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does anyone can share diagrams of multipiece origami like Isseis t-rex ? seems to be very rare.
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>>629536
https://www.origami-shop.com/diagrammegratuitsquelettestegosaureorigami-xml-2658_2170_2177-13620.html
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>>629662
thank you bro
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So? anything else, guys ?
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>>629642
I watched that kino
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I'm disappoint. no one interested.

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Has anyone used just paper to make terrain pieces for their wargame, sort of like pop up sets like pic related?
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You guys got any Elven buildings?
I started a campaign with my 8 year old and my wife but would like to add a tangible element to it.
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https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/585522/print-paste-textures-high-elf-buildings
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do you guys talk about drawing too ? you know : paper related ?
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>>629890
never seen it discussed here.
drawing sort of has its own board >>>/ic/
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since >>629221 I only made a shitty box following a tutorial by a 30-year old man making videos of himself sporting painted nails and plastic elf ears. Thank you for keeping this thread alive.

Hey guys I got a first time origami request is there any great easy to do tricks? I haven't done origami yet so unrelated photo please don't flame
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foldy foldy paper paper
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Learn how to be W chad anon
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>>629882
yes, there are many.

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Maaaaaany years ago, we had a really good thread with youtube recs for origami channels that had medium and advanced stuff and not just kiddy things. I subscribed to tons of stuff and never looked back.

Now for tldr reasons I won't got into, I lost all my subscriptions. There are a few channels I remember the names and I've already re-subscribed, but overall I'm at a loss (especially since many of those recs had the names in Japanese). Searching for origami on youtube now throws a lot of slop.

By any chance, does anyone have those amazing recs?
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>>629845
I think AI generated content doesn't work for paper folding so it'll be a good field.
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>>629848
AI generated content doesn't work for anything, but people who publish it don't care about being helpful.
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Op here. These are the ones I managed to re-find so far, but I know the list was way longer.

FearlessFlourish
Fendy Origami
Folduction
Gathering Folds
Happyfolding
jeremyshaferorigami
MarianoZavalaOrigami
Masterozo78
origamikaaakun9518
jonakashima
origamibyboice
PrwOrigami
tadashimori

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>>629845
Ino87. Really good pokemon models with really detailed instructions. Breaks down the crease pattern in steps, so the videos also great for learning to fold from patterns.

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What is your favourite thing to make?
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>>629762
is this your work?
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I've been making little unicorns and leaving them around work to mess with a coworker
**he doesn't know he is a replicant**
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>>629696
Funny you say that. They were full of wax and I included a book of matches. Burned bright.
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>>628169
This makes me sad, because when i was a child, i wanted really badly to come up with something on my own, i made a dinosaur, it didn't take me very long to figure out, but i made it without any instruction or googling, just my prior origami knowledge, i made that dinosaur almost exactly.
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>>629878
great minds think alike. you should cherish that you've come up with it on your own.

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I was looking for for my copy of ChronoTrigger in the basement when I came across this box from when I was 15/17. These are some of the letters and notes girls used to send me. Most of them are folded normally. However some of them range from unusual to insane. The origami folded ones I literally haven't opened in 15+ years because I don't wanna fuck up the folds trying to get them back the same way. Is this a thing or was I just living in a different timeline?
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>>629454
we used to fold paper in this style back in school but not for love messages but to play some kind of randomiser game with different stuff written behind each flap
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Damn, this takes me way back. I autisticly saved ever note I ever got. I may pull out the box and snap some pictures. It was no secret that every girl knew how to fold like this. God knows where they all learned it. Seems like there was one that was most commonly used where I was from and it was similar to this >>629456. Occasionally they'd include a little pull tab for easy opening. Clever girls.
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>>629456
I got this one ALL the time from multiple girls in middle to high school.
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>>629454
>I don't wanna fuck up the folds trying to get them back the same way
that was the origin

i'm 49
it was a lock
they all learned to fold in middle school
most people couldn't open it without her knowing, that was the point
plus "pretty"
they kept them in their rooms hidden wherever
inside secret openings in the plastic cover of their trapper keeper
if it was long, she would work on it at different times, using different pens

it's just one of those things girls used to do
when hens gaggle up, shit gets weird

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>>629866
thanks for sharing, anon.

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Recently I got inspired by this guy who models their cosplays with cardboard and I got surprised by how good the round shapes ended up look like.
I only want to make a mask with round shapes but every tutorial I found uses straight strokes for the template and I want to know if I can find more information of how to do it the other way
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>>625421

For searchable terms: a **dart** is the sewing/pattern term for the type of cut shown in your helmet pattern photo used to turn a flat surface into a ball-like curved surface. The opposite concept of adding material to get a saddle-shaped surface doesn't have an exactly analogous term in sewing to my knowledge, but **godet** comes kinda close.
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>>628206

If you just want to start getting your hands dirty, one way to come up with 2d cutting patterns like you see here is to work backwards from 3d to 2d. For example, let's suppose you wanted to design a suit of cosplay armor that will fit you, and you want to know what shapes to cut out of foam or cardboard that can be fitted together into your armor. You get a friend to wrap your whole body in saran wrap, then wrap around that saran wrap with duct tape.

Then you draw on the duct tape with a sharpy and try to partition the surface of into areas that have roughly zero gaussian curvature (either flat-ish surfaces like the front of your chest, cylindrical-ish sections like your upper arm, or conical sections like the taper of your forearm), areas with negative gaussian curvature (pringle/saddle shapes, like where your pectoral muscle attaches to the arm), and areas with positive gaussian curvature (roughly spherical bumps like your shoulders or roughly spherical indents like your armpits). mark each region with a +, -, or 0 according to what its curvature is.

Once you separate the surface into these curvature areas mark each side of each label each side of each sharpie line with a number so you can put it all back together later. Then carefully cut off the saran/duct tape along the sharpie lines, preferably with kiddie scissors so you don't stab yourself.
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>>628207

Now sort the pieces +, -, and 0 piles. The zero pieces should flatten out nicely as they are. They can just be cut out of foam as they are. + and - pieces will stubbornly not want to lie flat as they are.

The (+) pieces will get taught around the edges and loose in the middle when you try to flatten them. They may even tear around the edges if you try too hard. To get it to lie flat, you add some some labeled sharpie lines around the outside then cut them (like in your helmet photo). These are your darts. Do this until it lies flat.

The (-) pieces will get all wrinkly and fold over themselves around the edges if you try to flatten them. to get these flat, you gotta remove some material around the edges. Draw some pizza slices (godots) around the outside and label the edges, then cut the pizza slices all the way out, but hold onto them. Do this until each of the pieces lies more or less flat with no overlap around the edge of each main (-) piece. Now you have a bunch of flat pieces which you can trace onto your cardboard or whatever. Add a little extra size around all edges (except for the edges from darts and godots) so the thing isn't skin-tight. Cut all the pieces, bend them into shape, and glue them together by the edge labels. Now you have some fitted armor.
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>>628208

If you want to learn about this stuff in more detail here are a few different avenues you can dive into pretty deep:

For sewing and patterning stuff: look up Colette Wolff's "The Art of Manipulating Fabric". Which covers darts and godots and a million other things that come in handy for this kinda work.

To learn about the curvature type stuff requires a lot of math background, but generally speaking this is the primary topic of differential geometry of surfaces. Here's a URL to a free textbook pdf: https://docenti.ing.unipi.it/griff/files/dC.pdf

Chapters 1 through 4 would get you to a working knowledge of why the saran-wrap and duct tape method with the +, -, and 0 curvature regions works. Fair warning that diff geo pretty much demands you understand multivariate/vector calculus and linear algebra, and maybe some real analysis.

I have also seen someone mention developable surfaces, which is the principle object of study in paper-folding mathematics, AKA computational origami. That's another fruitful avenue of study, but I warn it's significantly more challenging math than the diff-geo. That being said, you can just use tools other people have made based on this math without understanding it. Here's a list of resources you could use to wet your beak surrounding comp origami: https://langorigami.com/article/computational-origami/
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fuck i need to get into sewing one day

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Hello! I make pepakura for money. Models are usually constructed only once. My pieces are not so much like what we can find online; they tend to be VERY large and intricate, akin to a vg model. This is context for what my advice applies to. If you do it as an easy hobby or stick with truly low poly/tiny part models, a lot won't apply. No pic related just inspo, this is advice dump not my art thread. If you have any questions, why X, tell me more about Z, I am happy to oblige. I rarely use 4chan and wrote this on a whim, sorry if no reply. If you are interested in reaching for the stars with pepakura, here are my personal trade secrets.

MATERIALS/TOOLS
---Do not score the fold lines by hand. If you have a silhouette cameo, go ahead. To fold by hand purchase a glass scraper. I have two, one with a small 1.5 inch blade and another that is 4 inches. Dull the blade. I align the fold line across my fingers, press down with the blade.
---Stop using an xacto knife. Get a snap blade utility knife. I HIGHLY recommend OLFA, XA-1 design.
---Titebond II Premium wood glue. It doesn't cure instantly but that's good, you don't want that. You want to be able to move the tab around into the perfect position before it starts curing. You have a 10 second window to make sure it's in position before it starts curing, then another 10 seconds till you can let go & any tension in the structure won't pull the tab out of place.
---Tiny squeezable craft bottles for glue. One of the bottles I added thicker medical syringe tube. It is long, which is good for when I have to apply glue to a tab which is difficult to access The other bottle has a 1 inch long coffee straw, I use that for when I need a lot of glue then spread it around. When a tab is huge I just open a jar of glue and use a brush to paint it on.
---Dental tools.
---Little neodymium magnets. I rarely use them, usually to hold a tab in place after the glue has already cured to the point that I can let go. See below
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GOING BIG
Working with such large paper models requires support. 3D printing at this scale has so much imperfection, time and risk of failure, it would be very heavy and require a complex web of internal support. As an art form, sculpting/mold pouring also isn't under threat from this tech in my eyes. For my pieces, shoddy woodworking as a skeleton does the job and I pad the areas were wood contacts the paper with pool noodles, pillow filling wrapped in fabric, fire hazard stuff. 120 lb paper is flexible, surprisingly resilient, and the final product is so lightweight it's never going to warp if properly supported. I use wood glue so the paper will rip before the tabs will ever become unsecured.
I've had to finish assembly after transport on site, that's something I avoid, logistic crap. I tend to base the size of my largest pieces around standard dimensions. Standard height of a ceiling, standard width and height of a door and double doors. LxWxH is not a determine factor, you can maneuver a piece diagonally and twist it around to make it fit through a frame.
MODELING
idk. I have no formal training. I studied art from my favorite games, Bloodborne and Dark Souls, looked at art, texture-less models. At first I only made symmetrical models and added asymmetrical parts afterwards. Just get blender go on youtube and practice. I copied a bunch of low poly tutorials and then my first model was a huge leap into complexity. If you're making a cat and the proportions look weird just look at a reference and keep messing with it till it seems right. Once you have the proportions right you can make the polygons look more geometric-y. I am not a creative person. I do this in reverence of objective beauty and other's art, try to reverently replicate it in this form. Thanks for reading I hope this helped or inspired you
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thank you for this excellent thread
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Nice thread, cheers for the glass cutting tool tip.
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thank you for these tips
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thanks anon.

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RE-POST REQUEST.
It's been pretty dead lately, not even requests, so I don't know if any one will read this. Can some one please re-post "Origami Pro 7" and "Origami Tanteidan Convention 29". They've been shared everywhere else already, so why not in 4chan?
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>>629790
Thank you very much. I managed to find a better quality version but it's only the Inari Fox diagram tho
https://fr.scribd.com/document/925841084/InariFox
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>>629796
not my cup o tea but thnx.nice 2 know some anons r actualy tryin
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>>629442
>>629790
>>629769

Definitely interested in "Origami Tanteidan Convention book Vol.30" (2025) and more specifically "Magpie 2.0" by Roman Kruzliak (pages 86-100).

I'm working on a master archive of all the OTCB volumes but this one is hard to come by. Thank you!
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Hey can somebody please repost Daily Origami. It was shared in zhezhixueyuan but can somebody please repost it here so everybody can get it.
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Wooooo

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?
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poo
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Poo screaming
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>>547093
goddamn this thread is old, trump wasn't even president!
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>>629688
Nice dubs from /s4s/.
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PeePeePooPoo check

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hi /po/ im a long time observer but first time poster i wanted to share the project im workin on because im tryin to engage with the creative process more. anyway im buildin a giant mask based on pops head from the cartoon regular show because i have a pipe dream that i could get free beer as pops at halloween parties this year! i will try to keep yall updated with pictures and such but here is my first work in progress picture im also open to advice on this project aswell
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>>629822
How many decades did you observe for before posting?
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>>629824
apparently not long enough since he decided to make his own four-reply thread instead of posting in an existing one.

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Is there any beginner foundational stuff you should learn and practice with that prepares you for harder intermediate models? Or do you just attempt random shit from day 1 and fail over and over until things click?
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>>629800
Yep.
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Absolutely. Origami has a pretty learnable foundation, and practicing the right things makes intermediate models dramatically easier.
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>>629801
>>629803
Can you guys give me some suggestions? I’m struggling a lot with reverse folds for some reason. Like the tail of a carp or head of a crane. Idk what I’m doing wrong, but I have to do it enough times where the correct side of the paper shows through.

Btw is it common to have trouble understanding certain steps in videos or images when making a model for the first time? That seems to be a major hurdle as well.

What makes things more complicated is if I try to say what model, there are like 5 different brachiosaurus dinosaur models and idk who the creator is for the specific one I’m working on.
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>>629804
Just do stuff. You learn how the paper folds under your fingers, how small mistakes grow into bigger problems down the line, the speed the persistence and the dexterity are built no matter what you do. Just go do stuff. You will get better no matter what you practice you just have to practice.
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>>629827
but how do i pet the dog, i don't understand

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https://archive.org/download/maly.modelarz.1957-199/maly.modelarz.1957-199_archive.torrent

Scans of Polish paper model magazine spanning over five decades.
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https://archive.org/details/mpmodel_113_messerschmitt_bf-109x
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https://archive.org/details/msmodel_020_yak-38m
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https://archive.org/search?query=Angraf+176+F-35+Lightning+II
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https://archive.org/search?query=Hobby+Model+45+Mig-31+Foxhound
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O cholera.

you have sufficient paper, but you can't leave the room or google anything
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>>629777
Not necessary, but thanks anyway.
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>>629777
cute, would make.
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>>629713
welcome back.
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The only one I made without a template was a gift box for my friend. Otherwise, I don't think I'll survive that bullet

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No Stencil thread? What has happened to /po/ ?
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one more snake
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this one is a little complicated but try your best
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>>629695
Easiest way to attack this is:
Black layer first
White layer second
One last black layer third

But optimized and harder would be:
White layer first
Then black layer second

Those little air holes in the lighter are a
bitch but they're a necessary detail of the
classic zippo
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>>625871
thanks
i will first try using pepe
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