Origami and E3 versions 2.0...

Saw this recently...



..which is pretty amazing. It's made of paper and it's part of a much larger community of people who are basicially working on origami 2.0.

I first saw this a few years ago when some of the Orchid team bought some really expensive books from Oriental City to build a paper Tachicoma from Ghost In The Shell.

Then about a year ago someone here at Ideaworks sent me a link to a package where you can load in your 3d models and print them out as blueprints for folding.

You can grab the software HERE.

Then recently I saw this from the Sonic Team in Japan to celebrate 15 years of Sonic.



The link to this seems dead but I think I have it somewhere if you want to build it.

Here are a few random sites with Papercraft printouts.

Some more Sonic Team creations

Some Alien creations

Some from Yamaha

Cannon stuffs

And the genius behind the paper Zelda

In other news, E3 is no more! For those who don't know, E3 is the main Videogame show in the world and I've been a bunch of times and reported it a couple of times on this blog. I got to say - the thought of never having to go to E3 again fills me we joy. It was becoming a god forsaken hell hole of an event.

If you've ever been, you'll know what I mean. If you've never been - you didn't miss much.

E3 will become E4 and be a place to do meetings. Now in my experience, if you want to meet with someone you just fly the hell out there as and when. Be interesting to see what happens in May 2007.

Nic.

posted by Nic @ 11:02 AM 3 comments