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Hints and tips?For folding, The best advice is to always fold as cleanly as possible, and take your time. Everything else comes with experience.https://origami.me/beginners-guide/https://origamiusa.org/glossaryWhat are ‘CPs’?Crease patterns are a structural representations of origami models, shown as a schematic of lines; they are essentially origami models unfolded and laid flat. Lines on a crease pattern may be indicated by ‘mountain’ or ‘valley’ folds to show how the folds alternate. If you’re particularly skilled at origami, they become useful instructions for building models. A common base fold is usually discernable, all the intermediate details can be worked on from there.https://blog.giladnaor.com/2008/08/folding-from-crease-patterns.htmlhttp://www.origamiaustria.at/articles.php?lang=2#a4
For each date that I go on, I would like to give my date something that I have folded myself. My first date is the 7th and I will be gifting a crane then.Do you guys have any more suggestions? Traditional is preferred, but contemporary or from something (like an anime or video game since she really likes those) is also welcome. My origami skills need honing, though, since I took a several year long break, so simpler origami is preferred for the time being.Thank you for your help.
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>>628770Neat model, but my experience with papercraft is nil.
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>>628774Very nice, but beyond my skill level. Unfortunately, my grandmother was gravely ill, so I had to nurse her and cancel my dating plans until 2026. The current offer for a date is out to lunch on Wednesday, but she said that she would let me know tonight, since she has some travelling at the end of this week.She did however say that she want to be by my side and that we both want for us to have the best life possible. So that is not to say that there was no progress after nearly a month since my last post. Origami posts will be done tonight, I need to cut some more paper first, though.
>>628774wtf, ts fire, and defnetly rlly hard ;/
it's beautiful
I love this. I'm gonna print it and make this OP.
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made him. despite shitty b/w printer and not being good at this at all. he'll live in front of the blue crystal bookends.
>>628871I guess we're doing greyscale now
I've looked everywhere and can't find anything the artist is called Ingrid Siliakus she does some cool stuff but wondering if she had any templates or does she keep this stuff secret?
>>547093Can't believe this thread is 9 years old.
RIP to the old pinned posts on all the boards. since they died, this thread is the oldest thread on 4chan now. good job
bumping for September 2025.
>>628051>>628052>>628053really nice anon, how long did it take uon another note i had graduated high school three months prior to the creation of the thread
>>547093Welcome to 2026 old thread. Only a few months to go
Teach me how to make a paper crane
Just checked out the entire board completely dead most action this board's gotten years I wonder if my thread will stay up for years.
>>628863I'm a tourist too. Reminiscing about the old days. Thought I would come in here. I want this image to last 5 years. Will it be done?
First time ever coming to this board. I can't believe these threads are years old.
Anyone happen to have Akira Yoshizawa (吉沢 章) first book New Origami Art (新らしい おりがみ藝術) ?I found what looks like it could be a download link from Russian library source Bigenc but I am not in Russia and unable to try it out. If anyone was in Russia and wanted to give it a go, it's this:bigenc.ru/b/xin-rashiiorigamiyun-shu-54592f
>>628790https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyatariorigamigeijuitsu.htm
Not sure if this helps, but I THINK I found a page of it from the National Diet Library: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/books/R100000002-I000002790314
>>628798This is what you found a page of.
I have that book
does anyone else remember lucky stars? those origami stars made by gently tying paper? bc I've never heard anyone else acknowledge them and i think I'm going mad
>>628780Isn’t there a book about this or am I remembering wrong
Welcome, this is a SHARING thread, where you request and share single diagrams (preferably). And I would like to encourage sharing this mockingbird.
>>628814I have both booksDo you have anything to exchange? Write me to: molinas726valentina(@) gmail.com
Does anyone have and willing to share the diagram of this model?
Can anyone please share JOAS Special 2024?I'm interested in the African Penguin diagram
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>Paperboots get smaller
omg boat family
>>623912it makes me sound like a fag but I love how whenever you find build instructions they can be in any possible language. Just looking at the meaningless diagram saying I need to ㄎ歸ㄑ雖ㄙㄩㄜˉ
this is such a wonderful photoi hope you'll have a great day anon
>>623911 Me encantaría saber cómo hiciste el chiquitito.
I also made one just half centimeter long but i think its just obsession to new things
I made this little puzzle box called a soma cube for my girlfriend for Christmas. I was going to make a little wooden box to put it in, wood burn something on it, and then wrap the box up for Christmas with a few other things I have since returned since, well, she broke up with me. I haven't made the wooden box yet, and I'm kind of lost on whether I should finish it up for the sake of completion or if I should just make a paper box and wrap it up just to sit on a shelf, maybe for someone else or the next girlfriend, or just to sit as a trinket.
well i think this is good :)
Someone got a template for a simple box?
merry Christmas!
>>627121can i have it they're so cute
>>627121Thats somewhat sad. I hope you're alright. Nice idea for a present!
A thread for discussion and posting of anything related to sonobe, kusudama, bascetta, Chinese paperfolding and similar stuff.
I'm looking for diagrams for modular 2D stars that really hold without glue. My flagship here is Maria Sinayskaya's Braided Corona star. You know what I mean! But you have to try it out anew each time. So I'm folding my way through the 2D star world—always looking for new models. I'm specifically looking for diagrams or video tutorials for stars that can't be found by simply Googling (sorry. My search skills aren't sufficient beyond Googling, ChatGPT, and this 4chan board). These include:Maria Sinayskaya: Brina Star, Camilla Star, Susanna Star, Tereza Star,Evan Zodl: Interstellar, Maria's Star, and other stars!Usman Rosyidhi: Deca Star; Rotari Star, Sturroya StarMaximilliano Ortiz: both star booksetc.Last but not least, the stars are for an already successful, ongoing social project. I have no personal commercial interest in this, but I would like to expand my portfolio for the project.So please share with me, and thank you very much!
I don't like buying paper but magazines are free. If your browser can translate look up fendy tong he has a lot of cool tutorials up
>>628050Is that "single" or "2-ply", because agazine sheets seem too thin on their own
>>628055I don't get the question. lot of magazines vary in thickness. Those squares are almost thicker than I can use. It is a free travel mag so they are trying to look fancy. Here it is before I finished it and square of it
>>623828Oh hey I have that book.
I want to create a PMC/User Version of Death Wish/Taken where a severly autustic guy who lives in a group home becomes a vigilante after his primary caretaker is killed. No one belives hes the vigilante until they discover his seemingly harmless channel,but in the end he is found not mentally competent to stand trial and is let free. The same incompetent law enforcement that let his caretaker’s brutalized walk free has also let himself walk free..The challenge was to make a mask that was scary and effective while still looking like it could’ve been made by a disabled person. In my original drafts this is supposed to be his “first mask” like he lacks the mental capacity to understand what vigilantism is but he knows that if he gets caught killing people,good or bad,he would get caught (though he’s unaware that nobody would believe he was the vigilante anyways due to his condition). So he constructs a “crappy” mask,but over time the group home teaches him paper mache so he learns to make better and better ones. It’s hard to make something look bad on purpose without it looking… bad. I was inspired by kids making paper Micheal Myers masks mainly.
He doesn't understand the concept of vigilantism,but he has a good moral compass,so he's aware he can go to prison for murder despite the fact no one would believe he's the one doing it. So at first he creates a rather crude mask out of printer paper and tape,but thanks to arts and crafts at the group home he slowly makes better and better paper mache ones.
>>628529keep us posted, friend. This concept is extremely interesting.
>>628529make mask of this.
>>628590it would be scary as fuck, but for real go something like this uncanny badly made distorted way, use it as inspiration.
paper mache with comic book pages and peanut butter to absorb the hero's powers
By chance, does anyone have this book to share?
>>628765bump
Does anyone happen to have this old book to share or trade?
I saw this stop motion animation on YT the other day. Any information you guys have about stop motion or anything related to it would be kind of useful. So I thought I'd start a general discussion here. Share my first attempt at trying to make a stop motion animationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZET06TEYEk
I messed about with some more stop motion this evening. Tomorrow I'm thinking about trying to make a simple walking animation and see how far I can get with that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heOQRELU25A
>>628750it looks cute anon
>>628738>>628750Keep it up, anon. Stop motion is a cool medium.
>>628736Stop motion takes a lot of time and effort but it's pretty fun.This channel has some impressive use of the stuff.https://youtu.be/ly92cA5XyFE?si=pWrL-P-YTF9erMWq
Also there is this, stop motion using multiple angles and a mix of paper and otehr propshttps://youtu.be/ePwOqvJm1ec?si=ucYASCqC9bVQgM6A
anyone who has this model to trade please
>>627438Not OP. That's what I did. :3
>>627439hell yeahsupport the artists and we'll get more
>>617672Fuck off lmaoCommented on a shit ton of posts for what
>>627440cope
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