By James Murty in cardboard — Sep 21, 2011

Minecraft Steve Head

Steve’s head from Minecraft created for 8yo’s Book Character Parade a few weeks ago :-)

[![IMG_1644](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/content/images/2011/09/IMG_1644-150x150.jpg)](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/archives/2011/09/21/minecraft-steve-head/img_1644/)

[![IMG_1648](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/content/images/2011/09/IMG_1648-150x150.jpg)](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/archives/2011/09/21/minecraft-steve-head/img_1648/)

[![IMG_1649](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/content/images/2011/09/IMG_1649-150x150.jpg)](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/archives/2011/09/21/minecraft-steve-head/img_1649/)

[![IMG_1650](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/content/images/2011/09/IMG_1650-150x150.jpg)](http://pub-james.mjollnir.me/archives/2011/09/21/minecraft-steve-head/img_1650/)

[Click here to download a PDF](/content/images/2011/09/steve-head.pdf) of Steve’s head if you’d like to print and create your own.

The size of Steve’s head was determined by how big a image I could be sure to fit to an A3 sized page with margins. I created the faces in Omnigraffle by filling 33.75mmx33.75mm squares with colours picked from the original bitmap used to skin Steve’s head in the game.

I made the 27x27x27cm cardboard box by cutting up a bunch of other cardboard boxes and sticky taping them together. To get it to fit 8yo’s head correctly the insides were padded with cut to fit polystyrene.

Updated 2011-11-23: as requested by Pete, versions of the PDF sans the black background. As the pixels are NOT flush up against each other there will always be a grid pattern of some colour – this was intentional. Anyways, here is:

a steve head with a white background, and,
a steve head with a pink background.

Minecraft Steve Head

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