how do they do it

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Permalink Reply by papermate on July 8, 2009 at 9:11am

Hi, Gabriel!
I'm using my imagination, sketches, scaner and Macromedia Flash for making paper toys and customs. And the most important thing in this list is your imagination. With this awesome ability you can design the template even if you'll have only a pencil and a paper sheet. Imagination is the greatest power in any type of art, it's true.
If you have the scaner, make a sketch of your toy how it will look, a sketch of unfolded model (template) on paper, scan it, then try to make your toy cutting and folding your sketch. If it have some mistakes, you can correct it directly on your computer or on reprinted sketch; this way you can save your original sketch. Then you can trace your sketch in every program you can use, even MS Paint.
Wish you to be great paper toy maker!
P.S. Imagination is power!

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on July 9, 2009 at 6:51am

is this what you mean:
http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/index.php/2009/07/08/papertoy-de...
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Permalink Reply by Harlancore on August 12, 2009 at 10:49am

That's an awesome tutorial! I am going to point people in the direction of that post, brilliant.

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on August 12, 2009 at 1:40pm

thx, I hope I can find more time to write more of these...
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Permalink Reply by Luke 'Glood' on July 9, 2009 at 8:42am

There are free drawing programs if thats what you mean. You can find them on another forum post called free tools software

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Permalink Reply by Mr. WalkieTalkie on August 12, 2009 at 4:00pm

yeah Im still having trouble making papertoys it just doesnt make sense I cant do anything because I just dont understand how to customize with any of the softwares I downloaded :(

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on August 13, 2009 at 5:11am

It's always difficult at first... Some programs are very easy to understand and other don't.
The are a couple of advices I can give you:
#1.
Find a teacher: perhaps a friend (invite over for dinner and after a lesson) or someone you need to pay (a seminar).
It's the fastest way to learn something, because you can ask very specific questions (for example: how to make a pattern.)
#2.
Buy a book. Always pay attention that you buy the book that is the same written for the software you have at home. Don't buy a discount Illustrator 5 book when you have at home Illustrator CS4, it will be very frustrating.
#3.
Tutorials on the internet: self study. Can also be frustrating (see point #2) but it's free.

But the best thing you can do is make a commitment to a certain software... if you keep switching you will never get any better.

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