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Jen
There are two ways to make papercrafts that I commonly see here. One is to create and texture a 3D model and import it into Pepakura Designer. Pepakura Viewer allows you to view .pdo files, and Pepakura Designer allows you to create them. The viewer is free, but the designer costs $30 or so, if you don't go and get the most recent hack off of rapidsearch.yi.org. It's currently on this page: http://rapidsearch.yi.org/?from=po&limit=50&offset=100 Metasequoia is the 3D Modeler that works the best with Pepakura Designer, but there's no instruction manual for it in English. There's a Japanese and an English version of the program. The files from most 3D modeling programs have the tendency of losing their textures when they get imported into Pepakura, but Metasequoia doesn't seem to have this problem. I remember hearing someone say here that Tamasoft, the company that owns Pepakura, has even started advertising Metasequoia as a 3D modeler of choice.
There's also the form of just doing this by hand on paper or a computer aided drawing program, and that one would work best for this papercraft. If you want a CAD program that's better than MSPaint and you don't have Photoshop or Paintshop, then download GIMP. It's free.
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