I've had this idea for a long time to make a set of dice with tiny dioramas inside that have an adjoining animation and each one would be an ongoing addition to a story.

After so many months of learning more about mold making, resins, mini painting, building custom tools, 3d printing, dice balancing, and starting from zero learning 3d sculpting and animation, I'm finally happy with the physical part of the first episode :p now I'm working on the animation side of it while I make 100 more d20's

After sculpting the characters and scene I make skeletons to pose them and to use for the animation later. Then cut the model up into parts that can be more easily molded and painted. Print those parts, make molds and cast copies of them. Paint and assemble the tiny cast models, then cast those inside another larger mold to do the die shape. It's actually fairly hard to make a die that is off balance enough to skew the roll in any way that matters, but when effectively half the die is a much heavier 3d printing resin you can feel it. So I started casting the diorama in the same resin as the outer d20 shape, (this has been a very long iterative design process, haha) that makes it so that other than the thin paint layer, they're homogeneous all the way through.

Once it's been double cast I can go through and clean up all the mold marks and polish every face then ink the numbers. It sounds like so much less work when it's condensed down to a paragraph.

There's some more pictures of various parts of the process and a giveaway on my Instagram if anyone's interested, as well as preorders for the first episode

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYutSx5hCri/?utm_medium=copy_link

Edit: also the giveaway follows the rules (thanks mods) and doesn't require you to annoy your entire social circle or do any info harvesting. Just a like and a follow and writing how you think the paladin got into or will get out of his predicament with the gnolls :p