Howdee, fans!
A few days ago I found a nice model of BB-8, the (attention, @DanBKing : ) sp-heroic (! !) astromech from Episode VII.
http://n8s.deviantart.com/art/Bb-8-Papercraft-528519084
That fellow is so cute that I immediately put it on my build list.
This model is about 1/3.5 scale. It features a nice silhouette and a very nice texture, but on closer inspection I noticed that some elements were distorted and others were missing. So I swang into action and exported the unfold as image using imcold's excellent pdotools program.
Now I am tracing the pattern in CorelDRAW to turn it into a vector graphic. I'll be correcting the lines and adding new ones on-the-fly. This is how it looked after exporting:
This is a short preview of the traced pattern:
The bitmap underneath will be deleted later-on when tracing is complete. Main tracing is almost done; detail work is next. So stay tuned for updates!
(EDIT: Info on scale corrected)
A few days ago I found a nice model of BB-8, the (attention, @DanBKing : ) sp-heroic (! !) astromech from Episode VII.
http://n8s.deviantart.com/art/Bb-8-Papercraft-528519084
That fellow is so cute that I immediately put it on my build list.
This model is about 1/3.5 scale. It features a nice silhouette and a very nice texture, but on closer inspection I noticed that some elements were distorted and others were missing. So I swang into action and exported the unfold as image using imcold's excellent pdotools program.
Now I am tracing the pattern in CorelDRAW to turn it into a vector graphic. I'll be correcting the lines and adding new ones on-the-fly. This is how it looked after exporting:
This is a short preview of the traced pattern:
The bitmap underneath will be deleted later-on when tracing is complete. Main tracing is almost done; detail work is next. So stay tuned for updates!
(EDIT: Info on scale corrected)
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