Are these Origami Animals Awesome? You Bet Giraffe they Are!
Animals are still probably the most popular thing to fold with origami. In this post we're going to take a look at a pretty diverse collection of different animals from all over the world. First up is this incredible warthog folded from a single sheet of 50cm x 50cm yellow washi paper.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/19809648558/ Warthog, Designed by Lionel Albertino and Folded by TERRY Nicolas Free diagrams available from Origami-Shop.com Here's a beautiful looking wet-folded paper horse.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42618819@N03/5128498447/ Horse, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by DebugMode Diagrams available in Origami Essence Here's one of the best bull designs I've ever seen.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/13914207354/ Bull, Designed by Richard Ojeda Soto and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 This next one is a much simpler design but it may just be the cutest little origami pig I've seen. It's folded from a simple fish base.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92285150@N02/17199918282/ Small Pig, Designed and Folded by Rainer Berg Diagrams available from Rainer Berg's Facebook page Nguyen Hung Cuong's gorilla design is definitely the best gorilla out there, especially with all that detail in the face.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/25604109@N05/8960250321/ Gorilla, Designed by NGUYỄN Hùng Cường and Folded by Philippe Landrein Crease pattren available from NGUYỄN Hùng Cường's Flickr Here's one of the best bison designs out there. This one crazily enough is folded from a thin sheet of copper, not paper!
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/65167262@N04/5933334804/ Bison, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe Diagrams available in Paper & Form Origami for Experienced Folders Here's an adorable little racoon family.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/-sebl-/24070865906/ Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet Instructions not available This is one of my all time favourite fox designs. The model can be found in the book Origami Omnibus but the instructions are very limited. So limited that I haven't managed to figure out how to fold it yet. One day...
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/13692433704/ Fox, Designed by Kunihiko Kasahara and Folded by Gonzalo Very limited instructions available in Origami Omnibus This hippo design isn't super complex but it's definitely expressive with a lot of character.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiancorrea/7178691797/ Hippo, Designed and Folded by Fabian Correa Instructions not available This bear holding a paper crane is one of the most interesting origami designs I've seen. It's such a simple idea but the result is fantastic.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tschobigami/27204670392/ Erkner Bear, Designed by Sebastien Limet and Folded by Stefan Crease pattern available from Sebastien Limet's Flickr Here's a pretty adorable looking chipmunk. It's folded from two squares of paper and the colour changes in the design really look great. I'm not entirely sure what "butter cake" is but I definitely like the sound of that.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kobashi_san/20490790743/ Chipmunk, Designed by Kyohei Katsuta and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi Instructions not available Beth Johnson's sheep design is awesome. It uses one sheet of paper for the body and then another sheet folded into a tessellation pattern for the wool.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronatka/16053874848/ Sheep, Designed by Beth Johnson and Folded by Natalia Romanenko Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #148 Sebastien Limet certainly has his own style and this deer he designed is completely unlike any other origami deer out there.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/-sebl-/16132685966/ Deer, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet Instructions not available Here's an awesome monkey out in the wild. The banana is a really nice touch.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/foldedwilderness/14237680085/ Monkey, Designed by Lionel Albertino and Folded by Folded Wilderness Diagrams available in Safari Origami Here's another absolutely fantastic looking paper horse. Technically it's a pony.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/104497452@N02/16753396570/ Pony, Designed by Kawahata Fumiaki and Folded by Jack Dreyil Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #142 Here are a couple more excellent pigs.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gen_hagiwara/4057432283/ Pigs, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara Crease pattern available from Gen Hagiwara's Flickr And of course with a giraffe pun in the title of this post we had to include at least one origami giraffe.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiancorrea/16187455990/ Giraffe, Designed and Folded by Fabian Correa Instructions not available Here's an adorable fox mother and cub. Two more absolutely fantastic fox designs.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/25604109@N05/18582121379/ Mother and Cub, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Philippe Landrein Cub Diagrams available in the 15th Tanteidan Convention Book, Mother Diagrams not available This is a really great coyote design. The colour change on the eye is very nice.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/13765718043/ Coyote, Designed by Richard Ojeda Soto and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 Here's a really fantastic looking giant anteater. Not a very common animal to fold out of paper.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12043525@N04/4592833533/ Giant Anteater, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip Instructions not available These are some really great origami rhinos folded using Rhino Hide Paper of course.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/14198471966/ Bogota Rhino, Designed and Folded by TERRY Nicolas Instructions not available Next we have probably the cutest little baby paper elephant I've ever seen!
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/110247861@N02/29342170341/ Elephant, Designed by Enrique Martinez and Folded by Mir Numan Crease pattern available from Enrique Martinez's Flickr Seth Friedman's Finnish Lapphund is definitely one of the best dog designs out there.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack_dreyil/29737940242/ Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Jack Dreyil Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel Our final model is this fantastic looking Bactrian Camel.
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkrup/6145034352/ Bactrian Camel, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov Diagrams available in the BOS Convention 2013 Autumn book That's it for this post. Let us know which one of these was your favourite in the comments! Click to Post