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 😉 , ….), 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
I haven’t got time to build it myself 🙁 , or create a downloadable template, but I had to share this with you.
The first custom Grumm in 2008
and more will follow!
NiceBunny has create a custom Grumm: GrummBunny
It now part of a bigger family:
Do you want to create a custom Grumm: I would be honored :). You can download the blank Grumm template, or get inspired by Grumm The Screamer Red which you can download.
NiceBunny can be found in a lot of places:
http://www.nicepapertoys.com/profile/NiceBunny (the social network create by NiceBunny)
http://www.nicebunny.com/
to name 2
I will create asap a download link
Visit the Grumm homepage for GrummBunny!
Or for you lazy bastard:
(The .ZIP file contains a .PDF)
Why have I never written about Nice Bunny?
Probably because of the controversy around his first designs. The first time I saw a design of Nice Bunny was the “Nice Bunny Paper Toys” (Tagger, DJ, Samurai, etc.)
I wanted to write about him immediately, but I read somewhere that this series was base upon BrickBoy from Sjors Trimbach and he was not happy about that.
This all has been cleared up, and you can see that the series is now with a little footnote:
The NiceBunny Paper toys are Brian Castleforte, inspired by & built on the BrickBoy template Sjors Trimbach, with permission.
(read about this story here, where Nice Bunny explains the whole story)
After all this was blown over I was to lazy to add Nice Bunny to the urban papercraft series.
(….)
And Nice Bunny exploded: he got a new site, started an online shop, started Nice Paper Toy (read my previous post), and started the Hedkase Artist series Paper Toys
And with an impressive lineup:
Ben the Illustrator
PHIL
Nick Knite (SIZZA)
Matt Hawkins
and the list goes on and on (check it out)
What can I say…. I’m sorry 😉
You can get the template here with an explanation how it works
or use this direct link to the blank hedkase .PDF template
Some time ago Nice Bunny started a social network about papercraft.
There are a lot of very talented people who are already part of this network and you don’t need an invitation. The only thing you need, is the “love” for paperToys… 😉
And the nice thing about people who are all doing the same thing, you get really informative discussions!
I specially like the discussion about “Sharing Designs – How to Protect your Brainchild” which can be read here, with input from Sjors Trimbach, Nice Bunny (who had some ‘trouble’ with his first papertoys), Marshall Alexander (who started creating papertoys with a custom design of Readymech) and Matt Hawkins.
This discussion is not only very helpful for papertoy designers, but it’s very nice to read: people tell there horror stories, toes are being stepped on, history of some designs are explained, …. 😉
And what is a social network without the promotional stuff: here we have a Network Badge (Large)
Visit Nice Paper Toys
So visit me at Nice Paper Toys and join.