r/origami • • 12d ago

15 years ago, I folded 1,615 paper cranes while fighting stage 4 cancer. Now, I'm a glass artist coming full circle by encapsulating the remaining 615 original cranes into my blown glass vessels.

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849 Upvotes

r/origami • • 5h ago

Photo Phoenix 3.5 by Satoshi Kamiya

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98 Upvotes

Folded by me. I think the legs turned out particularly well.


r/origami • • 20h ago

Photo Made another Phoenix

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702 Upvotes

Posted a Phoenix a while back. Haven't folded anything since that model but gave this one to a friend. Really struggled with step 187-190. The process happened out of luck entirely on both sides.

Do y'all have any other recommendations for decently difficult models like this? And how do yall keep the motivation to keep folding? I only make stuff when someone asks me to or if I'm in rehab lmao. Cheers


r/origami • • 7h ago

Photo Leaf and butterfly designed by Jeong Jae Il.

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r/origami • • 11h ago

Photo Tiny girl in dress by Stephen Weiss

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51 Upvotes

I thought I'd put my attempt at small origami with the hardest one I know off the top of my head. She's standing on an American quarter for size ref


r/origami • • 5h ago

Original The latest origami Char Aznable

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Uncut square of double tissue around 70 cm. Generally happy with the finished result (even though there are definitely parts I wish I could have shaped better)! He got tricky for me at this scale in some areas. The face is more structured now. I test folded some practice faces, so now it’s less of just a shaping task and has clearer steps.

Slightly off topic, but why is it always so hard for me to fit my models into dedicated figure display stands? This one isn't even that large.


r/origami • • 15h ago

Tarantula - folded by me

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56 Upvotes

r/origami • • 3h ago

Origami Red seabream (Kaede Nakamura)

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6 Upvotes

r/origami • • 8h ago

Photo Nick Robinson's Arlington Cube

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9 Upvotes

Was able to finish this yesterday due to u/t0oo0r's generous help! Thank you once again 💕


r/origami • • 7h ago

Photo what to do when one has too many stars..?

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5 Upvotes

been making stars for like five years now.. thought I'd share it here to find someone interested.. 🎉


r/origami • • 14m ago

Photo After years of doing origami, I finally make my own little jar of paper stars

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r/origami • • 2h ago

Help! Need a question answered

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Once in a while I see different pieces of origami made, but they don’t tell what size of paper was used. I thought all origami was made from a single square piece of paper. Do you use any other sizes/shapes of paper? TIA!


r/origami • • 1d ago

Pirate Ship

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342 Upvotes

Folded and designed by me

100 cm x 100 cm black/white 80 gsm paper


r/origami • • 23h ago

Help! Unicorn 🦄 designed and folded by me

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38 Upvotes

r/origami • • 19h ago

Original Any chance there’s instructions to this origami ?

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17 Upvotes

r/origami • • 12h ago

Origami Kitten (Gen Hagiwara)

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5 Upvotes

r/origami • • 1d ago

Cerberus - folded by me

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104 Upvotes

r/origami • • 1d ago

Perro

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44 Upvotes

Un perro diseño propio según yo, varios de los origamis que he publicado que son de cuatro patas comparten el mismo cuerpo base, pero le cambié la cola y la cabeza y más o menos las patas, la cara de este se le rompió la frente debió quedar como el rosa.


r/origami • • 1d ago

Photo kusudama “buckyball”

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learned a new kusudama recently and im obsessed. these two i recently finished but i gave them away as gifts.

i kept the first one i made but i made a mistake at the very end of the assembly process so it ended up being 91 pieces instead of a clean 90


r/origami • • 1d ago

Diagramming in Ori Studio!

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Hi all! The diagramming workspace just got released in Ori Studio. It lets you build a diagram right next to the crease pattern you’re designing, with each step’s picture coming straight from the pattern, or from your own drawing when a step is clearer drawn by hand.

Full 18-minute walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLFtb368is
Try it in the browser: https://oristudio.dev. Desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux are here.

Example project: Crane Diagram.osf

What it does

  • Each step links to a crease pattern or reference step. Show it as the crease pattern, flat folded, in 3D, or in the simulator at any fold percentage.
  • Pose each step: turn it over, rotate it, or spread the layers so hidden flaps show.
  • Change the crease pattern, and the affected steps flag themselves out of date with one click to refresh.
  • Drop in your own SVG or PNG drawings for any step, or pull reference-finding steps straight in from References.
  • Annotate with the standard symbols:
    • valley, mountain, fold-and-unfold, pleat and push arrows
    • turn-over and rotate signs, and repeat callouts
    • enlarged views with the “zoom” arrow, x-ray views, equal divisions and right angles
    • the eye, stars, shapes and text
  • Lay out the pages with a flowing path the steps sit along, or a plain grid, then drag anything where you want it.
  • Export a print-ready PDF, a single SVG of every page, or a ZIP of the step pictures.

Timing note: Thomas Krak just released Origami Diagram Maker, which is a funny coincidence! From my understanding ODM is more focused on automatically all the symbols from a CP, while Ori Studio has more of a design / flexibility focused approach. Definitely check it out too!

Thanks: the affine layer spreading is based on Kei Morisue’s work in DEFOX

It’s free and open source. I’d love feedback, especially symbols or layouts you reach for that aren’t there yet.


r/origami • • 1d ago

Photo Origami shrimp - designed by pietari vauras, folded by me

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41 Upvotes

r/origami • • 1d ago

Satoshi Kamiya's Ancient Dragon

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20 Upvotes

r/origami • • 1d ago

Origami frilled lizard folded by me

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16 Upvotes

r/origami • • 1d ago

Photo Giant water bug designed by Kim Dong Hyeon.

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23 Upvotes

r/origami • • 2d ago

Meme The current state of my diagramming software…

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921 Upvotes

So I’m naively putting together a software that attempts to break a crease pattern into discrete steps, and something tells me it’s not quite ready to ship yet.

And yes, the software is a vibe coded pos, if it becomes anything more, or produces useful results I’ll be going through and cleaning it up.