'Style Needs No Color' Customs Now Available for Download

Nick Knite has released the black and white custom paper toys that were on display at the Blooom! Art Show in Cologne, Germany. The new customs include awesome designs by Sal Azad, Tougui, Olla Boku, Dyadic, SaltnPaper, Jason Bolt, Marko Zubak, Greenelf and Oh-Sheet. Grab the templates at Nick's website and check out a cool video from the show.

Nick is also hosting a contest with ECKO Unltd. where you can win some ECKO gear. All you have to do is customize Nick's ECKOrhino paper toy and submit it by December 31, 2010. For more details on the contest, visit ecko-unltd.de/unltd/paperrhino. Note: the website is in German, google.com/translate will come in handy. :) Get creative and good luck!

New IMPS, MechaBunny and Sizza Customs!

Hey Gang! I've been working on a few new customs for some of my favorite paper toy artists and I'm excited to finally share them with all of you.



First we have The Gloom Crew, comprised of the three little monsters you see above. These are customs of the IMPS paper toy created by my friend Jason Harlan aka Harlancore. Download The Gloom Crew here and be sure to visit Harlancore.com to download the original Boxpunx Series Nine IMPS and other great Boxpunx.

The next few customs were for another one of my friends, Nick Knite, creator of the Sizza and MechaBunny paper toys.







You'll notice these three customs have something in common, they are all black and white. The theme for these is “Schwarz Auf Weiss" - “Style Needs No Color" and they'll be exhibited at BLOOOM - The Creative Industries Art Show from October 28th to November 1, 2010 at Staatenhaus am Rheinpark, Cologne. Visit blooom.de for more info. If you live in or near the area, please check it out.

Until next time... happy building.



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Late Night Construction

Mecha6.2

My friend and fellow paper toy artist, Nick Knite just released the second series of his MechaBunny paper toy platform, the Mecha6.



Series two features customs from artists Sal Azad, Olla Boku, Greg Madden, Scott Shaller, VinsArt and me. Head over to Nick's site, nickknite.com, to download the Mecha6 and be sure to check out series one as well! Thanks Nick!

The Making of.... the MechaBunny Custom

When Nick released the first series of Mecha6, I was stoked. What a great platform toy. I knew right away that I wanted to do a custom and when I got the template from Nick, I knew I'd be designing a robot. Something along the lines of the 80's cartoon Voltron. I started off by building the blank model. Once I had the pieces assembled, I could see the shapes and the potential they had to transform into something else.



I started to sketch....



But the idea looked cooler in my head, not so cool on paper. Change of plans. Then this...



This quick sketch on the template was the spark I needed. From this idea, I went into Illustrator and began designing, free forming shapes from lines and angles. After a preliminary build and some adjustments, a new custom was born.



I like the way he turned out and I'm happy that Nick liked him as well.