We’ve covered origami fish as well as crabs before and in this post we’re going to be taking a look at all kinds of different sea creatures and animals found in the water.
There’s a lot of cool stuff here starting with these awesome eels. This is one of the coolest looking designs I’ve seen. I especially like how it looks when you use orange and white coloured paper like you see here. Not only do you get those awesome stripes but you get the eyes too.
Splendid Garden Eel, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
This jellyfish uses a tessellation for the body which gives it a pretty cool look.
Jellyfish, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
This puffer fish is a pretty popular model to fold and it always looks really great.
Puffer Fish, Designed by Jang Yong Ik and Folded by Michael Novio
Diagrams available in Raison d’être 2014
Nguyen Ngoc Vu’s sailfish is an awesome design and this one folded by P. Colman is absolutely beautiful.
Sailfish, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by P. Colman
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Satoshi Kamiya probably designed the coolest looking paper octopus I’ve seen. The entire thing with all the legs is folded from a single sheet of paper.
Octopus, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Eyal
Instructions not available
This beautiful looking lobster is folded from a single sheet of paper!
Maine Lobster, Designed by Robert J. Lang and Folded by Alex Mironenko
Crease Pattern available from Robert J. Lang’s website
Here we have one of the best looking seahorses I’ve seen.
Seahorse, Designed by Edwin C. Flores and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Diagrams available in 4 Esquinas Magazine #10
This mantis shrimp is one of the most impressive models out there. The entire thing is folded from one single sheet of paper and there are 104 steps! It took Shuki Kato over 15 hours to fold this.
Mantis Shrimp, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by Shuki Kato
Diagrams available in the 17th Origami Tanteidan Convention book
Here’s another awesome and quite complex model. There are 173 steps to fold this!
Nautilus, Designed by Manuel Sirgo and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in SirgOrigami
This shrimp is another one of the most complex and mind blowing models that I’ve ever seen. The whole thing is folded from one sheet of paper!
Shrimp, Designed and Folded by Kota Imai
Crease pattern available from Kota Ima’s Flickr
These manta rays aren’t super complex but they look really great regardless. I really like how the curves on the wings make them look like they’re swimming.
Manta Ray, Designed and Folded by Won Seon Seo
Instructions not available
Here’s another fantastic little crab.
Crab, Designed by Komatsu Hideo and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 2016 Special Issue
After than pun in the title of this post I definitely had to include at least one dolphin.
Dolphin, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #155
This giant squid is easily one of the most beautiful origami models I’ve seen, especially with that paper.
Giant Squid, Designed by Dai Lu and Folded by P. Colman
Crease pattern available from 戴璐’s Flickr
We’ve covered seashells before and here’s another whole collection of them Joe Aida folded after watching Finding Dory. He even included a little paper Dory.
Designed by Multiple Artists and Folded by Joe Aida
Here’s a very awesome imaginary creature that’s a redesign of Finward’s old Kraken model.
Mythic Cephalopod, Designed and Folded by Finward
Crease pattern available from Finward’s Flickr (in the comments)
This is probably my favourite shark design. The individual teeth are really awesome and so is the colour change that makes the belly of the shark white.
Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by CaptainMoon
Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn
Here are some more of Beth Johnson’s fantastic tessellated jellyfish photographed at an exhibit.
Jellyfish, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson (Photo by Evan Zodl)
Instructions not available
Here’s another really awesome shark design from Nguyen Ngoc Vu.
Hammerhead Shark, Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu and Folded by Phillip Curl
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 20th Convention Book
This is probably the cutest little octopus design out there.
Flapjack Octopus, Designed by Gen Hagiwara and Folded by Magali
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
Here’s a very unique looking octopus that’s folded from one rectangle of paper. It was created as part of a challenge to create an octopus that doesn’t use the standard frog base. It’s pretty easy to get eight legs out of that base.
Octopus, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
Here’s another absolutely fantastic crab. I love the joints in the legs, they look really real.
Blue Swimmer Crab, Designed by Kota Imai and Folded by P. Colman
Crease pattern available from Kota Imai’s Flickr
Kei Watanabe is one of the most impressive designer’s I’ve ever seen and his lobster design is incredible!
Japanese Spiny Lobster, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
That’s it for this post. As usual be sure to visit all these amazing artists to send them some comments and favourites and let us know which one of these is your favourite in the comments.
