Shawn ThorssonInterview
Prop replica and costume hobbyist
Adapted from Shawn Thorsson's interview on Uses This, published 22 June 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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The software that helps me the most in these projects is Pepakura, a shareware program that unfolds a digital 3D model and lays it out flat so you can print it out and build it.
Other than that, I spend a lot of time in Photoshop making comparison overlays between pieces I've made and screenshots from the games or movies I'm trying to bring into the real world.