New PC, some time off, free papercraft downloads

 

New PC, some time off, free papercraft downloads 

 

 Hello beautiful people!

 

Heads up that my work PC recently broke down and I am currently transferring all of my programs and stuff I am working with and on, on a new laptop. It will take some time to set it up, and it´s the summer time anyway, not much going on.

 

I therefore decided to close commissions foreseeable till the beginning of September. That way I can get some much needed rest and set up my new rig in peace. (I will also go on vacation in the middle of September, so that week I also won´t be working, but that will get updated in another post when the time is right).

 

For anybody wanting to order or inquire a commission, these will be open starting September again, so you´ll have to wait in the meantime.

 

The work will pile up anyway and since I said I will prioritize my health over anything else, the work is slower but therefore the way it should be and more quality-rich. The backlog on things I made months ago is also, finally, depleting, so there might be weeks that I will not have anything to post as new stuff. And that is completely OK.

 

I am only 1 person working on these huge projects, papercrafts take time and dedication, as anybody ever working on an assembly alone knows, and you need a lot of patience and time for them. No machine is ever going to replace the work I put into my papercraft designs, and I will never use AI stolen slop in 2D or 3D form. The work I do stays manual and it always will, therefore taking much time to make them. If you do not like the way I work or think, you may happily choose another papercraft designer and enjoy their work or do your own designs (:

The way I do things, is the way I do things, and I will never support stolen AI crap they are shoving into our faces as “necessary work evolution” and destroying the only beautiful natural resources for us to life on and off of, the one actual evolution that took millions of years to develop and they think because they have their “money” concept we somehow value and live by, they can destroy it in a few decades. FU alllll the way!

 

In the meantime, we have almost 10 batches of freebies (now over 27 new free papercrafts + 160 old ones) I have been posting on my Patreon page for this summer: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts. They are all freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

 

I´ll be sure to keep the page running, and more awesome ideas and characters are on their way, so no worries. Nobody is stopping Antyyy from doing papercrafts, ever!!! Papercrafts are my life!!! If they didn´t stop me for 15 years, they surely won´t now.

 

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Summer freebies, FREE papercrafts

Summer freebies, FREE papercrafts

As already announced in this:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-3-0-CLEANUP-1348668993

I have started distributing more FREE papercrafts on my Patreon page:

 https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

My Patreon page is exclusively for FREE papercraft downloads only, so each of them are all freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

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I am sharing updated with the “status update” thing on DA, but as everything on there, it’s a useless feature nobody looks at anyway, so people miss the posts. That’s why I made a quick update to remind people that they are up and ready for assembly!

Till now we have the following freebies: Callowing (Fakemon), Fearesa (Fakemon), Beelzebub (Sand Land), Appletun (Pokemon), Bellossom (Pokemon), OC Avocado pair, Abomasnow (Pokemon), Chespin snowman (Pokemon), Froakie snowman (Pokemon), Pikachu Snowfairy (Pokemon), Gookey (Pokemon), Scorbunny (Pokemon), Sobble (Pokemon), and Ramby (Fakemon).

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Also, PLEASE REMEMBER, papercrafts are made to be ASSEMBLED and enjoyed while being displayed in your rooms, given as gifts, etc. The point of them is that you are able to make figurines out of flat print paper templates, and transform those flat paper parts into amazing figures that you yourselves make with your own 2 hands and be proud of the art you are able to do and that they make you happy. And not for collecting digital dust on your PCs for trades, hoarding, or anything like that. If they are not enjoyed in their full forms and build, what is even the point in having them, right? -- That’s why I hope to see many of them being shared as assembled and build papercrafts online on many platforms. You can also send me pictures of them in a message, so I can share and display them on my pages in your name. I would love that! I am always so happy to see pictures of them brought to life! (:

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The bunch of free papercrafts I am sharing was already over +150 designs big, and now I am adding even more of them! Hopefully you’ll find something you like and have a great summer. Many more to come in the following months as well!!!

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Antyyy's Papercrafts 3.0 CLEANUP

Antyyy's Papercrafts 3.0 CLEANUP

As already stated in the “under construction” post:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-UNDER-CONSTRUCTION-3-0-1345160237

I have been doing an extensive cleanup on all of my pages and deleting older posts that were not up to my standards anymore, as well as made some updates on my descriptions, links, etc. etc.

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What you basically need to know from this is:

1.    All 100% available FREE papercrafts of mine are still on my Patreon page.

All of the older scrapped designs that I saved from the cleanup will be posted at a regular base on here (about 30 of them during the duration of this summer). All of the removed papercrafts that were FREE and the new ones that will be made FREE are on there and will continue to be there. My Patreon is for FREE downloads only and it will remain so. They are freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

2.    When I remove a papercraft design from my pages, I do it for a reason.

If I removed a papercraft design of mine from either my Ko-fi shop or from Patreon, I have removed them with intent and it is not an error. They are not available anymore and I will not sell or share them. Do not ask for old designs, because you will not get them. You will find countless old designs still remaining on either dead links or shared with a picture, because I have been in business for over +10 years. Old things get deleted and removed all the time, and some traces of them stay on the internet still (because everything on the internet is forever), but if they are not on Ko-fi or Patreon, I have deleted them. Poof and gone forever.

3.    About 20 of the older papercrafts I have removed, will be completely refurbished and made into new re-designed crafts. Some of the motives and characters are still popular, and I wanted to make them look fresher and better, so those will be released when I make them.

4.    Quality instead of Quantity: I will be drastically slowing down my business starting July.

I will probably share 1 new papercraft each week, and the other update I will post a few of the FREE papercrafts on my Patreon in batches. I want to not start focusing on quality over quantity and that needs time.

You know I have been in this papercraft-selling and designing business for over 10 years now without any stop, I have always been open for commissions and I have powered through countless projects in these years. But it has just become a lot to keep up and manage as a 1-woman-business, and 1 human being alone is capable of making only a limited progress each day with new papercraft designs + maintaining a full 8-hour work schedule + maintaining my pages and shop sales + commissions. So, to ensure I keep on powering on with my work and to make many newer papercrafts in the future years to come, it will slow down for a while. Antyyy needs a social life as well, so it is what it is.

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I think these are the basic things I wanted to share with this update.

I wanted to share my thoughts with all of you not only so you know what will happen in the future and why things are as they are, but because I wanted to make a pledge to myself with the quality I need to uphold in the future and to really slow things down so I won’t fall into the same pattern of workload I was doing before.

Enjoy the new releases and I hope you look forward to many more years of new designs from me in the future. Happy crafting~

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3.0

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3.0

I believe it has been quite a few years since the last »purge« so to speak, so it's about time we do some cleanupin with my posts. As you know, or now know, I always try to do some cleaning up with my old papercraft files, but because of the sheer number of things I have released over the years, the sheer mass of stuff demands some beforehand planning for the actual execution. And what better time to do this then with the start of summer and summer holidays!

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~

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Long overdue promises, overdue commitments to my followers, etc...

     
Therefore, I have decided to go under construction to freshen up my work, my post, my link, EVERYTHING: meaning that from 1st September till probably 31st December 2021 I will not update my sites with any new papercraft designs, to really focus on cleaning up all the files I have. Commissions are STILL OPEN and will stay open, as well as sales for anybody wanting to purcahse my papercrafts, I’ll also maybe assemble a papercraft here and there (if I’ll have time, probably not) or share public commissions, but I won’t update any new designs and releases – what I will update are my old posts that I’ll notify my watchers about in any case.

I hope you understand why I am doing this, since it’s the best for everybody to do things the right way and to finally update everything I want. But because of the sheer volume of work waiting for me only for the updated files alone (not to mention that I have a life outside the net, where I got to work and take care of my family, etc.), it’s going to take quite some time. It may be that it will even take longer than till the end of the year, but I really want to make this to start the new year 2022 with updated stuff and links the way it has to be.

   
In this past decade that I have been making papercrafts, and professionally about 6 years, a lot of work has been piling up and with time my skills got better as well. Therefore, I decided to overhaul all of my sites I have, throw away old stuff that I don’t like anymore and that don’t represent my skills anymore, generally to clean up all the stuff that I got and also, my biggest challenge yet, to update all of my papercrafts I will keep (premium and free ones) with a PDO file for easier assembly, since I know this is the biggest issue of them all for anybody trying to make my crafts. All of the PDO’s will be locked, most of them will probably be blank, some of the free ones I can give away as they are with texture, basically since I have at least +500 papercrafts, this is going to take some mayor time to do it right.

It’s just been some shitty 2 years really and its high time I actually start doing something in a positive way that I can actually influence directly, so I feel better. People waiting for an overhaul of my papercraft business policies and the few people actually sticking to me and supporting me all this time, it’s time I do things right again for the supporters pushing me onwards. Without the people standing behind my back and actually interacting with my pages, writing me encouraging messages, suggesting things, buying my templates and actually not sharing them in “private” groups (where I see everything anyway, because people tell me everything - the net and the papercraft community alike are a very small place), but also people talking behind my back and spitting in my face and not talking directly to me about things they don’t like (for me to improve and make it better), people generally hating my stuff because of my name, etc., both sides keep me going and I always strive to do my best for everybody alike. Especially since a lot of people quit in the last few years because of internet-bullies like that and the small community gets smaller and smaller as is, those of us left standing have to do double the advertisement for this amazing artform!

So, I’ll never give up on anything, it’s just gonna take some time and extra energy I currently have very little of, so that’s why it’s such a long time-out.

           
Expect a lot of things to be deleted, especially some of my old premium templates. I will try to keep as much of the free papercrafts as possible, probably moving them all to my Patreon page only (Antyyy's Papercrafts Patreon page, where you can download them regardless if you are financially supporting me or not, since they are free). Pictures will be updated, files will get PDO’s added and from 2022 premium papercraft will be sold with the blank, locked PDO files, policies will be updated, texts will be refreshed, links newly made, etc. etc. A lot of work, considering the amount of stuff I got and how many years I am doing this already. So, bear with me people; I’m making stuff better for each and everybody and I am just 1 person doing all this work that I would probably need a small IT-team for.

 
If you have any suggestions yourself, have anything in mind you would like to see newly made, suggestions, constructive feedback, wishes of what papercrafts you would like to see more of, etc., you can always write a comment or a personal note, on any of my sites. I would be more than happy to get feedback from as much people as possible to make it more user- and viewer-friendly as possible.

   
Wish me luck, bear with me, and in the meantime: Happy crafting~ Be back soon~