I've been royally hooked to Breath of the Wild for several months and I love/hate Guardians with a passion. The overall look on ancient Sheikah technology is super consistent, and I love how it's applied on robots, shrines and equipment.
When the Guardian amiibo came out I was reticent to buy one, so I built one instead. As a pop-up card, of course. Here's process and result.
So the Guardian looks like this. I'm using the amiibo as a primary reference.
First you get the general geometry. It's six-sided so it's pretty straighforward hexagon pop-up.
Then you take apart the legs and details to be cut in a different color and glued on top.
Then you trace the Sheikah slate design for the outside of the card because it's going to be roughly the same size as the prop itself, also why the hell not.
Then you laser cut the whole thing and get to work on assembly.
Legs look quite wonky until glued to the base. Banana-peel Guardian.
Let's go make the outside.
Screen side still unglued to make sure everything fits OK on the card.
Then eye side, glued this time. I love the Sheikah eye since Ocarina of Time. I'm seriously thinking on getting a tattoo of it somewhere semi-hidden. Any suggestions?
Holy crap I didn't expect craft paper to look so good over black card.
It opens and closes properly. Hell yeah!
