Cardboard Clone

A costume for older kids, the 'big head' self-portrait is 2 parts creepy and 10 parts cute. Intended to mimic the big-head option in video games, Eric Testroete first created a digitized version of himself using 3ds Max software. He then went to work gluing together a maddening puzzle of 3-D polygon paper pieces before his mask was complete. A similar, if less wowing, effect can be achieved for younger kids by taking 5 high-resolution photos of your child's head (face, left and right side, back and top), outputting these at 25% larger than true life and then gluing the sheets to an appropriately sized box. Voilà! Almost instant big-head.

+ Instructions and Pictorial for the difficult version at Testroete