Something I had still laying around...
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zondag 11 mei 2008
dinsdag 18 maart 2008
Chocobobobobo!
Got new paper. Not fancy paper or anything, just plain white for now...to practise. It is way stronger than the coarse paper I had, so that`s an improvement. The downside is I can only get sizes up to 30cm square...
Tried and obviously didn`t succeed completely. I could blame the paper, but I wont. It wasn`t precisely square (off by a mm or so) wich has HUGE consequences for the final result. The toes didn`t turn out as pointy as they needed to be (mainly because there are some really small folds in there) and also the back of the head needs to be pointier. But the worst thing and I dont really know how that happened, one leg is longer than the other... Ah well, this was my third attempt at a Kamiya design, so I guess I could have done worse. It`s very fun to do tho, trying to figure out how to read the instructions. Going from form to form where only at the end you see how everything comes together.
Tried and obviously didn`t succeed completely. I could blame the paper, but I wont. It wasn`t precisely square (off by a mm or so) wich has HUGE consequences for the final result. The toes didn`t turn out as pointy as they needed to be (mainly because there are some really small folds in there) and also the back of the head needs to be pointier. But the worst thing and I dont really know how that happened, one leg is longer than the other... Ah well, this was my third attempt at a Kamiya design, so I guess I could have done worse. It`s very fun to do tho, trying to figure out how to read the instructions. Going from form to form where only at the end you see how everything comes together.
vrijdag 29 februari 2008
In other news: Paper owns!
Some time ago, I got this totally wicked origami-book "Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003". Kamiya is like, a total origami master and he makes the most beautiful stuff. Be sure to google him. And while you`re at it, check Eric Joisel as well.
So I was looking through my bookcase and decided I was finally going to attempt to fold one of his designs myself. Safe to say this a whole different ballgame from the stuff I used to fold like boats, paper planes and the occasional crane. But finally I managed to finish the Eagle Ray design (yay)...at almost 2 times the recommended paper size...
Ayway, here it is (top and bottom view):
As I was folding this, I noticed that the paper I used wasn`t quite suitable for this. I used ordinary sketching paper...the recyled kind (the only paper I had lying around on that size; 25cm square). Which is so coarse it felt like it was breaking on the first folds. Next week I gonna check at the printshop wether they have some finer paper for this.
So I was looking through my bookcase and decided I was finally going to attempt to fold one of his designs myself. Safe to say this a whole different ballgame from the stuff I used to fold like boats, paper planes and the occasional crane. But finally I managed to finish the Eagle Ray design (yay)...at almost 2 times the recommended paper size...
Ayway, here it is (top and bottom view):
As I was folding this, I noticed that the paper I used wasn`t quite suitable for this. I used ordinary sketching paper...the recyled kind (the only paper I had lying around on that size; 25cm square). Which is so coarse it felt like it was breaking on the first folds. Next week I gonna check at the printshop wether they have some finer paper for this.
zondag 11 november 2007
Continuing in English
I`m sorry for a few, but I think most people who read my blog wont mind. I started this blog in Dutch because I thought only dutch would find, read (and maybe follow) this blog. During the course of the international collaborative project we had (project link is in the common link section, `samenwerkingsproject`) I made some friends who asked me to continue in English... They asked nicely, so how could I resist?
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