Princess Mononoke papercraft

Princess Mononoke papercraft

Starting off the new year with a new papercraft I finished about 2 weeks ago and was in the making for months XD Sometimes you just get a great idea but the drive isn’t there to see it through to the end with all the extra work around, but it’s finished now and more awesome than I first imagined as well! It sets the standards for 2026 for myself (;

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Everybody that knows my work for a long time now knows that I absolutely adore Studio Ghibli movies and the characters in each one. And because I had this one in my mind for a long time to make a project out of and I always have so much stuff to do, I am absolutely thrilled that the papercraft is now FINALLY finished and I could make a really awesome “Princess Mononoke” papercraft, riding to battle with her wolf bother (:

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The papercraft is unfolded to 30 cm and has 12 pages to print (4 of them being optional double-sided print pages for a colored inner side of her mask, coat and dress.

It consists of a separate 3D San model (with optional 2D or 3D hands), a separate wolf model, her 3D spear and a optional mask and coat for San as well.

The hair is made in 2D flat layers, so it really looks like real hair. Since she does have a dress, you assemble the upper torso with the dress first, and then make the legs separately to glue them together later on, so it’s easier to fix her on the wolf mount. The wolf mount is one of her wolf brothers, and not Moro her mother, because she rides them in the movie as well and they are smaller than the wolf goddess.

*NOTE: The papercraft is hard to make, since there are smaller pieces and a lot of fur on the wolf mount as well. So, I only suggest this papercraft for really experienced papercrafters only.

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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:

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I hope you like the scene, I really spent ages making it just right, so it really has the feel of the anime itself. Do go watch the anime (again, if you watched it already, because you can watch it 1000 of times without getting bored). It is a beautiful yet so sad story of human ego and the opposing raw, wild nature that consumes yet heals and soothes your soul at the same time.

 

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Kiki (Kikis Delivery Service) papercraft

Kiki (Kikis Delivery Service) papercraft

Everybody that knows my work for a long time now knows that I absolutely adore Studio Ghibli movies and the characters in each one. And because I had this one in my mind for a long time to make a project out of and I always have so much stuff to do, I am absolutely thrilled that the papercraft diorama is now FINALLY finished and I could make a really cute Kiki & Jiji papercraft! So, here you go (;

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The papercraft is unfolded to 26 cm and has 12 pages to print (3 of them being optional double-sided print pages for a colored inner side of her hair and dress.

It consists of a separate 3D Kiki model (with optional 2D or 3D hands), a separate Jiji the cat model, her broom with additional bristles to make it look like a real witches broom, a simple cage package from the movie that she has of a cat plush, and a separate 3D cloud that is basically her stand for the broom to make her look like she is flying in the sky.

The hair is made in 2D flat layers, so it really looks like wild wind in her hair when she is flying, and it is closed in the back with a 3D piece. Since she does have a dress, you assemble the upper torso with the dress first, and then make the legs separately to glue them together later on, so it’s easier to fix her on the broom and the broom on the cloud stand.

*NOTE: The papercraft is hard to make, since the stand, the broom and Kiki herself need to be additionally filled with weights and probably connected with either stronger glue, magnets or a system of wires to make her stand the way she is intended to. Additionally to this, the Jiji model is also very small and delicate, with really thin limbs. So, I only suggest this papercraft for really experienced papercrafters only.

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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:

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I hope you like the diorama, I really spent ages making it just right, so it really has the feel of the anime itself. Do go watch the anime (again, if you watched it already, because you can watch it 1000 of times without getting bored). It is a cute and beautiful story of things we most cherish in life and what they should mean to us.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Calcifer (Simple version) FREE built papercraft

Calcifer (Simple version) FREE built papercraft

Already released the FREE version of my Calcifer papercraft you can find (and download) here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Calcifer-Simple-version-FREE-papercraft-1134605704

And now you can also see how it looks assembled in the preview. I also have some tips for the assembly itself, although the PDO is included in the download files, but tips are always nice, so here we go.

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ASSEMBLY TIPS:

As already stated in the title, it is very easy to make. You basically have a few separate items to assemble, with 2-sided optional parts and you put them together or glue together in the end. The template consists of: a simple 2D, 2-sided Calcifer fire, a 2D, 2-sided pan, 3 2D bacon stripes and 4 3D egg-yolks with 4 2D egg-whites. If you do not wish to make the smaller, egg-yolk parts in 3D, simply just cut out a round circle from the bottom of the egg templates and glue them on the egg-whites and you are good to go.

Best way, if you wish to glue on the 2-sided parts, is to loosely cut out the parts and glue them on the backside first, and then cut them out neatly. For this, simply place the front part near a lamp and put glue on the back side of it and place it in the back, adjusting the right angle and placing it on top, since you can see the silhouette of both parts with the lamp. I always do this with every 2-sided part I do with papercrafts. Same thing can be done if it’s bright outside and you place the 2 backside and frontside on a glass window and both silhouettes can be seen that way as well. But with this method, put glue on the front part and then glue them together by adjusting the right angle and you are good to go.

The rest of the assembly is pretty much simple as pie and pretty logical, even without the PDO file. Just have fun with the super simple papercraft and try to build one yourself :)

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So, what is this all about a simple version? As the name “Super simple papercrafts” suggests, it is a project of really simple papercrafts I make. Since I saw that many people are somewhat intimidated by my intricate designs and overall papercraft really, I wanted to show that it’s not the case and that I wanted to make an effort to make papercrafts available really for any kind of papercrafter, be it beginner, advanced or pro. I decided to address the issue and show that anybody can make papercrafts and therefore designed some fun crafts that REALLY ANYBODY CAN MAKE, super simple and really fast. But most of all, fun!

These papercrafts are simple in design regarding how many pieces there are, they are unfolded a bit bigger to make it simpler to assemble them, they have more detached pieces that you just make and glue on, and still look super sweet and adorable so anybody will want to make them.

You can find all of the “Simple Papercrafts” I designed in my folder:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/gallery/75506959/simple-papercrafts

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***This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :)***

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Hope you like the cutie and I get to see it being made all over the net.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Calcifer (Simple version) FREE papercraft

Calcifer (Simple version) FREE papercraft

Time for another FREE papercraft for the last few weeks of the year and it’s a little treat for all of the Studio Ghibli fans (: It’s a cute and super simple papercraft of the flame demon “Calcifer” from the great Hayao Miyazaki anime movie “Howl’s moving castle”.

Basically, I am in a lot of anime groups all over the net, and that scene from the movie where it is eating an eggshell and cooking bacon and eggs in a pan is sooo iconic from the movie that it gave me an idea to make a simple yet adorable and fun papercraft like this :)

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So, what is this all about? As the name “Super simple papercrafts” suggests, it is a project of really simple papercrafts I make. Since I saw that many people are somewhat intimidated by my intricate designs and overall papercraft really, I wanted to show that it’s not the case and that I wanted to make an effort to make papercrafts available really for any kind of papercrafter, be it beginner, advanced or pro. I decided to address the issue and show that anybody can make papercrafts and therefore designed some fun crafts that REALLY ANYBODY CAN MAKE, super simple and really fast. But most of all, fun!

These papercrafts are simple in design regarding how many pieces there are, they are unfolded a bit bigger to make it simpler to assemble them, they have more detached pieces that you just make and glue on, and still look super sweet and adorable so anybody will want to make them.

You can find all of the “Simple Papercrafts” I designed in my folder:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/gallery/75506959/simple-papercrafts

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The papercraft itself is 4 cm tall, since it’s a flat pan with fire around it. It consists of 3 pages to print. It is a simple 3D model of a pan, the Calcifer flame around it and optional 2D bacon and 3D eggs. The Calcifer flame as well as the pan itself have also optional 2D, 2-sided parts you can use or not, it’s all visible from the 3D preview in the PDO file, so no worries.

The papercraft is now available for FREE to download on my Patreon page, same as all of my other FREE papercrafts I post there:

https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

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***This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :)***

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Hope you like the cutie and I get to see it being made all over the net.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Chihiro (Spirited Away) papercraft

Chihiro (Spirited Away) papercraft

One of Hayao Miyazaki's (or studio Ghibli) best movies is, hands-down, Spirited Away. It is THE anime movie that made me look more in debt into the anime and Japanese culture in general, and I never looked back since :) And I know people just love all the scene with Chihiro and Haku in his dragon-form (which I also did years back), but one of my personal favorite scenes is in the bathhouse, where Kaonoashi (No-Face) shows up and wants to give her gifts and she flat-out refuses to take them! That’s my girl!

So, I decided to make a diorama from that bathhouse scene and make it into a papercraft. And this is it :)

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The papercraft itself is unfolded to a height of 24 cm and has 14 pages to print (with all the optional parts). It consists of a 3D model of Chihiro in her pink jinbei, a 3D Kaonashi with a separate pile of gold to fit into his hands, the 3D background diorama of the onsen, and a separate bucket and brushes and tokens for Chihiro for decoration that fits the scene. Both Chihiro and Kaonashi also have 3D as well as simpler 2D hands to make, so you can decide which ones to use to make the assembly easier.

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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:

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Hope you like it! Really wanted to make it look and feel as 100% from the anime with all the details and I put a lot of effort into this.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Totoro papercraft

Totoro papercraft

In the anime community there are a few gems that shape the community throughout the years, but probably none that reach up the ranks of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Tonari no Totoro (aka My neighbor Totoro)”. The anime is legendary even amongst studio Ghibli fans and while reviewing some figurines I have myself of Totoro, I decided to do a tribute diorama papercraft to show my love for the giant, furry cat-god creature.

     

The papercraft is unfolded to 22 cm and has 9 pages to print. It consists of a 3D Totoro, a 3D white mini Totoro, the optional 3D stand and a lot of 2D add-ons, such as the leaves on their heads, the grass and the bus stop sign. For the grass on the stand you also have an optional 2-sided page you can print it on, so the diorama stand looks nice and green from both sides.

The small Totoro is a bit fiddlier to make, so are the hands/paws and the ears of the big Totoro, but overall, a nice and easy papercraft to make.

   

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I hope you love Totoro as much as I do and you give the papercraft a try as well. Go watch or re-watch some of the old anime movies you love, sometimes it can be so nice and relaxing, definitely recommend any of the Ghibli movies for that :)

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Ootori-sama (Spirited Away) built papercraft

Ootori-sama (Spirited Away) built papercraft

This papercraft template preview was already posted on my page here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Ootori-sama-Spirited-Away-papercraft-953972292

So now you can see how it looks like assembled and I can give some basic assembly tips along the way as well, so here we go.

*As with any of my papercraft templates, the blank PDO is always included in these files, so you help yourself with the 3D preview in Pepakura to assemble it, but I like to post a bit of experience I have with building papercrafts to maybe make things easier for less experienced papercrafters and share ideas on how to make it simpler :)

          

ASSEMBLY TIPS:

The papercraft consists of many smaller, separate parts, so they can all be made separate and are optional. The main parts are: the 3D Ootori-sama figure, 3 3D heads of Ootori-sama, 2 3D bath buckets, the 3D bath, the 3D stand as well as the 2D accessories 2 washcloths and 1 hat leaf. So you can start with any of them.

The 3D stand is a simple cylinder shape that you can close with the bottom part. It’s bigger so you probably need to fill it up with leftover paper or something sturdier, like cardboard, so it’s nice and flat and holds all the pieces together. That’s the only thing you need to think about with this one.

The bath is also a simple cylinder shape that you also close at the bottom. It doesn’t really need any reinforcement like the stand itself, but you do have the optional 2D splashed of water that you glue on the sides as decoration and that are pre-bent to fit the shape of the bath edge, so that’s the thing you need to watch out here.

Then you have the main Ootori-sama standing model that you best assemble from top to bottom. Make the beak first and when you have that, move to the top of the head and make your way to where the beck is and glue it in there and then make the rest of the head. When you have the head, make the 2 flippers/arms on his side first, separately, and make your way from the head you did till you get to the points where you glue the flippers on and simply close the bird at the bottom. At the end of it, you can add the 2D feet on him and glue the optional cloth in his flipper or glue/put the leaf hat on him and he’s done.

The 3 optional heads you do the same way you did the standing Ootori-sama. Make the beak separately, then start gluing the head from top to bottom and glue the beak on and close it at the end.

And lastly you also have the 2 optional buckets. They consist of 2 parts in the PDO, so make the inner side first. When you have the inner side, glue the edge on first (you will probably need to trim down the flaps a bit to make it fit on there, since the edge is pretty narrow as is) and then glue on the outer part and lastly close it at the bottom. All that is left to do is glue on the optional decorations on the buckets outer side at the right spot (as shown in the PDO) and all the parts are done.

*Note: The papercraft template includes 3 separate Ootori-sama heads in the bath, I just made pictures of 2 of them, but all 3 look the same (and are assembled the same way).

    

***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.***

                

Hope you like the cute little yellow duckies, enjoy and happy crafting~