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So I'm pretty new at papercraft and I've only lurked on /po/ for a few weeks, so I apologize if this has already been discussed...but out of curiosity, what's the general consensus on /po/ about "designer paper toys"?

While I've seen maybe a couple posts about Shin Tanaka, majority of the papercrafts /r/ or posted on /po/ (and the ones I've made) are of anime/games/etc and are paper replicas of figures/items/real life. Most often sourcing from Japanese papercrafting. Focus seems more about the papercraft itself than the urban art of the easy to make collectible figures (usually with one physical template and many designed "skins").

Does /po/ make and collect these? Consider them as "real" papercrafts or simply for a different audience? I'm interested to hear your comments :)
>> Anonymous
What constitutes a "real papercraft"..?
>> Anonymous
Do you mean realistic papercrafts? Like motorcycles, cars, cats, or whatever grabs your fancy, compared with anime characters?
Or perhaps compared with the hakos, probably designed to look simple and fake?
>> Fooley !!3U0fX54QY/N
Personally I like them. There's a certain sort of style they have that gets me. Kind of like urban vinyl figures.
>> Anonymous
"Designer paper toys" are generally "hako"-like because the idea behind them, is to make them as simple as possible; they're aimed at people that like stuff that just looks funny/nice, not for people that want to make (sort of) realistic things out of paper and don't mind spending a couple of nights (sometimes weeks or even months) to build it.
The trick is to make them so simple, that it will only take you 5 minutes to cut out and build it. And then you need some really good artwork/texturing or else it will be just "yet another wannabe designer" toy.
>> Anonymous !!FaspdOn3Jr9
>>104616
>>104633
OP here. Wikipedia's definition of papercraft is "a method of crafting three-dimensional objects out of paper, similar to origami." "Designer paper toys" such as the "top 10" listed by some site (Happysucks) technically do fall under this category. But like>>104638says, the "hako"-like toys are aimed for different people. Even the term "paper TOY" vs. "paperCRAFT" implies something I guess? Most templates on /po/ would take at least a good few hours to score/cut/prefold/put together/glue to make carefully, if not longer for the even more complicated ones.

I guess what I'm getting at about the "real papercraft" thing is whether there's an elitist thing on /po/ about the difference between "designer paper toys" vs. "pepakura"? Would you collect all of different customs of one toy, or maybe make one or two that strike your fancy to go with the rest of your collection? Or are they too simple and not worth your papercraft skill? Or do you not care one way or another?

I'm not expecting a big response out of this, I'm just curious if there is a general mentality of /po/ towards papercraft and this seems like a question to get some insight. Sorry if I'm wasting your time :)
>> Anonymous !!FaspdOn3Jr9
>>104635
I think the paper toys evolved from the urban vinyl ones - a cheaper way of expressing art and designs that can be accessible for more people, not just those that are willing to shell out the money. Here's a little something about that:
http://jonnychiba.blogspot.com/2007/10/home-making-is-killing-vinyl.html
>> Anonymous
>>104658
Typical "put people in nice, easy to distinguish-boxes" thinking.
Of course there are /po/eple that also like "paper toys". Of course there are /po/eple that also like "paper toys" and that build every single one of a collection. Of course there are /po/eple that think that's stupid. Of course there are /po/eple that think that's stupid but that will build 1 or 2 that look nice to them.
It's different for every individual, and for every individual it's different for each "paper designer toy" collection. And for each different individual it's different for each different version in each different paper toy collection.
It's a little bit too black and white to ask "does /po/ like paper designer toys yes or no?"
>> Fooley !!3U0fX54QY/N
Can someone post some templates from the "designer models" in the op pic? A good chunk of them I don't recognizer. Here's all the Hed Kase (nice bunny) models in a convenient rapidshit for ya'll

http://rapidshare.com/files/72124787/Hed_Kase_models.rar
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
they're basically a cheap person's vinyl toy/collectables. imo, at least; not that that's a bad thing, but usually little to no papercrafting skill is required to make them. However there are a few decent ones, like Shin's.
>> Anonymous !!FaspdOn3Jr9
>>104683
I'm not trying to group people into either one category or another, because like you said, every individual is different. I was just wondering if the majority of /po/ anon tend to lean towards a particular view towards papercraft itself or not? I guess what you're saying is no, /po/ is made of anons with a big variety of views and there's no general consensus, so that answers my question. Thanks :).
>> Anonymous !!FaspdOn3Jr9
>>104695
Most of them can be found easily by Googling (although Shin Tanaka's "Spikey Baby" should be "Spiky" instead). Some of them though, like the urban vinyl toys sold in boxes, after a while will be "sold out", i.e. the artist's website no longer provides the link to download the template - but you can still find most of them by checking other sites mentioning them and /rs/.

The pic is from the article below with links to the templates:
http://www.happysucks.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=31

Designers often link to each others' pages too, so if you check one out, you'll be able to find many of the other sites too. Here's a blog by the dude that made Grumm about "urban papercraft"and linking to many others:
http://www.happysucks.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=31
>> Anonymous !!FaspdOn3Jr9
>>104780
Oops, the second link should be:
http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/index.php/tag/urban-papercraft/