Sep 12 2009Master Cuts: Life-Size Link Papercraft
Papercrafter Haywan got ambitious and decided to make a life-size Link. Out of paper. Making it quite possibly the most amazing feat I've ever seen in my entire life. Be sure to follow the links to see more pictures and ten videos of Haywan putting the thing together. WARNING: It's mind bogglingly complicated. Good lookin', Haywan, now how about a life-size Zelda? What? I LIKE PAPERCUTS DOWN THERE.
Hit the jump for a couple close-ups and a Link (!) to even more pictures and video.
Life-Sized Link by Haywan [papercraftmuseum]
via
Life-sized papercraft Link [gonintendo]
Thanks to Rafi, who once made love to a life-size paper Zora in the bathtub and then made a papier-mâché piñata with her remains.
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Reader Comments
1. Daisy - September 12, 2009 9:04 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where MAx used a canary to frighten a cat eating old hag, into telling where the troll market was located.
2. Bandit - September 12, 2009 9:07 PM
What Daisy said.
That's pretty crazy though.
3. NIK D - September 12, 2009 9:12 PM
still cool.
4. Fitz - September 12, 2009 9:13 PM
Why are you posting at 9 PM?!?!?! What am I doing checking geekologie at 9PM ?!?!
Isn't life awesome :D
5. ronni - September 12, 2009 9:22 PM
@ daisy,
then i guess all his 'making of the paper craft link' were fake too, you know the ones where it shows him describing and making the thing in front of a camera and showing in detail how he did the actual thing...
6. Katie - September 12, 2009 9:30 PM
@ ronni
you're new to geekologie, arent you? lol.
7. Brittney - September 12, 2009 9:35 PM
DUDE! That is freaking sweet! I'd love a life-sized Link. (Then I'd finally be able to rape him. Teehee)
Wow, I'm pretty impressed. Daisy got no.1
8. arakuto - September 12, 2009 9:37 PM
I know what daisy is referencing for the first time! it's hellboy 2!
and that is amazing...think of all the possibilities of paper humans...hahahaha
9. Colorless Rainbow - September 12, 2009 9:46 PM
<3! That should be mass-produced so everyone can have fake weddings with him. I would so do that. Not really. Lol @ Daisy victim.
10. B. - September 12, 2009 9:48 PM
I love you Daisy
11. nfo - September 12, 2009 9:49 PM
the freak fondles capt falcons junk @ 2:46 in the 4th video.
that's messed up man.
12. Jaycob - September 12, 2009 10:15 PM
piss on it till its mush make the artist watch
13. FDSY - September 12, 2009 10:27 PM
THIS DOESN'T LOOK REAAAAAAAL.
14. FIRST - September 12, 2009 10:36 PM
thats..... insane @____@
15. alex - September 12, 2009 10:36 PM
LOL, NOOOO DONT, i cant believe u spilled water on it!!! now its melting!
16. Adam - September 12, 2009 11:04 PM
The "shadows are wrong" and it looks pixelated because he used the textures from the game. If you were only 480p and just a foot tall on a tv screen, you would look a little pixelated too if you were EFFING LIFESIZED!! Pure Awesome.
17. Frosty - September 12, 2009 11:57 PM
Daisy does his/her job best at weeding out newbies to geekologie.
Anyways, awesome papercraft work!! :D
18. meet your maker ;) - September 13, 2009 12:16 AM
wow um that sucks :)
dosn't look real, quality sucks, made by an asian :o
19. bigguy707 - September 13, 2009 12:37 AM
And this is why Daisy IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
20. Squidly - September 13, 2009 12:38 AM
Pssh, i can('t) do that in my sleep.
Let's see him make a life size FSM out of paper!
...That's what I thought.
21. LSDiesel - September 13, 2009 1:49 AM
@5, Welcome to the comments bar. Where the the insults are free, and the beer is non-existent.
@8, you read daisy's comments?
Good Job on the paper Link. Very impressive work. In fact, it's probably the best thing made out of paper that I have ever seen.
22. To the first Comment - September 13, 2009 3:17 AM
You're a tard. The movie you're talking about is Hellboy II The Golden Army.
Never Back Down is a realist movie..there isn't much annimation in it.
23. L4D - September 13, 2009 3:45 AM
And Daisy keeps reeling the newbies in. I love Geekologie...
24. ThatGreenMan - September 13, 2009 5:09 AM
i thought he'd be taller...
http://www.youtube.com/user/AaronWeGotNerve
YOUVE BEEN SPAMED!
:D
25. john - September 13, 2009 7:06 AM
those who say daisy is awesome = new to geekologie they will get tired of her soon enough
26. Geekogee - September 13, 2009 8:23 AM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
________________
27. Ashe - September 13, 2009 9:32 AM
I wonder if the sword can be sheathed.
28. naas - September 13, 2009 10:39 AM
Daisy ♥ = 100% effective newb detector month after month after month
29. naas - September 13, 2009 10:40 AM
@paper link - ☺
30. j - September 13, 2009 10:43 AM
is it just me, or is Link kinda starting to look like michael jackson??
i dont remember him looking like this in the 90s
31. Jiakasuma - September 13, 2009 10:50 AM
I gave him the intructions on how to do it!
32. olive - September 13, 2009 11:58 AM
i really love that this guys idea of a "wild and crazy" thing to do before starting grad school and getting a real job is to build this.
33. ciao - September 13, 2009 12:08 PM
boredom + Nintendo geek = this
34. paul - September 13, 2009 1:08 PM
Link is ok, but that paper asian dude...
35. Extraabsorbant - September 13, 2009 1:49 PM
@6 he's definitely new to geekologie.
or hasn't read the comments on every single post yet.
36. Mr. cow - September 13, 2009 5:45 PM
Moo
37. peachstar - September 13, 2009 7:31 PM
The greatest thing I've ever seen in my entire live.
38. Czarhippo - September 13, 2009 9:58 PM
The best part of every post the gw puts up is the comments section. I swear if i laugh harder and harder every time I see someone trying to argue a point to daisy.
Daisy= win
39. Julia - September 13, 2009 9:59 PM
Imma marry that man (link and his papercraft maker)
40. Lulzmaster0 - September 13, 2009 10:19 PM
Daisy! Marry me! :D
41. Annie - September 13, 2009 11:18 PM
LOL newbs. "The movie you're talking about is Hellboy II The Golden Army.
Never Back Down is a realist movie.."
Ah, I laughed....at 22, not at Link.
I'm happy that there is a Link somewhere in the world, because now I can do what I've wanted to do for years - play the long-awaited game, The Mattress of Time ;]
.......................................how would that work? O_o
42. pro - September 14, 2009 2:56 AM
talk about larger than life!
43. gizmoduck - September 14, 2009 3:53 AM
i'd hit it
44. shoes on sale - September 14, 2009 6:32 AM
I bookmarked this site, Thank you for good job! Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!
45. jordans for sale - September 14, 2009 6:41 AM
I bookmarked this site, Thank you for good job! Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!
46. this guy - September 14, 2009 6:54 AM
awesome post is awesome...
how do you get the motivation DO somthing like this??
I HAVE ISSUES JUST GETTING UP!
47. Jaded Icon - September 14, 2009 7:50 AM
Very impressive. Although, maybe it was just me, but does Link look asian to you?
48. Al Roker - September 14, 2009 10:45 AM
I totally did this shit in Hebrew Camp, and I only used one piece of paper.
49. iram84mx - September 14, 2009 12:06 PM
that will be a good piñata!!
50. Fahim Akhter - September 14, 2009 3:18 PM
I hate the new mika album
51. KH - September 15, 2009 8:09 AM
Man "Time is money" and u lost it, but I´ll buy it
52. Dark Star - September 16, 2009 11:08 AM
Still cool.
53. _me - September 17, 2009 9:01 PM
Somebody hurry up and give this guy a million dollars already!
54. Hey Chris, I caught a bullfrog for ya... - September 18, 2009 3:05 AM
R. Zelda, Crystal, and anime girls, namely the good looking ones, pref evil.
...those naughty naughty girls...
55. adam - September 18, 2009 2:33 PM
@Daisy
dear god I love you. man or woman marry me.
I love the people with no sense of humor + newbs that cry over this.
56. James - September 18, 2009 10:43 PM
Stumbled on this nice peice of artwork, im currently building a lifesize model of Jesus out of matches I will keep you all posted.
ps why is everybody getting a hard on over that daisy girl/guy/both?
did she/he/both say something really funny????? (sarcasm)
57. Linebeck - September 18, 2009 11:26 PM
Dis is cool, my daddy show me and i think it rocks^^
58. AG - September 19, 2009 1:14 PM
Thats insane!
59. nike running shoes - September 20, 2009 10:16 AM
nike running shoes
60. nike sport shoes - September 20, 2009 10:17 AM
nike sport shoes
61. Joe Melnick - September 20, 2009 11:01 PM
For god's sake stop encouraging that raging douche Daisy. It's a pox on this site. If you find it funny that is proof that you have no sense of humor.
62. vashsfreak - October 9, 2009 5:05 PM
Lol oh Daisy....poor newbies....they don't know about Daisy lol geekologie should have a link devoted on what/who and Daisy. Maybe newbies will think twice before they shoot their "your so stupid daisy" comments
63. Hayley - October 10, 2009 3:46 AM
@ 48
Have you watched the credits on any of the Zelda games? Link IS Asian.
Ocarina of Time pwns all.
64. Ignatius - November 21, 2009 4:59 PM
This isn't a fake!
http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/life-sized-link-images/
As you can see in the videoes, he is doing it, indeed, it isn't a fake.
65. jeremy - March 2, 2010 12:23 PM
The asian guy is hot. Link isn't too bad either haha
66. Twaddle - May 5, 2010 4:26 PM
actually you twits who keep calling it fake, it is real. she actually did make a paper craft of link like that. and just so you ppl can get your minds blown here is a link of things you have thought were photoshoped that are actually real as well:http://www.cracked.com/article_18444_17-more-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html
67. Thomas Paine - July 30, 2010 3:03 PM
The shadows are wrong? Seriously? Probably because the pictures where taken with a flash. Look alive, kids. This same guy also made a head from one of the enemies of Goldeneye (see Twaddle's link).
BTW if you're actually a fan of Never Back Down, I'm just gonna go ahead and file everything you say under "Take With a Grain of Salt."
68. MissMalice - December 27, 2010 7:25 PM
omg. Win. O.O