Welcome to /po/! We specialize in origami, papercraft, and everything that’s relevant to paper engineering. This board is also an great library of relevant PDF books and instructions, one of the best resource of its kind on the internet.Questions and discussions of papercraft and origami are welcome. Threads for topics covered by paper engineering in general are also welcome, such as kirigami, bookbinding, printing technology, sticker making, gift boxes, greeting cards, and more.Requesting is permitted, even encouraged if it’s a good request; fulfilled requests strengthens this board’s role as a repository of books and instructions. However do try to keep requests in relevant threads, if you can./po/ is a slow board! Do not needlessly bump threads.
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
The ones that have instructions available online. On youtube perhaps. Or some pdf. I personally want:- no 3d geometric tesselations- no wet folding- no glue- no repetitive tedious folding like scales and feathers and patterns- folded from reasoable-sized square paper, like 20cm x 20cmPicrel are Jacky Chan's origami duckling and Jo Nakashima's penguin on youtube.
Fantasma by Anibal Voyer:https://www.origami.cz/Pdf/ghost.pdf
Hadi Tahir’s cars and tanks. You can easily find instructions online.
Pizza Cube
>>627353pizza cube
>>629901I doubt any of those boxes contain pizza. It's more of a pizza box cube. Or a pizza box box.
>>629914>Or a pizza box boxdo you think it contains even more pizza boxes inside? what if there is a separate, smaller pizza box box inside? We could have a pizza box box pizza box box.
I want to make my own then post it here but pizza goes cold when I order takeaway
pizza...
floppa cube
a GOOD new thread on /po/? impossible.
Does anyone happen to have this book to share?
>>629842I'll see if I can get my hands on a copy at the convention this year.
>>629843Thanks for the reply. That would be amazing.
>>629833Cool. Now if someone would share the rooster diagram from Origami Inside-out Premium my collection would be complete. Yeah, I got a thing for origami roosters.
>>629830>>629837I missed...why deleting the file to begin with?
Could someone please share OTM 218 or if not the entire magazine then just Shuki Kato's Halloween Bat diagram?
Is papercraft as a hobby dying?
>>591172>slow boardjesus christ the top thread is 5 years old
>>591424My origami addiction cost me my marriage.
>>629913please, it's not even the oldest onetry 10 years old
I wouldn't say it is dying. I recently discovered origami in 2025 and I have been keeping up and learning the hobby ever since. Is the hobby dying on the internet? yes. Many of the origami club websites are either inactive or dead due to the rising cost.
>>591172why would it be dying? its timelessjust make your own paper with like hemp or somethingsomething around you instead of killing treesbut if its already made whateverhowever buying it exacerbates the crime
yo /po/ i lost all my papercrafting files when my computer died a couple years ago. i'm trying to get back into it. there are 2 i'm having a particularly hard time finding and i was hoping you all could help me:1) the cleaned up version of this charmander (pic) 2) blue cucco (or any cucco) from the legend of zelda https://paperkraft.blogspot.com/2009/01/zelda-papercraft-cucco.html <-- the link to the papercraft on this blog is brokenthanks in advance if you have it or any other of your favs you want to share.
I tried to find them but couldn't because the site for the company (chokipeta.jp) is down for charmader this the cleanest I found although still blurry And for the other couldn't found , maybe try asking on /vp/ or perhaps ask in some Japanese forum if they have it (I tried looking internet archive and couldn't find anything, I also tried 4chan archives because I saw a discussion that said there was a thread in /po/ in 2007 about chokipeta but every archive that I could find didn't go that far back)
>>629917thanks /po/mie you a real one
>>629923No problem anon I hope the charmader helped you and sorry about the cucco one
I have tons of stuff, but since I can't upload pdfs here anymore I don't know how to host.
Looking for this out similar cardboard masks, this one looks neat, looks AI, but looks doable
>>629927Here starlord
>>629928
>>629927If you want a recommendation start searching for "pepakura masks" you might find what you need
Anyone happen to have a copy of this promo papercraft for Super Paper Mario? I believe it came with the August 2007 issue of Famitsu-been trying to find it for awhile now!
>>629764SpecificallyA Famitsu DS+Wii mag from June 07
bumping!
There's one on ebay right now. I don't know if I am allowee to link?Super Paper Mario Nintendo Wii Promo Japanese Diorama? Dragon Kit Bowser Peach
>>629765got slightly scammed, the seller said it included the diorama. It can with a papermario notebook, not the diorama. he said the diorama pieces where in the notebook.Maybe a translation issue, i could tell the seller was using google translate to message me back.
I have an AI generated sphere and I would like to create (or get a start on, since the back isn't shown) a longitudinal-gore for printing and turning into an irl sphere.Does anyone have an idea of any good mapping software that can help accomplish this?
>>629853unless you post a real mapping software, I'm going to push all your precious threads into the archive.
>>629855Go ahead, push away.
>>629849Blender is free
>>629849That looks like a bakugan
AI is like gooning, you don't admit to doing it in public places
wanted to pick up origami again (last time I was doing it was pre-school), does anyone know any comprehensive english-language books for beginners?
Hi, I'm looking for some papercraft sources, like Creativepark, with papercrafts that I can do with kids aged 9-12. Those papercrafts need to be simple, because those kids have been raised exclusively by youtube shorts brainrot, and anything too difficult fries their brains. They need to be doable within 40 minutes.It'd be great if someone had some papercrafts of flowers that could be later used to decorate a classroom.Thanks
Where am I? This isn't /pol/.
>>629875skill issue. if you are brave enough /pol/ can be anywhere you are.
>>629872nonce
>>629904I'm a teacher.
What's best papercraft site
Internet
>>629025/po/
>>629025Your looking at it bud
I swear I might be the only person making this kind of origami. I've been doing this since 5th grade after getting obsessed with Pacific Rim and making Kaijus and Jaegers out of paper. Somehow it evolved into this. I've seen other people try, but most end up wetting the paper or crumpling it too much until it gets soft and brittle. That's not how I do it. Thinking of selling some of these. Anyone wanna buy one?
>>629686fuck you, i would take 2 and a half OP's over your foolish negativity
>>629567This is the first truly cursed object I’ve seen on /x/. I’m glad you posted it in the right board. /po/ would not have appreciated this.
F I N G E R N A I L S
I let my toenails get a bit rag, but usually wear socks if i wear sandals. Its funnily embarrassing when i go no socks at the wawa and see females. but really, how often do you stop to look at a man's shoes? Origami looks good tho granted im no authority
>>629668>>629678>>629690arigatou gozaimasu i challenge you mfs to do my origami, my methods are just too complex
Hello, please help me. How to make a mechanism inside a cardboard postcard. Like in the movie "Valentine's Day 2001", I can't find it anywhere. Maybe someone has a diagram.
