By accident (I was creating a custom for another paper toy designer) I created a new papertoy.
This is the first time I create a real toy.
It’s called drukk and its still a papertoy in progress (WIP), but here you have an example made in Google Sketchup:
![drukk: new papertoy by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck]](http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/drukk_googlesketchup.png)
Because it’s not a ‘static’ toy (you could call it a paper automata) I also created a promotional video:
Soon I will post more about drukk
Custmm Grumm is a project that I will be working on in my spare time.
I will try to build a online tool for creating custom skins and modifying a Grumm.
It’s will be created in Flash (AS3).
The first research I did is selection, and how it works with shapes.
What it does:
What it doesn’t do:
A direct link to the file: selectionTool v01
This will be my most ambitious project in my spare time: Custmm Grumm!
When I created Grumm, I had no plans with the moody fellow. But after I got invited to participate in a book about papertoys I started to think about the future of papertoys (and Grumm).
Two of those thoughts about the future is the base of this project: you should be able to modify/create a papermodel without expensive software or specialized knowledge.
Papertoys are, more then vinyl toys, difficult to customize. You need knowledge of image or vector programs link Photoshop or Illustrator. Besides the knowledge of these programs, you also need the program them selfs, which is not cheap. Another bump in customizing is the flat version of the model: the simple papertoys are not that difficult to understand, but the more complex models with more parts, it’s difficult to know which part goes where and how it will look.
It would be nice that you could create a custom skin and modify the model yourself.
Creating a custom skin for a model is done before: papercritters but modifying the model to isn’t.
I will try to make Custmm Grumm in Flash (AS3) so that it’s possible to create a custom skin and modify the model (with some restrictions of course)…
I had a discussion about this project on Nice Paper Toys if you want to know some more about the rocky start of this project.
Another artist in the PaperToy book created by Matt Hawkins is Macula
Macula = Christopher Bonnette and he has a fascination for mythology and folklore.
Inspired by these myths/folklore, he create some paintings:
But he created not only paintings but also a paperToy series named: Squealer
This model is called Krampus:
There are different kind of skins:
(you can’t click on these images and download: visit the site yourself)
But has created some other models to:
You can see the complete Squealer series in the Squealer gallery (of view Krampus directly).
And there is also a blank version to customize:
Just visit the site and click on the blank squealer, or follow this link.
There are also some building instruction.
A little update after my last post about Grim Grinning Grunt.
![a [mck] custom](http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/grim_grinning_grunt_v01a.jpg "Grim Grinning Grunt")
You can now download the custom hedKase on the site of NiceBunny!
And with a little help from yours truly it’s now possible to link directly to a specific model: so to view my custom HedKase: Grim Grinning Grunt download the model and enjoy!
This is a first for me: I finished a custom design!
I have a very bad habit of starting something, but never finishing it… I think I have about 6 custom toy designs (from different designers) laying around that need just a little attention and then theyβre done.
Without knowing it, NiceBunny made me realize that when someone does me a favor (i.e. create a custom Grumm) I will return that favor…
In this case I created a custom HedKase created by NiceBunny.
And what fun I had doing that:
and I call him/it Grim Grinning Grunt
It’s possible that you don’t recognize the original HedKase
….
I modified it a little π
This is my way of saying: thx NiceBunny for a great Grumm Custom and I hope you enjoy Grim Grinning Grunt
Ric pointed out to me that there is an update on the SPIKY BABY DELUXE SERIES from Shin Tanaka:
This is a special one, you don’t want to mis this series: the master himself is giving some new models away in this download.
Of course the SPIKY BABY are designed by some very talented designers, and you should check them out (see the links below), but I’m a fan, and the models Shin makes are really cool.
So lets take a look at this SPIKE BABY custom:
Don’t know how they are called but the link is called “SMN” and the image “SNKR” (sneaker?)
Link and image is called “TTB”
As other SPIKY BABY series you can download all models at random, but I don’t have the patience to download them all that way.
So I hacked it a little and give you all the links at once:
One of the artist in the PaperToy book created by Matt Hawkins is Jerom.
Jerom is a French artist, which makes it very hard for me to follow his blog: it’s in French which I don’t speak….
But Google is nice to help me a little: translate Jerom’s blog.
Jerom uses his blog not only for papercraft (as I do: Flash and Papertoys), so here a link to separate the paperToy on the blog from the rest: papertoy.
Oke but why am I writing about Jerom? I “promised” to feature all the participating artists of the book by Matt Hawkins on my blog! But Jerom is also part of the Nice Paper Toys social network where I also can be found.
The first time I saw work from Jerom I noticed that the template he created where very simple, with cool designs.
For example:
But recently he started a experiment with Google Sketchup and Pepakura (read my tutorial about creating papermodels with these 2) which are very cool.
Technical I’m cheating: there are no download templates, or blank templates of these models (at the time of writing this post), but I’m guessing that there will be (in the nearby future).
There are 3 models which can be found here (or read the Nice Paper Toys post from Jerom).
And I’m only showing the coolest:
Diabolito
Just check the rest on Jerom’s blog
I have written about the paperToys book from Matt Hawkins before: it’s a book about the most talented paperToy designers in the world!
(and I’m part of that group π )
Because the list is so impressive I should write about these people…..
And I already did that: a lot of these paperToy designers are part of my Urban papercraft series
But there are some where I will not write about: not because they are not talented, but they don’t meet the requirements for my definition of Urban Papercraft. So I hope I don’t offend someone, but this group of designers will be striked out (like this)
I see I have my work cut out for me….
Papercraft X is not really one person that has a model that you can customize, but this site collects all papercraft models that can be customized.
All big name can be found over there (Shin Tanaka, Matt Hawkins, me π , ….), but also some smaller/unknown designers can be found there.
We’re aiming to catalogue all of the urban toys in the world!
This site is maintain by Jun aka SonicScape Jun who also has models which you can customize
Jun is also a member of Nice Paper Toys