Zodiac Constellation Pepakura Project - Leo

 Leo is one of the constellations of the zodiac, lying between Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east. Its name is Latin for lion, and to the ancient Greeks represented the Nemean Lion killed by the mythical Greek hero Hercules as one of his twelve labors.
    By the Greek mythology, Leo was identified as the Nemean  Lion, which killed and torn off its skin by Heracles. On mythology, Heracles wore Nemean Lion's leather as an armor since the lion was impervious to any weaponry when it was alive.

    On my design for Leo this time, no more focus on the character but focus on the part of lion leather cover on a dummy character. Which present as Heracles's lion leather and the Weapon dummy is holding is a symbol of the constellation star of Leo.

   Secondly, the staff represents the connection stars of the astrology Leo



After the modeling, again I handing my low-resolution model to the rigger David Chiu for setting up the rig for Leo




















The result just like the image below

 

After laser process, starting building

Start taping on top of the surface

The staff is not stable, so I had to redesign it and make it attached to the base of the sculpture



Source:
http://www.crystalinks.com/astrologyindex.html