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Not everyone wants a black box desktop. Yes, a bit of RGB lighting certainly perks up the samey cuboid silhouette of a gaming rig, but what about those of us who want something with just a bit more personality? Something—dare I say it—a wee bit Extra?
How about a 3D printed cathedral kit that magnetically attaches to your PC case? Or perhaps you'd prefer something a little more Bloodborne-inspired? "We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC," Zoë Baye of Zombie Tech Gaming quips.
Based in the Pacific North West, the PC building business is a tiny two person team consisting of Zoë Baye and her husband Brandon Ayala. They're the team behind the aforementioned PC case cathedral kit that went viral on X last year.
Zoë explains the case mod began its unlife as a prebuild for a friend, saying, "They wanted something vampire and goth-y. Sounds like a cathedral—duh! I could absolutely do this. I was taking inspiration from TechLin's Afternoon Tea and Tech Tesseract's [underwater themed PC]. And they did a lot of pillars. And I'm like, 'Yeah, we could do pillars. We could do a cathedral.'"
The cathedral design itself isn't based on a specific building, instead being an amalgamation of vibes collected from 2025's Nosferatu, a Pinterest board of architectural features, and even a stained glass mirror in the couple's living room.
"Inspiration comes from everywhere," Zoë smiles.
After researching a number of other purchasable cathedral .stl files online, Brandon explains they began work on modelling their own original kit. He says, "We ended up using Cinema 4D to 3D model it, and from there, we took it to other programs to then be able to 3D print it—but there's so much prototyping."
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Brandon currently handles a lot of the 3D modelling, though Zoë is also learning how to 3D model too. She describes the couple's current creative process as, "I bring him the sketches, and I'm like, 'Hey, do this, this, this.' And he's like, 'How about this?' And I'm like, 'No, how about this?' And then we bounce back and forth. Everything is a collaboration effort between us too."
Zoë, in turn, handles a lot of the PC building herself, and she shared the process of crafting the Vampire Cathedral PC last year, though the ...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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Not everyone wants a black box desktop. Yes, a bit of RGB lighting certainly perks up the samey cuboid silhouette of a gaming rig, but what about those of us who want something with just a bit more personality? Something—dare I say it—a wee bit Extra?
How about a 3D printed cathedral kit that magnetically attaches to your PC case? Or perhaps you'd prefer something a little more Bloodborne-inspired? "We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC," Zoë Baye of Zombie Tech Gaming quips.
Based in the Pacific North West, the PC building business is a tiny two person team consisting of Zoë Baye and her husband Brandon Ayala. They're the team behind the aforementioned PC case cathedral kit that went viral on X last year.
Zoë explains the case mod began its unlife as a prebuild for a friend, saying, "They wanted something vampire and goth-y. Sounds like a cathedral—duh! I could absolutely do this. I was taking inspiration from TechLin's Afternoon Tea and Tech Tesseract's [underwater themed PC]. And they did a lot of pillars. And I'm like, 'Yeah, we could do pillars. We could do a cathedral.'"
The cathedral design itself isn't based on a specific building, instead being an amalgamation of vibes collected from 2025's Nosferatu, a Pinterest board of architectural features, and even a stained glass mirror in the couple's living room.
"Inspiration comes from everywhere," Zoë smiles.
After researching a number of other purchasable cathedral .stl files online, Brandon explains they began work on modelling their own original kit. He says, "We ended up using Cinema 4D to 3D model it, and from there, we took it to other programs to then be able to 3D print it—but there's so much prototyping."
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Brandon currently handles a lot of the 3D modelling, though Zoë is also learning how to 3D model too. She describes the couple's current creative process as, "I bring him the sketches, and I'm like, 'Hey, do this, this, this.' And he's like, 'How about this?' And I'm like, 'No, how about this?' And then we bounce back and forth. Everything is a collaboration effort between us too."
Zoë, in turn, handles a lot of the PC building herself, and she shared the process of crafting the Vampire Cathedral PC last year, though the ...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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