needless to say, this contains small parts and should not be used as a toy for unsupervised little children due to possible choking hazards.