What is your favorite origami subject?

~folder~of~paper~ · Post by **~folder~of~paper~** » July 26th, 2006, 6:56 am

who here likes modulars?

malachi · Post by **malachi** » July 26th, 2006, 2:22 pm

I do.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 26th, 2006, 9:33 pm

I guess I could say I like modulars... but I don't really know all that many...

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 26th, 2006, 9:41 pm

Modulers are cool once done......I just finished Tom Hull's FIT which is a very cool model.

~folder~of~paper~ · Post by **~folder~of~paper~** » July 27th, 2006, 11:04 am

I always tell you guys this, but I love the chaos cube! You have to search on the internet for a while to find good modulars. I found two great sites.
http://home.comcast.net/~meenaks/diagrams/
and
http://home.comcast.net/~meenaks/diagrams/diagrams.html

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 27th, 2006, 12:34 pm

I think I'm going to be busy making modulars for a while...

BTW, ~folder~of~paper~, thats the same site

Has anyone ever tried the model "QRSTUVWXYZ Stars"?

~folder~of~paper~ · Post by **~folder~of~paper~** » July 28th, 2006, 4:48 am

I know they're the same site, but using two seperate links is easier. And they're also link pages so they go to millions more site anyway!

I've attempted the qrstuvwxyz star, but I go so fed up with it I threw it at my computer. Quite dumb of me actually

Post by **origami_8** » July 28th, 2006, 9:58 am

Cupcake wrote:Has anyone ever tried the model "QRSTUVWXYZ Stars"?

Yes I did. Very nice models, I folded all of them once.

unknownfolder · Post by **unknownfolder** » July 22nd, 2008, 2:28 am

I enjoy folding Arthropods more than anything else really. It is funny. I hate insects buzzing around me and anything with a stinger (I run like an Olympic athlete if I think they are chasing me), but I love to fold them. Maybe it is because I want to see them only if they are dead.

bethnor · Post by **bethnor** » July 24th, 2008, 9:26 pm

i'm actually surprised how many ppl like folding insects. i really feel too many current origami artists are drinkinig from that pool, as they represent design challenges. but they are always going to be limited by how they appear in real-life. imaginary creatures are confined only by the artist's, well, imagination. just google image "unicorns" and see the dozens of different artist conceptions of them, each of which could be a different model.

and nearly all modern insect origami models suffer from the exact same problem: you need strong, thin paper, or it will look hideous/the model splays. i made a hideo komatsu tiger a few months ago with ordinary kami and it looks as good now as it did then.

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » July 25th, 2008, 6:38 pm

Well, complex origami tends to demand more of the paper. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so if it contributes to the artistry of the model. But who says an insect has to look life-like? It certainly doesn't have to look as life-like as possible, although that certainly helps for the onlooker to identify it.

Perhaps people don't think insects have as much interpretational leeway as other simpler subjects because of the challenge of identifying the insect in the first place due to the huge number of species. Michael Lafosse seems to have gotten around this problem with his Praying Mantis, at least. It is very stylized and it looks great.

A lot of people are folding insects still, but I think the trend may be dying down. The bug wars are over, aren't they? And modern origami seems to me to be established enough and being realized as an art-form more and more (rather than a technical challenge). I might have no idea what I'm talking about though

bethnor · Post by **bethnor** » July 25th, 2008, 7:56 pm

Jonnycakes wrote:Well, complex origami tends to demand more of the paper. Is that a bad thing?

as an art form, certainly not. as a hobby, yes. i don't want to make tissue-foil, and i don't like working with it (i hate the difficulty in reversing a crease). plus i don't have a garage so i prefer not to asphyxiate. i don't have the means yet to resize paper/make mc double tissue. and my desk is only 4ftx1.5ft, so it is very hard for me to cut large, accurate squares and work with them. so if i can't get my hands on large squares of thin, strong paper, i don't get to fold the model, or, if i do, it basically uncoils and looks hideous.

at ousa i was lucky enough to buy LOTS of the 26" gold foil to finally do the ancient dragon right. as you can imagine, it got very vexing manhandling the square until i collapsed the base (which does not happen until roughly 1/4 of the way through).

mastermattdude · Post by **mastermattdude** » July 26th, 2008, 4:26 pm

bethnor wrote:at ousa i was lucky enough to buy LOTS of the 26" gold foil to finally do the ancient dragon right. as you can imagine, it got very vexing manhandling the square until i collapsed the base.

Same here, I live off that paper as well as the smaller 15" silver foil. My working space isn't as limited as yours (2 ft deep) but when folding increasingly complex models, I feel cramped. Many times I chose to fold a nice, smaller model that is portable and more personal over some epic behemoth.
However, once you coerce the paper into a smaller form, everything is fine. To me it is just the reality of the newer trend in origami (I'm not complaining though, I enjoy making crazy stuff). We just have to adapt adapt to oblige natural selection ( or is it artificial selection

).

JeossMayhem · Post by **JeossMayhem** » July 26th, 2008, 6:30 pm

Turtles and tortoises. Go figure

. And any other creature with a prominent pattern that can be recreated through tesselations.

I've never been a gigantic fan of the bugs... I have Origami Insects and Their Kin as well as Origami Insects I but I can honestly say I've folded only a handful of those models.

I like folding humanoids too but I fail miserably when I try to design them...

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » July 26th, 2008, 7:55 pm

The human form can be very tough-I struggled with it for a long time before I gave in to box-pleating-and learned a few things, too (the torso has to be very short, and the arms and legs have to be very long).

I am less of a fan of the 26" foil. It is big to be sure, but it is limited in its color and it doesn't work too well for complex insects and the like. I tried to fold an insect that I designed, and none of the legs would stay in place. There is not enough foil and the paper is too thick.