I designed an elephant (photo)

lotsofsnails · Post by **lotsofsnails** » October 14th, 2008, 10:09 pm

I've never done an Elephant before, I'm quite pleased with it even though the body proportions are wrong

what do u think? it's only the second draft.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » October 14th, 2008, 10:24 pm

The head looks quite good, in my opinion. The only problem is that, as you said, the proportions are completely wrong. It seems to have a gigantic butt and its belly is gone.
If you figure out how to fix the body proportions then this will be a fine elephant.

Have you got a CP of it, or were you simply doodling around when you made it?

lotsofsnails · Post by **lotsofsnails** » October 14th, 2008, 11:12 pm

Adam wrote:The head looks quite good, in my opinion. The only problem is that, as you said, the proportions are completely wrong. It seems to have a gigantic butt and its belly is gone.
If you figure out how to fix the body proportions then this will be a fine elephant.

Have you got a CP of it, or were you simply doodling around when you made it?

thanks for the feedback. I don't think there's a way of making the proportions more realistic, but I guess not everything in origami has to be completely accurate. All my models are made from just folding randomly until something appears. This one is made from a sort-of blintzed bird base, but with 30° angles.

ftangdude55 · Post by **ftangdude55** » October 14th, 2008, 11:25 pm

Nice job on the elephant, Lotsofsnails!

Hooray for Doodling!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » October 14th, 2008, 11:48 pm

Well, to solve the butt-issue you could maybe use crimp folds, so that it doesnt stick out that much. And if you then shorten the legs a bit then I think It might look a bit better. It'll probably have a relatively large head then, though, but I'm not sure.

Oh, and congratulations with designing your first elephant

lotsofsnails · Post by **lotsofsnails** » October 15th, 2008, 3:38 pm

ftangdude55 wrote:Nice job on the elephant, Lotsofsnails!
Hooray for Doodling!

thanks

Adam wrote:Well, to solve the butt-issue you could maybe use crimp folds, so that it doesnt stick out that much. And if you then shorten the legs a bit then I think It might look a bit better.

ok, I'll try and re-do the back end of it. thanks.

lotsofsnails · Post by **lotsofsnails** » October 19th, 2008, 8:09 pm

ok here's the 4th draft:

(sorry about the bad pic quality)

is it better now?

Mars · Post by **Mars** » October 19th, 2008, 8:46 pm

WOW!
That's a great refold of your previous elephant!
If you remember how to fold it, you could probably enter it for origami_8's yearly Christmas Origami Book!
Just go here for information

Post by **origami_8** » October 19th, 2008, 8:58 pm

That's a really sweet Elephant! Diagrams for it would be great!

floopate · Post by **floopate** » October 20th, 2008, 9:06 am

congratulations on a wonderful elephant! its pretty!

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » October 20th, 2008, 12:51 pm

The fourth draft is a massive improvement! The second one made me laugh

lotsofsnails · Post by **lotsofsnails** » October 20th, 2008, 3:58 pm

awww thank you all

I don't think I could write down the instructions though it would be too hard.