Eric Joisel - Dwarf (CP)

hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 4th, 2010, 8:17 pm

Yikes ... it took me a while to make all of the precreases, and I can only get the bottom half collapsed! The top doesn't seem to want to fold. Is there something I'm missing? Here's a picture of where I'm at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43551403@N07/4244837389/

topsu · Post by **topsu** » January 4th, 2010, 8:34 pm

Umm... It's hard to explain. You just collapse it. There's nothing missing and you begun pretty well, I think that the real problem here is that you haven't got enough experience in folding. There are already some picture of the collapse around that top area, just look closely at them and try fold each line very carefully. You'll get there eventually, just keep trying.

insaneorigami · Post by **insaneorigami** » January 4th, 2010, 10:17 pm

It will have to be folded in half along the vertical line going through the middle... it's a pretty straightforeward model to collapse:)

hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 5th, 2010, 7:38 am

Don't get me wrong, I folded about 10 years ago, but some things are foggy. Crease patterns are completely new to me, considering I have never heard of them before.

I have finally folded a full dwarf! I need a little advice on the hat/face area when collapsing. As you can tell from my pictures, it's not the greatest fold. Although, I did do it with copy paper to test it out

Here are the links to my progress .... any help on the hat and face collapse would be appreciated.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43551403@N07/4246628620/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43551403@N07/4245876035/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43551403@N07/4246036507/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43551403@N07/4247363988/

topsu · Post by **topsu** » January 5th, 2010, 10:35 am

Congrats! Now you should just try again and make it more clean. For collapsing that hat/face area, you should probably just try again, maybe by printing out a partial CP.

Growlanator · Post by **Growlanator** » January 5th, 2010, 2:16 pm

after chatting on the irc channel that has been set up by ppl from this website i printed out the cp for the dwarf and gave it a go. Being as this was only the 2nd cp i had a go at i was surprised when i collapsed it

It's not perfect but stands up and there is a face although i need to do it a couple more times to make it look better

hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 5th, 2010, 4:06 pm

topsu wrote:Congrats! Now you should just try again and make it more clean. For collapsing that hat/face area, you should probably just try again, maybe by printing out a partial CP.

I think I might just do the whole thing over again and make it cleaner. It would help if I had bigger paper too, so I can't complain too much. I just wanted to see if I could do it in the first place, so I used copy paper.

Growlanator: That's a nice dwarf

I had a heck of a time folding the foot for some reason. I couldn't get it to look like the feet that were posted in this thread.

Growlanator · Post by **Growlanator** » January 5th, 2010, 5:13 pm

i just made the feet up, even had one posed so it kinda looks like he's "walking" along

hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 5th, 2010, 7:19 pm

Growlanator wrote:i just made the feet up, even had one posed so it kinda looks like he's "walking" along

How did you get the hat so flat? I tried doing all of the folds but mine ended up really crumpled when I collapsed it. The diamonds on the CP were hard for me to collapse as well.

Growlanator · Post by **Growlanator** » January 5th, 2010, 8:28 pm

just played with it till it went, opened the sides up a little so i could try and give it a little shape

insaneorigami · Post by **insaneorigami** » January 5th, 2010, 8:33 pm

Hobbs - all four of the creases on the edges of the diamonds are mountain folds. The line going horizontally through the diamonds is valley. The lines at the left and right edges of the diamonds are mountains. You collapsed it, but in case you need a bit more help, I thought I'd make a quick text diagram

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hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 7th, 2010, 7:45 pm

I printed the crease pattern for the Rock Star guy ... precreased and everything until I can work on him tonight. I was studying the CP, and couldn't find any good reference points so I can do it without printing the actual crease pattern. I would like to be able to move on from that in the future, but it is from a rectangle, so every fold doesn't necessarily meet another fold, it's always a little bit off because of the odd dimensions. Anyone know a way around that?

I printed this CP:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiano ... 188177591/

It's not a huge problem ... I would like to be able to do it without printing the CP, let alone folding an entire grid when it's not necessary.

Ben385 · Post by **Ben385** » January 7th, 2010, 7:54 pm

Hobbes, use the latest CP, it's from a square. You can just make the grid, that will give you all the reference points you could possibly need.

hobbestheprince · Post by **hobbestheprince** » January 7th, 2010, 8:13 pm

My problem is that it is this weird half and half thing. You are referring to this one right?

http://origami.artists.free.fr/sebastia ... rCPmax.jpg

Won't he be missing an arm? I think it's a strange CP considering that he has pictures up that has two arms, and it's supposed to be the newest model (red guitar).

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to try mirroring the image so I have the full cp, or just try this strange one he posted. I'm guessing the aforementioned, considering there is a gap in between which doesn't make sense. Since the model is symmetrical I think he just posted half and half to save time.

EDIT:

Here's the full CP ... I think it is 32x32 ... tried counting myself but could only come up with 28.

Ben385 · Post by **Ben385** » January 7th, 2010, 8:44 pm

The CP you posted is correct. It is a 32x32 grid.