What is the average age of people on this site

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » April 13th, 2008, 3:37 pm

Earlie in this thread, there was a discussion about how Satoshi Kamiya designed Bahamut at the age of 16.

Looks like I've achieved that goal. MUAHAHAHAHA!!! By the way, I'm 14

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » April 13th, 2008, 6:01 pm

But is your design as good as Kamiya's? And is it folded as well? That is what makes it so impressive.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » April 14th, 2008, 3:00 am

Of course it's not as good as Kamiya's!

Well, actually they look almost the same

It's this one I'm trying to beat.

If you don't know, this is an improved version of the Bahamut folded by Satoshi Kamiya for an origami convention.

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » April 14th, 2008, 6:16 am

Jonnycakes wrote:But is your design as good as Kamiya's? And is it folded as well? That is what makes it so impressive.

No. What makes Kamiya's so impressive is that his was completely original. No matter how great yours is, it was influenced by Kamiya's. Also, his way of forming the claws (feet) was I believe totally original. It was technically an application of a technique used in Maekawa's devil, but still, it's use in creating claws, from the interior of the square was very original.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » April 14th, 2008, 1:08 pm

First of all, it was influenced by the original Bahamut from FF7.

And secondly, I have never seen the cp or diagrams for Kamiya's Bahamut. So how could it be influenced by that? Mine was made from scratch, so it's 100% original! Sheesh!!

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » April 14th, 2008, 1:34 pm

New legs of bahamut are much better! I like it very much!

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » April 14th, 2008, 4:22 pm

Sorry, what I meant was that Kamiya's Bahamut was the first instance of a Bahamut (or really any Final Fantasy figure) in origami. Yours was influenced by seeing his. Not by seeing how to make his. I'm pretty sure the way you made yours is completely different (I assume box-pleating).

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » April 14th, 2008, 4:36 pm

That doesn't mean I can't make my own version

Just because somebody made a model based on a certain subject before everyone else doesn't mean that every other version after that can't be as impressive or better than the original. Sorry for misunderstanding your post. I thought you were calling me a rip-off artist

godzebu · Post by **godzebu** » April 14th, 2008, 6:34 pm

O.K, back to the subject....

I am 28 (for three more months), been folding since I was 10 or 11, almost exclusively following diagrams. Joining this forum gave me the courage I need to fold CPs... so thanks everyone!

I study bugs (Entomologist) for military (Vector surveillances and Arthropod-related diseases).

Happy folding everyone!

Zebu

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » April 14th, 2008, 7:19 pm

angrydemon wrote:That doesn't mean I can't make my own version Just because somebody made a model based on a certain subject before everyone else doesn't mean that every other version after that can't be as impressive or better than the original.

That is certainly true. But your Bahamut looks quite similar to Kamiya's (the first pic you posted). I find it hard to believe that you were not influenced by Kamiya's (not necessarily design-wise, but finished image-wise).

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » April 15th, 2008, 3:03 am

Just remember, Bahamut is a video game character. My model was intended to resemble that Bahamut. I'm sure that when Satoshi was designing his Bahamut he was also having the same thing in mind, so obviously they would look slightly similiar. Anyway, this is starting to go off topic. Let's just get back to discussing how close we are to dying of old age.

By the way, I changed the picture of my Bahamut. I don't want to post to many pictures so just go to my gallery for more pictures.

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » April 15th, 2008, 3:57 am

All right, fair enough. Your interpretations of the video character, though, are still very similar (not saying you copied his).

Back on topic (maybe), a friend once gave me this advice: remember, getting old is just what happens before you die.

Post by **TheRealChris** » April 15th, 2008, 8:39 am

Just remember, Bahamut is a video game character.

The bahamut is a creature out of the pen&paper roleplaying game "Dungeons and Dragons", based on a creature from arabic mythology... modified... as far as I know the arabic Bahamut is more fishlike. I would also speculate that the D&D Bahamut is influenced by the famous lord of the rings drawings of the brothers Hildebrandt.

Christian

Pumpkin · Post by **Pumpkin** » April 18th, 2008, 6:00 pm

I just got here yesterday, and to go back to the original topic, I'm 29....but I'll be 30 on the 27th. I've only been folding for 6 months, and I've found it's addicting!

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » May 5th, 2008, 8:04 pm