Been a little quiet lately..
I’ve been working on a commercial that’s going to be on national tv here in Belgium.
So that kinda took alot of my time 
Also, my urban paper book arrived and I’ve been building those papermodels.
They are totally great, and give me a better vision of how papercraft is created.
( So I really hope I can make my own papermodel soon!)
More news soon ( when the commercial is finished and there’s more time )
I got a little inspiration from the Lizard King custom I made .
So now I present to you : SpeakerFrog!
A little custom I made of the Speakerdog template.
My SpeakerFrog template can be downloaded here :
http://www.sharepdfbooks.com/RORBKT46X9GU/SpeakerFrog_Template.pdf.html
Check out http://www.bentheillustrator.com/ for more Speakerdogs!
Check this one out if your in the LA area! (Too bad I’m from Belgium 
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Papershapers, curated by Giant Robot opens on April 11 at Scion’s 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery in Culver City. Papershapers is a group show featuring ten artists who work with paper-not “on paper.” The exhibition will feature works that are cut, torn, folded, and sewn into unique creations. Shin Tanaka will be making a rare U.S. appearance at the opening and will be on hand to show original pieces and fold paper with attendees!
The opening reception takes place April 11, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. and will run through May 2 at the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, Calif. 90232.
So, in my previous post I wrote about the e440 papercraft project.
I spent 2 days in illustrator and made my version of the e440 squirrel.
Here it is :
I really hope people like it.
Feel free to comment , I want to know what I can make better
You can download the pimp template here:
http://www.sharepdfbooks.com/PI1A0NU8WL7A/E440_PIMP_TEMPLATE.pdf.html
E440 is a project by a Dutch Designer. ( http://alle440.blog.com/ )
In 1999 KLM Cargo cut 440 living squirrels into bits using a shredder because the required bills of health were missing…
E is derived from “Eekhoorn” [squirrel in Dutch], 440 is the number of slaughtered squirrels.
The aim of this project is to come up with 440 different interpretations of e440 and to release them on the internet,
including the customizable blank template. Customized versions will be available for free downloading from this blog.
The E440-models travel all over the world and gets photographed in the builders surroundings.
( You can find the travel pictures here : http://e440aroundtheworld.blog.com/ )
If you are a papertoy builder,look around the website build an E440 and send your picture to alle440@hotmail.com
If you are a designer, you can ask for the template on the E440 website, and help him reach 440 designs.
Since a few days, I’ve been working on my own interpretation of the E440 model.
I will post it here when I finish it.
Here are some examples of the E440 models.
The plain white template
Skin Design by Matt Hawkins
Skin design by Joao Amadeu
This must be one of the best free papercraft models in my collection and it took me a week to complete it. (Spening a few hours every night) The model is highly detailed and has moving parts, particularly the wings, this is considered a paper craft model and at the same time a paper automata because it’s got the mechanisms for movement. If you haven’t seen the movie “Howl’s moving castle” , I highly recommend you see it!
The Howl’s Moving Castle papercraft is hosted by Epson Japan and is available for both Windows and Mac users. The files come in two parts, a guide and the pattern itself and is really huge, the pattern is 54MB and the guide is 15MB for Windows users, it’s even bigger for the MacOS crowd.
If your having a hard time understanding the instruction guide(Japanese), you can download an English translation for it below, courtesy of rose-rote.
It’s a very fun model to make!
Make your own moving castle :
The amazing papertoy artist, Matt Hawkins , made a book that features a rather impressive collection of papertoys by as many impressive papertoy artists. The working title is Urban Paper, and each toy is ready to punch out and build.
This fun project book includes step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and a section about how to design your own paper toys from scratch. Plus, a bonus CD-ROM features patterns for all 25 toys and even more templates to print out. Complete with interviews from the toy designers, this fun guide gives you everything you need to build and even design your own cutting edge urban paper toys.
I ordered this book yesterday, can’t wait to have it!
Here’s Matt with a preview of the papertoys that are in Urban Paper.
You can find more about Matt’s work at http://www.custompapertoys.com/
Welcome to PaperFlake.
I’m a 20 year old graphic designer from Belgium that discovered the fun of papercraft a while ago.
I’m planning to make my own papercraft soon , that’s why I start this blog.
So this is an attempt at making a first post
Yesterday I adjusted a template from
http://macula.tv/papercraft
Christopher Bonnette (macula.tv) has a bunch of cool papermodels available on his website.
While looking for something to make, I downloaded his
Blank Imp Template and had some fun in Illustrator.
Lizard King
This is what came out, my Lizard King. It has spikes on the back of his head too.
Comments are always welcome, I’m planning to make more of these soon.
I will probably make some attempts at making my own papercraft aswell.
You can download the Blank Imp Template from Christopher Bonnette here :
And my Lizard King Template here :
