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Happy Thanksgiving!




Ahh, it's good to be home! The drive was murder though; what should have only taken 3 hrs took nearly 6 due to all the traffic... and them shutting down part of the jersey turnpike. Ugh, 6 lanes down to 1, what a nightmare.

Well, Thanksgiving is upon us (in the U.S.), so get ready to stuff yourselves! mmm, I can feel myself drooling now. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to start on the Bebop while I'm home, that would be a nice way to spend these few days off. Eh, well see.

So... just the quick update for now, I'm actually feeling a bit hungry from thinking about all that turkey... mmm, so I'm gonna go raid the kitchen. Night all!

All right! The "Hand Gestures" series is complete! The "Rock-On" ( m/ ), the "F$ck You" ( nlm ), and "The Shocker" ( llnl ) have all been completed and posted for you're (dis)approval.

So! Who wants to take my differential equation test for me Monday! I'll be your best friend! hehe to those of you who actually get to relax this weekend, see this model



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Since I got a surprising amount of requests, I quick made a "Peace Sign" ( /m ) hand gesture to 'complete' the set.... at least for the moment. I thought I was done, but since it's really not much work to modify the ones I have to make the new ones, I decided I might as well.

To be honest, I was surprised at how many people asked for the peace sign. I got several private notes, requests within comments, even a few emails. I've even had someone request the Spock \// hand, which I may get to some time in the future, either next week or over Thanksgiving break. Time will tell...

In honor of my site breaking 10,000 hits sometime last night, I've quick thrown together a little model of the rock-on hand pose m/.

Of course, noticing how easy it would be to do, it was basically required for me to make a f*ck you hand pose too .

Unfortunately, I only noticed how close I was to 10k yesterday, so all I have is the screenshots of the models from 3D Studio Max, no actual builds or pieces yet ^_^U, but I'll get them eventually! The big 10^4 kinda snuck up on me, thanks in (big) part to the Master Chief model, spiking my views per day as high as 1300 at one point. The model is subject to change, the balance on it looks a little shakey.

But anyway, a big thanks to everyone who has stopped by over the past two or so months, those who have left encouragement, criticism, and even the 1337 freaks who post nonsense comments, because the internet is nothing without them. Keep on foldin'!


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All right! One of them is done! Had to modify it a little bit to help the balance, but it's good now. Get the whole, albeit brief, story here, on the "Assembled Image" page.

Well, I'm finally on break! Finally, a moment to relax, maybe do a little work on my models..? Nope, never mind. Forgot that everyone in this house is insane and it's impossible to get any actual work done here! Ah well, be it ever so humble..

Quick! To the Bat-Cave! Hey, if they can have an entire hidden lair, then I think the rent's can spare a table in the basement for this mess. Buu's getting there, got his head/antenna done, an arm and hand, his feet, and the big piece making up his waist and legs. The only problem, hence the title, is that I didn't realize just how big he was going to come out. I wanted to make him to scale to Mr Satan's size, and in the show, Buu is at least a foot taller, perhaps 2. So I scaled all the pieces to make him a few inches taller than Mr Satan's model, and now he's not going to fit in the cabinet shelf with the others. At least he'll look good.



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Alright! Majin Buu is finally done! Don't really have too much more to add, so if you've got a minute, you can find him here, as well as links to all his various parts.

I've been getting a surprising number of emails about this one. People are asking me to either make a life-sized model of the Master Chief's helmet, or explain to them how to. I'm going to try to explain why this one won't ever happen (at least not now, not from me).

The biggest problem of all is that I think people are planning on being able to wear it. It's only paper. Even cardstock would wear quickly, and be just generally too fragile to wear.

The second problem is I've already got a good bit on my plate. I'm in school, working, and have 5 or 6 other models in line waiting to either be designed, built, or both in most cases. I just don't have time to basically re-make the model, as it wouldn't be as simple as just cutting off the body. I'd have to make an internal shell that would rest on the wear-er's head, which would be a bit of a pain.

The final reason is simply that I have no idea how I would do the visor. Paper obviously wouldn't be see-through, so you'd have to jerry rig something with a really thin plastic, maybe if you could find orange acetate... even then, it'll only be curved in a cylindrical-sense, not spherical like the real one.

I really don't mean to sound harsh, this is just meant to be informational, so people don't have to go through the hassle of emailing me about it.




...on a lighter note,

,-- Look at the little "stupefied" guy! Gah, I'm tired
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Hah, well I realize its a little late to post now, but tonight at 12.30 am (ok, tomorrow morning, whatever), on Spike TV, the show Game Head will air, and hopefully be showing my model as a small part of their special on Halo 3. So if you're not already camping outside your nearest eb games because you forgot to pre-order it, (and you're able to stay up until 1am on a Monday night (again, Tuesday morning), maybe you'll happen to catch it!

I'll probably put up a youtube video of it tomorrow, assuming: 1) it's shown, and 2) the computer does a decent job of capturing it.

Wish me luck! (Also, a happy 20th birthday!)


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Aww, well that was a little disappointing. They didn't end up using it, but oh well. They had a bunch of major things like people making full body armor, doing talent show-styled renditions of the theme, etc, but the bulk of the show was about the comics and other mini-games spinning off from the main game trilogy. Eh, my 15 minutes are up

Wow, just wow. The admins are hilarious.

Some of you probably knew about this before, but for those who didn't: I had most, if not all, of my deviations in Artisan Crafts > Origami a month ago when I first started this account. After a short time, one of the over-seers there decided that none of my works were Origami (and technically they aren't, they're papercraft, but since there is no papercraft category, origami was the closest), and moved them all out to my scraps folder.

This was a bit of a nuisance, but I found a new category I was sure they couldn't complain about, and moved on. I've been putting all the "Assembled..." deviations into 3D > Misc, because they are 3d models converted into paper form. Now, the geniuses that run that category are throwing my stuff out, but not putting it in my scraps, but into the origami category that they were originally in. It's all going to be one big cycle. All I can do is sit back and laugh, because life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

On a lighter note, someone made a digg about my Master Chief Assembled deviation, so I'm excited about that... some of the comments sound like little kids wrote them, but hey, I'm not complaining [ leave Darlene and her Paper-American heritage outta this! ].

As the release of Halo 3 comes closer, I'm a little disappointed that I've yet to hear from the people at GameHead (the show that was going to use images of the Chief for their Halo 3 special), but the proof is (or will be, in this case) in the pudding, so I'll just have to wait and see.

Now that the bulk of my workload is out of the way, I hope to finally make some more progress on my Majin Buu model (WIP pic). He's been more or less done for a while, I've just yet to have the time to actually build him.

Thats it for now.

Hit the poll if you've got a minute!

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Another recognition (actually several I didn't notice until just now)!

Just a short while ago I received a note from SugarShiva (.tiff), informing me he had posted an article on a website named Destructoid about my Master Chief Model (here)

After checking the article there, I got curious as to who else had posted about it, and boy was I surprised!:

Paperkraft.net
Papercraft World
Kotaku.com
Gizmodo.com
Make (Makezine.com)
Gundam & Robot Anime
BoingBoing
OkFuture.net
LifeParticles.com

And god knows how many forums! This would definitely account for the huge number of hits-per-day I've been getting recently. Better not let this go to my head...