Bert Simons  |  paper sculptures | Mao Zedong (W.I.P)
mao-zedong Mao 3d paper portrait
A work in progress. I started making a paper portrait of Mao Zedong in April 2008. I am not a particulary fan of this controversial man but Mao's image is a very iconic and strong image. In contrary to my other paper portraits I am not able to measure him (although I searched ebay for a statue) so the workflow for this project is different then my other living persons paper portraits.


I googled all the Mao images I could find and started modelling his head..
model his head.. Here you see the result after an hour or two modelling in blender.
and with a quick texture projection... still doesn look like Mao however
spent some hours again modelling... I think I will buy a mao statue and make a laserscan...
I found an Mao statue! So I actually will try the ... ....(read more)
20/10/2008, Mattia Mercante´s scan results w... ....(read more)
2009/07/11.  Did some texturing on the Mao mo... ....(read more)