Chandelure / Haunted Chandelier

Origami, Original Designs

This is another one of my pokemon origami… sort of.

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (110)

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (107)

First off, Chandelure is a ghost fire pokemon that is a haunted chandelier (evolving from an initial haunted candle, which then becomes a haunted street lamp top, and finally the haunted chandelier). He’s from Pokemon Generation 5. I usually screw up the English names of these pokemon (I got the gen 5 games in Japanese, because they came out 6 months earlier than in English). This one has a similar name in Japanese (シャンデラ/Chandela), so I usually remember it alright.

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (104) WKO_040 - CHANDERA (101)

I said “sort of” because my Chandelure is more like an impressionistic version. The original pokemon has 2 arms that split into three bars each, two of which are lit, while mine simply has 4 lit arms. I’ve thought of ways to make it more like the pokemon but haven’t gotten around to it. This is partially because I kind of like mine the way it is. If that’s too annoying for you pokemon fans, just think of it as a generic haunted chandelier.

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (112) WKO_040 - CHANDERA (113)

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (114) WKO_040 - CHANDERA (115)

WKO_040 - CHANDERA (102)

Crease Pattern Challenge 073

Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

This is one of Hojyo’s experimental seeming models. He has a kind of specialty in people models (which are amazing), but he goes out of his comfort zone a lot with interesting models nothing like those.

OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (104)

Mine doesn’t really do this one justice. It looks like he used a stiffer paper, which would probably snap together once you got the folds right. I had this shimmery white paper that I insisted on using which is too thin. It still shows the idea tho.

OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (105) OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (106)

OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (107) OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (108)

OTMCP_073 - SMALL CASTLE 24A - HOJYO (101)

Krypto

Origami, Original Designs

WKO_042 - KRYPTO (102)

How can you not like Krypto, the Superdog? The whole idea really stretches the internal story logic of the Superman story, but it just works. Superman might doubt his purpose, fight himself for some reason, or be basically a different, super dark character, but a super dog is such a loyal and heroic symbol, Krypto feels more Superman than Superman.

WKO_042 - KRYPTO (107)

WKO_042 - KRYPTO (108)

This model was a bit difficult to get the dog and cape/crest with a colour change. He has a little tail too, but that’s a bit hard to see in these pictures. I think he came out ok, and I developed a pretty good nine tailed fox as an offshoot of him.

WKO_042 - KRYPTO (103)

WKO_042 - KRYPTO (110)

American Bison / Buffalo

Origami, Original Designs

I’ve been doing diagrams for some of my models recently, but I still have come up with a couple of new models. The most recent is and American Bison. In the United States, it’s usually called a buffalo, even though it’s not a buffalo buffalo. I usually call it a “buffalax” for unknown reasons.

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (108)

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (101)

I came up with the head first, then the body, then completely changed the head. A bison is fuzzier towards the head, which is shown by a colour flip. The model has ears, horns, and a fuzzy neck thing.

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (103) WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (104)

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (105) WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (106)

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (107) WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (110)

It turned out better than I thought it would. It’s extremely front heavy though, so it needs some help standing.

WKO_053 - BUFFALAX (109)