Papercraft with Blender
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Papercraft with Blender
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#2This means cosplay is about to get a lot easier for a lot of people. No more taking weeks to prototype things out of difficult materials; now you can model a character, and have a painted cardboard costume ready to go over a long weekend!
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#3Keep the animals off your plate, put them in your belly.
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#4Tried this a few weeks ago to create generative papercraft lamps[1]. Really wonderful addon/script and flexible enough to be used with a pen plotter (ie: for printing the fold lines on thicker and larger paper that your regular printer might not support).
[1] - https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdesl/status/93493067496803532...
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#5Based on this addon script it looks like? https://github.com/addam/Export-Paper-Model-from-Blender
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#6I was working on a python script in 2004 for Blender to work similar to Pepakura [1] when I was making stitch and glue kayaks in order to prototype them in paper first. As the author says, I wasted many a weekend making all sorts of paper models. Then I got sidetracked writing a photoclinometry script in Blender to CNC bas reliefs into maple planks in 2005.
Pepakura was/is amazing! Was the current plugin based on it I wonder. Paper work (origami, etc...) are big in SE Asia. I lived over there for 7 years, and saw some amazing things especially in Japan.
[1] http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/productinfo/index.htmlRe: Papercraft with Blender
#7This means cosplay is about to get a lot easier for a lot of people. No more taking weeks to prototype things out of difficult materials; now you can model a character, and have a painted cardboard costume ready to go over a long weekend!
I'm not involved with cosplay, but I do believe that this is already a common workflow. I know there's a papercraft plugin for Sketchup that let's you flatten objects, add glue tabs. Folding and gluing takes the majority of the time.
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#8Damnit HN, why must you repeatedly post things that are destined to steal all my free weekends.
This seems pretty awesome; this might be a cheaper alternative to 3d printing for certain scenarios.
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#9I was working on a python script in 2004 for Blender to work similar to Pepakura [1] when I was making stitch and glue kayaks in order to prototype them in paper first. As the author says, I wasted many a weekend making all sorts of paper models. Then I got sidetracked writing a photoclinometry script in Blender to CNC bas reliefs into maple planks in 2005. Pepakura was/is amazing! Was the current plugin based on it…
Thanks, I always forget the word "pepakura"
ps: I'm also looking for pepakura based mechanics. If anyone knows anything, shoot me
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#10The result looks awesome, it always feels great to create something software or physical.