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~
