Origami - Jay Ansill - Mythological Beings PDF
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HEE ea A RUNNING HEADS BOOK
Copyright © 1992 by Running Heads Incorporated.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief
quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information
address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53 Street, New York, NY 10022.
MYTHICAL BEINGS was produced by
Running Heads Incorporated
55 West 21 Street
New York, NY 10010
FIRST EDITION
Editor: Rose K. Phillips
Designer: Liz Trovato
Managing Editor: Jill Hamilton
Production Manager: Peter J. McCulloch
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
al beings / Jay Ansill : photographs by Mark Hill.
p. _ cm.—(Origami today : 1)
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN 0-06-096866-4 : $10.00
1. Origami 1. Title. I. Series.
TT870.A49 1992
736!.982—de20 91-50506
CIP
‘Typeset by Trufont Typographers, Inc.
Color separations by Hong Kong Scanner Craft Co., Ltd.
Printed and bound in Hong Kong by C&C Offset Printing Co. Lid.
92 93 94 95 9% 109 8 765 43 2:1 DEDICATION
———
This book is lovingly dedicated to the memory of my ‘mother,
Marilynn Ansill.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
——a
| wish to thank all of the brilliant and creative folders who have allowed
ie to include their work in this book. Special thanks to Stephen Weiss for
lwlping me find models and folders. John Montroll was also a big help.
‘The following people have contributed in one way or another to bring-
ing this book to life, either by helping to make connections, or by lending
encouragement, support, and inspiration: Lillian Oppenheimer, Holly
Ilurtzell, Jeanne Fisher, Janel Derstine, the staff of the Friends of the
Origami Center of America (in particular Tony Cheng), Dave Venables,
Mumin Shoenfeld, Dave Brill, Pia and David Ansill, Samuel Randlett,
Holly Brown, Bill Masi, Roberta Tucci, Keonaona Peterson, John
Michel, Rose K. Phillips and the staff at Running Heads, and of course
Claudia Balant. Pp >
back up.
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25. Lift top of head
to create mouth.
Be BR
27, Crinap wings: 28. Completed Gargoyle. DAEDALUS DAEDALUS
Daedalus was a highly skilled builder, renowned for building the laby-
rinth for King Minos on the island of Crete. After losing favor with the
king, Daedalus was imprisoned in a tower and decided that the best way
to escape was to fly. He made a pair of wings for himself and a pair for his
son Icarus. During the flight, Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting the
wax that held the wings together, and fell into the sea and drowned.
Daedalus flew to safety in Sicily. Gabriel Alvarez’s Daedalus model is one
of the most graceful and natural in all origami.
2. Preliminary fold.
5. Reverse fold
rear flaps. DAEDALUS
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LL. Lift out 12.
4 layers.
41 DAEDALUS. DAEDALUS
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27. Completed Daedalus. PEGASUS
‘The winged horse is one of the most well-known figures of Greek mythol-
ogy. Pegas
sprang fully formed from the body of Medusa the Gorgon,
who was slain by Perseus. The fountain of Hippocrene on the Muses’
mountain of Helicon was opened with a kick from his hoof. Many folders
have tried their hands at Pegasus. The one presented here was created by
Gabriel Alvarez and begins, like many of the others, with a blintzed bird
base. The base provides the correct number of points to form the head,
tail, legs, and wings. Alvarez has captured the beauty and stature of this
gentle creature.
44 HO PEGASUS FLAPPING DRAGON
One of Stephen Weiss’s specialties is coming up with figures that reflect
the whimsical side of origami. Some of the most humorous pieces are the
ones that can be made to actually do something. When this dragon is
grasped at the bottom of the tail and lower neck and gently pushed a bit
toward the middle, its wings will flap!
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1 2. Petal fold 3 3. Fold 4 corners. 4.
comers.
AN,
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7. Stretch fold.
Repeat on all 4 corners.
5. Swivel fold. 6. Pleat in
eighths.
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8. Pull out flaps from inside.
9, Squash fold.
LB
10. Petal fold both sides. oy
11. Rabbit ear.
FLAPPING DRAGON 13. Mountain fold.
Repeat behind.
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FLAPPING DRAGON
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12. Pull both flaps on left.
Mountain fold outer points up;
this will bring inner points down.
oe
13a. Detail of inside 13h. Tuck under flap
of wing. Crimp fold. on other side. Repeat
Repeat on opposite ‘on opposite wing.
wing.
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15. Rabbit ear, Pull bottom jaw. FLAPPING DRAGON:
15a. Outside
reverse fold.
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16. Reverse fold foot.
15b. Repeat on all 4 legs.
Crease as shown.
s
a
18. Completed Flapping Dragon.
17. Reverse fold foot. Push in at arrows to make wings
Repeat on all 4 legs. flap. WOODLAND ELF
This clever model, created by Stephen Weiss, is a good example of using
pleated paper—a technique pioneered by Neal Elias. The use of pleated
paper has opened up new possibilities in designing origami figures,
although the proportions of certain models may require the use of
rectangular paper. Here the arms and legs of the elf are stretched from
the pleated base. Even today, people still believe in the “little people.”
When an old woman from Galway was asked if she believed in elves or
leprechauns, she replied firmly, “No, but they're out there!” WOODLAND ELF
2
1. Use 2 X 3 rectangle, color side up. 2. Pleat in sixteenths.
Crease.
legs.
torso
3. Pull single layer up 90° to long portion. 4. Starting from the third comer bottom
Each pleat must be swiveled up and back on each side of leg pleats, stretch the
on corresponding long pleat below it. Work pleats to separate the legs. Note that
back and forth from bottom to top, moving stretching brings all folded edges up
layer up a little at a time. even on top and the layer of the center
ill rise up from the bottom to allow
this at the middle folded edge.
4a, Excess paper around
the crotch is pushed in to 4b.
wrap around vertical center
edge of body as best it can. WOODLAND ELF
Xp 5. Stretch one arm.
Reverse fold 2 corners.
a
Sb. Repeat behind.
mL
us
5» AS
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7
7. Rabbit ear arm,
Repeat behind. Color
change base by wrapping
a single layer to the
outside on each side.
‘Then open base out flat.
\
8. Outside reverse fold.
et
Tat
6. Make 2 ordered 90° reverse folds
with layers even on both sides. Note
that the distance (a) between reverses
equals the width of one pleat.
G
i Va
9. Mountain fold all 4. WOODLAND ELF
WAN
= 10b. Valley fold Oe. Crimp neck and
and fold bottom round head to make
10. Open up head layer up inside. 3-D. Softly rabbit ear
so it lies flat. back of hat.
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aa
11. Spread mushroom cap from
about ‘4-way from top of pleats
to top of base.
14. Hook interlocking flaps
13. Mountain fold. to complete mushroom cap.
57 WOODLAND ELF
15. Mountain fold joint to lock.
Mountain fold edges to round out
mushroom, fold corners underneath. 16. Round out mushroom stem and legs.
17. Completed Woodland Elf. CENTAUR
A centaur has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse.
structor of Achilles and other
Cheiron, the most famous centaur, was the i
distinguished legendary Greek heroes. Cheiron is seen in the night sky
as Sagittarius, the Archer. Neal Elias’s interpretation of the centaur is
quite ingenious. It is made from 2 X 1 rectangle. CENTAUR
4, Make large rabbit ear. 4
& A.
9. Stretch and let singe
8. thickness move out, then
press into shape. Watch X.
7. Squash and petal fold.
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x x
io.
Ha. Squeeze tail flat
a. - then fold in half.
12 13. CENTAUR
15.
16.
19. Stretch fold. Repeat behind.
18. Fold inside. CENTAUR
x ap
Iran abe
20. Pull out loose paper. 21. Make body 3-D.
22, Completed Centaur. REARING DRAGON
This model by Mare Kir
Winged Dragon. The Re
e mouth opens menacingly, and its remarkably
chenbaum is a variation on Robert Neale’s
« Dragon has more detail, however, espe-
cially in the head.
sinister-looking eyes are formed from the reverse side of the pap
| very complex and imaginative models
Kirschenbaum has created sever:
all of which carry his distine
ET
.
—<
ve stamp.
64 REARING DRAGON
&
27.
26. Bottom of head: form jaws 27a. Top of head:
s0 as to reveal the eyes and shape head and neck.
fold in sides of jaws.
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28. Crimp while curling wings. 29. Shape wings by
using reverse fold.
30. Completed Rearing Dragon. SHIVA SHIVA
Shiva, the Hindu god known as “the Destroyer,” is shown here in the
guise of Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. This beautiful work by Robert Lang
is quite a challenge to fold, particularly in the shaping of the arms and
legs. But this is what gives the figure its distinctively Indian character.
Lang has proven here that practically anything can be folded from a
square of paper.
Pinch.
1. White side up: 2. Fold and unfold
fold and unfold. la. Pinch only. all the way across.
4. Make a hybrid preliminary
3. Fold points to last crease. fold/water bomb base.
5. 6. Crease angle bisectors.
71 SHIVA
Be a
7. Open sink. 8. Open out and push up 9. Reverse fold.
paper from the inside.
GeO Oe
10. Close up. 12. Repeat steps 5-12 on right.
13. Squash fold. 14. Inside petal fold.
15.
72 SHIVA
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18. Crease. 19. Unwrap one layer.
r Note reference point. Va
22. pa out ) $. 24. Enlarged view of
23. tip. Fold and unfold.
4 28, Swing 2 parts
26. Spread 27. Sink. up in back. SHIVA
OR.
29. One layer 30. Detail of head.
each side.
anit
Shape head and ears. 34. Leave middle
flap (see step 33).
nnn to
match,
Note: this
Xin i is
il over.
oe
36-38 here.
39. Shape one
limb at a time.
74 ‘SHIVA
Pa 40. Front arm, right side
‘of model (Shiva’s left).
41. Outside ¥
reverse fold. ao Narrow and Squash fold.
round arm. Sink 43. Left front arm. 44, Round arm.
tip of hand. Sink tip.
4 ¥
4 . i!
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46. Round leg. y
Open at foot.
45. Left leg. AT. Right leg. 48. Round leg.
Open at foot.
Bh, te
49. Right rear arm.
es
Naat
51. Repeat steps 49-50 on
left, except curl hand. 52. Completed Shiva.
75, UNICORN
he unicorn is well known as the gentlest, loveliest beast in legend.
rtists’ depictions have varied from goat-like to horse-like in nature.
tephen Weiss has created a model that depends on equine features to
ive grace and power to this horned wonder. UNICORN
o>
2. By folding the top and bottom
corners to the creases made in
step 1, the paper forms a7 * 9
rectangle.
~ | Bw o
4, Squash fold tip. 5. Petal fold. 6. Valley fold.
9, Squash fold.
7 UNICORN
KK
10. Inside petal fold flap. 11. Crease. 12. Using crease as
a guide, petal fold,
raising horizontal
folded edge while
folding sides in.
13. Valley fold front 4.
leg up crease, angle
bisector on hind leg.
16. Swivel. 17. Repeat steps 8-16
‘on bottom.
78 A
® UNICORN
Ja, Crease mane. Tuck under flap.
ouble rabbit ear to round out horn.
22. Rabbit ear repeat behind.
Sink breast. Double rabbit ear.
Repeat behind so leg points to the right.
23. Mountain fold, repeat behind.
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24a, Squash. 24b. Completed
Repeat on all hoof.
4 legs.
25. Completed Unicorn. LONG-TAILED DRAGON
81 LONG-TAILED DRAGON
Matthew Green's dragon requires a good deal of patience, but the result
will prove worthwhile. This dragon is of the winged lizard variety, with its
thin body and long tail. This model requires foil paper in order to retain
the folds and shape the figure.
3. Squash fold front and
back large points.
1. Color side up, precreased 2. Refold along precrease
for Water Bomb Base. as shown.
e&
5. Fold the comer of
the left half of the top
4, Fold up the bottom flap to the right, so
triangle; repeat behind. that its bottom edge
lines up with the white
flap 2 layers beneath.
6. Fold the point back 7. Fold the point’s
to the right, creasing left edge to the
along the vertical center center crease.
crease of the model. LONG-TAILED DRAGON
8. Repeat steps 5-7 on v
right, then on the back
2 flaps. Unfold. 9. Pull out the white 10. Assemble as shown,
comers to reveal all both front and back.
of the new creases.
es
11. Fold the colored portion 12. Reverse fold up 13. Open up the top flap
of the front in half. the point A. to reveal the corner of
the paper.
14. Form a rabbit ear fold 15. Fold the flap 16. Repeat steps 11-15
by pinching and lifting the closed again. oon the back.
colored comer and folding in
the edges along the precreases. LONG-TAILED DRAGON
pp |
7. Pull one layer only 18. Fold the whole flap 19. Sink fold to narrow
‘om the right to the left, down to the bottom. the left side.
oreading open some
iside creases.
as
be~
20. Again, sink then 21. Repeat the two sinks 22. Fold the left half to
reverse fold the 2 inner on the right. the right, rotating up the
layers and the pointed triangular flap at the
flap all the way to the same time.
left.
NX \
VA. \ KX ( >.
y) NY >
23. Repeat steps 17-22 on 24. Petal fold, 25. Fold the triangle on the
he back. Then, squash fold front and back center down and up again.
the white flaps. (only white ‘Then, open up the white by
portions shown pulling out the colored points
here). on the sides.
84 LONG-TAILED DRAGON
A 27. Fold the top right
flap over to the left.
26. Form the front and back
opened sections into half bird
bases.
abs Ap ty
28. Rabbit ear fold the 29. Repeat the rabbit 30. Perform a double rabbit
right flap, then undo ear along the same ear, one on each layer of the
and fold the flap to the creases, reversing them, top flap. At the same time,
left. then undo. spread the flap open. You
may need to reach inside.
. wae
o> SS
31. Fold 2 layers from 32. Repeat steps 27-31 on 33. Reverse
the left to the right. the left, then on remaining sides. the sides in.
85 LONG-TAILED DRAGON
vy
34. Sink to narrow on 35. Fold the top edges 36. Fold the small edges,
the left and right. into the middle and revealed in step 35,
squash triangle. into the center.
37. Tum over. 38. Petal fold the top flap. 39, Narrow the left and
right flaps as in steps
28-30.
“Os
* NA
). Reverse fold the top AL. Narrow the points 42. Reverse fold out
int from the bottom at the by reversing the extra the 2 hind legs.
i and right so that the width in, then turn
ints are a bit inside of the the whole thing over.
) comer of the wings. LONG-TAILED DRAGON
aie ae
43. Thin out the legs by
reversing in the extra
width.
46. Reverse fold out
front legs and feet.
Also, double reverse
fold the neck backwards
and double crimp
out a jaw.
44. Reverse fold the legs
down, then reverse fold 45. Mountain fold the
out feet. Pull the tail figure in half down the
down spreading point X. middle and fold the wings
up, on a crease right
next to the body. There
are many layers in the
body, so this can be
difficult.
47. Fold the wings loosely along
the existing creases. Form head.
48. Completed Long-Tailed Dragon.
87 CERBERUS
Cerberus, the fierce three-headed dog, guarded the gates to Tartarus, the
underworld kingdom of Hades and Persephone. He kept living mortals
from entering and prevented ghosts from escaping.
Robert Lang adds his characteristic detailed touch to this Cerberus
model. To create it, he took John Montroll’s “dog base” and devised a way
of giving it three heads.
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