Papercraft scares me. The whole prospect of it is intimidating, even without my stupid fingers to clumsy things up. Delightful as the photos of finished products wind up being, thinking about what a torn mess the ones I make would inevitably be has saved me a lot of time and frustration.
Take this Okamiden papercraft of Chibiterasu, for example. Look at the slight, delicate bend in the legs to make the feet. I would gracelessly crinkle in the corners and make what's supposed to be a vibrant and youthful embodiment of a God into a wrinkly old dog. Nobody wants that.
If you're made of firmer, more skillful stuff than I am, you can attempt this yourself. Nintendo Papercraft has posted printable instructions to their site, which I expect offers insight into how this thing was made. I wish you all luck. I'll be over here doing something I'm at least competent at.
Chibiterasu [Nintendo Papercraft via Capcom-Unity]
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6:00 AM on 07.30.2010
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That would be the telescope on the page linked to below.
http://www.langorigami.com/science/eyeglass/eyeglass.php4
Oh the papercraft is cute too I guess.
The only thing that went wrong was that I mixed up the hind leg and front leg, but mistakes like that are pretty easy if you look at what you're doing before gluing it down.
Also, score folds (go lightly over the dotted lines with a dull knife/boxcutter), it'll make folding a lot easier.
Don't use tape or glue sticks, and use glue sparingly (otherwise it'll go through the paper and discolor it a bit)
It's hell of fun and there are a surprising amount of video game papercrafts out there (I just finished a Waluigi one)