Artsist Shuhei Okawara made waves late last year when he announced he would pay real money for the rights to use other people’s likeness to create his spot-on masks and, according to Reuters, actually had people lining up to take the deal. Now the masks have gone on sale, and it’s uncanny how spot-on their resemblance is to a living, breathing person.
Just check out the real Okawara next to a mask of his own face (and yes, the Okawara mask is for sale, though you’ll need to navigate the Japanese-language website of his mask shop, Kamenya Omote, to score one):
This Is Not a Sci-Fi Movie: This Guy Makes 3D-Printed Hyper-Realistic Masks Using Real Faces
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Shuhei Okawara, owner of mask shop Kamenya Omote, holding a hyper-realistic face mask poses for a portrait on January 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki, Getty Images)
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At first glance, the photo above can look like a still from a science fiction movie, but rest assured: The guy and his face mask are very real. While the first thing that came to my mind was, “oh wow that’s creepy,” I was then immediately intrigued.
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Shuhei Okawara, owner of mask shop Kamenya Omote, holding a hyper-realistic face mask poses for a portrait on January 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki (Getty Images)
At first glance, the photo above can look like a still from a science fiction movie, but rest assured: The guy and his face mask are very real. While the first thing that came to my mind was, “oh wow that’s creepy,” I was then immediately intrigued.
The guy in the photo is Shuhei Okawara,owner of the mask shop Kamenya Omote in Tokyo, Japan.The mask he’s holding, meanwhile, is a hyper-realistic replica of his own face, 3D printed to a size that’s 105% of the ratio of his actual face so it that could fit almost anyone who decides to wear it. And that’s not the only face he has.