Thrilla gorilla for ya, GORO paper toy by kngl (aka Andrea Longo), templates are available for 10 days only (starting today), so grab it asap. Gorilla Paper Toy - GORO Edition #1 [Download]
Do you guys remember Patrick Pasques, we first featured him with his Biplane and Jurassic Park papercraft? he has a book out called Animaux menacés.
It's a fun/educational papercraft book about animal conservation and covers 20 of the most endanged species in our planet. The book is in French, I'm not sure if there would be an English version of it.
And since I don't know much about popular French online shops/bookstores, I just linked to the one reputable name that I know, Amazon (France).
Wonderful work of art from an amazing artist, you can now purchase a papercraft version of Lawrie McIntosh's Canadian Animal Series.
ABOUT Canadian Animal Series- Lawrie McIntosh has been named by many; a pioneer in Canadian Industrial Design. During his brilliant career, his designs range from Electric kettles, tractors, large scale medical devices, and consumer products. His book: Reflections of a Product Engineer outlines many of those designs including work with Buckminster Fuller and the Canadian Animal Series in 1960.
The original set, which we shall call Canadian Animal Series 1, was made from flocked vinyl sheet in two colours, the moose, black bear, walrus and buffalo being brown and the polar bear white. In order to produce a more substantial product to offer on the market McIntosh used copper in place of vinyl. McIntosh produced the CAS 2 for many years selling in the thousands.
Fast forward 45 years.
The Canadian Animal Series is revived into a new form -Canadian Animal Series 3. The original patterns are redesigned by McIntosh (in his mid eighties) with Calgary Designer John Greg Ball. Each animal is given its own unique hand shaded coloring along with McIntosh's hand drawn cut and fold pattern. The unique part of the story are the instructional videos where McIntosh teaches the user how to making of each animals. During the process, one is struck by the profound detail that was put into these designs. All five animals can be purchased online and produced on a personal printer.
Special thanks to Mr. John Greg Ball for providing the links and information.
Eckō unltd. (Deutsch) is holding a contest featuring the Ecko Rhino paper toy created by Nick Knite. All you have to do is customized the paper Ecko Rhino paper toy and send in a picture of it, contestants will have a chance to win some cool Eckō gear. Entry submission ends on December 31, 2010.
For more details you can head on to Nick Knite's site or you can follow the link below to head straight for the download page.
King Penguin papercraft created by Keicraft for the Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium, King Penguins are large penguins that inhabit islands near the Antarctic Circle.
Molly the Owl is a barn owl that nested in the backyard of Donna and Carlos Royal, the Royals set up a live web stream and it became an instant hit with bird lovers around the world. You can watch it live at The Owl Box or read more about it here.
Molly the Owl paper toy illustrated and crafted by Rocketman Creative.
The Pneumatic Giraffe paper toy from Rob Ives, it's an air powered giraffe who's neck elongates when you blow through a hole in the bottom of the box - making her head pop out of the crate.
Mr. Ives. demonstrates how his Pneumatic Giraffe works.
A herd of colorful Llama papercrafts by Mike McDermott / billybob884, these are based on the Llama badges used on deviantART.
The herd includes - Basic Llama, Super Llama, Albino Llama, Super Albino Llama, Ninja Llama, Fancy Llama, King Llama, Spartan Llama, Wizard Llama, Golden Llama, and Rainbow Llama.
The Common Kingfisher is a tiny little bird known for its vivid colour, the colour is iridescence and not pigment - depending on the angle when you are looking at the bird, you can see it as either green or blue ^^.