![]() And the app has already been downloaded over 50.000 times! If you could give one piece of advice to all of the other authors on Instructables, what would it be? And things like the paper zoetrope and my app Tiny Paper Zoo came up, and I am already making my second app for iPhone and iPad, which I would never had imagined before, because I am not a programmer. And as I am probably not the person who will revive a whole sector of industry, I have tried to combine papercraft and new technology. Before that, my crafts floated around in the internet anywhere, and I couldn’t really control it all at once.Īnd we got taught the advantages of new technology and how print would die, which made me kind of sad, because all I do is basically print. Where the magic happens! Is there anyone or anything that has been particularly influential towards your work?įor one and a half year, I have studied communication design, and that did have some great influence on my stuff, first of all I learned how to code a website, which is great. is actually just the iPad you see on the desk. With an illuminated white background which adds a peak light from behind, making it very comfortable to handle, because there is no background to mess around with, everything is clean and can be put together easily. The last time I make it, I take photos for the instructions. Then, I print and make it again, mark all spots again, and repeat until everything is fine. Then I draw everything again with vectors in Illustrator or InDesign, because these are better to modify and Pepakura doesn’t support those round shapes, it wants the models to look edgy, but I don’t. So I mark all spots that I should rethink with red, on the model and on the template. When I think this could work, I print it out twice and make the first prototype, which usually doesn’t work. Then I make a 3D model and unfold it with Pepakura, trying to avoid much flaps, much shapes, 2 flaps next to each other, etc. I try to make the models with as many organic shapes as possible, because that makes them look convincing and reduces the flap count. Then I think of how the polygons could be arranged to make it look nice, and draw that into the pencil sketches. Thank you! First I sketch the thing I want to make with pencil on paper from a few perspectives. Do you start 2D and then work to 3D? Do you use any sort of software, like Pepakura? How do you design your papercrafts? You've got so many amazing ones - I especially love the interactive ones. I do not have the nerves for these complex 3D thinkings, I trust 3D programs instead. It is really ugly and it was the first and last one that was hand drawn. The first papercraft I designed was a Wii and controller. Both still provide great papercrafts, for free of course. The first papercrafts I made were a bike from Yamaha Papercraft and some paper toys and stuff from Canon Papercraft. ![]() Philipp's first papercraft design What was the first papercraft you ever made? What got you started? My first one has been well received and so I have kept writing some for those nice people. I discovered that magic function of Word to fix images in the background, which makes ASCII Art a lot easier, and I wanted to yell my discoveries into the public. My first Instructable will turn 5 years soon, it was one about ASCII Art, not even a pretty good one, but it seemed to be the first one on the web. It's free and you don't even need a printer to use his models that way! How did you discover the site and what inspired you to start posting projects? Philipp's also been dabbling in making apps that feature his papercrafts too - check out Tiny Paper Zoo in the app store. And his work on Instructables is only the tip of the iceberg! He also has a very fancy website,, that contains tons of papercrafts to browse, download and make for free. His papercrafts are beautiful, intricate and inspiring. Philipp Stollenmayer, known around the site as, is one of my favorite authors.
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