WG-Origami

Head part with more detailed creases. Secretarybird is a large bird of prey adapted for terrestrial lifestyle in Sub-Saharan Africa. It's like eagle but with long legs, used for stomping its prey. This bird is endangered due to loss of grassland caused by road development and livestock's overgrazing. I gave it accurate color change and beefy legs to help the model not being recognized as crane. To express the long wings neatly folded behind, I pleated them so it is distinguishable from the tail feather.

Ibex is a type of wild goat found on Eurasia and North/East Africa. Easily identifiable by its long curved horn full of ridges, which is what I'm trying to express here. Nubian ibex is vulnerable to extinction due to competition with livestock and habitat loss. Ibex has been nearly extinct multiple times in the past because of hunting and unable to compete against livestock. The most recent extinction was Pyrenean ibex, in the year of 2000. Image source:  https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/nubian-ibex I want to make my model to be instantly recognizable as an ibex, not a goat. Horn ridges are rather specific for ibex, so I tried to represent that with spike structure commonly used on insect legs.

Helmeted hornbill is a huge hornbill with round casque, featherless throat, spiky hair, and two very long tail feathers.  Unlike other hornbills, its casque is solid (not hollow) and for some reason some people like it. It is sought as valuable item just like elephant's tusk. Overhunting has driven them to be critically endangered. This is the most challenging subject that I've attempted so far.

Adult male proboscis monkey has a large nose that dangle below the mouth. It's like Squidward. Apparently it's used for producing sound and natural selection prefer the louder one. Image credit:  https://eol.org/pages/310436 It is endemic to Borneo and is critically endangered. Coincidentally a comrade in Origami Dan, Naoki , asked me to join force for raising awareness on endangered species. From now on, my every design with endangered species will have the red stamp with tarsier face.

I have made poison dart frog before on the daily challenge , which has potential to be upgraded. The obvious progression path for animal like frog is to add toes. So here I am, adding toes with strip graft.

Frigatebird is a very large sea bird. Its main feature is an enormous wingspan, a long & forked tail, and an air sac on male that can be inflated to attract mate. There are several species of it, and one of it is endemic to Christmas Island in Indian Ocean. They are critically endangered there. If I am lucky I can see them in the bay of my hometown.  This is the second version of my origami frigatebird. I made one before for Origami Dan's November design contest, whose theme was "aerial". The first version looks like this: Top quarter of the paper is folded underneath. Why? Keep reading. Since the topic was "aerial", I wanted to make this bird in flying pose. Something like what we as human will see from the ground. The air sac of course has to be color changed, and it isn't hard to do. However by introducing color change in a bird model with open wings, the wings will be tricky.

The theme for Origami Dan's May design contest was prehistoric human; or anything related to it. I was tired to design complex model, and aimed to make simple model. So I thought of making this roasted meat. Jang Yong Ik's asian black bear and Syn's Adult Syn having a good time.

Crease Pattern Design I made this for April 2021 design contest in Origami-Dan. The theme was "same subject", which later was decided as "parasitoid fungi species affecting invertebrates".

I had the opportunity to join FoldFest Spring 2021, which was hosted by Origami USA in online. We had to pay $40, but looking at the content and opportunity to meet people, I think it was worth it. Through this post I will share my experience on attending it. Prior to this, I had only one origami conference experience which was on Indonesia back in 2014. I felt so good when I met people with same hobby and we can discuss and share knowledge. In FoldFest, I had the same feeling. Even though we can't walk around and meet people in person, the committee of FoldFest used a platform called gather.town, which allowed us to create our avatar and explore the premade map. When we walked across someone, within certain proximity, a video call screen will pop up and we can see/talk to each other. To some extent that substitutes the feeling of meeting in person during conference.

Here we go with the prompt #21 until #27. #21 Ornament: Fleur de Lis The requirement of 3 large flaps and 3 smaller flaps is ideal for bird base with one corner split. The challenge here is to make the curved structure on the sides. I have no other idea apart from doing the loose reverse fold.  #22 Teeth: Helicoprion Helicoprion is a prehistoric shark with teeth on lower jaw that looks like circular saw. I don't have experience on folding teeth apart from Takagi's mosasaurus which used a long flap that gets pleated. To follow that idea, I reserved the entire 1/4 corner for lower jaw. Naturally the upper jaw can be put in the middle to make a bird-base like structure: The remaining corners somehow should form body, tail, and other fins. It doesn't matter which corner should be used for the tail, the body length will the same since any remaining corners will yield the largest possible circle. I picked the lower left and now it became like a full blown bird base. I made a bird...