Friday, March 12, 2021

Hululu Penguin (Kemono Friends) built papercraft


Since I made the template, I also had to build her. Not only for the page, but also because I find her super adorable and I wanted to have her for my collection above my papercraft bench XD

The papercraft is actually simple enough to make, probably took me about 5-6 hours to make (including cutting out the parts and folding), plus/minus.

The craft can be divided into 4 separate stages to assembled her, so it should be fairly simple.

First you make the head, starting with the face and neck part. After you got those glued, make the front bangs and glue them on the face. After this glue the remaining parts of the hair back, and be sure to glue the neck part on the hair first, to make it stand nicely (the instructions are clear in the PDF template). After that, you can make the separate 3D headphones and glue them on the head like that. First part head, done.

Next you can move on to the torso part, making the 2 arms first. The hands are actual penguin fins, so they are simple enough to make, and once you got both arms, you can connect them by making the middle part, the torso. Make the upper half of the torso with the collar, and after that is done, glue both hands on. When the glue has dried, take the already built head and glue it in the hole of the collar and attach it from the inside of the torso. After this dries good as well, put in some curled-up paper inside the neck so it holds up nice and it doesn’t snap. When the head is attached, all you need to do it glue the remaining stripes of the dress on it. Second part, done.

Next, we can make the small tail part. It is actually detached from the body and is just glued on the pants (you can also leave it out). This way is simpler to make and you can leave it out as an optional piece, if you want. Third part, done.

All that is left to do are the legs. I built them from bottom to top, so at the end you get the separate feet with the hole at her waist to fill in weights to make it stand better. I always use small gravel, since it fits in every hole and has a nice weight to make it really stand. When you got the weights in, all you have to do is glue the legs on the inside waist part of the dress, adjust the angle so she stands, and there you go. Fourth part, done.

At the end you can glue the tail you did before on the pants, and glue the remaining 2D parts on (such as the zipper, etc.), and she is ready. And done ;)

Day20 - Penguin
All info on how to purchase the template (just write me a private note if you are interested) and everything else can be found here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Hululu-Penguin-Kemono-Friends-papercraft-872802393

A really cute character from the anime “Kemono friends”, which is hugely popular in Japan for some years now. I bet we get to see some additional anime series or an OVA or movie soon. That would be cool XD

I hope you like her and happy crafting~


penguin
***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Hululu Penguin (Kemono Friends) papercraft


Recently I got into MMD models and such, and I was searching for some cute Kemono friends and looking around, and it hit me like a bolt of lightning. Why the hell do I love this anime Kemono friends so much and didn't even make 1 papercraft of them? Probably the most obvious reason was that another artist already made some of the most popular ones and are freely available to download, and I don’t like to copy ideas. For another that I don’t have the time, since I am not only working full time, but then also working on 10 different crafts at a time and yadda, yadda, yadda, etc. ------BUT since it is/was lockdown time, I had some spare time and decided to make 1 truly special Kemono friend papercraft that wasn’t available anywhere and is my personal fav of them all. So here she is, the Humboldt penguin, and best idol of the Idol group PPP (PiPaPu) in the anime, the cutie Hululu :)

The papercraft is unfolded to 20 cm and consists of 4 simple pages. Nothing really dramatic to build, since I wanted it to be simple design, as much as possible, and it doesn’t have 5 fingers (yaaay, damn I hate assembling 5 fingers on hands so much, but what can you do if it’s a human papercraft…). She only has a flap like a penguin arm, so only 2 parts to make for the arms XD And the skirt allows you to build it in at least 2 separate parts, which again makes assembling papercraft so much easier and enjoyable.

The papercraft consists of the main 3D attached body of Hululu, her simple detached 3D headphones that are just glued on like that, and her separate 3D tail, that is also just simply built and glued on her bottom. Wanted to keep the pose simple as well, so she stands without problems, and still looks maximum cute as she is :)

I really should have done this 3-4 years ago… man, that tragedy of Grape-kun really hit me hard and made me cry (if you don’t know the story, just google up Grape-kun and you’ll know what I mean). That penguin was a true otaku at heart, so my condolences, he was our hero, my hero, since I know how it feels to have a Waifu (kind of). I hope you may be happy wherever you are Grape-kun, with your Waifu on the other side ;_;

And for anybody wanting to have this Waifu in papercraft form, of course she is also available for sale.

***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***

May we all find our real-life-Waifu’s and be truly happy in this world. Cheers Grape-kun and happy crafting~

*Btw. of course I also had to assemble her myself, so built preview follows soon... ;)


penguin 
 UPDATE:  

You can now see the finished assembled papercraft, built by me, here: 

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Hululu-Penguin-Kemono-Friends-built-papercraft-872987795

Monday, March 8, 2021

Haruka Nanase (Free!) papercraft

So, in all my years of papercrafting and in generally getting into anime, I have seen that the perfect girl body is the depiction of the highest esthetic value you can get anywhere. So, people tend to focus on female bodies, drawing girls, the industry making girl figurines and merchandise etc.; and even me, because I go along with the current trends in the anime/gaming scene, I tend to do a lot more female characters than male ones. But, why is that? Why shouldn't it be the other way around. I mean I am a girl too, and I love to look at sexy half-naked guys as well in anime, so why not stop a bit with the stereotypes and make a really sexy papercraft of a beautiful guy to show that you don't always need to make a ¾ naked female to get attention! Doing this for the girls out there (Since it’s 8th March today, Woman’s day in my country btw…)… ;) You are welcome XD

Haruka Nanase 
And as you can see from my preview already, I decided to do one of the sexiest guy anime with half-naked men I could think of. And what better anime than then anime »Free!« (yes, it’s the name of the anime not a free download, sorry if somebody was misinformed with the title) and the main character of it »Haruka Nanase« :D

This is another step in the right direction of my own art. I made this papercraft not only because I wanted to support some gender equality (if you can title it that way), but also because I set myself another goal of details with this one, making me better not only at texturing but also modeling in general.

This papercraft is more detailed and more complex than most of my basic humanoid papercrafts. It has more and smaller parts, since I wanted it to look really detailed and statuesque. 

I actually wanted to share this special papercraft with a 3D preview on Sketchfab, but seeing the latest developments of ripping tools out there, Sketchfab is not safe anymore and models can be ripped off the site in mere seconds (as I described in my post about Sketchfab). So, sorry for all of you not having any nice things to look at, but that’s how it is. If anybody is interested in purchasing it and wants to see some up-close angles, you can write me anytime and I can send those over as well, so no harm done here, just a tad extra work.

The papercraft itself is unfolded to 35 cm, since as said, I wanted it to be a center piece and really detailed as well. It consists of a 3D model of Haruka, his detached 2-sided coat (which is optional, if you want it almost naked-like XD not judging, I am the same XD) and a separate 3D stand with 2-sided waves that are glued on the stand. The hair is part of the papercraft, parts of the hair being really long and standing out are glued in the parts of the head, so it’s actually attached to the main 3D body itself (the template shows all the parts that need to be glued together at what point, so everything is explained there, no worries). It has a lot of smaller parts, such as detailed fingers and toes, since he is only in his swimwear, so it takes a while to make this cutie, but at the end totally worth it ;)

***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***

I will definitely try to get some time to assemble this together, so you can see how this beauty looks, till then I hope I got some of you inspired to try to make it yourself, if you like it.

Constructive comments and feedback are always welcome, so if you got anything to say, just write a comment or write me a note/message. Till then, happy crafting~