Rodney “The Slacker” as well as Steve “The Normal Guy” Mini Cardboard Cutout Mock-ups

Steve “The Normal Guy” Mini Cardboard Cutout Mock-up
The rather low quality photographs (dam lighting) above, show two quick mock-ups I created, to test out material on behalf of the cardboard cut-outs I am planning on making on behalf of the my display at the Final Major Project Show. The two mini cut-outs created here are made from corrugated cardboard (Rodney) as well as mount board (Steve), with the image stuck on using Sticker paper. The character images I used to create them are of two of my early animation builds, with Steve “The Normal Guy” still having one of his early horn colouration designs (current design has completely dark Grey horns, rather than just dark Grey tips, shown here, which made him look like a red Pikachu).
Out of the two materials the mount board currently works much better, as its strong, sturdy, easy to cut as well as matches the white paper boarder around the character. While the corrugated cardboard was much harder to cut, was easy to bend, showed its corrugation through the sticker paper, gained jagged as well as frayed edges as well as started to dog-ear. Therefore from this little experiment Mount board seems to be the best contender on behalf of cut-out material.
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