It is maybe the 4th, or even 5th “under construction” editing of posts I did over the years I have been in business, but I delete my old stuff all the time, so I can’t keep track of it anymore XD but who cares, I decided it’s going to be the 3.0 cleaning up and the 3.0 new start of quality-made papercraft designs I am still making for probably over 15 years now.
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So, what does that mean for you? It means I will be deleting quite a few of my old designs that do not fit my quality-made trademark anymore, since my papercraft skills and designs steadily improve and I do not want any half-assed and half-ugly papercrafts to represent the work that I do.
Most of my old designs will be removed and deleted completely from my shop and they will not be available online anywhere anymore. However, some of them that are still usable and fit my well-made criteria will be shared for FREE as freebies on my Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/c/antyyyspapercrafts) , where I share FREE papercraft downloads only.
Anything and everything I don’t like will be removed, most deleted for good, some shared for free, and a few remade sometime in the distant future.
So, whatever older designs you wanted to make in my files, now is the time to buy them still, because I don’t guarantee for any of them to stay online for a long time anymore. And you can also look forward to many free releases during the summer (; Now, isn’t that great?
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I realize that with the sheer number of papercrafts I make and the current shitty economic state of the world, it is quite useless to have this many papercrafts in my shop that are unmanageable. I would like to focus more on quality-made papercraft designs as much as I can, and make everybody enjoy papercrafts with free releases I have been neglecting over the past few years. The freebies are long overdue, since I have been mostly focusing on commissions this past year and those alone take up most of my design time for my work.
I know that a lot of papercraft designers and artists have quit during these few last years, and the ones remaining are just a handful of good ones, most just trying to scramble-up AI slop to make a few bucks, so there are fewer and fewer actually good templates out there with even less people that are willing to make them. So, this cleanup is somewhat of a redemption ark, trying to do the right thing, making papercrafts available and downloadable for everybody to assemble.
There will always be bad apples in the community, but if I focus just on the shitty ones stealing designs, ideas and patterns and being lazy asses re-selling my work won’t get anybody anywhere. These are the main reasons I do not like to share my patterns for free, but I have come to see that sharing almost nothing for free is the wrong way in fighting this type of behavior. Leading with a good example and work ethic is the way to motivate far more people that actually respect this line of work and dedication to this artform. This is the way in expanding the community with good people that love crafts and want to put their own work and time into it. Making the community bigger and better and actually positive should be the goal of each papercraft builder out there. Only this will make papercrafting a hobby for the future, for many more generations to enjoy and for people to see the magic you can do with your own 2 hands.
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I hope I will have your support, the support of the papercraft community, in the coming years as well and you’ll make many more papercrafts you can share online with everybody.
Wish me luck, bear with me, and in the meantime: Happy crafting~
