The Origami Forum

Just something I was thinking about today...
What is your favorite model to fold?
For example, my favorite is Satoshi Kamiya's Deinonychus. The CP isn't hard, yet it is still fun to fold. I have made about 5 of them, out of almost every paper I have: notebook paper, kami, kraft, and double tissue. This CP is just really fun, and the finished model looks great too, even with notebook paper.

So, what is your favorite model to fold? Note that I am not asking your favorite model; nobody say Ryu Jin, we all know you're probably lying.

I love Lang's Acrocinus Longimanus. I always fold it when I get a new paper, because I think it demonstates well the versitality of the paper. I have made a tissue foil one, a super thin craft one (bad), a tant one (BAD), a copy paper one (REALLY BAD), and an art paper one (SO BAD I ALMOST PASSED OUT).

Another model I like folding is mikillers gabriel. It's pretty cool too.

mine is max hulme's jack in the box.... all my non-origami friends (which is all my friends) think it's the coolest thing they've ever seen. it also happens to be the most complex model I can fold by heart.

i think i most enjoy making Fujimoto's Crowding Butterflies...although I've been really into The Last Waltz lately as well.

I love Max Hulme's Jack-in-a-box too, it's a great model to show friends and really does pop up.

It's not that hard to fold from memory either.

I really like Ryu Jin 2.1, and it is a lot of fun to fold it, each time I fold it differently, depending on time I spent on it or imagination I put into folding, and when you fold it for the 4th time it ain't so complex at all

Haha, definitely not Satoshi's Phoenix. I've folded five or six of them. Hated it every time. I only kept folding them because I realized that my previous ones were incorrect.

Cerceda's Macaw. Comes together nicely, only takes a few minutes, and perches on a glass.

Quentin Trollip's pig- it is not too hard and has some pretty interesting manouvres. Also, I like that there can be quite abit of artistic shaping!!!

my personal favorite is surely the kawasaki rose. lately the more complex version jumped on top of the list of favorite models

Fujimoto's Apple ranks pretty high for me. Also Satoshi Kamiya's Kirin-- but I'd have to say Hideo Komatsu's Horse is probably my favorite. Something about the way that guy sequences folds makes his diagrams so fun to fold from!

Fumiaki Kawahata's Cat Herr and Nguyen Hung Cuong's Owl are both very satisfying and quite aesthetic. They also both do well with most different types of paper. All in all, they are my favourites to fold.

I'd agreed with AHudson, anything by Komatsu. I was disappointed there was nothing of his in this years Tanteidan. If only he ever got around to finishing his book!

Also some of Roman Diaz's stuff, like his elephant and horse, again for the folding sequence plus the chance to use some liberal shaping at the end.

My favorite model to fold over and over is Fumiaki Kawahata's Yoda... I've folded it so many times now that I've got it memorized (not that astounding of a feat actually, I'm sure people have more complex models memorized) and it's fun to fold for someone who's got a few minutes and wants to know why I think origami is such a cool hobby. Most people have only ever seen a few traditional models and folding them an accurate, color-changed model of Yoda tends to blow their minds while demonstrating that origami has come a long way since those traditional models.

Ahudson, can you tell me where the diagrams for fujimoto's apple are? I too find it a very pleasing model, and would love to find the diagrams.

Thanks