Pepakura Space Helmet

More Pepakura!

I'm working with someone on a space helmet. I did the modeling from his rough sketches and preped the files for print in pepakura. He will be assembeling them, fiberglassing it, and adding a plasitc sphere dome, before finsihing it. The helmet will be used as a costume piece for film. There is also the possibility that I will be doing special effects for the film aswell. Excitement!!!

 Here you can see the model with a sphere depicting where the plastic will be added.

And here you can see my unfolding job in Pepakura. The helmet is going to be quite large so I had to separate it into many little pieces.

I may have to make it slightly larger to account for the added thickness in the inside that the fiber glass will add. Otherwise its ready for printing and assembling. I'm crossing my fingers that it'll turn out awesome to the max.


In Other News:

Finishing up pages 30 and 31 of La Jolla's Mermaid right now. I started some preliminary clean up on episode 5 (episode 4 is still being edited) of Fang and Talon. I'm doing some minor Logo fixes to finish up the Timber Teaser. And I'm starting storyboards tonight for a new project. Stay tuned~

Pepakura Experiments

So someone told me about this program that takes a 3D model and converts into a paper-craftable object. Apparently people have been using the program to make Iron Man and Halo armor by printing out the pieces on thick cardstock, and then either using them as templates for foam or constructing them and fiberglassing on top of them.

Being mildly insane, and eager to try new things involving 3D modeling, I used the program to print out a simplified version of a skull I'd previously made for something else to test out the process. The program is called Pepakura.

 I did this despite the fact that I don't have any cardstock, or glue, so the construction is really shabby using printer paper and scotch tape. Also, I put it together inside out, which at first I thought would just look nicer, but then towards the end I realized it was a bad idea. This is what it looks like right now. I ran out of tape, and the teeth are so annoying small I might just be done.

Considering all that I feel like it turned out okay... if I used this method to make props or something it would definitely have to be an under-structure and its only really usefull for medium sized objects or details. Any detail smaller than my thumb isn't really happening. But hey, maybe F&T will want some armor made this way or helmets, or some weird magic statue. Who knows.