WELCOME TO CUSTOM PAPER TOYS!

Hi friends, welcome to Custom Paper Toys! This is home for all the little paper creatures I make. There is a list over to the right of all my free paper toys you can download and have for your very own. I'll post a new free Paper Toy of the Month every month. I'll also be posting a stray paper toy here and there as well as my paper toy commissions and collaborations.
PAPER TO THE PEOPLE!
Matt

Some recent paper engineering and book update.

Holy cow! It's been a long time since I've posted something on this blog. I've been super busy the last couple months working on the papertoy book and some super cool freelance projects that I can't let out of the bag yet.
The book is getting closer to done all the time. I think the marketing folks decided on "Urban Paper" for the title I really wanted to call it "Cut Fold Glue: the papertoy revolution" oh well ya can't win 'em all. The pic above is of Oliver Ollie my papertoy that will be in the book.The release date is late March 2009! Yikes! That's a long time to weight but I'll be glad when all the work is done.
Here is some recent Paper Engineering I've done at my day job at C3.
The Super Man is a paper bobble head. The fire engine ladder swivels and extends. These are all diecut toys with glueless construction. You'll find these in kiddie meals at your favorite fast food places soon.
Also Comic Monkey is sold out so I'll get on Comic Monkey #2 here in the next couple months.
More soon...

S.P.A.C.E.,Comic Monkey and Paper Toy of the Month update.

The Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo last weekend was a big success. It was the first time I'd brought out my papertoy stuff out and sat at a table behind it. It was so much fun getting to meet a lot of you in person and talk with folks about my work. I'll definitely take the Custom Paper Toy show on the road again soon.

Comic Monkey went over real well and the few I have left are now available at The Custom Paper Toy Company. Just $4 bucks plus 1$ for shipping and handling.

I was unable to get a free papertoy up this month with all the stuff I got going on at the moment, the papertoy book, conventions, some incredible freelance jobs, the band, day job, and the kids. I'm still dedicated to providing fun and free paper toys on this site, but I'm no longer going to be able to stick to the once a month schedule. Instead I'll post free toys randomly when i have a few moments to sneak one in.
Some real amazing things are happening for me and my work and I sincerely thank you all for your encouragement and support!
Thanks folks, more soon.

Small Press and Alternative Comic Expo

Hey all you folks who live close to Columbus Ohio, I'll be at S.P.A.C.E (Small press and alternative comic expo) this weekend (March 1 and 2). I'll be debuting a new papertoy kit that combines 2 of my favorite things monkeys and comics. The new kit will be available in my store some time next week. Here is a bad pic of Comic Monkey I'll post a better one soon.

Jumpin' Jack Paper Toy of The Month for February.

Here is Jumpin' Jack! He's a mash-up of my most downloaded paper toys the Tri-bunnies and the Jumping Paper Frog I did for issue 5 of Craft Magazine. He jumps using the power of a paper clip.
Print this one on regular paper instead of card stock or matte photo paper, so he's lighter.
This is for all you who can't get your hands on issue 5 of Craft magazine.
Download here.

Paper Toy Book preview

Here is a little preview of a papertoy book project I'm working on it will feature 24 different papertoy designers from all over world. Here is the first 11 papertoys out of 25 for the book. The book will be out early 2009(I know it's barely even early 2008) and will be published by How publishing. The working title is "Urban Paper". More details soon. Click on photo for notes about the artists involved.

Bush Meat HedKase, Paper Toy of the Month for January

Here is the first paper toy of the new year Bush Meat, he is a custom I did for the HedKase Artist series. It's a collaboration with the very talented Nicebunny. You can download Bush Meat as well as many other super sweet artist edition HedKase paper toys at the NiceBunny.com and while your there check out all of the other cool papertoy Niceness by Nicebunny. Happy New Year!

C3 Biz Card Holder

Here is a business card holder I designed for our department at work. His body opens up and holds more cards w/ a die cut window for our icon to show. His helmet is made from an overhead projector acetate sheet. I've been having lots of fun lately including different materials and stuff into my paper toys. This is the kind of thing I hope to have in my shop in the next couple months.

Rudy + cheap wind up toy

This is a "Secret Santa" gift for a guy at my work. (Think he'll know it's me?)
It's the Rockin' Rudy paper toy glued on top of a cheap old wind up toy.
It moves even more than I thought it would. Makes me want to design some wind up toys.

Rockin' Rudy the Paper Toy of the Month for December

Here he is Rockin' Rudy. Not only does Rudolf head Santa's sleigh he is also the front man of the Indie rock band "Like a Lightbulb". He loves to shake his antlers to the music.
I've had this idea for a paper bobble head for a while I finally got round to using it.
You can download Rudy here.
Hope everybody has some happy jolly days!

The Return of Santa.

I'm still working on the paper toy of the month for December. I hope to have it up in the next couple o' days . It's got a holiday theme and some crazy kinetic motion. In the meantime here is an old Santa I did last year. He was the second paper toy I ever designed. Some of you may have snagged him off my old site last year. Now he's home to stay on this blog. You can download him here just click on the "Click Here To Start Download" towards the middle of the page.

Plush, Vinyl , Clay

The Plush, Vinyl, Clay art toy show is opening this weekend at the Kismet Gallery and despite the fact that he is neither Plush or Vinyl or Clay, my Mechanical Man paper toy will be in the show. I'm pretty excited. This is the first time my paper toy work has been anywhere close to an art gallery and there are so many great artist in this show. So if you happen to be anywhere close to Troy, New York stop in and say hi to Mechanical Man or even take one home.
Update: Here is a pic of my guys on the wall at Kismet.