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!
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
At the beginning of this year Shin Tanaka came with a secret project: the SPIKY BABY Deluxe series. This project had two tags “Real Arts for Everyone” and “Change the Game”….
So this project must be something
Today SPIKY BABY DELUXE SERIES is revealed:
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:
Good luck downloading a great SPIKY BABY set.
Read an interview with Shin Tanaka at Toysrevil about this project.
A cool articulated paper skull from skull a day.
It’s probably inspired by readymech but with the nice addition of an articulated jaw.
Just click on the picture below and download the .PDF:
(download link: http://spacepirate.org/skulladay/papercraftskull.pdf. You can use acrobat to open the files)
This is one of my other ‘strange’ hobbies; I like skulls, not to have, but fascinated by it in art, clothing or when I’m scribbling on a piece of paper…
Another experiment, to use external images for background patterns.
But there was no need to start from zero, so here are some tutorials that I used:
both tutorials were used in the experiment.
(I had to update this file because of broken links: this is version 2)
Get the source files here:
The .ZIP file contains:
+ tiledBackground
+ deploy
- AC_RunActiveContent.js
- tiledBackground_v02.html
- tiledBackground_v02.swf
+ source
- tiledBackground_v02.fla
Borrowed some seamless background pattern from Squidfingers
pattern_021.gif
pattern_095.gif
pattern_111.gif
pattern_131.gif
pattern_141.gif
But you can find your own patterns on the internet, examples of site with seamless background patterns:
http://www.wonderbackgrounds.com/
http://www.cameradio.tk/tiles1.htm
root2art.co.uk
http://backgroundsarchive.com/tiles/wood.php?page=2
I used http://www.neopets.com/backgrounds_tiled.phtml in the flash source.
But you can use any image from the internet!
(Need some help: find “tiled background” with google )
This is a little tool I build with the help of Screenweaver.
A dir(ectory) 2 XML tool.
Wanna know more about the reason??
Version 1.0 had some bugs, and the output (XML) wasn’t the way it should be.
(yes indeed it’s the same picture as version 1.0, there are no big changes to this program)
You can download the EXE, SWF, example dir2xml.xml and FLA in a ZIP
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.This is a little tool I build with the help of Screenweaver.
A dir(ectory) 2 XML tool.
I was looking for a program that could create an XML file from a directory. I found some programs that could help me with this (commandline, Printfolder, Dirhtml) but none of them creates an XML at once. So one evening I sat down, and made this in a couple of hours.
Because this is a custom solution to a specific problem, not everybody will be able to use this. I'm open to suggestions though, so drop me a line.
Sadly enough Screenweaver can't export to Apple (yet).
So Dir2xml will (for now) only work on a pc.
You can download the EXE, SWF and FLA in a ZIP
update: new version
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.A little dynamic slideshow a made with Flash using XML.
It’s not finished but it usable.
And it’s not really the reason I wanted to show this.
What I wanted to show is my dir2xml program that I wrote with Flash and Screenweaver
I haven’t had the time to clean up the source code, so don’t complain about it.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.Dir2xml creates a simple xml structure:
I can think of some features that would make this slideshow better, but what do you think would improve it.
The real reason I wanted to show you this project is this.
Read more about it here
I haven’t had the time to clean up the source code, so for now you can download the SWF and some other stuff in a ZIP
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.For some time I’ve been wanting to build a Flash video player, that’s easy to use in html, but can also be used in other Flash (OOP) projects.
After some research I came to the conclusion that enough people (http://www.flvplayer.com/) have already created their version of this… and also particularly good!
But that’s OK: as a good Dutch friend of mine once said:
With this in mind, I made MY version of a flv-player:
