I never got into the whole papercraft thing which was popular a year ago. Mostly because there was nothing I was interested in making (except for a couple motorcycle models). But a few months ago, Bay discovered PaperPokés — the unofficial Pokémon papercraft site. If you’re not familiar with papercraft, it’s basically creating three-dimensional models from paper printouts. All you need is the printout, a scissors, and tape. Having small fingers seems to help as well.
You download the .zip or .rar file, and inside there are PDFs that you print out. There’s usually a couple sizes, plus letter or A4 versions. If you need help, there’s also a cool program for the PC called Pepakura Viewer in which you can open a .pdo file (which is in the .zip file) and view a 3D model of the pokemon. You can rotate it and click on a certain piece to highlight, and it will show you the corresponding piece on the printed paper. It’s very cool.
Bay has created several of these paper pokémon and they’ve turned out pretty nicely. I’m amazed that he has so much patience to keep at it, as these can take multiple hours to complete. I guess it helps that he is crazy about pokemon!
