Art Friday : Cool Papercraft Links From MIT
Guess what I found at MIT (yes, the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – two very cool papercraft sites recommended by the Toy Product Design course at the MIT OpenCourseware site.
© PaperRobots1999.com
The first one is PaperRobots1999.com where you can find plans for building a series of papercraft figures with articulated limbs, which of course makes them far more posable than the typical static papermodels. Don’t let the site name fool you since it’s not all paper robots over there – there’s Spiderman and Ash Williams from the Army of Darkness among the classic Transformers like Optimus Prime, Megatron and even a transformable Jetfire.
© PaperRobots1999.com
The other papercraft site featured was Fwis’ Readymech series – somewhat similiar to the designer papercraft of Shin Tanaka. The main draw of these papertoys are the colourful illustrations on the majority of these cute little toys. Some of my faves below.
© Fwis
Check out PaperRobots1999 and ReadyMech Toys or MIT OpenCourseWare’s Toy Design Course.
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It can transforms!!
too bad there’s only 2 robots available.
i think i can’t use regular paper for papercraft, i once tried creating evangelion 01 papercraft using regular paper and stop in the middle of the process because there’s not enough strength to support the body.
I think you need quite thick paper at least 110 gsm A4 rather than the common 70/80 gsm A4 used for photocopying. Don’t take my word for it since I only read about the paper stuff online – haven’t tried printing the papercraft patterns before.