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Shin Tanaka X Sjors Trimbach: The Last Brickboy on Earth!

2009 marks the 5th birthday of the Brickboy paper toy, one of the very first platform paper toys online.
The other platform paper toy was T-Boy by Shin Tanaka and in 2006 he created this Brickboy version. For various reasons it was never released, until now...

This release is the 30th design, but also the LAST Brickboy design that will be published. After this one, no new designs will be released by me. Actually the whole Brickboy project will be closed.
On January 1st 2010 ALL Brickboy designs will be taken OFFLINE and will not be offered again by me.

"I haven't worked on Brickboy for a long time and don't feel any urge to do it. I have been making loads of other toys (like the Thought Processor with Phoneticontrol) and have plans for many more. I feel I need to close this chapter for good and move on. I would like to give my thanks to each and everyone who has contributed designs and supported me all these years."

There is also some good news, the Brickboy template, which was only available on request, will be RELEASED on www.nicepapertoys.com. It will be freely available for non commercial use.

So, go ahead, download all the designs while you can and have as much fun with the template as I had.

The last Brickboy by Shin Tanaka can be downloaded as PDF here:
http://www.sjorstrimbach.com/brickboy/files/030_shin.pdf

The Brickboy template (ZIP file with EPS and PDF) can be downloaded here:
http://www.nicepapertoys.com/group/templatedepot

All 29 previously released Brickboys can be downloaded until January 1st 2010 here:
http://www.sjorstrimbach.com/brickboy

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Comment by Sjors Trimbach on September 11, 2009 at 11:41am: Thanks for all the kind words! Any rainy Sunday is a good day to start a movement :D
The template is available in the Template depot, so go ahead and let the boy live forever.
Thanks folks.

Comment by Dr.Shazam on September 11, 2009 at 4:52am: Sjors--there have been a couple of people writing thesis papers on the papertoy phenomenon over the past year, and according to most "historical" sources, Brickboy is one of the founding templates of the current "Urban Paper" movement. It's a great model, and it came at just the right time to inspire many of us to give it a try ourselves (me included--thanks!).

Comment by Matt Hawkins on September 10, 2009 at 5:10pm: Brickboy was one of the first papertoys I found early on and inspired me to create papertoys.
I understand as an artist you always are more interested in the next phase of your work as opposed to putting time into something you did in the past. Brickboy rules!