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~

How to open PDO, Assembly help for my papercrafts

How to open PDO, Assembly help for my papercrafts

With all of my official papercraft files, free or paid, you get 2 types of files for assembly: PDF files that you print out in various types (colored and colorless flaps, as well as the lined and lineless versions) and a locked, blank PDO file.

The PDO file is THE main assembly instruction. It is a program with a 3D preview of the papercraft that lets you see how to put the parts together and how it looks assembled. This is THE assembly tutorial and it’s all that you need to build any of them.

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The PDO file is a file opened with Pepakura (Tamasoft) and can be opened by either buying their Pepakura designer:

https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/download/

Using a web viewer online (also recommended for Mac users):

https://papercraft-maker.com/

Using ArmorSmith viewer (recommended for Smartphone users):

https://www.armoredgarage.com/

or using my FREE stand-alone PDO-viewer to open the file (recommended, because it will show you the added assembly animation): 

https://mega.nz/file/PwMGlRTR#P26cUauteEdr4-yd5F2oT5mn6IQzdGjZfS-gsKI8s2w

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The PDO Pepakura (Tamasoft) file has an “animation” function that lets you see how the cut parts are put together and folded, so it’s the nr.1 help-file for all of my assemblies. Learn to use it, and you’ll never want to make a papercraft without one (; This is also why no papercraft of mine has a "tutorial" in a traditional sense of picture screenshots or assembly videos. THAT IS WHY you have the PDO FILE INCLUDED. It literally shows you everything in depth and with precision.

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Here is a tutorial explaining how to actually use the program and what it lets you do. It shows an older version, but the basic principles on how it shows what flap needs to be glued together and the edge ID numbers are the same. Just ignore the old links that don't work anymore in there and focus on the Pepakura Viewer display itself: 

youtube.com/watch?v=_lQLLEAIxwc&t=1323s&ab_channel=DanielKrsiak 

AND most importantly, you can also enable an "animation" sequence, that shows you the unfolded parts and how they are put together to make the finished papercraft model at the end. Very useful if you have a bit of trouble with 3D perception and also fun to play with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlpmjDRvf8&ab_channel=pepakuratamasoft

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Note that all of my password locked PDO files are LOCKED FOR A REASON. MEANING THAT ALL OF MY PDO FILES ARE VIEW ONLY. YOU CANNOT ACCESS THE FULL FILES TO EDIT THEM WITH A PASSWORD; EVER!

I never share the original 3D model (just the template, because you are buying the unfolded printable template only), the textures are basic, and the UV-maps for texturing are scrambled and unusable for editing. Do not ask me for any password for any of them, because you won’t get it.

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If you would like for any papercraft I made to be re-sized (made bigger or smaller), you can WRITE ME about that. I have no problem editing the height of any papercraft in reasonable margins, so you don’t need a password for any of them.

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Enjoy and happy crafting~

Papercrafts and how to improve them

 

Papercrafts and how to improve them

A small, general post on what to think about when making your own papercraft design and how to make them better.

If you like, you can read about it in the outgoing link. And if you have any other suggestions or you think I forgot to mention anything basic, I am always open to constructive criticism and maybe we can add something on the list together.

How to open my locked PDO files for papercraft assembly help

I have recently noticed that TamaSoft (the company that made Pepakura for unfolding papercrafts) stopped distributing the "Pepakura Viewer", which is needed to open the locked PDO files that come along my papercrafts. They can't be opened with the "Pepakura Designer" (that they are still distributing), since I only share blank and locked papercraft files. 

Therefore, I have a standalone version of the program that you can use to open the "PDO" files that come along for the assembly help. You can download the file here: 

https://mega.nz/file/PwMGlRTR#P26cUauteEdr4-yd5F2oT5mn6IQzdGjZfS-gsKI8s2w

Let me know if it works for you or if there are any issues with it. Enjoy and happy crafting~