Anime Paperchild
She’s waiting for you
While surfing a couple of image boards just a few hours back, I came across a category of images which has been tagged ‘paper child’.
I don’t really know how to explain paper child with descriptive words, but I can briefly say that it is actually paper cut outs of anime characters, with optional speech bubble, made to look 3D using ‘optical illusion’.
Read more about Paper childs after the jump!
Why optical illusion? It is because the Paper child is an 2D image printed on a piece of paper. Setting and taking a picture of the paper child requires looking at it from the right perspection and angle.
I have decided to try out one on my own as it seems really fun. But being such a terrible drawer, I’d to cheat by using an very moe image from the image boards, did some editing in Photoshop and printed it out on a piece of A4 size paper. After which, I used a paper cuter (Penknife) to cut the image out, propped it and took a picture using my camera.
The end result’s what you see on the top image and below as well ^^;
Kuro is such a bad bad cat, wanting to hurt the poor loli :(
Basically, I think Paper childs are actually really fun to create given if you have the time and dedication to do so. I’ll be creating more paper childs using images from image boards for now as I continue to improve on my own drawing ^^; Just grab any image that you think would work and get it done!
Below’s a couple of paper childs taken from different angles to make them look 3D.
Cute Paperchild ^^
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There’s also a simple guide on Danbooru on how to create a paper child. Do check it out. You might also want to check out Sasaki Yukinojou’s website on a couple of paper childs he/she did. Site link here (NSFW)
Have you tried making paper childs yourself? How was your own experience like? I know I had to cheat for this one but hey, it works! ^^;
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 @ 11:14 pm 
Illustrations, Japan, Paperchild, Photoshoot
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July 28th, 2008 at 5:39 am
I haven’t made any yet, but perhaps I’ll do so soon. They seem very fun. :]
July 28th, 2008 at 10:45 am
ahhh this seems fun~ I wanna make a life-sized one! LOL
July 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am
lol at the “pull pantsu” paperdoll. Hmm… might try a “upskirt” one. =X
July 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
mmmm they were hawt awhile back but seems like its back in fashion again!
you’ve just given me some ideas to mess around with…
July 28th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
mmm new ideas! i think this one is very fun but really hard to do properly!
something to think about…
July 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
looks fun :D
I’ve printed 2 tho, but i didn’t do anything funny :D
July 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Looks cool…
I might want to try it…
Just need to find some…
Will try soon…
July 28th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I loved the sequence with the guy pulling the poor girl skirt. And the one on the cellphone is lovely too.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:05 am
My first time stumbling across ‘anime-paperchild’. Looks kinda cool. How long did it took you, any approx time will do. Also, good thinking about the nsfw taggy ^^ I read blogs at work, reply them at home.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:59 am
LOL…it is lots of fun…
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 am
oh cute! seems to have seen some of em somewhere, but so nice! want to make some lol
August 19th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Like a diorama. They had these things in Paris a long time ago.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Nice blog,could use some work,4 out of 5 stars.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:38 am
XD…my friend already start this anime “paperchild” art!!
nice word…
i shall prepare for my beloved keroro & MF series!!
November 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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