I would like to present here few paper construction projects which are not just concepts any longer. These are actual paper prototypes. They were designed, developed and prototyped with a help of a friend of mine, Igor Velgach, who lives in Chicago and possess capability to make almost any ordinary material turn into magic in his hands. Without his help it would take me ages to make these ideas a reality. We started thinking of paper construction activity for kids, but ended up making activity for ourselves. Projects came out very beautiful, but way too complex and requiring too much patience, too advanced skills, experience with paper and hands dexterity for average person, not to mention, average American kid.
Layouts of each and every part was done by hand first, then transferred into 2-D CAD drawings, verified, printed to scale, textures hand-painted and assembled.
Armadillo. This prototype has flexible structure. It looks and can "behave" like real animal does.
Crab.
Lobster. Again, lobster's tail is flexible and bends exactly like tail of a real lobster.
Mammoth.
