Paper Craft: Printed Templates

 For this week we had to fully assemble our first prototype of our papercraft design. I enjoyed scoring and cutting all the various pieces but gluing everything together? Not my cup of tea. I found through my process of gluing it all together that I had made my shapes too complex, and having so many sides and angles to a piece was very hard to work with, especially when gluing by hand. I had to slightly alter some pieces as now that they were unfolded, there were slight gaps and the paper wouldn't line up. 

The first altercation was to fix the top tabs on the main headpiece and on the top ear pieces.

The mouth piece when printed had some issues as well, the top separate piece no longer lined up with the main part of the mouth, for the prototype I just cut some of the paper away, but I will probably simplify how many angles there are in certain areas.

The nose turned out fine but the eyes I realized were much too complex and were extremely hard to glue down onto the head later on.

For the final prototype I decided to scrap the eyes for now. I would like to instead cut out holes for the eyes like I had originally designed, and include some type of transparent plastic. Overall this was a struggle for me as I don't have the most delicate hands, but I feel okay about this first version.