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12-sided Calendar

Here's this neat 12-sided calendar papercraft generator:
http://www.ii.uib.no/~arntzen/kalender/

I shall do the regular dodecahedron, most because it only takes up 1 page.  Alas, at the time I checked this out, the generator seemed to be using the wrong encoding for displaying Unicode characters (which applies to Chinese and Japanese, and maybe more), and that incorrectly displayed output was used to produce the .pdf and .ps files, which meant now there was no way to correct the texts displayed with the wrong encoding, as far as I knew.  Oh well.

Etopen

It's been a while, but here's a new papercraft model designed by myself!

This is Etopen, from the manga/anime Saki, which is about mahjong.

Actually, that was not a good picture.  Etopen is usually shown shorter and more rounded, possibly with some kind of growth impairment problem due to constantly being crushed by Nodoka's boobs.

Here's a plush of Etopen, and I'm basing my design on this picture.

Oh, and here is an already-made Etopen papercraft printout that seems to come with the purchase of Saki anime DVDs or something, I'm not quite sure.  I like the simplicity of it, though the completely 2-dimensional flat feet are a bit pushing it toward the lazy side.

Download Links Updated

Whoa, it has come to my attention that the download links with tinyupload.com expire automatically after some time of inactivity with those files, and also that hosting site itself sometimes goes down entirely, for reasons unknown.

Anyway, I have reuploaded all files to mediafire.com and updated the Downloads page of this blog.  If the downloads become unavailable again, please let me know via the Shout Box at the sidebar of this blog.

Also, thanks for the suggestion for uploading to Thingiverse.  It's a cool site, but I just wouldn't be motivated enough to provide all the step-by-step instructions expected there.  All I provide in the download is the .pdo, which should tell you everything you need for building the papercraft model.  You are expected to have some basic proficiency and experience at building papercraft models to implicitly figure out the optimal build order and such.  If you run into some particular difficulties in building one of my models, it may be just because my designs are kinda awkward in some situations.  I might discuss those situations here on my blog and how I dealt with them.  I hope that helps!

Hinomoto Oniko

Here's a blog update, and also I'm still alive!

Today I shall build this papercraft model of Hinomoto Oniko (日本鬼子) (ヒノモト・オニコ).  She is an original character from 2chan.  You can find lots of different drawings of her here.  And the papercraft model is by cafetera, available here.  It looks like this model of Oniko most closely resembles this drawing below.

Rana

Here is my design of papercraft model of the character Rana from the game Minecraft.  Also, Minecraft is awesome, and you should play it.

Here is a video showing a lot of Ranas, from a simpler time back when Ranas roamed free and wild on the fields of Minecraft.


Now, Rana no longer exists in the current version of Minecraft.  Word is that the graphics designer Dock had left Minecraft long ago, and with him all his creations are pulled too, for reasons unknown.  However, the way I see it, the real reason behind Rana's removal is thus:

The relatively more complex, more beauteous, yet not-so-blockular design of Rana simply does not jibe with the purist, isomorphic Notchian regime.  Her dangerous ideologies of such uncubical, dispixelated 3-dimensional representations have captivated the dumbfound gaze of countless disciples of Minecraft, inextricably drawn to Her and further to madness (such as this poor misguided soul here).  Soon it became clear that Rana posed too much of a threat to the uniformity of the World of Minecraftia; She was an anomalous peculiarity in the status quo that is this raw, primitive Blockscape, yet she was brilliant.  And so, the Almighty Nizzotch spoke and mandated Her exile, never to be in the official server at least, and hopefully the children of Notch will grow more ignorant as Minecraft develops, and the lost, heretical accounts of the Abomination shall be but a myth evermore, awash under the sands of each subsequent version update, as the forgotten name of their pagan Goddess echoes no more with the St. Creepers cleansing of the Moon-worshippers incurably perverse...

But I digress.  The following paragraphs will speak of more papercraft-related stuff, less Cult of Rana'ites stuff.

Hoophy Issue #15

So, yesterday, the more or less questionable stuff I had ordered from DealExtreme finally arrived!  Hooray!!  And hey, there's a papercraft-related bonus of some sort!  Well, none of the more or less questionable stuff I had ordered is even remotely papercraft-related, so I don't know why I got this thing, but hey!  Free stuff!!  Yeah!!

Here's the bonus:  One page of papercraft pieces and one page showing the finished model.  They came rolled up in the package, so I had overweight physics and discrete mathematics textbooks sit on them overnight before I shall do them today.

Meap

Here is my design of papercraft model of Meap, from the cartoon Phineas and Ferb.

Here is the design, based on this reference picture.  I'm not sure how to model the mouth part in 3D, so this is what I have so far.

Toiley the Toilet Paper

First, it may be helpful to have seen this episode of Phineas and Ferb.

Now, the backstory:  In a dialogue with a friend who is currently working on building the Perry the Platypus papercraft model, she spoke of having completed the fedora and having it rested on a roll of toilet paper.  And then I proposed that she should call it "Toiley the Toilet Paper."  And thus the idea is born!  Yeah!!

Presenting my very own Toiley the Toilet Paper, on a roll of toilet paper that is very thin and almost out of toilet paper!

Candace Flynn

Here is my papercraft design of Candace Flynn, from the cartoon Phineas and Ferb.

I am using this reference picture as, well, reference, mainly for the body proportions.  Anyway, I still don't like how the crossed arms turned out, so I'll probably revise them later some day, but who knows when that'll be.

Mabinogi - Imp

First, a little backstory:  You might recall my previous blog post about how there was that Mabinogi tool which is okay at viewing but totally unreliable at transforming Mabinogi's 3D data (.frm, .pmg, etc.) into a more accessible format (.3ds).  Sometimes it works; most of the time, it gives shit output.  Well, I have assumed the tool has bugs in the transformation algorithm and given up on trying to make papercraft models straight from the game's 3D data, which brings us to the following good news...

Good news, everyone!  I have come upon this other tool pmgプチツールず, which has a functionality to take as input a .frm and a .pmg, and produce as output a .mqo, for editing with Metasequoia, and hey that's what I have been using!  Moreover, in this format, I can also apply the textures directly from the game, and thus get the exact 3D model straight from Mabinogi!

Well, now that I can do that, there are a few things from Mabinogi that I got interested to consider exporting to a workable papercraft model.  One of them is the imp.  Imps are cool.  Banner Imps are even more awesome.

Here's a video of an imp beating an imp in Mabinogi.  Sorry, this is the most close-up video of an imp I could find.  Also, it kinda shows how stupid Mabinogi is.

Voodoo Stubey

Since I do use toothpicks regularly to apply glue in my papercraft construction process, I shall build this thing:
http://www.saltnpaper.com/2009/01/voodoo-stubey.html

It's like a cute little toothpick holder or something!

Ikubi Akius

Okay, I finally resumed working on this model after a rather long, indefinite hiatus.

This is Ikubi Akius, not to be confused with Suika Ibuki.  She is from a Walfas flash story about alcohol.

FOE

Sup yo.  Here are some crude attempts of mine at designing a 3D model of an FOE, from Etrian Odyssey, intended for building a physical papercraft model of it later.

This is an FOE.

This is a video about FOE.

Pumpkin Loli

Here's something Halloweeny for Halloween, which is today!!  Well, it's a loli, with pumpkins!!  Yeah!!  You may download the papercraft file from the author's site with this direct link:  http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~terrasse/hw_m_bg.zip

I'll be using the thin 20 lbs printer paper again.  It doesn't look too difficult, except maybe those boots.

Glico Snack Loli

Today I shall build this papercraft model of this some kind of loli with antennae/bat wings/devil tail/pitchfork/cookie, sitting on top of a Glico's pastry snack of some sort.  If you are fluent in Japanese, you might be able to find out more about this character from the author's webpage here: http://cafetera.blog114.fc2.com/blog-entry-201.html  According to Google Translate, she seems to be some kind of "tooth decay bacterial," so yeah!!

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated

Here's another one from Phineas and Ferb.  Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!  The residence of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, where the -inators live!  And it's also an evil jingle!  Yeah!!

First, I tried to search for perhaps some other person has already designed a 3D model of it.  And hey, there is!  Here's a 3D model of Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. for Google Sketchup:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b235ea4e329557dba34bbe0a45adf643

Well, the above 3D model has too many little details here and there that overcomplicate a potentially rather simple papercraft model.  So instead, I shall design my own 3D model with simplicity in mind.  Well, the 3D geometry is pretty simple indeed.  I spent much more time working on the textures on this project, mainly because I haven't really had much experience messing with textures.

Ducky Momo

By special request, and because I love the character too, here are my design and construction of the papercraft model of Ducky Momo, from Phineas and Ferb.



So yeah!  Ducky Momo!!

Perry the Platypus - Part 03

Here's the fedora that Perry the Platypus Agent P wears.  I am still not quite satisfied with the 3D shape I've decided for it, so I am probably gonna do some more editing before exporting it to Pepakura.

Perry the Platypus - Part 02

Now I shall physically build the Perry the Platypus model which I have designed previously.

I'll be using 65lb cardstock paper this time.  It's thick enough that I better score it, and I still often have to fix the ink with markers, and then I get the markers' ink on my fingers and mixed with glues, and suddenly dirty glue bits show up everywhere!  Oh noes!  I need to develop a better system, maybe not marker up everything so much!