A while back Nick Knite asked me to create a custom for his MechaBunny.
I’ve created NOISSGrunny:
But the Mecha6 are made by a all-star papertoy team: Scott Schaller, Shin Tanaka, Tougui, Castleforte, Marshall Alexander and ME.
The Mecha6 have arrived!!
Here the Nick Knite – MechaBunny slideshow on Flickr (including my custom):
By accident… well Methuup da Funky One a NPT member found the MOD:1 CTRL and build it. I love this model as a vinyl, how can you not like it as a papertoy!
So that’s what I want to share:
http://www.supermodifiedstudios.com/MODiGAMI_Profiles.zip
Visit SuperModifiedstudios and click on MODiGAMI and there they are!
I need to share one part of the pdf series with you:
To bad I missed the competition π
Scott Schaller blew me away with a custom for Grumm
Do you see the Grumm in there?
Lets try again:
No? nothing. Nether did I:
But it’s true, it started as a Grumm
What can I say, Scott is amazing
He should stop calling it a Grumm custom and give it his own name.
Perhaps this started as a Grumm, but this is completely different DNA.
Grumm evolution
I’m a member of Nice Paper Toys, well I’m also one of the four Featured Members of NPT.
Brian Castelforte aka “NiceBunny” (Brian) Castleforte (aka “no longer NiceBunny”) started this social network for papertoy designers and it’s still growing. We now close to a 1000 members. Time to celebrate? Yes, I personally didn’t think we would get this much members, but I’m glad that I was wrong. But Nicebunny Castleforte want more, more people should know about papertoys, and I agree.
And as a good “featured member”, I will use my blog to spread the word once again.
But what is it? What is NPT (Nice Paper Toys)?
NPT is the only papertoy network. You can show your papertoy creations. Collaborate with other artist, share you thoughts and ideas. It’s all nice, warm, fuzzy feelings, but I like it.
It a place that keeps you wanna make better stuff, become a better artist.
So if you have any questions about papertoys or NPT just leave a comment here. Or become a member and place a comment on my NPT page
Viva la paper!
One of my most popular post is about how to create papertoys (How to create your own papercraft).
It seems that a lot of people are interested in papertoys and how to make themselves.
On Nice paper toys (NPT) this question pops up now and again on the forum.
You can buy a book about it, if you want to know more about it: Urban paper toys (well you should buy this book anyhow because I’m in it π ).
But besides my post about this subject you’re on your own…..
Well perhaps not for long! I’ve been playing with this idea for a while now of making a tutorial series about papertoy and how you can make one yourself. That got me thinking….
It seems that people really enjoy making/creating papertoys, so why not make a book about it?
…… hmmm a book, I have never thought about writing a book (grammar is not really my thing, not in English and not in my native tongue), I never wrote a book or designed one (well… not recently).
So I have no idea where this series is taking me, but here it is:
I want to make a “book” about creating/designing Urban Paper toys. But I’m a internet designer/developer, I have no experience with book design, no experience with writing a book and no idea how to do it.
It doesn’t matter, I have my blog. I can write and rewrite as much as I want.
And I have something that a conventional writer doesn’t have: User generated feedback….. (no idea what that means? It’s you giving me comments/advice/whatever and helping me write this “book” by giving comments).
I say “book” because you don’t really need the book, because you can read it on my blog. But for the less internet savy peeps I can create a download link for a e-book or a you can buy a book.
I have searched for options to Self Publish and I found a couple, but these two sites seem to popup the most: lulu.com/ and booksurge.com/.
But before I can think about that, I need to write about papertoys and how they are made.
So this week I’m focusing on how I will do this on my blog.
But in the mean time, use the comments to show me what you want to know
And perhaps we will write a book π
Methuup da Funky One, a member of NPT has created a custom in an way that I forgot about:
So here the example of Methuup:
Read more at NPT: Dizzzy Grumm Custom and Oppp-art Grumm Custom
Tips from Methuup himself:
Use Google and search for images with “Op-art” or “Optical-art”
I’ve done this also, but by printing the blank Grumm template on a comic or stationary paper.
The only sad thing is that there are no templates to download.
I’m one step closer filling the 6 slots for Pusher Series 1 (Designers on Drukks).
Scott Schaller is filling the 5th slot with his Dr. Bear
An awesome design. And I love the extras Scott designed for Dr. Bear, especial the brain case.. Always wanted a evil Doctor in my papertoys collection.
Of course is Scott and Nice paper toys member, you almost have to be π …
Some other nice-toknow information: Scott is a Graphic Design Teacher, which isn’t that special: a lot of papertoy designers have a creative job or education. No, besides teaching Graphic Design, Scott is also in charge of an after school program: F studio.
As a design teacher, I often throw in a lot of hand skills oriented components to the projects I assign. The computer plays a big part in all of our projects, but the finishing of a project, whether it is binding a box or constructing a packaging comp, is the part that makes the project complete. Paper toy crafting just seems to be a natural next step, combining design and illustration, hand skills, and toy making.
….
we are making our own vinyl toys, including the design, sculpting, and casting of resign models
How cool it that!!! I’m trying to figure this stuff out in my spare time and here is a teacher who can teach you everything you ever wanted to know. Man I’m jealous.
Visit Cabrillo Design Lab for more info.
Check this out: Custom self portraits by students of Scott (and himself) based upon boxy from Shin Tanaka.
Scott himself
Marshall Alexander is, like me, one of the designers that are invited to contribute to the book made by Matt Hawkins (read more).
But why haven’t I written about him before? Well, Marshall didn’t have a blank template to customize!
When I started a forum topic on NicePaperToys about my todo-list Marshall wasn’t even on that list!
But Marshall decided that he had practiced enough and published 3 models in the Foldskool series.
I didn’t have the time to build or customize it at that time, but later I downloaded a template and was amazed at the skills used to create this template (it in one piece). And I needed to create a custom for this beautiful piece of paper-art!!
Perhaps the correct order would be, to first write something about Marshall, and then post the custom that I did, but what the heck. I have created a Foldskool Hero: and my Foldskool hero is the Batmobile. And customizing is more fun when you can do something extra with the model…
I have modified the model a little and added some extra parts…. You still can make the model in one piece, but then the tires are very slim π
(Marshall had no objections with putting a download link on my page, and I’m a sucker for statistics π )
(The .ZIP file (use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a >ZIP) contains a .PDF (which you can read with Acrobat or Foxit ))
The artist series is small, but with some great designers:
“Cenobox Pin Cushion” created by Jason Harlan
and
“Yebomaycu” created by Marko Zubak
and me:
Stay up-to-date, and visit Marshall Alexanders Foldskool Heroes customs page
Hope you like the design: don’t like it, leave a comment, like it, leave a comment …