Stage 3: The Final Product
For my final papercraft project, I decided to render and craft a Guardian Stalker from the game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild . This was one of the very first video games I've seriously invested myself in, as I got into gaming as a hobby very late on, only for a couple years now. I was dumbfounded and awestruck at the magnificent piece of art Nintendo had created with this game, from graphics to character design and everything in between. Guardian Stalkers are massive, six-legged, mechanical wonders of surface-world enemies in the game, even more intimidating than even some mini-bosses, which aim a beeping red light at you before firing a powerful blue laser, intent on nothing but the player's destruction. They are fast, require advanced weaponry to defeat, and crowd the more dangerous areas of the maps such as Hyrule Castle. Paired with the lilting crescendos of the suddenly-changing background music, coming across a guardian is a harrowing experience in the g