Fabulous Beasts papercraft

 

 Fabulous Beasts papercraft

 

 I’ll be honest, I really don’t watch anything Chinese-anime related at all. Most of the animations are soulless husks of stolen ideas with really tacky visuals and no good story. 99% of the time they are just empty good-looking series that are just made as eye candy and nothing else, because they just copy from actual existing manga and make horrible design choices I can’t even look at.

However, in the last years, I have been following this really cute short animation called “You Shou Yan” aka “Fabulous Beasts” that is an actual original online animation of adorable mythical beasts and I completely love it! The animation is just so full of cuteness, vibrant colors, I love the funny character tropes, I love learning a bit of other legendary beasts and their history, the episodes are short so you can watch them anytime, and I just fell into it and I want to know how it all turns out!

The main character is called Tianlu (the blue Pixiu) and he has a twin brother which nobody knew about and that hides inside his belly XD (yes, that’s a thing in the anime, just watch it) called Bixie (the red Pixiu). Look it up, they are really short episodes (currently we are in season 6 already!) and if you love adorable fluffy animation styles, it’s a thing you got to see for yourself!

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The papercraft itself is unfolded to 12 cm and has 6 pages to print out. It consists of 2 separate 3D models of Pixiu, the red and blue one. Each of them is made the same way; they both have a 3D horn, a 3D body and a 3D tail with add-on 2D fluff fur and eyebrows.

The only small parts are the 3D horns, everything else is easy to make. They also sit quite nicely because of the pose itself, but you can always put in some weights before closing it at the bottom anytime.

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Hope you like it and you get to enjoy the animation for yourself. They are freely available to watch on BiliBili or Youtube.

Happy crafting~

Kusanagi Motoko (Ghost in the shell) papercraft

 

 Kusanagi Motoko (Ghost in the shell) papercraft

 

 The legendary anime known to most Westerners as “Ghost in the Shell” has finally got an accurate 80s-style manga adaptation into the true look of Kusanagi this year! And?!? And we LOVE IT! I love the oldschool art style that is very near and dear to my heart and it looks just so gorgeous. Of course, the story alone is amazing, quite dystopian, VERY relevant with the current AI-slop trend and very philosophical. It makes you think of what actually “being alive” truly means and what consists of being called a “human being” and what the criteria is compared with AI simulations and technology, if any at all. Compared to the old adaptations we got, the main heroine Kusanagi was quite the gray mouse design-wise and I really disliked all of the visuals of the anime, except for the very first season in 1990-ish, but with this one, we got a true visual gem of anime. I love it! So of course, I had to try to mimic that 80s, 90s anime illustration myself in a papercraft.

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The papercraft is unfolded to a height of 20 cm and has 4 pages to print out.

It consists of a 3D model of Kusanagi, with her 2D hacking cable, belt, gun in holster and optional 2D or 3D hands. I did make an optional stand so she can sit on it, but the papercraft is meant to be displayed on a hanging shelf or edge, where she can look at you seductively from afar in your room XD so if you do make her, let her sit somewhere with a nice view!

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I did try to make her in a more simple design texture to resemble the anime style. I also love a nice sitting pose from time to time, because they are so satisfying to place on a shelf so they can dangle their feet down XD Got to make new and exciting poses, so not everything looks the same all the time. So I really hope you like her and enjoy the rest of the anime season as well! I certainly love it.

Enjoy and happy crafting~