Bert Simons Makes Bizarre Hyper Realistic 3D Paper Portraits

moray mair | Art and design | June 29, 2012

Bert Simons is a Dutch artist who only uses paper – a very simple material – to make these bizarre hyper realistic 3D portrait sculptures. Having said all that it takes open source software known as Blender to realise them.

To make the heads he plots and flattens the model through the Blender program. With the 3D image rendered into a 2D map he is able to glue all the bits together creating these weird, uncanny porttraits. If you want to see what the 2D bits look like check out his own paper clone self portrait…

Via Inhabitat