Yesterday, after watching Arne's
Kawaiik - Quake 1 redesign project i tought how cool would be to have a shambler plushie, i can't do plushies so i ended up trying to do a shambler papercraft.
Of course i'm not the first nor the last doing it but the other shambler papercrafts i saw were always full of ugly lines around, so i wanted to start it from scratch.
I downloaded
Pepakura Designer, exported the shambler .mdl from Quake's Pak0.pak and started to unfold the model, unluckly it's my first papercraft so i ended up with a really-hard-to-do unfold at first, then searching on the web i found this one:
http://cow.mooh.org/paper/.
It's a really good unfold, but it's full of those ugly lines i hate, and also, the texture is kinda overly saturated.
I shamelessy copied his unfold making a maybe slightly bigger version without the lines and with a more correct color, then i printed it in several A4 sheets and here we go:
Fist of all, I glued together two sheets to make the paper more thick, if you have card, maybe it will work better, if not just glue together two normal sheets and you'll be ok.
Here's the head, the easier part so far
I used a glue stick to fix the pieces then i added a trasparent tape layer in the inside to make the structure even stronger
Then yesterday was too late to do complex stuff like the arms so i started with the legs and the lower part of the body, there are some tricky parts but it ended up very well for me. here's the front:
and here's the awesome hairy shambler butt
While working on it i used the shambler model as reference, importing it into Milkshape, was very useful to have an accurate version that followed the real lowpoly model shape without having the lines printed on the paper
And finally here i glued together the head\upper torso part with the legs\lower torso one:
in the next episode... ARMS AND CLAWS! stay tuned
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