Photorealistic papercraft heads

Wow, wonderful stuff, I wouldn't call it photorealism though, just realistic. He might want to give RealViz's ImageModeler (what I use) a try. It is more suited to this than Blender.

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#4 posted by justONEguy , March 25, 2008 12:05 PM

I agree with Noen about the questionable use of 'photorealistic'. Photorealism is used to describe a style of painting which was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. 'Hyperrealistic' might apply better here.

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#5 posted by absimiliard , March 25, 2008 12:08 PM

Yiggg. Definitely the wrong side of the Uncanny Valley for me.

I find it eerily similar to a 3D model in any number of videogames, Rome: Total War is the one that immediately comes to mind.

But turning it into a real-life sculpture definitely pushes it over the valley into the real of "That icks me out at some sub-conscious level."

-abs

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#6 posted by certron , March 25, 2008 12:16 PM

It looks photorealistic to me. Is it not supposed to look like a photo of a papercraft head?

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#7 posted by realisateur , March 25, 2008 12:39 PM

I double agree about the fact that it's not photorealism, but I also have to argue that it's not "hyperrealism" because that, too, has come to define a contemporary kind of painting. Daniel Jackson, for instance. I think we're just dealing with a new kind of sculpture. As Absimiliard points out, it's a lot like the kind of pseudo-realistic, graphic stuff you see in videogames that don't do obscene amounts of rendering: a sort of "close enough!"

On a different note, I immediately thought of the photography that the character Claire does in Six Feet Under, where she photographs her family members, prints the photos, cuts up the photos, and collages them onto the faces/heads of the same members, then photographs THAT.

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#8 posted by deejayqueue , March 25, 2008 12:48 PM

Gah! Uncanny Valley! *Squick

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#9 posted by noen , March 25, 2008 12:54 PM

Pepakura Designer is supposed to me very good with this kind of task. I've never tried it though.

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#10 posted by kori , March 25, 2008 1:33 PM

My boyfriend Adam Bizanski made a video for Sub Pop's Dntel last year, using the same technique on man operated dolls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNtA6vjx_E

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#11 posted by seyo , March 25, 2008 1:54 PM

That is amazingly awesome.

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#12 posted by OM

, March 25, 2008 2:01 PM

...He needs to do ones of infamous dictators, tyrants and genocide artists. That way, we can print them out, assemble them, and then stick them on a Boppin' Bag and give the bastards some of what they deserve in effigy!

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#13 posted by Takuan , March 25, 2008 2:03 PM

or wear them to work

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#14 posted by anthony , March 25, 2008 2:36 PM

pls see Oliver Herring's sculptures:
http://ragandbone.com/bloggerimages/2007_06_20_herring/05.jpg

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#15 posted by slugabed , March 25, 2008 3:20 PM

Finally an HOV lane companion!

I know you were all thinking it too.

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#16 posted by Fnarf , March 25, 2008 4:07 PM