Help me find a very simple papercraft robot template
June 8, 2015 12:39 PM Subscribe
Looking for a papercraft robot template that's so simple, anyone can build it.
I am art directing a music festival and our mascot has evolved into a quasi-50s style robot (example here) And I'd like to make a very simple papercraft version that people can print out and build on their own.
The problem is that most of the templates I've seen out there are beautiful but they are so complex that I feel it might be a barrier to people actually doing it.
I don't need this to look perfectly accurate, it can even approach Minecraft levels of simplicity. But I just want a template to design to that is so simple that anyone can do it.
I am art directing a music festival and our mascot has evolved into a quasi-50s style robot (example here) And I'd like to make a very simple papercraft version that people can print out and build on their own.
The problem is that most of the templates I've seen out there are beautiful but they are so complex that I feel it might be a barrier to people actually doing it.
I don't need this to look perfectly accurate, it can even approach Minecraft levels of simplicity. But I just want a template to design to that is so simple that anyone can do it.
I don't know whether or not this is what you're looking for, but since you mentioned Minecraft, you can get Minecraft Skin Scanner on the App store (iOS only, I think) and print out templates, let your people design them as robots, then scan them on your phone and use Papercraft Studio to print out papercraft versions. I just did this with second and third graders to teach area and volume, and they did pretty well. The apps cost a couple of bucks each. These are like 15 cm tall max, not sure what size you're looking for.
posted by Huck500 at 1:02 PM on June 8, 2015
posted by Huck500 at 1:02 PM on June 8, 2015
Would Blank Robot from paperrobots1999.com work?
posted by Rob Rockets at 1:04 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Rob Rockets at 1:04 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Toy-A-Day papercraft blog stopped updating a few years ago, but they did dozens of characters from pop culture, all created as variations of a simple printable figure template (free to download). It's probably as bare-bones as these things get.
posted by Strange Interlude at 1:07 PM on June 8, 2015
posted by Strange Interlude at 1:07 PM on June 8, 2015
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posted by sexyrobot at 12:54 PM on June 8, 2015