HOWTO Make a lifesize papercraft doppelganger of yourself

Ever wanted your own 1:1 papercraft doppelganger? Rejoice, for Instructables user ddi7i4d has the technique. It takes a week, and it kicks Flat Stanley's 2D ass from here to every exotic locale on Earth.

Project: Paper-Clone (via Craft)

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aelfscine

Yeah, the one on the right looks really life-like.
*rimshot*

I’m here all week!
Anonymous

they should make papercraft photographers and strategically place them in London, then see if then have Paper Craft Police officers to harass them.
O’ and make sure to build a papercraft steampunk clone of yourself.
SamSam

Oh. I figured the point of this was to make out with yourself. But then I guess you have to make it anatomically correct…
Grim Beefer

Saying that this project takes approximately a week is a little misleading if you have no 3d experience. I’d recommend that anyone interested in this sort of thing to start small at first. A BIG requirement is some general 3d modeling/texture mapping knowledge if you’re going to be making your own work.

I’ve never used the modeling software he mentions, so I can’t speak about it’s ease of use. A fully-featured and open-source program is Blender. There’s a wealth of tutorial information to get you started modeling with Blender, and the software is updated regularly. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was already a papercraft plugin that will automatically unfold your models for you.
IWood

Hey, man, Flat Stanley travels the world in an envelope. Let’s fragile ThreeDee McSmashterson get around as easily.
IWood

Dropped me “see,” bloody hell.
Brainspore

I guess that beats a life-size statue chiseled from stone. (But not one made of scissors.)
- Felton
  
  Edward Scissorhands cuts papercraft doppelganger, but animated statue smashes Edward Scissorhands. I suppose papercraft doppelganger wraps animated statue.
Pantograph

Does it make me a hater if I point out that the papercraft model and the original look nothing alike?

I do appreciate the craft and the work involved.
Sophie Kahn

I have done similar things in my artwork, and if you want to skip the modeling and texturing you can use a 3d laser scanner, like the free DAVID system: http://www.david-laserscanner.com. Scanning has its own learning curve of course, but in my opinion it’s not as difficult as Blender.
Nash Rambler

Wow. When art imatates life, it’s actually kind of lame.
- Grim Beefer
  
  Straight from the moderation policy – “Writing “But that’s not a wonderful thing” is lame. So is “topic [X] bores me,” or “subject [Y] sucks.”
  
  Maybe you could expand on your masterful skills as an art critic by explaining why you don’t like it? Otherwise, I don’t see the point of commenting just to trash something.
annoyingmouse

I have plenty of colour ink and I don’t feel like working tomorrow. Hmm…..
Anonyman

Looks like himself as rendered in a 90′s video game like Half Life or Perfect Dark/Goldeneye 64.
Unmutual

I think it would be less hassle to find somebody who looked kind of like myself and pay him to sit in my cube all day . . . that is what this thing is for, right?
- Felton
  
  That and cheating in the carpool lane.