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Hey Everyone,

It's time again for our annual Chinese Zodiac design challenge! This year's animal is the Dragon; any kind of dragon, really, but seeing as it's 2012, I would really like to see a Mesoamerican one.

To enter, post a photo here, along with the number & shape of papers used and a title for the model. Multiple submissions are allowed but they *MUST* have different titles, otherwise they will be treated as the same model. Please submit your own designs only.

Submissions will be closed on January 29th, at which point I'll put up a poll; voting will end on February 5th, and a winner will be declared.

Check out previous challenges for some inspiration:
viewtopic.php?t=7917 2011 year of the Rabbit
viewtopic.php?t=6403 2010 year of the Tiger

Does it need to be designed during the period of this challenge, or are older designs allowed?

The model should be folded during the period of this challenge, and should be a recent design even if it's not a new one. But do keep in mind that the point of the contest is to get you to design more

This looks like fun! I'll try to find time to design a dragon.

I have mine designed. I just need to fold it from good paper and upload pictures.

That's a short delay

I've been intending to give a dragon a shot for a while, but a new, interesting design might take a bit longer... Dragons are harder to tame than rabbits, I'm told...

Here's my entry. You said you wanted a Mesoamerican dragon, and in my mind that means Quetzalcoatl, often shown as a feathered serpent.

Quetzalcoatl dragon by soozafone, on Flickr

Happy New Year !

from a square, "Flight of the Dragon (after its Repast)" :



Click on the pic for all the details and more pictures, as usual.

Chinese dragon by Damian Kowalski
no BP

water dragon , triple tissue foil with Mc in 35/35cm
simple design on fish base


water dragon par -sebl-, sur Flickr

happy new year !

Nice dragons everyone!

I tried to design a Quetzalcoatl as well, but only had enough time to fold a half scale test fold. The paper was too small, so I couldn't really fold a head. Also the wings didn't succeed either...
I'll refold it as soon as possible with bigger and better paper.

So, here is my (failed) entry, Quetzalcoatl 1.0, from a 25x25 tissue-foil piece of paper:




Inspired by http://pgwebdesign.net/wp-content/uploa ... dragon.jpg

Here is my dragon. The belly pleats were inspired by Satoshi Kamiya's spinosaurus. I tried to go for a little more cartoonish look.


Dragon by Ak827, on Flickr


Dragon by Ak827, on Flickr


Dragon by Ak827, on Flickr

My entree is located here.

my dragon

Submissions are now closed. Voting will be up for 7 days.