What have you folded lately?

[FlareglooM]

Let's hope this works:

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It's a test animation made by me using Blender3D. Some day I hope I can animate some models with it.

Edit: I added a youtube link in stead of a Flickr one. It seems I can only add 2 at Flickr.

[paperlion]

Nice, and very smooth. What exactly happened on the last fold? It looked like a crimp...

[FlareglooM]

I don't know really might have made a small mistake with an armature. (you can't see those in the animation, they are used to pose the the paper).
It's at least not intentional.

[origami_8]

You might be interested in this program: http://www.angelfire.com/or3/tklorigami0/

[jadylyon]

Maple Leaves by Kyu-Seok Oh (Jassu)

[foldymole]

Second Eric Joisel mask, of this type. Wet folded from 30cm tant paper.

[oyster]

@ origami_8

the staircase is very nice

[FlareglooM]

Anna, thank you for that link. Unfortunately I cannot get it to work on my computer. I might try it later again.

Animation 2:
The Folding of Waterbomb Base:

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Plan is to make it a bit slower and add some instructions to it. Also got the plan to let the creases show after it's unfolded, but I don't have an idea to do that yet with this program.

And a real fold (since this topic is about what you folded, not really animation)

Eric Joisel's Una Rata folded by me:

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Tail isn't on there since I hold it there to make a picture with my webcam, which is just above the screen of my laptop. Bit hard to make photo's with it.

[oswalakhil]

Harp Seal Pup..designed by me

[Ben385]

Hexagonal Flagstone Tessellation, independently discovered by lots of people. Folded by me from a hexagon of tant cut from a 15cm square. After I had folded the model, I went back and inked all of the hexagons, and I like the effect.

[origami_8]

Skier by Robert Harbin. Without ski sticks it just looked incomplete, therefore I made him a pair from wire. Folded from 15cm blue-silver tissue foil.

[Pixion]

Nice giraffe,

I think the neck is indeed a bit on the thick side, making it top heavy.

[Pixion]

@Flaregloom

Nice way of diagramming.

I have some experience with CG and think there are a couple of ways to improve in clearity. One is to use more lights (so the shadows are not that hard and dark). In CG they typically use many lights, at least a key light (from front left e.g.) and a fill light on the front right.

Also consider using 'soft shadows' I am not sure what Blender's option is but in Maya they are called 'mapped shadows' and if you apply a filter to the map, the shadows become nice and soft (i.e. gradual change on shadow edge).

And to show crease patterns after each step, you could use a 'texture'. Blender should have lots of options for that. The texture would be a bitmap of the pattern at that stage. It is simply an x,y 2 dimensional texture that is applied to the square paper. If you want to only show the new creases, you would have to make updated creased patterns for each step and update the texture in time during the animation.

[Ragnorax]

Tarantula
Robert Lang
50x50cm

[Didée]

Ragnorax, how did that photo look like before you photoshop'ed it?
(The masking boundaries are visible...)

Edit:
Oh my dear, sorry! Right now I see the filename of the jpg ....

BTW, good job on the legs and mouth extremities. The body is a bit flat.

Reminds me that I've still my unfinished 1st-try of Lang's tarantula lying around. The hook is that one leg did burst during positioning. I don't like finishing damaged models. But I also don't like starting all over - I find this model is quite some work!