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Stop me before I find a way to make this
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I would watch a short film featuring stop-motion characters made by Karen Sargsyan:

20091215_paperfigure

I’m thinking sort of like The Dark Crystal for the 21st century, with all the hybrid weirdness that implies. Low-budget, maker-style.

(Seriously though, these are something else. One of my personal top ten coolest things seen on today and tomorrow, which is saying a lot.)

December 15, 2009 / Uncategorized

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Robin Sloan says…

Thinking about this some more: so often, papercraft is beautiful but fussy—very symmetrical and perfect. This has all the sharp edges and crazy complexity of papercraft, but it’s also wonderfully rough and organic. Like a sketch!

Actually, come to think of it, you know what these figures resemble? Sketches from that 3D app Rhonda!

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