#HOW TO USE PEPAKURA DESIGNER COSPLAY HOW TO#

Once saved open Pepakura designer or viewer then open your folder containing your pep files and drag and drop the file you want into the Pepeakura program of your choice. I personally create a folder for all my pep files on my main desktop for convince. You get this image on Deviantart I’m not so sure about the 405th. Say you want to make Auriel’s Bow from the DawnGuard DLC from Skyrim, I’m currently working on this anyway so it’s convenient right! It’s good to have both but I will go into that later. Personally I find all of my files on Deviantart from a user called ZombieGrimm who has a great selection of Skyrim files from full armour sets (yes ladies in the female variants too) to weapons and even a scale model of a dragon skull!!!īut how does Pepeakura work Nivera I can hear you asking.įirst you will have to download either Pepakura Viewer or designer. Those are the two files I have made so far and the Dawnbreaker looks pretty complex but it’s really simple! The program makes it so easy!Ī lot of Halo cosplayers use Pepakura and their main site is which doesn’t stop t just Halo armour it has a lot of other contributors from other series. But before I get a bunch of sighs and moans from people who aren’t interested in ‘yet another cosplay technique’ I’ll show you what you can make!!įeatured in my most recent photo shoot (November 2015) Pepakura is a paper craft program which allows the user to download ‘pep patterns’ or if you’re using the designer version you can make your own patterns. Hope you enjoy and I’m happy to answer questions to the best on my knowledge.

#HOW TO USE PEPAKURA DESIGNER COSPLAY HOW TO#

Essentially this post is/was an introduction into Pepakura for those who hadn’t used it before, giving general tips and advice on how to start and what Pepakura actually is. This tutorial covers the ‘How To’s’ up until the point where you construct the pattern pieces. I have changed a few things but 90% of this is just copy and pasted into the blog format here. So this is a tutorial I posted to my Cosplay Amino page and decided It would be cool to have a copy here.

How to use pepakura designer cosplay