What have you folded lately?

[adrijang]

To me it looks like a anteater-lion-dinosaur.

Paper is great though.

[Fanatic]

Lots of pictures ahead!

Traditional crane, folded from 15cm aizomehu chiyogami. It's a beautiful soft cloth-like paper. Creases are hard to see, so you have to fold by feel. It folds well with and without MC.




Daniela Carboni's Baby Dragon, folded from the same paper.




Ronald Koh's Horse, folded from 18cm wrapping paper used to stuff the insides of shoes. It's a wonderful material to fold with once you get rid of the wrinkles. It's also hard to find one without any tears.




Paulius Mielinis' Manta Ray, folded from a chocolate wrapper.




Jun Maekawa's Mouse, folded from 15cm aizomehu chiyogami. You can see I gave it my own "touch".




Jun Maekawa's Squid, folded from a 5cm square of kami. US quarter for reference.




Satoshi Kamiya's Chocobo, folded from a 16cm square of tissue paper.

[sjoecool1991]

This is the first "complex" model I have ever folded, folded it from a 45cm square of tissue foil.

I chose not to pleat the back, because I liked the rounded look for some reason.

Sorry for the terrible picture quality, had to take a pic with my DSi, the only camera I have.

[jadylyon]

flowers!

my first try at making my own custom dyed papers and also painting with interference inks.

[FlareglooM]

First attempt at Stacy Mannes's owl:

That put a big smile on my face.

[Eyalr2]

Horses by Satoshi Kamiya and Hideo Komatsu.


link to my flickr gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49643647@N06/

[origamigod]

Horse by Kamiya Satoshi, folded by me, Ares Alanya.

[akugami]

i'm trying to get a worthy contribution for this months' design challenge but i fear that's not enough to take part with:



... and so i post the little dino here.

[bethnor]

grizzly--why would you think it's not worthy? what your designs lack in complexity, they more than make up for with character.

just imho.

[akugami]

thanks a lot for these kind words, bethnor! i will rethink a challenge posting.
meanwhile there are two things i've found at another web-surf-session today ...





i do not really know, if they're traditionals or new designs. just take a look at this site, if you want to know about the way to fold and the man who draw the diagrams: http://origami.island-three.net

as you may recognize, i've added a little more shaping that obviously does no harm to the models.

[Donya]

I agree with Bethnor, so I hope it wanders over to the challenge thread. Of course, my personal preference is always for things that show a bit of abstraction or appear simple (even if the appearance is deceptive).

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

I've made that snail before, Grizzlyman...but out of a dollar bill.

[bethnor]

imho, there need more to MORE designs that focus on abstractions and are easy to fold (but difficulty to breath life into).

i, for one, am a little tired of laying out 40x40 grids and spending 4 hours precreasing with 100 cm squares 0 gms^2. crikey! i recognize that this is the current trend in modern origami, and even enjoy it, but i think there is not nearly enough attention paid to the giang dinh school of thought!

[akugami]

i do agree, bethnor! let's fold some more freestyle - easy but aesthetic.

[SlyNeko]

I think you folks have hit upon an excellent point. If i may continue the tangent for a moment, i'm feeling that the most recent work by Roman Diaz is a perfect midway point between the philosophies at opposite ends of the spectrum. The models in Origami Essence have a certain level of complexity but lots of character and personality. You always feel like you are folding the model (not spending most of the time precreasing) and before you know it the figure is complete. There is still opportunity for personal touches but you are getting a rather detailed model out of the box.

I'm in awe of both Giang Dinh's work (which i cannot come close to replicating) and Satoshi Kamiya's excellent application of modern complex techniques but i am very much attracted to this happy medium as of late.