Crease Pattern Challenge 005

Takashi Hojyo has many beautiful models, with a rare specialty in human figures. Many of these figures follow a signature gridding setup, but some do not. His Shibaraku (Crease Pattern Challenge 5) is very unique comparatively.

Shibaraku refers to the kabuki piece. I don’t know much about the kabukis, so here’s the wiki for it. It’s got an excellent picture of the actor the origami model represents.

There are a lot of elements to this model, including the face, sword, fan, big pants, and lots of clothes details. There’s even ties in the back. I think mine’s ok, but I have some problems, especially with the area around the waist. Also, I think I reversed mine.

I have made this model before, and I’m pretty sure I managed to do the same stupid thing both times. The crease pattern is in OTM 59, but a new, more complex model of the head is diagrammed in 119. I keep thinking the new head is supposed to go on the crease pattern model. It might be doable, but, since I choose paper size based on the small head, it becomes really hard to fit the new one in. This time, I noticed the problem after I folded the updated head separately.

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Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

The fourth crease pattern was developed by Noboru Miyajima. It’s a neat model that uses one square of paper for two characters, a Knight on a Pegasus. I guess the knight would be Perseus, as Pegasus is created by Medusa’s blood (one way or another) when Perseus beheads her. I never thought of Perseus wearing a lot of armour (he gets his shield, hat, and shoes on the way, so I always think he travels light, but maybe he traded them in). Some paintings (such as this time-lapse painting) do have him armoured up. Sculptors tend to disagree. But “Naked Dude on a Pegasus” would probably require different points of articulation.

After I folded the crease pattern, I actually ended up a bit stuck. I folded it fine, but it’s sometimes hard to show specific details in a crease pattern. Instead of a dude on a winged horse, I had more of a squid with too many tentacles. Luckily, Issue 73 had complete diagrams of this model, so I folded that, then went back to the crease pattern to finish it.

I used nearly the same colour paper, so they’re kind of hard to differentiate. I’m pretty sure that the crease pattern one is a bit more streamlined, as you can skip a lot of steps that are more for reference.

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Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

I’m pretty busy this week, so this post is pretty short. I have a few of these challenges done ahead, so here’s the next one.

The third one is a Swallowtail Butterfly designed by Toshiyuki Meguro (Issue 57). I like it, but I couldn’t get the nose as swirly as I wanted.

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Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

I missed one last week and have had a lot of posts of Kamiya models, so here’s another post with a different designer.

Jun Maekawa has some great (as well as famous) models and was chosen for Tanteidan’s second Crease Pattern Challenge (Issue 56). This Devil has also been diagramed in several books. I think the crease pattern version is a little more streamlined, but it may just be easier to fold than when diagramed (some models are that way you know).

His Devil is extremely popular, with some other designers coming up with variations of it. He has some of his own variations in the book “Viva! Origami”, such as the Oni above.

These are not from the crease pattern challenge, but I thought it might be fun to include these Samurai Helmet Beetles (which are also designed by Mr. Maekawa). The earlier one is shown above, while examples of his Flying Samurai Helmet Beetle are below. Diagrams for the flying one can be found in the book “Genuine Origami”. I really like the flying one and almost have it memorized.

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Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

The Japan Origami Academic Society puts out a magazine bimonthly. (And by that I mean once every two months. Not twice a month. It’s a terrible word. Maybe “hexaannually” would be better?) They also have yearly conventions and put out a very nice book that corresponds to each meeting.

Starting with issue 55, the magazine has had a section called “Crease Pattern Challenge”. This is only a single page with a crease pattern for people to try to fold. A crease pattern is just a square with lines on it that represent the final folds of the model. The first of these is actually the “Ancient Dragon” by Satoshi Kamiya. You already know I like his models, and this model is also in his book.

I think there are slight differences between this one and the one in his book. Since I’m going to put up the book Ancient Dragon soon anyway, I’m adding some other models here for, like, flavour, or something.

Kamiya’s Ancient Dragon and Bahamut models are actually pretty similar. While the final Bahamut might not show it, Bahamut BL (or God Dragon Bahamut) looks a bit like the Ancient Dragon.

While Kamiya’s looks like the dragon it’s supposed to, mine looks more like a dragon-bird. I got kind of hung up on there only being two legs, I guess. Still, I think a dragon-raven looks pretty nice.

I accidentally changed Bahamut ZERO as well. As I said before, his Bahamuts have a kind of similar pattern to his Ancient Dragon. Due to that, I ended up folding the ZERO model like a dragon initially and just liked it so much I kept it that way. He’s also got some kind of insect-like mandibles or maybe side teeth. I can’t tell if that’s in the original model too; it’s so shiny.

I hope to stumble through some more Crease Pattern Challenges, but some are quite difficult. So, we’ll see.

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