I went to teach origami at St. George's School, just before Chinese New Year. Because this year is the year of the dragon, and because the school's mascot is also a dragon, I designed this easy model for them.
This apatosaurus was designed to be taught to children. It is an intermediate level model. The two difficult points are the swivel to position the leg flaps, and the crimp to position the tail. Still, with the video instructions, it should be accessible to most low-intermediate level folders.
Here are the instructions for folding the base of my Serpentine Dragon design. It is also used for my more recent Nagoya Dragon. I taught the Serpentine Dragon at the 2011 JOAS Nagoya convention, and I also designed the Nagoya Dragon there. From this base, a number of different dragons can be made. I hope you enjoy it. For photos of my two dragon designs folded from this base, please see my Flickr feed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuorigami/sets/72157626232323294/detail/
Joseph Wu is one of the leading world origami masters who lives in Vancouver, BC and who also is a rabid Vancouver Canucks hockey fan.
Joseph created some marvellous team sweaters to pay tribute to his Vancouver Canucks. Even if you have never folded a piece of origami, you should not find the instruction too difficult to follow. Joseph gives very easy to understand directions and shows you how you can fold a Vancouver Canucks jersey in just a few…
Instructions on how to fold your own spectacled bear. This design was created for the World Wildlife Fund UK. The difficulty level of this bear is intermediate.
I thought Eric Joisel was the author of this dinosaur that he was fond of folding however his friend, Yves Clavel informs me that the name of the model is Deinonychus, printed in the Tanteidan 6th convention book and created by Tetsuo Kimura. This 3.4 meter (11 ft) long dinosaur lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115-108 million years ago.
It is also fascinating because one can see the wellspring of several sequences that Eric later…
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