Japanese Papercraft

Looks awesome and weird at the same time.

They're amazing!

For some of these papercraft the crease lines are what somehow makes you aware that this is just paper... but, there are others that look just like their pvc versions. Some people may think these are just a cheap paper clones of the originals, however, I think that really detailed models which involve a lot of cutting and precise folding are the works of a true artisan.

Built this one. Looks really good!

I wonder what kind of paper they're using?

Cool~ :D

My favorite of the lot. Who is she?

very impressive

Now, that's really something to be proud of. >:

They look amazing and hard to make at the same time. ;w;"

done some papercraft in my lifetime.
need some life sized paper girls pls =w=

awesome... we should start making and collecting paper figures for those poor and horribly broke otaku out there =P

Ta-Choo-koma! ^^;

The polygon look adds a charm to the figures, which is reminiscent of the graphics of a PS1 or N64 game.

Those gundams look amazing !

Some of them are hard to tell they are made of paper...they're awesome, but you have to be so much more gentle when handling them...

Someone made a papercraft of Freedom Gundam on youtube.

wao~ really cool!

PAPER?!

WOW, this is amazing! Sounds like a fun hobby too.

i remember when i was totally into papercraft - problem was storage...
*looks at recycling bin* T____T

WOW~ speechless...those are really some really overly impressive papercrafts...

really nice

VNO2 Miku?

Shimapan

Very nice! Looks like it has some articulation.

Thanks Danny! in fact half of the figures you posted here are from 1 author who I think is the best pepakura artist in the world, he dont use 3d max instead he use a very rare program that only sells in japan called, Hexa Super I think right now is in the 6.x version

oh my god !!!!!!!!! double zeta look awesome !

It's almost impossible to believe that these are paper crafts,seeing how much detail there is in some of them,but they feel too fragile for me,and I'm quite the klutz,lol

Amazing works!

Just...WOOOW O.O

yes paper. there was this previous post about Lumia from Phantasy Star Portable 2 that looked like a real figurine but was actually paper

SCREW PILEDRIVER!!!

This is so inspiring and money saving!

Nice ^^ I've made a few simple things before and then started on one of Suzumiya Haruhi but I never got around to finishing it :/

This is so cool Take it easy

Yukkuri shiteitte ne!!!

That is awesome, going to have to have a play with that, I have giant man-hands so not very good at it, but it makes a change from those cheap Star Wars pre-cut papercraft kits I was doing for my son over Christmas.

frigging awesome!!!

Some of those are really awesome, but I prefer to stick with pvc's. Not in the last place because even a baboon is better at papercraft than me ^^;;

Superbly cool looking

SD Neko

Sun-chan..

WOW.. nice work!.. will try to make some if I have time ^^

Years ago I started to build papercraft models but it takes so much time that I stopped months later, my dream was to build a gundam mecha, the model I want to build was about 40 pages, hard stuff, print, cut, fold, join the pieces, I used tweezers, needles, gluing the pieces carefully, I fell into a 2 year depression those days and papercraft was like a relief, it helped to keep my mind focused on something and I managed to complete some models, feels great when you complete a complex model.

the mechs all look really freaking awesome!

cool,i wanna make one too :3

wow... very impressive!!! :)

WOW. I agree, amazing papercrafts O_O

woot ! pepakura rules !

p/s: even my halo armor is made of pepakura plans ..

wut no wai.... D:

Great, looks like Samurai pizza Cats.
Could you tell me where these models come from ?

All of those are paper based!? Crazy! Japanese ppl are creative in almost every way

Really skillfully made! They're amazing and some even dynamic. Really cool.

Me want orange girl template TT__TT

PG ZZ Gundam!!!

Paper Grade that is... XD

those gundams are to epic

wow....really dunno some of them are papercraft if no one were to tell me =.=

これはすごいですね!
私にも作れるかな?　...たぶんムリ T_T

wow...really love Hatsune Miku one!

awesome papercraft *_* azunyaan

Can't really believe they are real.I heard of origami, but this is on a new level... Where do you get those paper?

Which series is this from? It looks like it has a mecha influence.

Yes i got this 2 at a art sales, it's really cute! Great Job by the designer and handicrafters.

This is so detail!

Wow. Papers can really create some amazing stuff.

Oh my god!! Danny has turned into a Tachikoma...

they're too creative to make such things...

What the.... LOL

YEah, Whit out touhou there's no fun ^^

Azunyan?? Nice.

Cofee-chan??

Nice, this may be my solution to the lack of figmas and nendos i'm having lately XP
Well, i don't know how much the program may cost :( or how much ink it will need :'( Dang it!

Awesome pepakura~

Damn, these are impressive! Whoever wrote the software must be pretty talented at coding.

And Samurai Pizza Cats! That was a great series. One of the few Anime shows on terrestial TV at the time over here ^^;

Wow... the only papercrafts I can compare the to, based on experience, is a child's school play. The detail work is amazing.

This kind of papercraft goes WAY beyond origami. It's hard difficult to pick a favorite picture here, they're all so detailed!

i assembled one of these before, quite rewarding. also the same kind of rewarding when you finished a MG

I love this kind of art. I only used to do GITS papercraft and Geisha papercraft. only noteworthy one I seen was a Unit 02 I seen at Ai-Kon.

Those are some amazing work...wonder how long they took to do it?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddH3eh0XBw&feature=related 5:21 was my reaction to seeing this.

Some of these don't look like they were made of paper. They're all pretty fantastic.

thats cool~~

Now many otaku will be able to make their own papercraft waifus ^^

I have her :3 Shes so easy to make, not to mention the cutest x3, this little chibi kitsune. I stumbled upon this design folding peparuka program a few months back and gave it a go. failed twice but 3rd time was a charm.

...I remember this one person who makes really amazing paper-crafts... but i don't remember his name...

he usually did girls in lingerie

That does not look like paper!! :O

OMG! Some of those look so amazing I wouldn't have thought they were made of paper!

Stunning!!!
BTW, you should also look for papercraft automatas, they're moving papercrafts! >0<

Like this boxy style NT-1

Lol! A great way for those of us who can't afford many figurines to adorn our rooms!

These must take a lot of patience to fold.

There are awesome sites out there for Papercraft (like Paperkraft.net) and they offer so many patterns to print out and build. The incredible thing is a majority of them are free! I've found it to be quite fun and in the end very satisfying.

Awesome detail on the Gundam Mk. II.

Some of the papercrafts are really good to the point that they almost didn't look like they were made of paper.

I found the same some time ago. Gundams seems to be perfect for papercraft work!
My favorite is the Patlabor model. ^^

I don't know how to work this out, if you can help me out, email skull_4pilot@yahoo.com

Simply incredible.
Now I feel the need to start using my 3d software to try doing some of these prepakura thingies.

When you see masters like those above, you just want to do something like that too. ^ U ^

Blimey! That's amazing!

lol, I can't download the updates. (Cause my Stupid Cat pressed on the power button when I was busy downloading TF2 and my internet can't load)

And I just thought origami was the only interesting paper-craft. I almost wonder if Danny is going to print and assemble his mascots.

first line of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdBsuMhrLY made me express my amazement of these cool papercraft awesomeness. here i am just enjoying my new papercraft update (Finally)...and you people have to freak out on me!

Wow this looks pretty neat.

Strawberry-flavored Pocky?

Danny, you're ridiculous, I just found out about this program, even downloading it and importing a couple of my own models. And all that literally 5 minutes before hopping onto your blog to find you had already beaten me to it! >_<

How coincidental, great minds think alike huh?

Amazing ^^

wow......just wow

Steve Jobs presents the iPpad...err..iPaper?

http://tubbypaws.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-happy-blocky-3d-papercraft-tribute.html

I've known of this program for sometime now. Bumped to it when I was searching for a way to make costumes. I don't have the proper hardware to run any of those 3D programs listed so I never tried that method of costume-making yet.

Simply amazing.

That's awesome, looks like the real thing.

Is that really paper??? Amazing!

It's..... awesome!

Damn, I tried to make a daughter out of paper...and I failed!

Holy Crap!

Now I've got no excuse not to have a Figure, even if it's made with paper...

Although some of them look a bit awkward, I spy a few that I might consider making.

This one is greaaat

really cool isn't it?
i remembered ones saying: "...expensive thing is easy, cheap thing is difficult..."
i think this is suited gunpla/PVC vs. papercraft ^^;

IMPRESSIVE!

seen this, in one of "japan video topics" episode

wow they're so awesome! I've made a few hetalia character paper crafts but they weren't as advanced or cool looking as these! so jealous!!!>_<
grrr...i didnt know where most of these character were from. anyone care to tell me?
i only know gundam, seto no hanayome, medabots?, and k-on! what else is there???
btw i wanna try some of these do you guys have links to some patterns? >_<

wow it must have been hard to do all those folding for the curves on the dress! great job! what anime is this from?

que buen aporte

One of my favorite designers!