What have you folded lately?

araknoid · Post by **araknoid** » January 29th, 2008, 10:07 pm

dipyramids (triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal), a cubehemioctahedron and octahemioctahedron, all by john montroll

p@ · Post by p@ » January 30th, 2008, 12:15 pm

Bonhomme - Christophe Boudias
Maybe YOU CAN DANCE

[img]http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2588/dance02uv5.th.jpg[/img]

foldymole · Post by **foldymole** » January 30th, 2008, 3:12 pm

First pictures. Not too good, but better will come!

Green man, 1st successful one

First decent mouse, and cheese.

Crimple mushroom, first attempt. Apologies for the dirty thumbnail!

Not brilliant, but not bad for someone who's only been really serious for a few months.

My Joisel dwarfs are looking pretty darn nice! Pics to follow

mrsriggins · Post by **mrsriggins** » February 1st, 2008, 3:13 am

i folded joisel's dwarf

it was my first cp so i'm proud of myself. He's pretty ugly since he's made out of copy paper but i'll post him anyways and do another pretty one soon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23352404@N06/2234036420/

ori-gauthier · Post by **ori-gauthier** » February 1st, 2008, 3:33 pm

I folded Kamiya's tyranosaurus:

and Lang's Mt diablo tarantula:

nikita · Post by **nikita** » February 2nd, 2008, 2:47 pm

i somehow cant get great pictures out of my models...i dont know how you do that...anyways this is what i folded lately:

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » February 2nd, 2008, 7:07 pm

Your models look excellent !

I have a few suggestions for the photos:
1. The grainy effect may be due to making the pictures too large. It looks like you may have exceeded resolution.

2. See if there is some way to put more light on the models, and from different angles to avoid shadows. Try not to use the flash, because it makes harsh light and difficult shadows. I take photos in my bathroom or kitchen, where I have bright light... then I diffuse the light by using a cheap white umbrella.

3. In your graphics software, you might also try tweaking some controls, such as the noise levels.

It takes a while and a lot of experiments to gain experience with your specific set up.

You might also look at posted photos and ask very specific questions ... rather than "great photos, how'd you do it?", maybe something like " I like your model, how do you do the lighting, or how do you do the background, or how did you make them so sharp...

HTH,

- Hank Simon

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » February 2nd, 2008, 9:12 pm

Fox and Cat (Guspath Go) and Money Flowers (Stephen Hecht)

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » February 3rd, 2008, 12:45 am

I decided it was about time for me to design a dragon (a successful one, that is-believe me, I've tried before). After a week or so of experimentation, I finally came up with a design I like.

Disclaimer: I want to fold it a second time from better paper...

Lightning Dragon

Sunburst · Post by **Sunburst** » February 3rd, 2008, 1:41 am

Johnnycakes, your dragon looks nice. Is it boxpleated? I think the paper is a good choice for your model as it gives more of a lightning feel to it.

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » February 3rd, 2008, 3:45 am

Not box-pleated at all-unless you count a strip graft as box-pleating

I really like what I came up with for this design, so I will probably post a CP sometime...I am currently trying out Inkscape for drawing CPs-it looks promising, but I am having some problems...

nikita · Post by **nikita** » February 3rd, 2008, 3:24 pm

HankSimon wrote:Your models look excellent !

I have a few suggestions for the photos:
1. The grainy effect may be due to making the pictures too large. It looks like you may have exceeded resolution.

2. See if there is some way to put more light on the models, and from different angles to avoid shadows. Try not to use the flash, because it makes harsh light and difficult shadows. I take photos in my bathroom or kitchen, where I have bright light... then I diffuse the light by using a cheap white umbrella.

3. In your graphics software, you might also try tweaking some controls, such as the noise levels.

It takes a while and a lot of experiments to gain experience with your specific set up.

You might also look at posted photos and ask very specific questions ... rather than "great photos, how'd you do it?", maybe something like " I like your model, how do you do the lighting, or how do you do the background, or how did you make them so sharp...

HTH,

- Hank Simon

thanks a lot for all your advices!!! (but i guess they mainly look so awful because i made them with my handy...)
hopefully my next fotos will be better....

mfg

Melisande · Post by **Melisande** » February 3rd, 2008, 10:25 pm

Bugfolders beware :
this flower is eating insects !

From a hexagon of elephant hide.
Created by me.

Post by **origami_8** » February 4th, 2008, 12:52 pm

Twelve headed Hydra by Eileen Tan from 25cm mc double tissue paper. This model is soooo cute!
Unfortunately it is so small that my camera couldn't get sharp pictures even with super makro zoom and good lightning, sigh.

Together with a knight from 15cm Kami:

Both alone:

nikita · Post by **nikita** » February 5th, 2008, 12:26 pm

today received my new origami book "passion origami"!!!
i already folded three models
here we go:
a monkey with a fox
[img]http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5728/dscn1524et6.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2776/dscn1525tc1.jpg[/img]

i also tryed to fold the wonderful looking lion, but the paper you can get from Terrys site seems to be too thick for that kind of stuff...(at least for me

)

[img]http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8418/dscn1526ph0.jpg[/img]

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