Artist Alex Hurret made this delightfully cute Nintendo monster for your papercrafting pleasure. You can make your own at home if you can’t wait to get your hands on this cartridge-eating terror.

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You may not want to use this bad boy in the rain, because as wicked as it looks it’s made entirely of paper!

Crafted by Leo Firebrand, this paper replica of the Snub Pistol carried by the super soldiers in the Gears of War video game franchise looks badass, but you’d better have a backup weapon when Boomers start crawling out of emergence holes.

Check out Leo’s site for more of his epic papercraft creations, they’re super cool, and can be used as a grocery list when the war is over.

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This one is gorgeous: Proteigon, a mesmerizing papercraft stop motion animation made in two months by Steven Briand. Absolutely brilliant in its minimalist approach!

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These fabulously detailed paper artworks by Peter Callesen create form with negative space, style from their almost generic non-style, and the frame is often used as a sort of mini stage for the scene. It’s amazing what people are doing with paper these days!

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A year ago, Taras Lesko made a four-foot-tall Freedom Gundam out of paper. Where do you go from there? A bigger model, of course. This papercraft Gundam is seven feet tall! It was constructed of 1250 parts printed from 720 sheets, with a total weight of ten pounds. See pictures from the construction process and videos as well at VisualSpicer. Link

Naldz Graphics has a great collection of paper craft sculptures and this piece by Karie O’Donnell is simply stunning. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery for more delightful works from a variety of artists.

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Firefly fans will enjoy this paper craft version of Malcolm Reynolds gun. Created by Leo Firebrand of Firebrand Creations this gallery features his work on the replica firearm.

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Everyone recognizes M.C. Escher’s famously impossible staircases, angles that inspire confusion and wonder. His most famous works have been referenced in pop culture since forever, and now the challenge to recreate these works in three dimensions has origami artists doing incredible things with paper. A rendition of Escher’s Relativity is shown above, but Kuriositas has a gallery of others. Link

Image credit: Crackpot Papercraft

I’ve only recently discovered Toy-a-Day, a site that offers a vast number of free papercraft patterns. All you have to do is print the PDF and fold as instructed, and voila! You have your own little paper version of Abraham Lincoln. If Abe isn’t really your thing, don’t worry – there’s a wide variety of offerings, from Angry Birds to the Beatles in their Sgt. Pepper costumes. Have fun, and let us know what you make.

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Artist Elsa Mora made this ring — and it’s made entirely out of paper! Her website is filled with simply mesmerizing papercraft work.

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Well, there’s no Ricardo Montalbán here, but there are papercraft puppets. Sorry, Ricardo. You’ll never be replaced, and your Khan ‘do is teh sex, but I sorta-kinda love this to pieces.

I present Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, complete – in 60 seconds. With puppets.

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In "Mobile Evolution", Brighton designer Kyle Bean created this awesome papercraft of nesting mobile phones, in the manner of the nesting Russian dolls.

Take a look at the video clip of the artwork in action: Link

Yumiko Matsui, the papercraft artist extraordinaire who created the Neatobot papercraft, has new series of artwork inspired by New York City. My favorite is the Coney Island papercraft, which involves a fantastically intricate roller coaster:

Link – Thanks Inco! (photo: Jeff Goldberg/Esto Photographics)

When Ethan cut a paper snowflake that faintly resembled a Storm Trooper, his mother took the idea and ran with it. The result is this Darth Vader snowflake and another with Bobba Fett and a Clone Trooper. Link -Thanks, David!

Three years ago, we featured the amazing papercut letters of artist Annie Vought. Since that time, she’s added extensively to her portfolio.

The above image isn’t a photograph of just a piece of paper. It’s a letter written on paper, and then all non-inked areas cut out. This work is entitled “PS No more Calls for You from Sexy Girls.”

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This 4 foot papercraft spawn of the Gundam anime franchise is awesome.

Standing at 4-feet tall, it may be smaller than most we have seen, but certainly the most impressive – this Freedom Gundam is made of 175 printer pages (yes paper) comprising 500 parts. This awesome piece of papercraft has all the details of the Freedom Gundam, the colors are perfect to entice and the weaponry well it greatly stylized yet ideal to scare most. For the creator it’s taken a whopping two months in total to put this together.

Link – Via The Daily What

Dutch filmmaker Christian Borstlap made this papercraft stop-motion animated music video for a Clutchy Hopkins song “Verbal Headlock”. It shows paper-formed hands playing instruments.

A quick Google search suggests that the previously unknown-to-me Clutchy Hopkins is either a folk musician or an Internet hoax, and I’m leaning toward the latter hypothesis.

via Urlesque | Christian Borstlap’s Website

The French graphic design duo Zim & Zou made a papercraft version of a Nintendo Game Boy. It even has an insertable game cartridge. At the link, you can view more pictures, as well as a papercraft Tetris game.

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Papierkrieg from Makaio Tisu on Vimeo.

Imagination transcends language in this super short film by Makaio (Matthias) Tisu, where a couple of kids have a bit of a war with paper airplanes, etc.  The childish progression of events is so true, and the ending delirious.

Whoever thinks paper is boring has obviously never seen the Web Designer Depot blog post featuring 100 examples of paper artworks. The methods and styles of each artist vary greatly, but they are all delightfully beautiful and inspired.

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Photo: Le Creative Sweatshop

Le Creative Sweatshop is a French art studio that produces (among other things) enormous papercraft art installations. The high-heeled shoes pictured above are a part of their effort to “make a paper world.” You can view more pictures of the studio’s work at the link.

Link via Gizmodo | Video about their work

For his thesis project, Thomas Hillier created stunningly detailed papercraft artwork inspired by the woodblock prints of the famous Edo-period Japenese artist Hiroshige. Thomas’ project, called The Emperor’s Castle, is a fantastic combination of illustrations and 3-dimensional paper sculptures that you just have to see for yourself:

The Emperor’s Castle originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker, Ando Hiroshige. This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd, who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. These characters have been replaced by architectonic metaphors creating an urban theatre within the grounds of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.

Link | Flickr set of The Emperor’s Castle – via Make

Whoa! This is awesome: Gajitz blog has a nice compendium of the various papercrafts inspired by the Zelda games. I remember fondly playing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on my NES oh so many years ago.

Link | More at the excellent blog Nintendo Papercraft (you can lose hours there!)

I’m a big fan of papercraft artist Yumiko Matsui (featured before on Neatorama here) – so it was a pleasant surprise to hear from her about this Neatoramabot papercraft sculpture. Ain’t he cute?

If you haven’t seen Yumiko’s artwork before, you owe it to yourself to check it out: she sculpts fantastic and colorful dioramas as well as miniature characters out of paper. The level of details is simply superb (for example, in her Summer Festival series, check out the Japanese pancake stand)

Best of all, I hear she’s coming to the United States! Here’s Yumiko’s online art gallery: Link

Only the geekiest of papercraft projects made the cut for this excellent list from oobject. Take a look at what happened when geeks get their hands on construction paper:

Whether a novice or a paper-folding master, papercraft is a hobby that anyone can enjoy. It involves printing out a custom schematic with instructions and folding the paper to create a unique work of art. The papercraft you see here keep central with the theme of geekiness and quite possibly, nerdiness.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by vveneziani.

This neatolicious: Dan McPharlin creates what is probably the cutest papercraft set of miniature analog electronic devices, from tape recorder to retro synthesizers. Take a looksee: Link [Flickr Photoset] – via The Terminally Juvenile

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If you’d like to make your own, here’s a similar template.

The link contains lots of other interesting things artists have done with literature… other than read it, of course.

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Muppetmaker.

Norma “Crankbunny” Toraya has some wonderful creations in her Etsy store, perfect for Valentine’s Day. Head over to see the Secret Decoder Valentine Card, Valentine Dancing Paper Puppet Robot Doll, and Key to Ones Heart Valentine Popup Card.

*Previously: Best Valentine’s Day gifts ever.

Just be careful where you place the papercraft, because it surely contains printed microcircuitry with hypersensitive cellulosic fiber antenna that will transmit whatever it is you say to Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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Here is an incredible papercraft recreation of Han Solo’s famous ship. The detail is extraordinary and true to the movies. This is a great project for inmates with a science fiction passion or any young man who has no desire to kiss girls in his teen years. If you’ve got the time, put it together and we’ll show it off proudly.

Make your own Millennium Falcon with a printable download from VectorVault. Link -Thanks, Adam!

I was going to call it a night when I decided to check one more link. I’m so glad I did because that’s when I ran across this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya.

Her website is a little bit slow, but it’s worth the wait: Link – via Drawn!

This fantastic papercraft model of Hellboy’s revolver The Good Samaritan features a working hinge and loadable bullets. It probably takes dozens of hours of tedious cutting and gluing, so why don’t we just gawk appreciatively at the pictures?

Link (in Japanese) – via Geekologie

Yumiko Matsui is a Japanese artist specializing in fantastic dioramas made out of paper. This one is of the Dotonbori Street in Osaka:

Dotonbori is one of Osaka’s main shopping areas and entertainment districts, and is also known as a food destination. It is a popular tourist destination. It is famous for big cheesy neon signs on the street. Those signs become part of the culture of Osaka. Dotonbori street gets busier at night because of the lights.

Check out the gallery here: Link – Thanks Yumiko!