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How It All Started...

This is when I started Papercraft and to where I am now, there are multiple different projects that I have done to get to where I am now over the course of 4 years (estimate). Here we'll talk about all of what I've done and what it took!

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I have been doing paper art since I was a kid. I've always liked to do art and display it for others to see. in school that was easy as there were a lot of people. I made a lot of paper art like modular roses, modular ninja stars, etc. I made this origami book for who now is one of my best friends. I folded an entire book for her. Her name is Jacey so I decided to fold it into a book for her. I folded each individual page to form the name with all of the pages.

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In the Very beginning of my papercraft journey I was at school at the end of my junior year. I folded a lot of modular ninja stars. you can see one in this image. I also did a lot of origami with paper. The hardest origami Project I made was a little stegosaurs that was very advanced. The papercrafts that I made back then was made of sheet printer paper that was very thing and flexible. I used scotch tape to put these together and I liked the process although it was very difficult to use tape. All of the ones in the image were made that way. this was a little art museum that my school did 4 years ago and I decided to make some art for it. As you can see I made myself a little booth that I put all of my Paper-Tape art.

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In my school we had access to a paper cart that had multiple rolls of 3ft X Infinite paper. I folded origami with that kind of paper too and made giant origami crafts. Later I decided to roll out three 3ft X 9ft Paper strips and I glued them together to make a giant 9ftX9ft square paper across the floor. I looked up a video on an origami raptor and folded it accordingly. to fold the paper I had to run across the room to get enough air like a parachute so that I can line it up correctly. I never though you could get exercise from origami but there I was running with a giant paper. There was a fold that I could not do as much as I tried. The Petal Fold where you had to somehow open the paper and make it into a new shape. it was easy in the video or with a normal paper but with 9ft X 9ft it was difficult. I then found a guy named Dylan and he started to help me with some of the larger Papercrafts throughout the year. after we finished this raptor we both signed it. In comparison I added the photo to show the raptor, near its foot is an outlet. so it was a very large project.

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I then started to make more stable papercrafts with Elmer's glue and colored printer paper still. I made Poly Animals for a while because they were easy and I liked it. I made a lot of these and still do when someone wants one. These were the easy papercrafts that I started with and I did a lot of poly animals.

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This was another Poly animal that I made for another one of the teachers. I made some for classrooms and everything to get better at poly animals so that I could get further with this hobby I enjoyed.

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I'm started to make my own papercrafts and i made this one on a school computer using Tinker CAD 3D designer. I put up an image of a bridge and traced it 2d and then just extruded it to make it 3d. It was easy enough to do back then so I did. I then gave this one to a kid who loved a sports team and he liked it.

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I decided to try and do more custom Papercrafts that I made myself. so I practiced a little more on Tinker CAD and made some things but I never printed them to build. this was the last thing I did in Tinker CAD, to b honest I don't know what it was supposed to be... Kirby? I was really limited in what I could do in tinker Cad and decided to go straight to another 3d software Blender. Blender is more of a 3d modeling software for anything and has a lot more Things you can do.

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I took a break of 3D software and decided to make my first ever Life-sized Papercraft model. This was made with Elmer's glue and Cardstock Paper. It was I think a 6ft knight. But I had to build it upside down when it got too tall. so I stuck its head into a box and built it from there. This still stands in the school I went to. Its been there since and I appreciate that they kept it up.

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To Be Contiued...

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