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Alex - Fold Up Toys ✂📦Some cute fluffy looking' paper crafts I designed for Scottish Wildlife adoption packs 🐿️
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The squirrel is one of my favourites, it's wild how much character can be added with a simple head tilt
Here's the rest of the series, it included a squirrel, a beaver, a bumble bee, a pelican and a seal.
The textures were a mixture of photo manipulation using wildlife photography, hand drawn illustration and shape work.
These toys were given away as part of the animal adoption kits that would be sent to people in the post.
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I don't se any 3D software when I design paper toys as I feel the results can be less impressive and more difficult to build, so the shape work for all of these paper crafts (and all the toys I design) is designed flat, from the ground up using traditional paper engineering methods. 📏
Binary Moon@folduptoys how did you learn to make toys like this? Was it trial and error or something else?
I can't visualise the model flat. I like to make it in 3d and then tweak it once it's flat.
I can't visualise the model flat. I like to make it in 3d and then tweak it once it's flat.
@binarymoon It was a lot of trial and error, I started off with really simple blocky shapes, lots of 90 degree angles etc and when I first started I'd jump right into the flat template. I'd focus on 'additive design', in which I'd add block to block to make more complex shapes. These days I do a little sketch work to figure out the larger shapes I can make elements out of and use 'subtractive design', where I slice sections off of those larger shapes to give the illusion of more complex forms.
@binarymoon The best change in my workflow was when I realised I could draw the toy from the front, side and top view and then use that to figure out the length of different lines and faces. It seems really obvious in retrospect, but I designed toys for like 5 years without doing it, now it's a core part of the process.
prakashph@folduptoys Love how these just have this low poly 3d model aesthetic, even though their made out of paper! Ah yes, agreed on that head tilt 👍