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After a little bit of pushing from Brian Castleforte, I thought I'd post a 'hello' and introduce myself and my first paper toy, Bertie. I'm a 35 year old artist/designer/thingymajigger from the UK, very interested in trying new avenues and seeing where they take me. Most of my work can be viewed at my deviantArt page. I'm working on getting a web site together for my "proper" site (moopf.com) but it's slow going :)

I joined nicepapertoys.com a week or so ago, after seeing it mentioned on Matthijs Kamstra's site, whilst I was starting to think about a design for my first paper toy. Anyway, that led to Bertie, which is a fairly simple first effort but hopefully with enough going on for other artists to want to customise it.

I've started the ball rolling with Bertie 'Rainy Day', and the template for it can be downloaded from the following here (@ deviantArt)

I've also made available the blank template for Bertie, in Photoshop, Illustrator and PDF formats which can be obtained here (@ deviantArt)

I've released it under Creative Commons, as that seemed the most sensible license to use (full details on the link above and in a text file included in the template zip file).

Anyway, hello to you all, and I'll try to participate here as much as I can. I'll certainly be doing some more paper toys and hopefully customizing other people's as well if the change arises.

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Comment by Luke 'Glood' on July 15, 2009 at 11:49am: I'm doing a custom of this! It's great and I had a good idea!

Comment by Luke 'Glood' on July 1, 2009 at 7:31am: I like Bertie!

Comment by Gareth Lancaster on May 13, 2009 at 11:47am: Wow, thanks again for the welcome and kind words. I'll be working on another custom of Bertie myself over the weekend, have an idea bubbling.

Comment by Matt Hawkins on May 13, 2009 at 11:04am: Good times for sure! Can't wait to see more.

Comment by Abz on May 13, 2009 at 10:41am: Welcome to NPT, Gareth! Bertie rocks! Great model and an awesome design as well. I look forward to seeing what else you have in store. :)

Comment by papermate on May 13, 2009 at 8:24am: Wow, simplicity rules!!! Very cute design. And it's very good that you made blank template for us. Thanks!

Comment by Gareth Lancaster on May 13, 2009 at 8:12am: No problem, have fun with it!

Comment by Methuup da Funky One on May 13, 2009 at 8:07am: That was fast thanks a mill!!!

Comment by Gareth Lancaster on May 13, 2009 at 8:02am: OK, try the zip file now and there should be a file called moopf_bertie_blank_flat.pdf in it with 2 pages in 300dpi format for you to use - let me know if you have any more problems