These posts are all about origami animals of all kinds from mammals to fish to birds to reptiles. If you’re an animal lover then you’ll definitely want to take a look at the posts in this category!
I’ve always been a fan of origami koi. There are only a few major koi designs but they’re always great and the koi people fold are always really beautiful. Often people use really great paper or make collections of rainbow coloured koi and do lots of other neat things with them. Our first image is…
There’s a pretty wide array of origami snakes out there. I didn’t think there would be so much since origami is usually folded from a square sheet of paper and snakes are so long but surprisingly enough there’s some amazing origami snake designs out there. A lot of them are folded from a giant rectangle…
I realize that title for this post is pretty bad but if you can come up with a better fish-related pun that I could use let minnow. Anyways this post is all about origami fish because there’s a lot of really awesome fish models out there. Models like this really cool looking origami hammerhead shark….
There are a lot of really awesome origami lizards out there including one of my all time favourite origami models, Gen Hagiwara’s Frilled Neck Lizard. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to fold it. This post is a collection of the best origami lizards (not including snakes, that’ll be another post) that I’ve seen. You’ll also…
In case you haven’t heard about the #ElephantOrigamiChallenge what you need to know is OrigamiUSA has partnered with 96 Elephants to raise awareness for the 35,000 elephants that are killed every year. They’re trying to collect over 35,000 origami elephants to beat the current world record for largest display of origami elephants. If you’d like…
Just like in real life there’s a huge and diverse amount of origami birds from all kinds of different species. This post has an assortment of different origami birds from all kinds of species and designers. Satoshi Kamiya’s rooster is probably the most famous paper rooster out there and it looks excellent. Rooster, Designed by Satoshi…
There are definitely a ton of different origami birds out there but since starting this site I’ve been surprised to learn that there’s also a very large amount of different origami owl models and some of them are pretty incredible. This first owl is a pretty simple design but nevertheless it does look pretty fantastic….
I’ve always thought origami crabs looked pretty cool. With their multiple legs, arms and claws they always look very impressive and difficult to fold although that’s not always the case which is awesome. This post will focus completely on different kinds of origami crabs because believe it or not there actually a ton of different…
When it comes to origami dogs there’s actually a lot of great models of tons of different dog species. I was actually kind of surprised at how much variety there is in origami dogs. In this post we’ll look at a whole bunch of great origami dog models starting with these great Labrador Retrievers. Labrador…
Animals are probably the most common thing that people fold out of paper. Rather than just making posts featuring random origami animals I’m going to try to group them together into themes. This post will focus on African animals such as elephants, lions, giraffes and more. There’s a lot of awesome looking origami here so lets…
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This year is the year of the monkey and what better way to celebrate than by making origami monkeys! A lot of origami artists have folded different origami monkeys and here are some of the best ones I’ve seen starting with this monkey photographed in the wild by Folded Wilderness….