Positiveboy

Have you ever experienced months where there are so many bad news came from people that are close to you? Well these months is my turn, after a series of bad news, the latest one came from my ex student who passed away few days ago. These are the days where I feel like I'm walking between 2 different world. The ignorant-suicidal world and the struggling-for-the-next-breath world.

ILL OMEN BEGONE!!!


This one is a variant to Fatboy, originally made for my friend with his positivity group 2 years ago. After seeing so many sombre news these days I think we all need something to keep us going and going and going... Every time I design a paper toy, I always remind my self to design something that will make people smile. If this one can make you smile, give me a buzz so I will know how many happy faces is caused by this yellow fellow!

TGP Alpha

It seems that it took me more than 24 hours to upload this one, Jakarta is having another major black out today, 5 hours with no electricity really crippled me. Can't imagine how will I spend the day if I'm thrown back to the era where people still use candle and wooden gears for the technology...

TGP was designed during the long days at the hospital tending my old man. Can't resist to draw the skull and syringe... TGP stands for The Great Pretender, I'm planning to design a different skin out of this papertoy template once a while. As for this one, I have to admit the Keith Haring inside my head is shouting really loud and I decided to listen to it. I've always wanted to design something with urban art doodle feel...

TGP's template is a bit tricky to build, I will redesign the template for the next skin so your life will be less miserable.

Oh, one more thing. I've created Saltnpaper facebook group, hop on so we can all poke around and feel free to post your photos with your favourite paper toys!

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Away Notification

I will be away from designing paper toy for a few weeks because my father is hospitalized. Will surely update you all if I'm ready with new paper toy.Thank you and sorry to everyone who is following my blog.

Nogloo Speaker dog

Another Nogloo custom! This time it's from the infamous Ben The Illustrator, he is the creator of the famous Speakerdog series.

Whew, thinking of when I started making paper toys, I never expected that I would get to know a lot of good friends around the world. I guess Ben's suggestion to "try every angle in life" really worth doing!

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Sofia Bali Custom (Barong)

My first custom ever. As a big thanks to 3eyedbear for designing Voodoo Stubey custom, I decided to custom his Sofia paper toy with Balinese touch to it. Bali is definitely my super most extra favorite island so far.

Focusing on 'Barong', the king of the spirits and also representing the good side. Balinese like to tell share their culture through dances and performances, as for Barong usually the story is about the battle between the good and evil. Balinese also believe that besides the good and bad, there is also the 'not so good & not so bad' aspect in life. Thus represented with the gray color in the checkered flag like pattern.

It would be cool to see designers from around the world introduce their culture in a funky way.

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Voodoo Stubey

People of the world,

A fresh start to begin 2009! A very good friend of mine, Maarten Janssens hailing from Amsterdam sent me a customized Stubey. This dude have just come out with the perfect solution to ensure your romantic dinner goes smoothly. Begone are the days where you can't find any toothpick when you had HUGE broccoli stuck on your tooth! Say goodbye to rejected dinner proposal while you have this paper toy with Voodoo doll power right on your dinner table...


Hmmmmm... I'm starting to think that Stubey is like Kenny in South Park...

Do check out Maarten's 3Eyed Bear for more paper toys, I'm sure you will find something that you want to download there!

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Help needed!

Sorry to summon you all in this busy holiday season.

I have just submitted Fatboy & Cargo to patchtogether! It's been my biggest dream to produce a vinyl toy, in fact it is the very reason I'm making paper toy... Those vinyl is just to darn expensive to produce... So here is the chance to make it happen I guess. Just like Obama, I need your help to change the dream into reality by voting them Here for Fatboy and Here for Cargo, can't decide who will you vote? You can even vote for both of them Hohohoho... You will be ask to register before you can vote, but I promise you it won't take long and most importantly it won't hurt you, your e-mail and your computer.

OK Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank you so very much for supporting. I hope I didn't interrupt your last minute gift shopping (~_^).

Nogloo Xmas

I've always wanted to design a seasonal version of my paper toy. Since Xmas is 1 week away and 2009 is next to celebrate, I'm giving a little gift for everyone! I have added a small tab on the top so you can hang this Nogloo on your Xmas tree or other place that need a little holiday touch.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year friends!

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Nogloo #1

Hello friends!

Pardon me for not posting anything last month as I need to focus on my work, aside that my printer is still down. I really don't feel comfortable designing paper toy with no printer by my side, its like working with only one hand...

My new addition is called Nogloo. Yup, it requires no glue to assemble. All you need to do is to just slip the flap into the the slit on the other side. If you are a busy office people with no access to color printer but looking for a little fun, Nogloo is the right choice! Because its black and white and should take you less than 10 minutes to make. Last but not least, in the spirit of the tree hugger people, Nogloo came in A5 size paper as long as you don't click the 'fit to page' print option.

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The Cool Couple

It's been a HOT HOT HOT days in the southern hemisphere, especially here in Indonesia. With Licka & Licko in hand, now I have nothing to worry about in this ever summer days... oh, and yes.. they are so cool that they cant even melt.

Btw, my printer is clogged... so... no photo reference for now, but it should look exactly the same like the illustration. Feel free to send me a photo of you with Licka & Licko in hand to studiobitbot |A.t.| gma il |D.0 .t.| c om

Enjoy!

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Sachi

It seems that I'm ahead of schedule this time. I found a lost dog last month... wait... the lost dog found me last month, that's more proper way of saying it.

One morning when I'm about to go to work, a dog came into my front yard and carelessly seat on my foot as if he knows me. As a person who never own a dog and even have a series of traumatic experience with dog, I was like "What the heck is this dog doing on my foot...". Since that day, that dog is attached to me and I started to learn more about overcoming my trauma and mild dog phobia.

This is Sachi, taken from Japanese word which mean happiness or good fortune, in Mandarin, the same character is pronounced as Xing (correct me if I'm wrong). Considering the high number of Stubey's download hits, Sachi will also play around your desktop, as a name card dispenser. He is quite simple to make, took only 1 paper to print. Less paper - less tree chopping - less homeless monkeys - HURAY!

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Gammon Final Artwork Photo

Just a little update on how the finished Gammon paper toy will look like, I hope you like it. My friend ask me if Gammon stands for Gamma Monster.... hmmm... you think so? Anyway, play around and be free with the pose, that will make your Papercraft uniquely yours. I'm now designing on a simple dog paper craft, more about it next week. Stick around kids!

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Gammon

Helloooo!

I have good and bad news... Good news is, the new paper toy is here. Bad news is, my printer is out of ink. Rather than postponing the post to next weekend, I will upload the finished template today and let your curious mind figure out how is it actually look like. I will post the Final Artwork photo here as a reference once I got the new ink.

Anyway it's been a while since my last post as I need to manage the time and mood to make my self sit for a few hours making paper toy. Actually I have been working with this Gammon dude since like.. 2 months ago.. I think... I'm stuck with the 'skin' design for that long until only last week I decided to really squeeze my inspiration out of my brain. Acta, non verba means to take action, not just words. I put this as a reminder for myself not to procrastinate so much...

***********21 September 2008 Update***********
Check Out This Cool Gammon From Pete Moss
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you Gammon.

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Stubey

Finally, something from me to the world again! This little fellow here was designed to help you do a little stationery arrangement. Aside from being a green humanoid rabbit (or rabbitoid human some says), you can use Stubey as a pencil/pen holder. Looking from how messy my table is now, I think I need to create another 5 Stubeys and considering to design a set of paper toy creature that might double as a container for other stuff...

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Lovebird

I'm going to move to a new house tomorrow, to a place where broadband internet is still considered a witch craft. So, here goes my post before I'm going lost in the jungle.

Lovebird is a bit tricky to design, without pepakura, I don't think I will be able to construct the template. I left an optional slit at the bottom of the head, so you can poke something from the inside during the final gluing. Lovebird was initially designed to be a plush toy, I hope someday I can still push the envelope and produce the plush.

I have just accidentally found an unfinished paper toy design that I've done sometime ago. I will try to finish it and post it here next time.

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