After making the first three starters and Pikachu this model felt a little overdue. I had even been asked by several people “When are you going to make Eevee?” haha. Well, it’s finally here a super cute fluffy little Eevee model in a low-poly style. I realize that it sounds like I begrudgingly made this model but I wanted to make it just as much as the people asking me wanted it haha. It was very fun to make as well. I just usually don’t make Pokemon and other video game characters unless I feel like there is something specific that they can help me practice. The first three starters helped m ..read more

Fall is here which means that the spookiest month, October, is right around the corner. With Halloween being one of my favourite holidays I decided it was time to make a new decoration for it. I had a few ideas about what to make but eventually decided on a cute little ghost because I realized I could make it cute and creepy at the same time! Which is always fun. I remembered an old optical illusion that would allow me to make a face or pair of eyes follow you across a room and immediately thought “ghost!” It’s actually a very simple trick. All you have to do is make a concave surface and pla ..read more

It’s been quite a while since my last post. That’s because I’ve been so busy! Not just with my latest model, the Goldfish diorama, but because I’ve also been trying to improve in some other areas, like putting out more instructional videos and improving the quality of the SVG and PNG files. Initially, I actually intended to make a complete fishbowl diorama complete with “glass” for the bowl and everything. I even mused about putting in a castle or a treasure chest haha. When I started modelling it however I realized I needed to scale it back or else it would just be too complex. So I went wit ..read more

Last year, we planted some sunflowers in our garden in hopes of attracting more bees. What really ended up happening was that they grew so large that they stunted the growth of all of our veggies haha. This year we did the same thing but only planted them at the end of the garden instead of throughout and are having much better results! Funnily enough, they also started popping up all over our yard! Last year the birds of our neighbourhood must have had a feast with all the seeds produced by the first wave of sunflowers and spread them around the yard. There were even some that appeared in th ..read more

It’s Pikachu, the cute and loveable electric mouse! I had been meaning to make a Pikachu model for a while now actually but just didn’t have the confidence to pull it off. I didn’t have much experience designing and building my own models when I first started this. I pretty much only built other people’s designs, like I’m sure most people who get into this hobby do. Eventually, though I felt the desire to explore my own creativity and make my own models. I initially started with Pokemon because they were shapes and forms that I was very familiar with so I felt it would be easier to replicate ..read more

Metroid has been one of my favourite series of games since I first played Metroid Prime back in 2002. There actually aren’t a lot of Metroid-themed papercrafts out there so I felt it was time to make one of the infamous creatures out of paper and change that. It’s actually no surprise that there aren’t too many papercrafts of Metroids specifically as there is a pretty obvious challenge: the membrane. Metroid bodies consist of a clear membrane surrounding a central nucleus-like brain with some claws attached. This is something that is easy to accomplish in a video game but making it out of pap ..read more

The first new model of 2022 is here! I wanted to challenge myself and with Valentine’s Day coming up I felt a Rose was appropriate. And I can safely say that this was the most difficult to design model yet. The first challenge was to replicate how the petals of a rose naturally spiral out as they bloom. I also wanted to keep to the usual “low-poly” or “faceted” style that I enjoy. I also had to make the petals thick so that you wouldn’t see any tabs or part numbers on either side of the petals. This meant making and sorting a tangled mess of vertices that got more and more difficult as the nu ..read more

The holidays are here and so I felt like making something appropriate. Considering that I spend a lot of this time of year hunting for the perfect gifts for my loved ones and that I have been looking into making models that move or have some sort of function, I felt that a Gift Box was a great idea for my next model. It both looks impressive and can be used to hold a present! From the start, the main focus of the design was on the large bow on the top. I decided to use the faceted or low-poly style because I wanted it to contrast against the uniform appearance of the actual box part of the mo ..read more

Fall is right around the corner so I figured it was time I made one of my favourite things of the season - a pumpkin! Every year, one of my favourite things to do is carve pumpkins for Halloween. It’s something my sisters and I have been doing for about as long as I can remember and I don’t think there has been a year that we didn’t carve any. For this model, I decided to return to the low-poly style that I used for the Kanto starters a while back. I did this because I felt it would make the pumpkin feel more organic despite being obviously artificial. After all, I don’t think I have ever see ..read more

Completing my series of basic enemies: the Goomba has finally arrived! I think these grumpy little guys are in every main series Mario game. Easily defeated with just one jump, it kind of makes you wonder why Bowser keeps using them as minions… This was a pretty fun model design and make. It was my second model designed using Blender and I feel like I have shown some significant improvement over the Octorok, which was my first Blender model. In the early stages of development, I debated on keeping it symmetrical or making it asymmetrical like some of the Pokemon models I have made. Obviously ..read more