The Best Origami Animals of 2018
In this post we're looking at the best origami animals I saw uploaded to the Internet during 2018. Voting is still open for the best origami people, birds and reptiles so if you haven't cast a vote for your favourites over there be sure to check them out first.
Voting for your favourite animal themed model will be open from now until Monday February 25, 2019. Feel free to vote for your own model and to encourage everyone you know to vote as well.
And with that let's get started!
1) Hippopotamus, Designed and Folded by J.W Park
This model perfectly captures the weight and overall essence of a hippo perfectly. I also love the wide open mouth, over all 3D-ness and the pose it's in here.

Instructions not available
2) Jaguar, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
This jaguar is easily one of my favourite cat designs. It really looks like a jaguar with the perfect pose and I really like the heavy cat-like feet with individual claws. An absolutely fantastic design.

Instructions not available
3) Lion, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by Chrisophe Michel
This is a fantastic looking lion and I love how playful and cat-like it looks and feels even though it's folded out of paper.

Diagrams available in Olympiad 2018
4) Basset Hound, Designed by Lee Jae Gu and Folded by Rui Roda
Here's an absolutely fantastic little origami dog with a ton of character. The colour changes in the design are really great, I love the big ears and everything is perfectly folded and shaped.

Diagrams available in the 2016 Origami Collection
5) Squeaker, Designed by Kohei Kamei and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
This is totally one of the cutest models I've ever seen. The design is awesome with the colour changes and how it's folded from a single square of paper and Hiroaki Kobayashi did a fantastic job folding here.

Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #172
6) Deer, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Ivan Danny
Here we have a beautifully folded deer photographed out in the wild. Fantastic folding work and equally fantastic photography.

Video instructions available from Mariano Zavala B.'s YouTube channel
7) White Rhinoceros, Designed and Folded by J.W Park
This is one of the best rhino designs I think I've seen. It looks super life-like and full of energy despite being folded out of paper.

Instructions not available
8) Labrador Retriver, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Here we have an adorable Labrador Retriever. I love how happy Adriano Davanzo made it look and the photography here is fantastic as well.

Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
9) Bucardo, Designed by Richard Galindo and Folded by Jhordan Arauzo
Absolutely fantastic work here. I believe it's been modified a bit from the original design to make the horns look a loot better.

Instructions not available
10) Pangolin, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Blue Dandelion the Creator
This looks awesome and must have taken forever to fold all those individual scales!

Instructions not available
11) Gorilla, Designed by Nguyen Hung Cuong and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Nguyen Nam Son did a fantastic job folding this somewhat famous gorilla model. The facial expression here is probably the best part.

Crease pattren available from NGUYỄN Hùng Cường’s Flickr
12) Horse, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Here we have an absolutely beautiful and elegant horse design. Everything from how the legs are shaped to the head and mane is perfect.

Instructions not available
13) Wolf, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Maeng Heung Gue
Easily one of the best origami wolves I've ever seen. The folding is super crisp and well done and the face has the perfect expression. The over all shaping and pose also deserve a mention.

Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
14) Rhinoceros, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Tkak Sakai
I love how aggressive this rhino looks. It's folded using wet folding and looks amazing.

Instructions not available
15) Horse, Designed and Folded by J.W. Park
Another really fantastic horse design some some awesome colour changes and shaping.

Instructions not available
Which one of these models do you think was the best origami animal of 2018? Vote below!
Voting will be open for 2 weeks until Monday February 25, 2019. Feel free to vote for your own model and to encourage everyone you know to vote for it as well!
Voting is Now Closed
I Could Bearly Wait to Show You these Oso Ursome Origami Bears
There are a ton of absolutely fantastic origami bears out there so in this post we're going to take a look at some of our favourites. I hope you're pre-beared!
First up is very life-like looking bear. The paper used here is really awesome and looks quite like fur.

Bear, Designed by Nicolas Terry and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Diagrams available in Passion Origami
Seth Friedman designed another excellent quite life-like looking bear. Here it is photographed at a convention back in 2014. The face in this design looks awesome and kind of dopey, like it just woke up from hibernation.

Grizzly Bear, Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman (Photo by Willie G. Crespo)
Diagrams available in the 19th Tanteidan Convention book
Here is a much less complex design that uses wet folding to make those excellent, organic looking curves.

Curved Bear, Designed by Joao Charrua and Folded by Juanfran Carrillo
Instructions not available
This is something very different from most of the other bears in this post. This model is on display at the Chimei Museum in Taiwan and I really like the individually folded claws on the hands and feet.

Bear, Designed and Folded by 簡單的度過-2
Instructions not available
Pandas are technically not bears but this one looks just so great that I needed to include it. It changes things up a bit too which is always good.

Panda, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Origami Pro
I like how this bear looks both ferocious and kind of goofy at the same time.

Bear, Designed and Folded by Choi Ju Young
Instructions not available
Here's something very different. It's quite impressive how the colour change is used here to make that arrow line.

Heart Line Bear, Designed and Folded by Bernie Peyton (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Instructions not available
Beth Johnson designed one of the most unique looking bears out there which uses a tessellation pattern like many of her models.

Bear, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Instructions not available
Changing things up a little bit again we have a teddy bear which technically fits into the category of bears. This model also uses some fantastic colour changes for the details.

Teddy Bear, Designed by Marc Kirschenbaum and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Video instructions available from Mariano Zavala B.'s YouTube channel
Here's another fantastic bear design and I like the heaviness you can sort of feel in this design.

Bear, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe
Diagrams available in Fold Line
This next model is very impressive because it's folded from an uncut square of copper metal! The metal must have been heated up to make it soft enough to fold.

Bear 1997, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe
Diagrams available in Paper and Form
I really like this next model. This is a Jucumari or Spectacled Bear. It's apparently the last species of short-faced bear in the world. I really like how that front paw is lifted up like it's walking but it's still folded from paper so it's completely thin and flat.

Jucumari, Designed by Nguyen Hung Cuong and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+
Here's an adorable whole family of bears!

Bear Family, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
Here's another very excellent little bear cub.

Bear Cub, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Jan Groot
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
This is the first bear Tetsuya Gotani ever designed. It looks quite fantastic for a first attempt!

Bear, Designed and Folded by Tetsuya Gotani
Instructions not available
Here are more fantastic wet folded bears. I love how expressive these simple looking models are.

Curve Bears, Designed and Folded by João Charrua
Instructions not available
Quentin Trollip designed this ferocious looking bear and there are lots of different options for how you want to pose it.

Bear, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
Koalas again technically aren't bears but this is the best origami koala I've ever seen so I had to include it here.

Koala, Designed by David Llanque and Folded by Eyal
Diagrams available in Mini Neo #10
Here's a newer version of József Zsebe's posed on top of a paper rock.

Bear on Rock, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe
Diagrams available in Paper and Form
This is another really unique and great idea for this design.

Erkner Bear, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Crease pattern available in the photo
Pandas again technically aren't bears but this is also one of the best origami pandas I've seen out there so I had to include it too.

Giant Panda, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Eyal
Instructions not available
Here's Quentin Trollip's excellent bear again with some really fantastic claws.

Bear, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
Sebastien Limet has some of the best ideas for origami designs. This particular model is designed to send an anti-fur message.

Fur You, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Instructions not available
Here's a really great grizzly bear and cub in a series of great poses.

Grizzly Bear designed by Quentin Trollip and Cub Designed by Joshua Goutam, Both Folded by Eyal
Grizzly diagrams available in Origami Sequence - Cub diagrams available in Works of Joshua Goutam vol. 1
Daniel Chang works with children and teenagers and he designed this incredible model which makes a pretty powerful statement. This model is a fantastic example of how you can use this art form to create a powerful message.

Childhood, Designed and Folded by Daniel Chang
Instructions not available
This awesome bear uses two coloured paper and a colour change so you get a different colour for the fish that it's eating. This is a variation of Quentin Trollip's more famous bear and salmon design.

Lunch Time, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip
Instructions not available
Here's one more panda that I just had to include since it's so adorable.

Panda, Designed by Red Paper and Folded by lichangzhenba
Instructions not available
Our final model for this post is this adorable rolling bear cub and parent. The sense of movement here is fantastic. A lot of the images in this particular post show how origami can be used to create something a bit deeper or more artistic than just folding a representation of some kind of animal or something.
If that makes sense.

Tumbling Little Bear, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
What did you think about these origami bears? Let us know in the comments!
I’m Feline Good about Showing You these Fantastic Origami Cats
For the longest time I wasn't really able to find any really great origami cat designs. I could find the occasional lion or tiger that looked really awesome but there were only a few of those and I only really knew of one or two great house cat designs.
Over the last little year or so though I started to encounter more and more excellent origami cats so I figured it was time to take another look at them. In this post we'll be looking at cats of all kinds, pet cats, lions, tigers and more!
First up is this really awesome tiger. I'm always super impressed with tiger designs that use a colour change to make the stripes. I also really like how heavy the paws look, just like they do in real life.

Tiger, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip
Diagrams available in Works of Quentin Trollip
Terry Nicolas has one of the best lion designs out there. This one he folded for a wedding and that would definitely be an awesome present to receive.

Lion, Designed and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Diagrams available in Passion Origami
This cat design by Katsuta Kyohei is probably the most popular pet cat design I've seen. This one is especially well folded.

Cat, Designed by Katsuta Kyohei and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #124
This is a really awesome cat design that's very different from any other designs I've seen out there. It perfectly captures the essence of an actual cat.

Cat, Designed and Folded by Mathieu Gueros
Instructions not available
Here's another awesome tiger design that also makes use of two sided paper to make the stripes. If you're wondering where everyone gets orange and black paper I think most people just buy orange paper and paint one side black.

Tiger, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by DebugMode
Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu
This is another fantastic and quite majestic looking lion.

Lion, Designed and Folded by Maeng Heung Gue
Instructions not available
Here's another incredible house cat design. It's not super complex but it again perfectly captures the essence of a cat. I'm always amazed with how Roman Diaz's designs are able to do this.

Cat, Designed and Folded by Roman Diaz
Instructions not avaialble
Satoshi Kamiya also has one of the more famous lion designs. I quite like the pose this one is folded in. It almost looks like it's tensing up and about to pounce.

Lion, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Maxi Purewal
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009
This is a tiger design but it looks pretty cool folded with black paper, almost like a black panther. The way this particular one is folded looks quite playful which I like.

Tiger, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Lê Huỳnh Đức
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
These two tigers are the exact same model as the previous one but you can totally see how different the same model can look when folded by a different artist.

Tiger, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
Seth Friedman designed another one of my favourite cat designs. This again perfectly captures what a cat looks like walking along. This model was photographed at a convention.

Cat, Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman (Photo by Willie G. Crespo)
Crease pattern available from Seth Friedman's website
Here we have an absolutely gorgeous resting lion folded by Gonzalo. I love how those back lags are kicked off to the side.

Lion, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu
A caracal isn't the first type of cat you'd normally think of but Hiroaki Kobayashi designed one and it's awesome. The colour changes on the ears, nose and eyes are really awesome. This one is folded by 7 sheets of paper.

Caracal, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Here's another really excellent house cat model.

Cat, Designed by Tanaka Masashi and Folded by Kim Ju Hyun
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #95
This is a very cool lion design. I really like how expressive the face is and how the mane looks. I'm not sure who the folder here is though, the sign there is kind of blurred so if you know let me know and I'll update the post.

Lion King, Designed by Horiguchi Naoto (Photo by Maeng Heung Gue)
Instructions not available
Here's an adorable and slightly sad homeless kitty.

Homeless Kitty, Designed and Folded by 簡單的度過-2
A Smilodon is a type of prehistoric sabre tooth tiger. Satoshi Kamiya designed what's easily the most famous origami Smilodon but he's not the only one. Richard Galindo Flores also designed this quite excellent one. I love how eager this particular one looks.

Smilodon, Designed by Richard Galindo Flores and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Bogota Origami Convention 2014
Here's a slightly updated caracal design from Hiroaki Kobayashi. This time this one is folded from 8 squares of paper.

Caracal, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
This is a much simpler lion design than the previous ones here but they still managed to pack a ton of feeling into that face.

Lion, Designed by Shunichi Ashimura and Folded by Andrea Borsa
Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #138
Here's Gen Hagiwara's tiger again and this time I really like that little tongue.

Tiger, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Guillermo R. Parrondo
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
This little sleeping cat is pretty adorable. The paper used here makes it look really furry and soft too.

Cat, Designed by Giang Dinh and Folded by Hare
Diagrams available in Licence to Fold
Here's another really awesome lion. This was originally Satoshi Kamiya's lion design but it's been modified by Soma Cruz. I really love the expression on the face and what's been done with the mane. The pose is really awesome and life-like. Apparently Soma studied lions for a long time before creating this masterpiece.

Lion, Originally Designed by Satoshi Kamiya, Modified and Folded by Soma Cruz
Instructions not available - Original diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009
This Siamese cat by Rokuya is another one of the absolute best origami cats I've ever seen. It looks just like it would in real life and has the exact same character as a real Siamese cat. The colour changes in the design are excellent too.

Siamese Cat, Designed and Folded by Rokuya
Instructions not available
Here's Katsuta Kyohei's design again this time looking pretty cute.

Cat, Designed by Katsuta Kyohei and Folded by Rokuya
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #124
Here are two excellent cats both with the same design and an excellent colour change. No matter which side of the paper you start with facing up the final model looks great.

Cats, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by Assaf Kessler
Diagrams available in Olympiad 2017 Round #1
This is another really excellent cat design and the paper used here is absolutely perfect. The stretching pose it's folded in is also fantastic.

Cat, Designed and Folded by Juanfran Carrillo
Instructions not available
Here's one last lion design with probably the most complicated mane I've ever seen.

Lion, Designed and Folded by Tkak Sakai
Instructions not available
Our final image for this post is these two fantastic cats by Gen Hagiwara. Both cats are folded from the same base but if you look carefully they're a bit different, it's not just the legs that are folded differently.

Cats, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
What did you think about this selection of origami cats? If you thought they were purr-fect then let us know in the comments!
Wren You See these Origami Birds You’ll Agree they’re Absolutely Im-peck-able
In this post we're going to take a look at an impeccable collection of origami birds of all kinds. Excited? Let's dive in!
We'll start things off with an adorable little owl sitting in a tree. This little owl has a ton of personality and expression and I really like the lighting in this photo too.

Owl, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1
Here's an excellent and unique flamingo design from Mathieu Gueros that really catches the essence of a real-life flamingo. The two of them together here are super cute too.

Flamingos, Designed and Folded by Mathieu Gueros
Instructions not available
Sebastien Limet designed this excellent flock of birds hanging out together on a branch. Each bird is folded from a single square of paper and the branch is folded from a regular old Kite Base.

Vieille Branche (Old Branch), Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Instructions not available
Here are two absolutely gorgeous looking pelicans photographed at the 2015 OrigamiUSA Convention.

Pelicans, Designed and Folded by Hoang Tien Quyet (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Next is a similar sort of bird designed by the animal origami master Roman Diaz.

White Heron, Designed and Folded by Roman Diaz
Instructions not available
Here we have an example of something pretty cool. This Atlantic Puffin is folded from two squares of paper that are superimposed on top of each other. You then fold them together as a single sheet of paper but since there are two layers of paper there you have more options for folds and you can get additional colours worked into the design.
The concept is a little hard to grasp but if you check out these diagrams for another model Nicolas Terry designed then you can get a feel for how this technique works.
As far as I know I've only ever seen this technique used by Nicolas Terry, no one else which is too bad because it's a genius idea.

Multilayer Atlantic Puffin, Designed and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Instructions not available
This is an incredible Indian Vulture with tons of detail packed in all folded from a single square of paper.

Indian Vulture, Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Crease pattern available from Seth Friedman's website
Here's another really fantastic flamingo design this time with just a hint of colour change to make the beak.

Flamingo, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
This peacock design makes fantastic use of a tessellation pattern to form a big beautiful open tail.

Peacock, Designed by Jun Maekawa and Folded by Kevin Hutson
Diagrams available in Genuine Origami
These two parrots are absolutely gorgeous. Both of these are really well folded with some beautiful curves.

Baby Parrots, Designed by Riccardo Foschi and Folded by Andrea Borsa
Instructions not available
Chickens are birds too even if they're not what you immediately think of. Here's an excellent one folded from a single square of paper with a fantastic colour change for the head.

Silky Fowl, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
This next model is a lot less complex than the previous ones but it has tons of character and looks really great.

Long Tailed Tit, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Here's a really great little toucan.

Toucan, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Diagrams available in the 18th Tanteidan Convention book
When people fold kingfishers there's two designs that I pretty much always see. That's why it was exciting to find this new design from Yoshimasa Tsuruta. Diagrams are freely available online so I'm kind of surprised that I haven't seen anyone else fold this model.

Kingfisher, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta
Diagrams available from Origamity
This is a pretty popular and famous owl design and this is one of the best folds I've ever seen of it. The claws are looking especially awesome.

Blakiston's Fish Owl, Designed by Katsuta Kyohei and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Video instructions available from Mariano Zavala B.'s YouTube channel
Here's an absolutely gorgeous parent and child bird folded by Kei Watanabe.

Okinawa Rails, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
A while ago Satoshi Kamiya designed this Japanese White Eye and it became a super popular model and tons of people have folded it. This is one of the best folds I've seen.

Japanese White Eye, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Rokuya
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #153
This is another much less complex model but the shapes and colour changes are awesome and this little bird has a ton of character.

Cardinal, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Diagrams available in the 23rd Tanteidan Convention book
Here's another fantastic model from Satoshi Kamiya. The whole thing is folded from a single square of paper and as Rui Roda pointed out it's one of the few designs from Satoshi Kamiya with less than 200 steps.

Splash! Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Rui Roda
Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
This is another design that has a really great colour change in the design to make it look a lot more like the real life version.

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Andrés
Diagrams available in Works of Quentin Trollip
Hiroaki Kobayashi designed this excellent Shoebill and it almost reminds me of a Chocobo.

Shoebill, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
This model almost looks like a less complex Japanese White Eye. The colour changes here on the eye, underside and feet are awesome.

Flycatcher, Designed by Noboru Miyajima and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Diagrams available in the 23rd Tanteidan Convention book
Here's another absolutely incredible design by Kei Watanabe. I have no words to describe how awesome this model is.

Osprey, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
This baby duck is probably the cutest baby duck (made out of paper) that I've ever seen.

Baby Duck, Designed and Folded by Nakamura Kaede (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Instructions not available
Here's another beautiful parrot design that would definitely not be the same without the colour changes.

Macaw, Designed and Folded by Yuta Katsuzaki
Crease pattern available from Yuta Katsuzaki's Flickr
Our final model for this post is a rooster but it's certainly an impressive one. This is all folded from a single sheet of paper and when you use two coloured paper you get those awesome colour changes on the head and feet.

Rooster, Designed by Mineo Shotaro and Folded by Giang Nam
Crease pattern available in Tanteidan Magazine #161
What did you think of all these impeccable origami birds? Let us know in the comments!
I Hope there are No Re-Pork-Ussions for Showing You these Origami Pigs
I recently saw a couple of adorable and fantastic origami pigs and boars from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr and it gave me the idea to do a pig-themed post. In this post we'll be showcasing an excellent collection of pigs of both the domesticated and wild varieties.
You're seriously going to squeal with delight when you see some of these. And you will see those models that I mentioned earlier too.
First up is this simple yet very elegant pig that József Zsebe designed way back in 1997.

Pig, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe
Instructions not available
This little boar has a ton of personality as well as that trademarked curved style from Vietnamese origami. I really like that little curled tail too.

Wild Boar, Designed by Đỗ Trí Khải and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Instructions not available
Here's another amazing pig from a very famous Vietnamese designer who always has beautiful looking designs.

Pig, Designed and Folded by Hoàng Tiến Quyết (Photo by Giang Dinh)
Instructions not available
This is another really excellent wild boar design. I especially like how it looks like it's very interested in the camera in this photo.

Wild Boar, Designed and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Instructions not available
This fantastic pig was photographed at the International Collegiate Origami Association Convention in 2017.

Pig, Designed and Folded by Hayato Sasanuma (Photo by Hiroaki Kobayashi)
Instructions not available
Here we have the model that give me the idea to do this post. This little boar piglet is absolutely adorable. It's folded from 8 squares of paper and the colour changes in the design here to make the stripes, nose, hooves and eyes are awesome!

Uribou, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Here's another really excellent wild boar photographed out in the wild. There's some really great folding and photography on display here.

Wild Boar, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Folded Wilderness
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
Here's something a little big more traditional. It's folded really well and of course you have to use pink paper like you see here.

Pig, Designed by Jeong Jaeil and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Diagrams available from Jaeil Jeong's Flickr
Satoshi Kamiya designed an incredible paper version of Inoshishigami, a divine boar from Japanese mythology. You may recognize it from the Studio Ghibli movie Princess Mononoke.

Divine Boar, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Phillip Curl
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
Quentin Trollip designed another one of the more famous origami pigs. This one looks fantastic especially the snout.

Pig, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Origami Works of Quentin Trollip
Here's a more simple design that's quite cute and still has a lot of personality. This is Dô Trí Khai's design again but it looks quite different being folded by a different artist.

Wild Boar, Designed by Đỗ Trí Khải and Folded by Rui Roda
Instructions not available
This is Satoshi Kamiya's Divine Boar again and reaper did an amazing job folding here. The details on the face like the eye and tusks look absolutely incredible!

Divine Boar, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by . reaper
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
Roman Diaz is a a master animal designer and he came up with his own fantastic wild boar design. This one looks pretty interested in that persimmon.

Wild Boar, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in Origami Essence
Joseph Wu also designed an incredible looking pig. The shape, face and especially that little curled tail are all really awesome.

Ground Pork (Take 3), Designed and Folded by Joseph Wu
Instructions not available
I quite like how different and unique this next boar looks. It has a lot of sharp shapes but still looks really boar-like.

Wild Boar, Designed by Jang Yong Ik and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Origami Pro
This next model is a really awesome idea and the whole thing is folded from a single square of paper. The face looks quite happy and full of personality.

Happy as a Pig in S#!t, Designed and Folded by Edgar
Crease pattern available from Edgar's Flickr
Here's another excellent wild boar design from Fernando Castellanos. I really like the the colour change on the tusks.

Wild Boar, Designed and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Instructions not available
This is Satoshi Kamiya's Divine Boar again but folded by another talented artist.

Divine Boar, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Sebastian Arellano (Photo by Finward)
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
This is the other fantastic model from Hiroaki Kobayashi that inspired me to put together this post. This excellent little pig is folded from 7 squares of paper. Like the wild boar design from earlier it has some really excellent colour changes, especially on the little hooves.

Pig, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Hiroaki Kobayashi later posted this image with two more of these adorable pigs after I finished this post but I had to go back and include it.

Pig, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Here's something a bit different and quite awesome. Each of these flying pigs is folded from a single square of paper and they really look great.

Flying Pigs, Designed and Folded by Joseph Wu
Instructions not available
Keeping things a little more interesting here's a very cool model designed after the pigs in the book Animal Farm. This guy is folded from three squares of paper.

Napoleon, Designed and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Instructions not available
These little boar piglets are pretty adorable. They're folded from an uncut square of paper and the colour change for the stripes is really great.

Wild Boar Piglets, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe
Diagrams available in Paper and Form
Here are two pigs from Gen Hagiwara folded so each one looks a tiny bit different.

Pigs, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
This is another really excellent boar design.

Boar Designed by Nishikawa Seiji and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Diagrams available in the 18th Tanteidan Convention Book
Here's another absolutely beautiful fold of Satoshi Kamiya's Divine Boar.

Divine Boar, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
Here's Roman Diaz's boar design again but folded by a different artist.

Boar, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Diagrams available in Origami Essence
Our final image for this post is this amazing little boar family by Kei Watanabe who's probably my favourite origami artist. I really like the striped paper used on the piglets.

Boars, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
What did you think about all these origami pigs? Hopefully they didn't bore you. Let us know what you thought in the comments!
This Desert Themed Origami Is Looking Quite Sharp… and Hot
A little while ago someone suggested that I make a post all about origami jerboas. I've seen a few jerboas out there but not enough for an entire post. It did however give me the idea to make a desert themed post since jerboas are found in desert environments.
There are a lot of different types of animals and insects found in deserts and there are good origami versions of many of them. So in this post we're going to take a look at some amazing animals, insects, lizards and plants found in desert environments.
Starting off we of course have a fantastic jerboa design by Tran Trung Hieu. I really love how it looks like it's in mid jump.

Jerboa, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn - Follow Tran Trung Hieu on Flickr or Facebook
Shuki Kato designed this Bactrian Camel and it's probably the most popular camel design that I've seen. Here Xu Daniel has probably folded the smallest version of this model I've seen too.

Bactrian Camel, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Xu Daniel
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
A desert themed post is the perfect opportunity to include some cacti and here are two very beautiful looking ones.

Cactus, Designed by Andrea Borsa and Everlasting, Designed by Riccardo Colletto, both Folded by Andrea Borsa
Cactus instructions not available, Everlasting instructions available in Pajarita Magazine #100
Camel spiders are quite similar to both scorpions and spiders but they're technically not either. They are found in desert environments though and this one looks absolutely incredible! It's folded from a single uncut piece of paper too.

Camel Spider, Designed and Folded by Maeng Heung Gue
Crease pattern available from Maeng Heung Gue's Flickr
Lizards are definitely found in deserts and this one looks fantastic. Chris Heynen's lizard is a pretty popular design and this one is folded very well. With the choice of paper used here too it looks like it would be right at home in a desert environment.

Lizard, Designed by Chris Heynen and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in COS 2015
This incredible cobra is folded from a single rectangle shaped piece of paper and must take forever to fold.

Devil Cobra, Designed and Folded by Kade Chan (Photo by Chris Hui)
Video instructions available from Kade Chan's YouTube channel
Dung Beetles are another insect commonly found in deserts and here's a fantastic one. These insects always impress me with how realistic they look and the little ball here is a nice addition although it is a second piece of paper.

Dung Beetle, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Thanh
Crease pattern available from Nguyen Ngoc Thanh's Flickr
Here's Shuki Kato's Bactrian Camel design again folded by a different designer. You can really see all the details here and the metallic finish on the paper looks amazing.

Bactrian Camel, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Jaran Darra
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
This is another fantastic looking insect found in deserts called a Whip Scorpion. The whole thing is folded from a single uncut square of paper.

Whip Scorpion, Designed and Folded by Derek McGann
Instructions not available
Rattlesnakes are found in desert environments so this is a fantastic opportunity to showcase this incredible model. This is a rattlesnake and an AR-15 rifle all folded from the same square of paper with no cuts! It uses paper with a different colour on each side and you get those different coloured diamonds, tail and gun. This is an absolutely amazing design and it took 10-12 hours to fold!

Diamondback Rattlesnake and AR-15, Designed and Folded by Jared Needle
Instructions not available
Here's a different Jerboa design photographed out in an actual desert. Adriano Davanzo always has such fantastic photos.

Jerboa, Designed by Yery J. Astrona and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in the 22nd Tanteidan Convention Book
Next is easily one of the best origami scorpions I've ever seen and it's even better photographed in this whole desert scene.

Scorpion, Designed by Kota Imai and Folded by P. Colman
Crease pattern available in Young Origami Creators Seminar Research Note Vol. 2
Here's another very awesome snake design. It's folded from a single square of paper and if you look closely you'll see it loops back through itself which is really cool.

Snake, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by loganorigami
Instructions not available
Gen Hagiwara's Frilled Neck lizard is one of my all-time favourite origami models. One day I hope to fold this myself but I've seen the instructions and they still look a bit intimidating for my current skill level. This one looks really fantastic.

Frilled Neck Lizard, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Kyoung Su Kim
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
This incredible looking cactus was photographed at a convention in 2015. Believe it or not this is folded from a single square of paper and it must take a ton of time to fold all those individual spikes.

Cactus Opus 680, Designed and Folded by Robert J. Lang (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Crease pattern available from Robert J. Lang's website
Here's another absolutely incredible scorpion. Unless you look really closely you can't really tell that it's made out of paper, it's that real looking! It's also folded from a single uncut square of paper.

Scorpion, Designed and Folded by Maeng Heung Gue
Instructions not available
Here's another fantastic take on that Bactrian Camel model. I kind of expected that there would be more camel designs out there. This one is certainly popular which makes sense since it's such an excellent design.

Bactrian Camel, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Pan Hang
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
This is another incredible snake that's folded from a single piece of paper. This one was photographed at a convention.

Cobra, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by Romain Pauchet
Instructions not available
Here we have a cute little road runner that's folded from a regular old Frog Base. This is an updated version of a design from 11 years earlier that you can see in the upper right of the image.

Road Runner, Designed and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Instructions not available
Fernando Castellanos also folded Shuki Kato's camel and did a fantastic job. The paper used here is absolutely perfect.

Bactrian Camel, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
This next model is mind blowing and I've been waiting for a post to include it for a long time. This desert themed post is perfect since some quails are found in desert environments and also it wouldn't be uncommon to find a skeleton like this in a desert either.

Quail Skeleton, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
Here we have one of the very few other camel designs I've seen out there. It's an excellent design that uses one uncut square of paper.

Dromedary Camel, Designed and Folded by bodorigami
Instructions not available
Here's another incredible origami scorpion that you could easily mistake for the real thing. This one is also folded from a single uncut piece of paper.

Scorpion, Designed and Folded by Maeng Heung Gue
Instructions not available
When I saw this model I knew I had to include it in this post. These lizards run across the desert and alternate which feet touch the ground to try and cool them down. I love how that's incorporated into this design and it looks like it's running across the ground. The model is actually balanced so it stands up perfectly like this on its own.

Blue Desert Lizard, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by Dzmitry Lysiuk
Instructions not available
Here's another excellent little jerboa that looks quite cute.

Jerboa, Designed by Tran Trung Hieu and Folded by Vít Masopust
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Certain species of tortoises are found in desert areas so here's a beautiful looking one folded from a single 40cm x 40cm square of paper.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyen Hung Cuong and Folded by Guillermo R. Parrondo
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
These are technically "magic balls" but uschi mitzkat turned them into a gorgeous little cactus garden.

Magic Balls, Designed by Yuri Shumakov and Folded by uschi mitzkat
Video instructions available from Jo Nakashima's YouTube channel
Here's one more folders excellent take on that Bactrian Camel design.

Bactrian Camel, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Vít Masopust
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
This is another fantastic scorpion design that's folded out of a pretty small sheet of paper. The paper must get pretty thick and difficult to fold when folding so small.

Scorpion Version 2.0, Designed by Kota Imai and Folded by Xu Daniel
Crease pattern available in Young Origami Creators Seminar Research Note Vol. 2
Our final model for this post is P. Colman's incredible take on Ronald Koh's King Cobra. This is folded from a single 5" x 150" sized rectangle of paper. This really has to be incredibly time consuming to fold and the face looks especially awesome.

King Cobra, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by P. Colman
Instructions not available
What did you think about all these desert origami models? Let us know which one is your favourite in the comments!
I’m a Really Big "Fin" of this Origami from Under the Sea
In this post we're going to take a look at another excellent round of papercrafts from under the sea. We're talking fish, crustaceans, cephalopods and more!
First up is an absolutely beautiful dolphinfish (mahi-mahi) folded from some of the most beautiful looking origami paper I've ever seen.

Dolphinfish (Mahi-Mahi), Designed by Winston Lee and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in COS 2014
The Mantis Shrimp is a pretty crazy and amazing creature (pretty tasty too). This paper version is equally crazy and amazing. Just look at all those details along the bottom and believe it or not this is all folded from one sheet of paper!

Mantis Shrimp, Designed and Folded by Kota Imai
Crease pattern available in Tanteidan Magazine #156
Kei Watanabe somewhat recently designed a whole bunch of really awesome looking fish including this quite realistic looking Pacific Bluefin Tuna.

Pacific Bluefin Tuna, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
The coolest part of these manta rays I think is all those individually folded gills on the bottom.

Myliobatis Aquila, Designed by Manuel Sirgo Alvarez and Folded by ВЕРЕСТУН Игорь (Iver)
Instructions not avaialble
This is a very well-folded, nice and clean looking lobster. It's a really excellent design as well. This is folded from a single 30cm x 30cm square of paper!

Lobster, Designed by Artur Biernacki and Folded by Damian Malicki
Crease pattern available from Artur Biernacki's Flickr
Here's a fantastic little shore crab.

Shore Crab, Designed by Pham Hoang Tuan and Folded by Luc Marnat
Diagrams available in Olympiad 2016
This is an excellent little seahorse model. It's not too complicated but looks great and nice and clean. There's a video tutorial available for it too.

Seahorse, Designed by Ta Trung Dong and Folded by Rui Roda
Video instructions available from Ta Trung Dong's YouTube channel
There are a few really great sea turtle designs out there and I especially like Satoshi Kamiya's design. The sort of plates down the back of the shell always look really cool.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Maxi Purewal
Diagrams available in the 16th Tanteidan Convention book
This next image is definitely the cutest little orca I've ever seen. It's folded from two squares of paper.

Cube Orca, Designed by Yoshihisa Kimura and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in Origami no Hakodoubutsu
This next model is definitely something amazing. That whole Anemone as well as the Clown Fish is folded from a single square of paper. In this case Kevin Hutson used a 23 inch x 23 inch square on Unryu which is definitely a beautiful looking paper.

Sea Anemone and Clownfish, Designed by J.C. Nolan and Folded by Kevin Hutson
Diagrams available in Creating Origami: An Exploration into the Process of Designing Paper Sculpture
Ynon Toledano designed these awesome butterfly fish. The one on the left is a newer design with a slightly different body and tail.

Butterfly Fish, Designed and Folded by Ynon Toledano
Instructions not available
Here's another phenomenal design by Kei Watanabe. From a distance you could definitely mistake this for the real life eel.

Giant Mottled Eel, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
This puffer fish is a really great design and uses almost a tessellation pattern for the part that puffs up.

Puffer Fish, Designed by Jang Yong Ik and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in Raison d'etre 2014
Winston is a master at designing origami fish as you can see with this next model. I especially like the little folds and curves on all the fins. It was apparently difficult to design with the colour changes and 3D-ness.

Clownfish, Designed and Folded by Winston
Instructions not available
These Pennant Coralfishes are really beautiful. There's technically no colour changes in this model but the folder cheated a bit and painted the paper. Each fish is folded from a single sheet of paper.

Pennant Coralfish, Designed by Yoshimasa Tsuruta and Folded by P. Colman
Crease pattern available from Yoshimasa Tsuruta's Flickr
Here's another bunch of amazing and realistic looking fish by Kei Watanabe.

Giant Trevally, Designed and Folded by Key Watanabe
Instructions not available
Kota Imai also designed a regular shrimp that's just as detailed as that Mantis Shrimp. This model is also folded from a single square of paper.

Shrimp, Designed by Kota Imai and Folded by Kyoung Su Kim
Crease pattern available from Kota Imai's Flickr
This next model is definitely a really cool and unique idea, even if it technically isn't a real-life creature. This was folded for a French contest called "Under the Sea" so it definitely fits in with this post. This is folded from a single 50cm x 50cm square of paper starting with a Kite Base.

Dead Man's Chest, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Instructions not available
Satoshi Kamiya came up with this awesome octopus design.

Octopus, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Video instructions available from Mariano Zavala B.'s YouTube channel
Here are some more of Kei Watanabe's fantastic fish.

Largehead Hairtail, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
This is a great Swordfish with a very nice colour change on the underside.

Swordfish, Designed by Takuro Kashiwamura and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #167
The details and individually folded scales on this Red Seabream are incredible.

Red Seabream, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
This hermit crab is folded from a single square of paper and you end up with different colours on the shell and the crab itself which is awesome.

Hermit Crab, Designed By Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Jaran Darra
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009
Here's a couple of beautiful Chinese-style goldfish.

Goldfish Ryukin, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by lichangzhenba
Instructions not available
This incredible shark was photographed at a display by the International Collegiate Origami Association.

Designed and Folded by Masato Kikuchi (Photo by Hiroaki Kobayashi)
Instructions not available (unless you can make out the crease pattern in the photo there)
P. Colman always folds such beautiful models and takes such beautiful photos.

Orca, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003
Our final model for this post is this absolutely phenomenal octopus by Brian Chan. I don't know for sure but I strongly suspect this is folded from one sheet of paper.
The colour changes here and all the individual suction cups on the tentacles are incredible!

Octopus, Designed and Folded by Brian Chan (Photo by Michelle Fung)
Instructions not available
That's it for this post. Let us know which one of these sea creatures was your favourite in the comments!
I Don’t Egret Showing You these Amazing Origami Birds One Bit
I have some more time to work on the site again so I'm going to try to get some more regular posts going up again.
In this post we're going to take a look at a whole bunch of really great origami birds. All of these are really awesome but a few of these are definitely something exceptional.
First up is this beautiful cardinal designed by Roman Diaz. This is a pretty famous bird design and Roman Diaz is a master of origami animals.
This design looks especially great if you have paper that's red on one side and black on the other side.

Cardinal, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Diagrams available in Origami Essence
Here's another beautiful bird with a really nice colour change in the design. Yuta Katsuzaki spent a whole month designing this model.

Japanese Crested Ibis, Designed and Folded by Yuta Katsuzaki
Instructions not available
Beth Johnson has an adorable owl design and here's one of them out in the wild.

Hex Owl, Designed by Beth Johnson and Folded by Robin Scholz
Photo diagrams available from Robin Scholz's Flickr
Here's a great little paper cockatiel. I love how it can stand there balanced with the tail hanging down off the platform.

Cockatiel, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
This fantastic looking toucan is folded from two sheets of paper so you can get the extra colour in there.

Toucan, Designed and Folded by Ynon Toledano
Instructions not available
Satoshi Kamiya designed this really cute little bird.

Little Bird, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Rokuya
Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009
Here's an amazing looking mythological bird. I love the powerful looking pose this one is folded and photographed in.

Roc, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Guillermo R. Parrondo
Diagrams available in Origami Essence
Here's an excellent little bluejay, another design with a fantastic colour change that looks perfect with blue and white paper.

Bluejay, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Rui Roda
Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel
Kei Watanabe designed this beautiful Kingfisher and that wood in the background is quite nice as well. It goes really well with that paper used here.

Kingfisher, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
Here's another excellent design from Ynon Toledano that again uses two sheets of paper to get the extra colours in. One for the body and one for the beak.

Puffin, Designed and Folded by Ynon Toledano
Instructions not available
Here's an absolutely beautiful image of an origami pelican. The water is Photoshopped in and is a very nice touch.

Pelican, Designed Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Blanka P (blunek)
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Sebastien Limet designed these adorable little birds. The incredible thing about this model is that both birds and the branch are folded from one sheet of paper starting with a Windmill Base.

Cuddly Evening, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Instructions not available
This beautiful looking bird is called a Crested Oropendola. I really like the colour change here too.

Crested Oropendola, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Diagrams available in Olympiad 2012
Brian Chan designed a really great crow. I especially like how sharp its claws look in this photo.

Crow, Designed by Brian Chan and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #113
Here's a really awesome chicken designed by a Korean artist. Eyal changed the tail a little bit to give it a nice little bit of colour and stuffed the model with cotton to give it a bit more volume.

Rooster, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Eyal
Diagrams available in the Bogota 2015 Convention book
This next chicken is absolutely mind blowing! I'm pretty sure that's all folded from a single sheet of paper and it must have taken forever to make.

Rooster, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
Here's quite a cute little sparrow. I love how the beak and feet are different colours.

Java Sparrow, Designed by Miyamoto Chuya and Folded by Matthew Groves
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #114
Here's another beautiful and really elegant looking design from Roman Diaz. I really like how it's folded here and looks like it's walking.

Secretary Bird, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Luc Marnat
Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters
Yoshimasa Tsuruta designed this cute little bird called a Japanese White Eye. If you use paper that's white on one side the model does indeed have a white eye.

Japanese White Eye, Designed by Yoshimasa Tsuruta and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available in ORCA Works
João Charrua has a really neat, unique and slightly creepy style with his designs that always looks really cool.

Dr. Crow, Designed and Folded by João Charrua
Instructions not available
This eagle is one of my favourite origami bird designs and this one looks absolutely incredible in this photo. This of course is folded from a single square of paper.

Eagle, Designed by Nguyen Hung Cuong and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Licence to Fold
I thought this next model was really cute so I had to include it. The nest itself is folded from a tessellation pattern and the eggs are simply regular origami water bombs.
Beth Johnson has a rather unique ability to incorporate tessellation patterns into all kinds of different designs.

Bird's Nest, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
Here's another really awesome bird of prey. My favourite parts here are the face and definitely the feet.

Cooper's Hawk, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by rhplus
Diagrams available in the 13th Tanteidan Convention book
Seth Friedman also designed one of the best origami ducks I've seen. It looks absolutely perfect when you use white and yellow paper like you see here.

Pekin Duck, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #129
Here's another excellent chicken design, this time one that's native to Korea. This was designed for the New Year of the Chicken in 2017.

Korean Native Chicken, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
The design of these next two birds isn't super complex but I really love how elegant they look and the photo of them together is awesome.

Harmony Birds, Designed by Stephan Weber and Folded by Andrea Borsa
Video instructions available from Stephan Weber's YouTube channel
Our final model for this post is this absolutely incredible Crested Serpent Eagle from Kei Watanabe. Words cannot describe how amazing this model is!

Crested Serpent Eagle, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
What did you think of these incredible origami birds? Let us know in the comments!
Chinese New Year 2018 Origami Dog Extravaganza!
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! 2018 is the year of the dog so it's a great opportunity to take a look at a bunch of awesome origami dogs.
First up is this incredible doberman. The colour change in the design is fantastic and this looks really great with brown and black paper.

Doberman, Designed by J.W Park and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
Here's a fantastic little chihuahua. I love the different colour of the eye and nose.

Chihuahua, Designed by Oriol Esteve and Folded by Rui Roda
Instructions not available
Eric Vigier designed this quite excellent dog and folded it specially for 2018. I especially like the little tongue.

Designed and Folded by Eric Vigier
Instructions not available
This Dalmatian makes fantastic use of colour change so you end up with black spots everywhere.

Dalmatian, Designed by Mi Wu and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Diagrams available in Chinese New Year Origami 2018
Here's a cute little Welsh Corgi and this design again makes fantastic use of a colour change.

Welsh Corgi, Designed and Folded by Lee Boyeon
Instructions not available
Katsuta Kyohei designed this fantastic Pomeranian. It's not a very complex model but it has lots of character and you can definitely tell what it is.

Pomeranian, Designed by Katsuta Kyohei and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
Satoshi Kamiya has one of the most famous dog designs. I especially like how soft this one looks with the choice of paper here.

Dog, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Sunny Tse
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #144
This is an absolutely incredible design that looks very life-like.

Boston Terrier, Designed and Folded by J.W. Park
Instructions not available
Hiroaki Kobayashi designed this excellent Shiba Inu again with a really nice colour change. Lost of these dogs have great colour changes incorporated in the design. To get the full effect you need to use two-coloured paper.

Shiba Inu, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
This husky isn't too complex but it's quite cute and has a lot of character.

Husky, Designed and Folded by 晓 陈
Instructions not available
Next is this quite excellent looking poodle.

Poodle, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Andrés
Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong
Yoo Tae Yong also designed this fantastic pug and it's probably the best origami pug design I've seen. Beautiful photo here as well.

Pug, Designed by Yoo Tae Yon and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong
Shiba Inus are pretty awesome so here's another one with a cute little scarf. The face on this one is very well done.

Shiba Inu, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta
Instructions not available
This next one isn't technically a dog but it looks so great and it's pretty close so I'm going to include it.

Fennec Fox, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Hiroaki Kobayashi also designed this excellent Boston Terrier. This one is folded from 3 square sheets of paper.

Boston Terrier, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Here are two very excellent looking French Bulldogs. Hiroaki Kobayashi has designed a bunch of really great looking origami dogs. These ones are also folded from three squares of paper.

French Bulldogs, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available fromHiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Here's Hiroaki Kobayashi's take on a Pug. It's folded from 2 squares of paper and the colour changes here are really great.

Pug, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Here's two more dogs from this series of designs by Hiroaki Kobayashi. These are each folded from 3 squares of paper.

Bulldogs, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
I had to include one more picture of all of Hiroaki Kobayashi's dogs together. The title of this image on Flickr is "Ugly Cute Dogs" which I think is very appropriate.

Ugly Cute Dogs, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Links to instructions are above
J.W. Park designed this fantastic American Bully. The colour change with the white paper on the underside of the model looks really great.

American Bully, Designed and Folded by J.W. Park
Instructions not available
Kim Ju Hyun designed this very cute little puppy.

Puppy, Designed and Folded by Kim Ju Hyun
Instructions not available
Here's another absolutely fantastic dog design from J.W. Park.

Dogo Argentino, Designed and Folded by J.W. Park
Instructions not available
This German Shepherd puppy might be the cutest origami puppy I've seen!

German Shepherd Puppy, Designed by Oriol Esteve and Folded by Rui Roda
Instructions not available
Seth Friedman designed this really great sheep dog. This kind of looks like a precursor to his famous Finnish Lapphund design.

Sheep Dog, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Rokuya
Video tutorial available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel
I love the pose of this next dog.

Perro, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Diagrams available in Origami School of Masters
Here's another really cute Siberian Husky design.

Siberian Husky, Designed by Lee Jae Gu and Folded by Kyoung Su Kim
Instructions not available
This next image is definitely one of my favourite origami photos. The street light is a really nice touch.

Aberdeen, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by rhplus
Diagrams available in the 10th Origami Tanteidan Book
Here's another really cute origami dog. So many of these manage to look really cute even though they're just folded pieces of paper.

Mameshiba, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Instructions not available
Next we have another absolutely fantastic German Shepherd. I love the pose and the face here.

German Shepherd, Designed and Folded by Roman Diaz
Diagrams available in Origami Chess, Cats vs. Dogs
Here's another really excellent dog design by Eric Vigier. I really like the reclining relaxed pose it's in.

Chien Au Repos, Designed and Folded by Eric Vigier
Instructions not available
This is one happy looking dog walking along.

Dog, Designed by Nishikawa Seiji and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Diagrams available in Works of Nishikawa Seiji
This dog in a doghouse is one of my favourite looking models. The whole thing is one sheet of paper and there's a really excellent colour change so the dog and the house are different colours with two-sided paper.

Dog in a Doghouse, Designed by Stephen Weiss and Folded by Luc Marnat
Diagrams available in Origami Zoo: An Amazing Collection of Folded Paper Animals
Here's that German Shepherd puppy one more time since it's just so cute.

German Shepherd Puppy, Designed by Oriol Esteve and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Instructions not available
Hiroaki Kobayashi also designed an excellent Chihuahua that's different from the one earlier in this post.

Chihuahua, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Crease pattern available from Hiroaki Kobayashi's Flickr
Here's another really great Doberman design. This one definitely looks interesting with the red paper.

Doberman Pinscher, Designed by Ares Alanya and Folded by Charles Smith
Diagrams available in the 17th Origami Tanteidan Convention book
This is another really excellent model of a Bull Terrier that's full of character.

Bull Terrier, Designed and Folded by J.W. Park
Instructions not available
This next dog is a bit different since it's very simple looking with a few simple shapes. Despite that you can tell exactly what it's supposed to be. I always like really simple models that still manage to communicate exactly what they're supposed to be.

Chow Chow, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Kim Ju Hyun
Instructions not available
There's quite an interesting pattern and colours on this next puppy. Again I'm loving the pose here, it's almost like a real puppy barking at something.

Puppy Joy, Designed and Folded by Roman Diaz
Instructions not available
Lee Boyeon designed this excellent Papillion. This is folded from the same base as his mountain goat.

Papillion, Designed and Folded by Lee Boyeon
Instructions not available
Here's another beautiful and rather elegant looking sheep dog.

Shetland Sheepdog, Designed and Folded by Yuta Katsuzaki
Instructions not available
This next model again strictly speaking isn't really a dog but I'm still including it because it looks great.

Grey Wolf, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in Origami Nature Study
Our final model for this Chinese New Year Origami Extravaganza is another Shiba Inu and it might be the best origami dog that I've ever seen! I love the face, features, body and how soft the paper used here makes it look.
This model was on display at the 23th Origami Tanteidan Convention in Japan.

Shiba Inu, Designed and Folded by Takashi Toyomura (Photo by Hiroaki Kobayashi)
Instructions not available
That's it for this post. Have a happy Chinese New Year everyone! If you fold any origami dogs to celebrate post the photo somewhere online and link to it in the comments.
Delightful Origami Penguins to Celebrate Penguin Awareness Day
January 20th is officially Penguin Awareness Day, a day designed to raise awareness of penguins and the fact that their populations are decreasing around the world.
There are a lot of different species of penguins in real life and there are lots of different origami versions of them as well. In this post we're going to take a look at some of the best origami penguins I've seen out there.
Baby penguins are absolutely adorable as are their origami versions. Yoo Tae Yong has one of the best baby penguin designs with an excellent colour change that you can see here.

Baby Penguin, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #161
Here's a few more adorable baby penguins. The background here is a very nice touch.

Baby Penguin, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Blanka P (blunek)
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #161
And here's a few more out in the wild since this design is just so cute.

Baby Penguin, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Никита Васильев
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #161
This is a really awesome Emperor Penguin design. It uses 4 square sheets of paper so you can get those extra colours just like the real thing.

Emperor Penguin, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
I especially like the sort of hair on this penguin and how the head and face look.

Penguin - Don't Freeze, Designed by Ogata Hiromi and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #62
Here's another couple of really great baby penguins. These ones are Emperor Penguin chicks.

Emperor Penguin Chicks, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
These two penguins certainly have a lot of character. This design also has a really awesome colour change and looks great with black and white paper.

Penguins, Designed by Michael Lafosse and Folded by rhplus
Diagrams available in Origami Art
Here's another different and still very cute baby penguin design. The colour change on the eye is really great too.

Baby Penguin, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta
Video tutorial available from Ezuno Kennosaya's YouTube channel
This whole scene with this family of penguins is fantastic. The penguins are all the same design just folded into different postures.

Emperor Penguins, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip
Diagrams available in The Beauty of Origami
This looks like a more minimal style of penguin but the shaping is not easy. You can tell the design is from a Vietnamese designer by the curved shapes.

Penguin, Designed by Dinh Truong Giang and Folded by Philipp-Marius Kost
Diagrams available from Giang Dinh's website
Here's another fantastic little penguin family standing on some ice made out of paper.

Penguins, Designed by Michael Lafosse and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in Origami Art
Here's a whole bunch of excellent emperor penguins folded in a few various poses.

My Little Emperors, Designed and Folded by Magali
Instructions not available
Hoàng Tiến Quyết is definitely one of my favourite artists with a very unique style. He designed this amazing penguin mother and baby.

Penguins, Designed and Folded by Hoàng Tiến Quyết
Instructions not available
Eric Joisel also designed a really great penguin. Here's a bunch of them sitting in a box.

Penguin, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Tine Blasek
Instructions not available
Beth Johnson is another really great artist. While "sketching" out some different designs she came up with these three great little penguins.

Penguins, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
Here's another great little group of baby penguins. The look great no matter which side of the paper you start with.

Four Little Penguins, Designed and Folded by Blue Dandelion the Creator
Instructions not available
Next is this really great "cartoon-ey" looking penguin. Believe it or not there's actually diagrams showing how to fold that iceberg too.

Penguin, Designed by Sébastien Limet, Iceberg, Designed by Bernie Peyton and Both Folded by Rui Roda
Penguin diagrams available in the 2017 Origami USA Convention book
Iceberg diagrams available in Eco Origami
Sébastien Limet also folded a bunch more of these on top of a much taller iceberg.

Penguins, Designed and Folded by Sébastien Limet
Penguin diagrams available in the 2017 Origami USA Convention book
This cute little guy is apparently named Bingo the Penguin.

Bingo the Penguin, Designed by Federico Scalambra and Folded by Rui Roda
Diagrams available in the 2014 OUSA Convention book
There's also a great traditional penguin design that's really easy to fold. You can find diagrams for it in my book Everyone Can Learn Origami.
Traditional Penguin, Folded by Me
Diagrams available in Everyone Can Learn Origami
Terry Nicolas folded these giant penguins for a Christmas storefront. Apparently it took one hour to fold each penguin and he doesn't like penguins so much any more...

Too Many Penguins... Designed and Folded by Terry Nicolas
Instructions not available
These are the four penguins from the movie Madagascar, Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. They're all the same design but each one is folded and shaped slightly differently. Can you tell which one is which?

Penguins of Madagascar, Designed by Fernando Gilgado and Folded by Eyal
Video instructions available from Tadashi Mori's YouTube channel
Here's another excellent penguin design. When I started working on this post I didn't realize that there were so many different origami penguins out there.

Penguins, Designed and Folded by Edgar Williams
Diagrams available from Edgar's DropBox
I really like origami designs that are folded from paper money. Every country has differently shaped bills that come in all kinds of different colours which leads to some pretty neat looking origami. Here's a great little penguin folded from an American dollar bill.

Dollar Penguin v5, Designed and Folded by craigfoldsfives
Instructions not available
Here's another unique design by Lionel Pan. This is the first time he's designed something and it's a really good job!

Penguins, Designed and Folded by Lionel Pan
Instructions not available
Here's another adorable family of Emperor Penguins. Baby Emperor Penguins are usually a grey or brown colour and don't look like adult ones.

Emperor Penguins, Designed and Folded by Magali
Instructions not available
Here are two more absolutely fantastic Emperor Penguin chicks.

Emperor Penguin Chicks, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
These penguins and this whole photo is beautiful.

Penguins, Designed by Michael Lafosse and Folded by lichangzhenba
Diagrams available in Origami Art
Our final image for this post is this collection of different penguin designs from Hiroaki Kobayashi put together into a lovely little Emperor Penguin family. I really like those claws on the adult penguin's feet.

Emperor Penguin Family, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Have a great Penguin Awareness Day everyone and let me know which of these penguins is your favourite in the comments!
Magnificent Origami Sharks to Celebrate Shark Awareness Day
Today, July 14th is Shark Awareness Day. Sharks can definitely be ferocious predators but they do get a bad reputation. Many people are scared of sharks but the truth is that they're way more threatened by people than we are of them.
Shark Awareness Day was started to bring awareness to the fact that sharks are persecuted and endangered. In fact millions of sharks are killed each year. Whether that's for shark fin soup, for their teeth or just so we can feel safe on the beach.
Sharks are a very important part of the ecosystem in the oceans so the least we can do is show them some respect.
In honour of Shark Awareness Day here's a fantastic collection of origami sharks. Many of which you can fold yourself.
Our first origami shark is this excellent design by Choi Ju-Young.

Shark, Designed and Folded by Choi Ju-Young
Instructions not available
Next we have a fantastic paper saw shark. Saw sharks get their name from their long snouts that are edged with teeth. They use these snouts to slash and disable their prey.

Japanese Saw Shark, Designed by Se-Ik Kim and Folded by Alex Mironenko
Diagrams available in COS 2012 or Raison d'être 2014
Nguyen Ngoc Vu has designed an amazing Great White Shark and it's probably the most famous origami shark out there. A lot of different people have folded this model as you'll see in this post.
Most people are the most afraid of the Great White Shark but in reality they barely ever attach humans. It's even more rare that an attack from a Great White Shark would be fatal.

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Here's this model again but folded by a different artist. Great white sharks can be found along the coast of every continent in the world except for Antarctica where I guess it's just too cold for them.

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by Philippe Landrein
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Hammerhead Sharks get their name from the flattened and extended shape of their heads that resembles a hammer. This shape is known as a cephalofoil.
Here's a really excellent Hammerhead Shark model that took about 4 hours to fold.

Hammerhead Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by Michael Novio
Diagrams available in the 20th Tanteidan Convention Book
Winston is an expert at designing paper versions of all kinds of different fish and he designed this excellent Blue Shark. I really love the details on the gills.
Blue sharks prefer living in cooler water and can have litters of 25 to 100 baby sharks!

Blue Shark, Designed and Folded by Winston
Instructions not available
Here's Nguyen Ngoc Vu's fantastic Great White again but folded by another artist. Most of the world's Great White Shark population lives off the coast of Dyer Island in South Africa. There are so many sharks here that the area has been nicknamed "Shark Alley."

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by Tomasz Krawczyk
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Here we have a more cartoonish looking shark. If you use two coloured paper like you see here you end up with an awesome colour change on the eyes and teeth.

Shark, Designed by Fernando Gilgado and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Papirolandia 3 by Fernando Gilgado Gomez
Tomasz Krawczyk designed this excellent origami shark during a meeting in Crocow.

Shark, Designed and Folded by Tomasz Krawczyk
Instructions not available
Here's another one of those awesome Great White Sharks. There are 270 steps to fold this model and about half of them are just to fold the teeth! It took Shuki Kato 8 hours to fold this.
A Great White Shark can live up to 70 years!

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by Shuki Kato
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Won Seon Seo designed this excellent shark and made this fun photo of it.

Shark, Designed and Folded by Won Seon Seo
Instructions not available
This is a really great Frilled Shark. Frilled Sharks are very old and exhibit several primitive features that have earned them the nickname of "Living Fossil." With their very long and flexible jaws they can swallow their prey whole. They get their name from the frilly appearance of their six pairs of gill slits.

Frilled Shark, Designed and Folded by Petr Stuchlý
Instructions not available
Here we have an absolutely beautiful Great White folded by CaptainMoon. This whole model, including all those teeth, 16 on the top and 8 on the bottom of the mouth is folded from a single square of paper!
A Great White Shark usually weighs between 1,500 and 2,400 pounds and at full maturity they can weigh up to an ton!

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by CaptainMoon
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Next we have another awesome design from Winston. This time it's an Angel Shark. Angel Sharks look very similar to rays because of their flattened appearance. Angel Sharks are sometimes called Monk Fish and some species can grow up to 2 meters long!

Angel Shark, Designed and Folded by Winston
Instructions not available
Here's another more generic but nonetheless less great shark design from Oblisk. I especially like the symmetry of this design as you can see the fins on both sides of the model.

Shark, Designed and Folded by Obelisk
Instructions not available
Here's a different Blue Shark Design by John Montroll. Blue Sharks are pretty laid back and often swim along quite slowly. When they see food however they quickly turns into one of the fastest fish in the ocean.

Blue Shark, Designed by John Montroll and Folded by ВЕРЕСТУН Игорь (Iver)
Diagrams available in Origami Sea Life: Third Edition
Here's another Great White with an awesome close up of the details in the mouth. Great Whites can grow up to 21 feet long but most females are usually 15 to 16 feet long while most males are usually 11 to 13 feet long.

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by sakuryu(╯3╰)
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Here's another excellent Hammerhead design by Joseph Wu. The position of a Hammerhead Shark's eyes on the sides of its head gives it full 360° vision in the vertical plan. This means they can see above and below them at all times.

Hammerhead Shark, Designed and Folded by Joseph Wu
Instructions not available
This is another Great White Shark designed by a different Vietnamese artist named Nguyễn Hùng Cường. The teeth and other details in this model are fantastic too.
Real Great White sharks have 5 rows of teeth in their mouths with 46 teeth in each row.

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Diagrams available in Crease Magazine #12
Here's another fantastic Blue Shark design by Winston. Blue Sharks aren't usually a victim of commercial fishing but is the target of many sport fishing activities around the world. The official status of this species of shark is "Near Threatened."

Blue Shark, Designed and Folded by Winston
Instructions not available
This next model is a Bull Shark. The Bull Shark is also called the Zambezi Shark in Africa and the Lake Nicaragua Shark in Nicaragua. These sharks can live in both salt and fresh water. They live along coasts and can travel very far up rivers. Once a Bull Shark travelled up the Mississippi River and made it as far as Illinois.

Bull Shark, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu
Instructions not available
Here's John Montroll's excellent Blue Shark design again folded by another fantastic artist.

Blue Shark, Designed by John Montroll and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Origami Sea Life: Third Edition
Here's Nguyễn Hùng Cường's Great White Shark again and this time it's folded with a stylish wave. In just one year a Great White Shark can eat an average of 11 tons of food!

Great White Shark, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Phạm Hoàng Tuấn
Diagrams available in Crease Magazine #12
Next we have Ngueyn Ngoc Vu's excellent Hammerhead design folded by another fantastic artist. In these two photos you can really see all the details that go into this model.
Hammerhead sharks have been known to eat a wide array of prey including fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans and even other sharks. Their favourite food to eat though are stingrays.

Hammerhead Shark, Designed by Ngueyn Ngoc Vu and Folded by Alex Mironenko
Diagrams available in the 20th Tanteidan Convention Book
Here we have Nguyen Ngoc Vu's amazing Great White Shark folded by the designer himself and photographed at a convention. Great White Sharks are classified as an Apex Predator but they are quite often attacked and eaten by Killer Whales.

Great White Shark, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Our final model for this post is one of my all-time favourite models and photos. Even though I've featured this photo on the site before I absolutely had to include it in this post.
Great White Sharks can jump up to 10 feet above the water to catch prey. This behaviour is known as "breaching." The average "breaching" speed is 25 miles per hour. In some cases these sharks have been known to breach right onto the deck of a boat.
As you can see below, Nguyen Ngoc Vu has folded an incredible Great White Shark breaching the water to catch a seal.

Shark Bite Seal, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu
Instructions not available
That's it for this post. Hopefully you've learned something and come away with a new-found respect for sharks. Which one of these origami sharks was your favourite? Let us know in the comments!
Fantastic Origami Farm Animals to Fold When You’re Cooped Up
In this post we're going to take a look at a group of excellent paper farm animals. These are the standard sorts of animals you'd expect to see on a farm such as cows, pigs, sheep, etc.
We'll start off with these two adorable sheep from Gen Hagiwara. He folded these for Chinese New Year in the year of the sheep. I love how the perfect parts are black and white when you use two-sided paper.

Sheep, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
There are lots of great origami horse designs out there but Hoang Tien Quyet's design is definitely the most elegant looking. If you use two-sided paper the mane and tail end up a different colour than the body.

Horse, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Mariano
Diagrams available in VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+
If you have a farm you definitely need a cat to take care of the mice. I really like the shape of this one.

Cat, Designed by Giang Dinh and Folded by Antoine S. (origoku)
Diagrams available in License to Fold
Every farm also needs a rooster and here's an excellent one designed by Jaeil Jeong. The colour changes with the white and red are perfect.

Rooster, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
Here's one of the coolest looking goats that I've seen.

Goat, Designed and Folded by Ta Trung Dong
Instructions not available
This is a really awesome bull. The photograph is great and you can really feel the strength of the bull even though it's just made out of paper.

Bull, Designed by Dong Viet Thien and Folded by Gonzalo
Video instructions available from Breath of Paper's YouTube channel
Here's an excellent cow to go along with this bull. I love all the details on the head.

Cattle, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong
Here's an adorable family of paper ducks.

Ducks, Designed by Hoàng Tiến Quyết and Folded by Andrea Borsa
Diagrams available in VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+
Jaeil Jeong designed this really excellent pig.

Pig, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Diagrams available from Jaeil Jeong's Flickr
Quentin Trollip has what's easily one of the best origami horse designs out there. If you use brown and white paper like you see here there are some excellent colour changes in the legs and on the head.

Clydesdale Horse, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
This next model is Seth Friedman's Finnish Lapphund. Normally when people fold and photograph this model they always show it from the side. This is the first time I've seen it from this angle and there are a lot of really great details on the face.
Here Ju Hyeong Kim folded the model a little bit differently so it's sitting down instead of standing like it normally is.

Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Ju Hyeong Kim
Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel
Here are two more excellent paper chickens.

Chicken and Rooster, Designed and Folded by Choi Ju Young
Instructions not available
Satoshi Kamiya has one of the most realistic looking sheep designs I've seen out there. This one is folded from one 35cm x 35cm square of paper and it took 2 and a half hours to fold!
If you try folding this model be sure to use very thin paper otherwise the horns get very hard to fold.

Sheep, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Philipp-Marius Kost
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention Book
Hoàng Tiến Quyết is still one of my all time favourite origami artists. He has a very unique curved style in all his designs and uses wet folding a lot. Here's one of his fantastic pig designs. This is a more "Grown-up" version of his famous pig.

Pig (October 2015), Designed and Folded by Hoàng Tiến Quyết
Instructions not available
Kei Watanabe has designed some incredible and complex models. Here he's designed a kuchinoshima-ushi or a Japanese cattle.

Japanese Cattle, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
Lots of farms have rabbits and here are two adorable ones folded by Rainer Berg.

Rabbits, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by Rainer Berg
Diagrams available in the Bogota 2013 Origami Convention book
This isn't a super complex looking goat but it's still got a really fantastic design.

Goat, Designed by Nguyên Hùng Cu'ò'ng and Folded by Andrés
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention Book
Here's another really excellent horse design. I especially like that prancing leg.

Horse, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Natalia Romanenko
Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu
Beth Johnson has a really cute sheep design that uses a tessellation pattern for the fur.

Sheep, Designed by Beth Johnson and Folded by Philippe Landrein
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #148
I really like the 3D square design of Fernando Castellanos's cow. It almost reminds me of a milk carton which is perfect since it's a cow.

Cow, Designed and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Instructions not available
Here's one more excellent rooster for this post. It's folded from one 60cm x 60cm sheet of paper with some excellent colour changes on the head and legs.

Rooster, Designed and Folded by origami-M-H-G
Instructions not available
This is another really unique looking pig design.

Pig, Designed by Cyrille Masseys and Folded by Guillermo R. Parrondo
Diagrams available in the Bogota 2014 Origami Convention book
This might be the most realistic paper goat design I've ever seen. The details here are awesome and it's nice to see the model from multiple angles.

Goat, Designed by Taiga Yamamoto and Folded by Tkak Sakai
Instructions not available
Here's one last cow photographed from a really dynamic angle.

Cattle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Kyoung Su Kim
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #141
Our final model in this post is this great origami bull. I really like the lines, shapes and angles in the design. The pose of the bull is excellent too, it looks quite strong.

Bull, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
That's it for this post! If you end up folding any of these the next time you're cooped up share a photo in the comments so we can take a look!