3 Jan 2010 - The Construction of Igford!

The new year has started, and as i'm not really feeling up to any heavy-duty brainwork, I thought i'd make a start on modelling some of the assets for the game. I satarted with what I thought would be a simple one, but turned out to be a little more complex than I thought: A viaduct.


I decided to make this a modular asset, so that I can build multiple viaducts of varying lengths. Making the model itself in Maya was not that difficult but I made the mistake of UV mapping the most complex part of the arch first, which involved a lot of restructuring the UV for the on/off ram sections (that have no arches). So, the drive to avoid brainwork ended up in a different kind of brainwork.

Still, it was a good way to get back into modelling and UV mapping - better to get accustomed to it now than much later on when i'm pressed for time and probably panicking!

Paused

In the past, I do surf around the net looking for ideas for my papertoys. But right now, I've got too much ideas but too little time to do them. I won't be surfing around for papertoys as much as I used to be therefore I won't be able to feature new sites in this blog.

But all is not lost. I'm still updating my other blog ( www.zakane.blogspot.com ) very frequently.. You can see alot of new updates regarding my designs and my site. I'm also adding cool videos that I find from the net and add them to the blog. Hope you like it. :)

Hey, at least I'm not deleting this blog. :P

People Toys

You can find alot of original templates both in blank and customed in this myspace page. Theres also lots of customs for papertoys such as 'Speaker dog' and 'Hoody'.

Link : http://www.myspace.com/peopletoys

Toy-A-Day

If you like to make a different papertoy on everyday for a whole year, this is the perfect place for you. You can also sent in your own design.



Here are some of the most popular toys.




Link : http://toy-a-day.blogspot.com/

Oh-Sheet

Abi B. is a designer who had customed several papertoys such as Hoody Series 1 by Urban Fresh and SizzaBear.

She had recently completed her site with these 4 original toys to download.




You can also download customs that was designed by her there.

Link : http://oh-sheet.com/

Chibi Dolls

I saw several post about these chibi dolls on paperkraft. They looked pretty interesting so I went to find its main site.



I went to their site but its filled with lots of codes and stuff that I dont understand but at least its obvious where we can download these dolls.

Link : http://2st.jp/GT40/paper_craft_chara.html

Cabrillo Toy Underground

You can find a large collection of paper and vinyl toys.

They also do alot of customs for paper toys such as 'Sizza', 'Foldskool Hero' and 'Speaker Dog'.





Check out their main site here : http://graphics.chs.lusd.org/Site/Welcome.html

Link : http://graphics.chs.lusd.org/Site/Toy_Underground.html