{"id":1970,"date":"2021-10-24T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=1970"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:25:49","slug":"papercraft-head","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=1970","title":{"rendered":"Papercraft head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Make a paper low poly head for a costume.
Model and convert to low poly. Make a head hole. Add tabs to glue it together. Paint w\/ color pattern for printing. I got the plan from these Instructables, Papercraft With Blender<\/a> and Papercraft Low Poly Wolf Mask.https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Papercraft-Low-Poly-Wolf-Mask\/<\/a>
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Sources<\/strong>
Papercraft with Blender<\/a>
Model site, Animapapir<\/a>
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Found a relatively low poly dinosaur model, T Rex Low Poly by JonMxM<\/a> that was free to download. The model was in FBX format, model file.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I imported it into Blender, deleted all but the head, then used decimate to progressively simplify the model. I noticed some regions had a density of vertexes so I selected those one region at a time and decimated the region. Pared it down to ~200 triangles. Final model, blend file<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I exported it using the Paper Model plugin. This unfolds the figure and adds tabs to one side of each seam along with piece and seam numbering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exported model was small because the exported images had to scale so that the largest piece fit on one page. I started adding seams with Mark Seam to split the model into smaller pieces. I continued this until the model was an estimated 18″, based on the size of the tongue piece which was easy to recognize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I colored the model, and the colors carried over to the PDF, but it printed in B&W. I printed it out on cardstock. The total model had 30 pieces, 156 faces, pdf<\/a>, color pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took about 2-3 hours to cut out the pieces and crease the seams with a tool. Hot glue was used to connect the pieces. I wrote the piece number on the back of each polygon, and the edge number of connected edges. Glueing took about 2 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make a paper low poly head for a costume. Model and convert to low poly. Make a head hole. Add tabs to glue it together. Paint w\/ color pattern for printing. I got the plan from these Instructables, Papercraft With Blender and Papercraft Low Poly Wolf Mask.https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Papercraft-Low-Poly-Wolf-Mask\/ SourcesPapercraft with BlenderModel site, Animapapir Found a relatively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1970","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}