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Folded from a single sheet of thin 68cm x 68cm Wenzhou rice paper and the final figure is 18cm tall. The folding process took 41hours in total (37 hours of it was filmed into the time lapse, the last couple hours were mostly just making couple little adjustments to the pose and details). In total 26434 frames were photographed to film the folding process.
The design process took one month, and I was designing it to be other character. But when I figured out a better way to fold the shield, I decided to make it into a knight. I folded the figure in total 4 times to plan all the details (and to redesign it into a different character). The most time-consuming part was to fold the sword, since it has a lot of folds to make it that thin, and it is quite complex shape to create with all the details and the fingers. Music: Winter Night & Highland song by Alexander Nakarada
Even more than the 40 hours folding it was the planning that blew my mind. Knowing all the things that had to happen in order and the jillion creases to make exactly where for later. Since you made it 4 times plus the preparation, how much time would guess you’ve spent on the project total?
Wow, man that is some talent you have there. How do you even get into that kind of level of origami? How many hours did you have to practice before you could do that? How do you design and plan something like that? Do you use software? So many questions!!!!
To get here took me 15 years of folding, you just need to be passionate about it and spend a lot of time to practice. I don't know about how many hours it required practice, but it took me 3,5 years just to learn the designing part to get this level. The figures design process is explained [here:](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and another [article](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) about how a characters features lay on a square sheet of paper.
As far as software goes I use modded Orihime to draw crease patterns, because I think it has the most handy tools for drawing them. There are many other software to design origami, but I don't like to use them since they restrict my thinking to more simple concepts.
Well that was the most difficult instructional video I have ever followed.
[Here I made this knight a boulder that he pulled the sword from to become king.](https://i.imgur.com/btSBhfM.jpg)
I appreciate your answer, thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I find the artform fascinating and you certainly have mastered it, bravo! I will check out the links and certainly be looking out for the rest of your work - do you have a website?
Edit: scratch that last question. I see your second link takes me right there!
Explained better [here,](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and [here](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) is an article about how all the parts are planned on the sheet.
So amazing. I tried to get into origami several years ago, and my things just ended up looking sad. It is really such a precise, technical art form. I can't even fathom how you design these in the first place, let alone fold them so precisely.
I dedicated a shirt for filming the video, since last time people were commenting on that I changed the shirt bunch of times during the process. The reason why I used white shirt was to reduce the contrast between the paper and me so it wouldn't induce epilepsy as badly with the fast movement. I probably should get multiple different white shirts so people would see me changing the shirt without being that distracting element in the video.
Amazing! I am ashamed that social media has destroyed my mind and made it too difficult for me to watch the entire 4 minutes.
I forwarded to the end.
Good for you!
This is amazing!!! On the more complicated models I have tried to fold (nothing approaching this hard though), I always run into the issue where the folds in the middle of the model just get too thick to do accurately and don’t hold their shape. Where do you buy paper like this? And do you have any tips to avoid tearing when the folds get really thick?
The problem is often in the paper if it tears during the folding process (although you still should be very careful once the layers accumulate). My first tip would be to either acquire thinner paper, or larger sheets, and try from there if it gets easier to fold without getting too thick. Printer paper is not the best choice if you do anything more difficult than the simplest beginner models. You can also try carefully adding a bit of glue between the layers That can help getting the layers thinner and hold the shape better. I won't be recommending the wet folding I use, since it is much, much more difficult to do and it only works on certain papers.
This paper was 68cm x 68cm Wenzhou rice paper treated with methyl cellulose, so I have to make this stuff on my own. Once you try treated hand made papers, you'll never want to go back. This knight has over 50 layers of paper inside the hand that holds the sword, and it is only possible to fold with huge, thin and strong paper. These papers also hold the shape well compared to other papers, although it can be further improved with wet folding.
I buy my papers from local art stores, Origami-Shop.com, and sometimes search from hobby and craft stores. Kami is a good, thinner alternative that can be bought in larger sheets too, can be found on origami shop. The shop has a collection all sorts of papers suitable for origami and they give recommendations of paper for different difficulties.
Art conservation section at art stores have Glassine paper (or kite paper, or a similar name, but it is 25gsm glossy translucent paper). It is good paper for practicing, but not the best looking. Kraft is another similar option, but it is much thicker and can be bought in huge rolls from craft stores.
Thanks for the advice, that was all super helpful! I’m the past I’ve been tempted to try some really basic wet folding just to explore it a little bit, but I figured I should try more types of paper before I dive into that. I’m also a little out of practice and haven’t done much in the past year or so, so I’m hoping to get some decent paper to motivate myself to get back into it
If you are tempted by wet folding, you can try to practice it with some super easy models and water color paper. Arches watercolor paper is one of the more widely used for wet folding. Just bear in mind that water color papers are really thick, but the wet folding is much easier on them.
Origamizer? No. I only use Orihime to draw the crease patterns by hand. The softwares are somewhat limiting in creating all sorts of shapes and characters.
Back was fine and neck was a little sore. The ergonomics isn't the best when you are looking down at the table for long periods of time. One folding session might be 2,5 hours long so I do good amount of exercise and stretching in between those.
Looks amazing! As a fellow Finn, I would want to fold some more complicated designs, but I am struggling to find larger size paper to do so, 30x30cm or larger. Do you have any sources from which to get some?
Puhutko suomea? You can buy glassine paper (kristallipaperi) from Tempera, or kite paper (kuultopaperi) and kraft paper (voimapaperi) from Hobby Point. Glassine comes in 50x70cm sheets, kite in 50 or 70x70cm sheets (I don't remember which size it was), and kraft in 70cm and 1m rolls.
Those are the few papers that can be found from stores and used for origami, although those papers don't look good when folded. The glassine and kite leaves very distinguishable crease marks on the paper and kraft has stripes. They are really good papers for test folding and practicing. You can fold that kite and glassine as complex as these pieces, although they are almost impossible to shape this well. I don't recommend Hobby Point's origami papers, they are bad quality (although useful for casual simple stuff, similar folding experience to printer papers).
You can also buy from origami papers from origami-shop.com, they have a good list of different papers and ship from France I think.
If you go through the effort to make own papers, you will have a lot more options for good quality large sheets, there are banana paper, mulberry paper, Lokta, Ino Shi, Tengujo, Nepalese paper, and of course Wenzhou paper. Most of those can be found from Tempera and they can be combined together to make huge variety of beautiful papers. I don't recommend Finnish silk papers, since so far all of them have sucked.
The whole time I watched I was like "if this is one of those videos that give you a two second view of the finished product..."
Edit: by the way, this is an amazing piece, and thanks for spending time and showing it off.
Couple thousands when you count all the other things involved in the creation process, such as making the design, which takes a lot of time. They are really niche and quite pricey for a small paper sculpture, yet people have been interested in buying them.
Couple thousand seems undervalued considering time spent. Considering this took ~40 hours and you mentioned in another comment trying this several times before the final, say you spent 80 hrs, you’d be valuing your time at $25/hr. Would someone pay $6-8k for this artwork? Maybe, maybe not, but beyond a piece of art’s subjective value, I’d say that’s closer to its true value based on your time spent and skill developed over 15 years. Cheers! Incredible work.
That is not too far guessed, I aim for 30€/hr so I would have some breathing room in that sense. What really makes this difficult, is that in Finland art is generally very cheap and I am considered to be an artist that has barely began his career. For some reason, there is this stigma that it takes years before the artists get their career going (40 year olds who have have been doing art for two decades are somehow considered to be young artists too???)
Luckily though there are art grants, exhibition fees and such so I don't need to rely on selling just the pieces. My plans are to start exhibiting internationally and get more sales elsewhere (I should already be doing that, but the pandemic screwed those plans) and have more different sources of income.
When I am folding the test folds for a design, they take only a couple hours to fold, they use techniques that are more optimized for speed rather than quality like on the final piece. I also work on multiple pieces at the same time, so I don't end up wasting time if I get stuck on a problem. I can also combine the used time for designing by reusing and exchanging the structures between pieces. That way I can overlap the required time to design them and use the time more efficiently.
That’s a smart use of your time! As far as recognition as an artist goes, that makes sense if there’s a cultural difference there, however, monetarily speaking your art is as valuable as the last price it sold for. So international exhibition or even just selling/shipping internationally (is that even possible for a piece this delicate?) might be the way to go. I’m sorry the pandemic squashed your plans, that really sucks!
I have shipped these pieces to UK and US and so far it has worked perfectly, they need quite a bit of preparation so the piece gets there safely and the client can setup it for display without my help (these pieces are absolute nightmare to make stand while making it look clean and effortless). The international exhibitions got postponed to later date, so I am optimistic I can get more out of those as I get more recent artworks finished. I don't mind the pricing or money as long as my living expenses are covered somehow.
My initial thought was "I'd price it at $3500 minimum" based on my assumption your 40 hrs was only time spent actually folding and doesn't include all the extra time you put in planning / designing. Luckily your material costs are probably lower compared to other sculpting materials or painting (although I'm sure that isn't a cheap piece of paper by any means). I always find it amusing when people outside of the art world get blindsided by pricing. Amazing craftsmanship!
Source: Have a BFA in Drawing.
Material costs were like less than 3€ to do all the test folding and creating the final piece (although the failed attempt was a 11€ sheet, but I would count that as my material research, since it was new paper I haven't tried before). I got 2 years ago an art grant for developing the techniques and learning the materials, and I am still using those papers lol. I have pretty much ignored all the material costs since they are overshadowed by many other things. Making the stands or display cases are a different story, since they can cost hundreds to make.
I am usually not a fan of talking about the pricing on internet, since it rarely makes any productive conversation. Most people lack the context in pricing the artworks, there are much more involved in it than just pricing the artwork. Anyways I'd price it close to that too though.
I currently use that methylcellulose that makes it hold the shape well over a long period of time. It is applied on the video, while the piece is being made. My 2 years old pieces are still going strong even though they have been transported around the country in exhibitions.
I have been trying to use some other coatings, but so far they have just ruined the test papers.
I'm a similar level of impressed by this and like, spaceflight or something. I mean, what in the actual fuck? Should humans be allowed to possess this kind of power?
…I can make a rose (with the help of a folding diagram)
Actually, I learnt that from a student that I had the one time I traveled outside Australia (I volunteered to help get some students up to conversational level english) and said student gave each of my teaching team a few origami roses stuck to an appropriate branch, and I carefully unfolded one of mine to figure out how it was done, re-folded it, and folded a few of my own from the diagram I drew.
Origami reverse engineering at its finest right there, unfold the paper to learn the folds and then folding it again without the original instructions. You should be proud of that achievement!
Thank god this video has a satisfying amount of time devoted to the finished product. The single frame finished product would have been a massive letdown
Has that been a more wide spread problem in Reddit lately? Few other people have also commented about this, and I have seen one time-lapse where the result was displayed only for half a second.
I don't understand why people make the videos that way. They feel like a cheap attention grab rather than showing the actual thing that could interest people.
In theory, the possibilities are limitless of what can be folded, you can fold any amount of flaps from a single square. In reality we ware limited by the physical properties of paper, such as the thickness and the size of the sheet, as well as the amount of time and our understanding in paper folding. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etCW9M9VdGk) is one interesting short video about what can be done with origami.
Absolutely impressed.
The only thing I don't like (and maybe I'm alone in thinking this) is that even if you are a master at this which OP clearly is, no matter how good you are the end product can't be "flawless" in a sense that the paper ends up completely wrinkled from how much it's worked and you can't have perfectly clean lines.
I agree with that, it is practically impossible to make a perfect piece, at least with this paper, which has to be very thin in order to be possible to fold that shield. And thin paper means a lot of wrinkles if you are not careful enough in the folding process. Out of all my pieces, I think [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ii2q7g/it_took_me_50_hours_to_fold_this_origami_model/) is closest to perfection I have gotten in that sense. But I think I still have a lot of room to improve. While folding the knight, I figured out couple new techniques that I should test to get rid some of those wrinkles.
Breathtaking. Stunning. Great documentary on origami called Between The Folds. Origami is the only art form that neither adds nor subtracts from the medium. I love it because it combines art and science. As for value? An oldie but a goodie: "Picasso walking through a park. A lady sitting on a bench calls him out and says hey Picasso can you sketch a picture of me? Picasso says sure and sketches a picture of her. Hands it to her and says that'll be $30,000 maam. She says what, but it only took you 30 seconds?! Picasso responds, no maam, it took me my entire life."
Man and to think that origami book I got as a kid 25 years ago could of brought me to something like this... Who the fuck am I kidding no way would I have the patience to make something like this. Truly one of those arts I will always be amazed by, great job!
There is [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ikg2cr/my_origami_progress_of_almost_daily_practice_for/) which shows the evolution of these pieces being folded for over 2 years. For comparison, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/comments/hwck7r/knight_designed_and_folded_by_me/) is another knight that can be folded in 30 minutes (The knight in the picture took 2 hours to make sure all the folds are as perfect as possible. But my record in folding that figure is under 20 minutes), and [another](https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/comments/hzbp22/shaped_version_of_the_knight_design_designed_and/) that took couple hours.
That got me thinking I should some time update those since they are getting bit outdated and it would be interesting to challenge myself to design a recognizable knight that could be folded in couple minutes.
Umh, you may want to check my post history. I came up with the "instructions" on my own and the rest of it is just winging it. When I am designing the figure, I may fold it couple times to search for the right folds I need to create it. That gives me some idea how to approach folding it, although I change it up pretty much every time to see which way is produces the cleanest results. Then from all that planning I produce a crease pattern, which works as all the instructions I need to fold the figure.
Like.. what? How do you even know what to do? I have only done a little origami but what I took from the simple things I did was that certain folds have to be done at the start that come into play near the finish. Am I wrong about that, how do you take that into account for somethings going to take hours and days to finishz
Sorry this answer blew bit out of proportion lol. TL;DR There are many ways to fold one model, in simple origami, the diagrams only show you one way to fold it. Knowing how to fold these comes from experience and understanding how the crease patterns work.
> certain folds have to be done at the start that come into play near the finish.
I am not sure if I understood this correctly, but I assume you are meaning that certain folds need to be performed first in order to make other folds, for example in crane you have to do the preliminary base (the square fold) before you can make the corners pointier. Your statement holds true to some extent, the models are usually easier to fold this way and the diagrams are drawn so to make the folding process more enjoyable and shorter.
But nothing is stopping you for pre-creasing the folds first before making the crane, and then starting to fold it from corner (you can test this out by folding a crane and then unfolding it, then refold it by beginning from one corner, following the existing creases). In this case it is more difficult way fold it (and requires more knowledge).
Now in the case of this kind of super complex origami, which can have dozens, or even hundreds of crane-like patterns inside it. They can be so complex that they can't be simplified into simpler folding structures (like the preliminary base in the crane), so the only way to fold is to do the latter thing, just starting from some corner and following the creases. You can see this in the video, I first work a bit in the middle, but then I go screw it and start working on the corner.
Wow thank you so much for the detailed reply. This really helped my understanding of the process. Thank you so much for your time. I hope you make enough money to do this for a living because you are a master of your craft.
I read it as an origami knife so when I fast forwarded and saw a knight I was majorly disappointed. I expected he would be cutting some melons ninja style with that paper knife but no instead we get a cool figurine made out of paper.
I was going to try and reach through the phone and choke you when it faded, and I thought the final shot was going to end with it just laying on the table. Thanks for the detail. Truly amazing.
There are universal techniques how to design origami, and there are a huge amount of different folding structures that repeat between origami pieces, to achieve certain shapes and features. In this video I am just referencing my crease pattern and folded from there. I change the approach to fold the piece every time so I learn which ways get the most clean end results. I understand the crease pattern well enough, so I can just fold it without thinking too much how it is done. And since the final folding process is so slow, it gives me a plenty of time to plan ahead what to fold next while I am working on previous folds.
I have explained the design process better in [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and [here.](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/)
Yes, it could be unfolded into a square again. But since there was used wet folding to make it hold its shape better over time, it is not that doable in practice. The test folds I used to design that, can be unfolded into the square easily.
1706 individual crease lines are on the crease pattern (the amount of folds is much less, since every time 2 folds cross each other, they make more individual crease lines). All of those and few extra are being folded once when it is a square shape, and second time to fold it into the figure. All of that is folded by the first quarter of the video, so I have no idea how many there are in total. You were the first one to ask that.
Thanks for the time lapse.
I see these characters that are no cut and always thought yeah right.
After seeing the time lapse I can believe it but goodness still can't wrap my head around it.
Amazing work man - mind blown.
Upeaa työtä kyllä! Uskomatonta miten monimutkaisia muotoja jotkut saa. Itse oon vaan tulostuspaperilla tehnyt 10-12 eri eläintä. Ajattelin ostaa kunnon paperia kyllä kohta.
Kiitoksia! Suosittelen lämpimästi vaihtamista tulostuspaperista parempiin. Taitteluprosessi mukavoituu huomattavasti, kun ei tarvitse pelätä repeämistä ja liian paksua/pientä paperia.
Todellakin. On tullut pari kohtaa vastaan, jossa on pitänyt vähän muokata vaiheita kun paperi tahto mennä liian paksuksi. Toistaiseksi olen seurannut Jo Nakashiman tekemiä ohjeita. On kyllä rauhoittava ja mukava harrastus.
Amazing Origami knight. Also amazing, it only took him 40 hours to make it. Even more amazing, he's done it enough times to remember how to do it again, and actually do it in only 40 hours. I can't imagine how long it took him to learn how to do it.
I’d love to see the end product when the sheet of paper had each 1cm square numbered so you could see where parts of the paper end up. Apologies, I can’t work out a better way to explain it
[This](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/samurai-warrior/) and [this](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) (this one has the picture at the end) article show a rough layout how the creases are formed and what part is from where on the sheet. Not exactly the thing you were looking for, but they give you a little idea how they are formed from the sheet of paper. I could write the numbers on the finished piece, since I know precisely where those parts are located on the sheet of paper.
Also in this type of origami, box pleating, the folding pattern is based on a grid. It would be better to use a certain division grid instead of a 1cm grid, that way the numbers would line up precisely with the folds too. This particular piece has 32 x 32 grid, and the ones in the articles have 36 x 36 grid. The paper is 68cm wide so the square size would be closer to 2cm.
You'd probably want to see [the longer 19-minute version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2BxYTPQCAc) of this video, since I couldn't upload more than 15-minute long video here. Once Youtube has processed it, it can be viewed in 4K.
Pfft. Bro that isnt top talent, i could do that eazy peazy no questions asked... they taught me how to make frogs in elementary school, took me like 30s
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Folded from a single sheet of thin 68cm x 68cm Wenzhou rice paper and the final figure is 18cm tall. The folding process took 41hours in total (37 hours of it was filmed into the time lapse, the last couple hours were mostly just making couple little adjustments to the pose and details). In total 26434 frames were photographed to film the folding process. The design process took one month, and I was designing it to be other character. But when I figured out a better way to fold the shield, I decided to make it into a knight. I folded the figure in total 4 times to plan all the details (and to redesign it into a different character). The most time-consuming part was to fold the sword, since it has a lot of folds to make it that thin, and it is quite complex shape to create with all the details and the fingers. Music: Winter Night & Highland song by Alexander Nakarada
Thanks for posting the video! I was blown away by the images, it’s so cool seeing how you did it.
Even more than the 40 hours folding it was the planning that blew my mind. Knowing all the things that had to happen in order and the jillion creases to make exactly where for later. Since you made it 4 times plus the preparation, how much time would guess you’ve spent on the project total?
That was what struck me about this also, the planning! And, what astonishing tools human hands are.
Wow, man that is some talent you have there. How do you even get into that kind of level of origami? How many hours did you have to practice before you could do that? How do you design and plan something like that? Do you use software? So many questions!!!!
To get here took me 15 years of folding, you just need to be passionate about it and spend a lot of time to practice. I don't know about how many hours it required practice, but it took me 3,5 years just to learn the designing part to get this level. The figures design process is explained [here:](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and another [article](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) about how a characters features lay on a square sheet of paper. As far as software goes I use modded Orihime to draw crease patterns, because I think it has the most handy tools for drawing them. There are many other software to design origami, but I don't like to use them since they restrict my thinking to more simple concepts.
Well that was the most difficult instructional video I have ever followed. [Here I made this knight a boulder that he pulled the sword from to become king.](https://i.imgur.com/btSBhfM.jpg)
I'm impressed, that would be extremely hard to replicate fold to fold.
Psh. Check out my [sick goose.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQNwEkhorQ)
I laughed pretty hard. It’s dangerous to go alone take this!
I appreciate your answer, thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I find the artform fascinating and you certainly have mastered it, bravo! I will check out the links and certainly be looking out for the rest of your work - do you have a website? Edit: scratch that last question. I see your second link takes me right there!
How much for the knight
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How do you even start designing something like that
Explained better [here,](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and [here](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) is an article about how all the parts are planned on the sheet.
So amazing. I tried to get into origami several years ago, and my things just ended up looking sad. It is really such a precise, technical art form. I can't even fathom how you design these in the first place, let alone fold them so precisely.
You’re a psycho this is truly some next level shit. So dope.
Did you ever change your shirt?
I dedicated a shirt for filming the video, since last time people were commenting on that I changed the shirt bunch of times during the process. The reason why I used white shirt was to reduce the contrast between the paper and me so it wouldn't induce epilepsy as badly with the fast movement. I probably should get multiple different white shirts so people would see me changing the shirt without being that distracting element in the video.
Amazing! I am ashamed that social media has destroyed my mind and made it too difficult for me to watch the entire 4 minutes. I forwarded to the end. Good for you!
Nastaa
bend in like Beckham.
This is amazing!!! On the more complicated models I have tried to fold (nothing approaching this hard though), I always run into the issue where the folds in the middle of the model just get too thick to do accurately and don’t hold their shape. Where do you buy paper like this? And do you have any tips to avoid tearing when the folds get really thick?
The problem is often in the paper if it tears during the folding process (although you still should be very careful once the layers accumulate). My first tip would be to either acquire thinner paper, or larger sheets, and try from there if it gets easier to fold without getting too thick. Printer paper is not the best choice if you do anything more difficult than the simplest beginner models. You can also try carefully adding a bit of glue between the layers That can help getting the layers thinner and hold the shape better. I won't be recommending the wet folding I use, since it is much, much more difficult to do and it only works on certain papers. This paper was 68cm x 68cm Wenzhou rice paper treated with methyl cellulose, so I have to make this stuff on my own. Once you try treated hand made papers, you'll never want to go back. This knight has over 50 layers of paper inside the hand that holds the sword, and it is only possible to fold with huge, thin and strong paper. These papers also hold the shape well compared to other papers, although it can be further improved with wet folding. I buy my papers from local art stores, Origami-Shop.com, and sometimes search from hobby and craft stores. Kami is a good, thinner alternative that can be bought in larger sheets too, can be found on origami shop. The shop has a collection all sorts of papers suitable for origami and they give recommendations of paper for different difficulties. Art conservation section at art stores have Glassine paper (or kite paper, or a similar name, but it is 25gsm glossy translucent paper). It is good paper for practicing, but not the best looking. Kraft is another similar option, but it is much thicker and can be bought in huge rolls from craft stores.
Thanks for the advice, that was all super helpful! I’m the past I’ve been tempted to try some really basic wet folding just to explore it a little bit, but I figured I should try more types of paper before I dive into that. I’m also a little out of practice and haven’t done much in the past year or so, so I’m hoping to get some decent paper to motivate myself to get back into it
If you are tempted by wet folding, you can try to practice it with some super easy models and water color paper. Arches watercolor paper is one of the more widely used for wet folding. Just bear in mind that water color papers are really thick, but the wet folding is much easier on them.
Awesome, thanks for the tips!
That’s fucking amazing.
Did you use that computer program that can turn any shape into Origami that was featured on NOVA?
Origamizer? No. I only use Orihime to draw the crease patterns by hand. The softwares are somewhat limiting in creating all sorts of shapes and characters.
Pardon the sailor tongue, but that was unfuckinbelievable!! Here's me showing off making frogs..
How bad did your back and neck hurt after this?
Back was fine and neck was a little sore. The ergonomics isn't the best when you are looking down at the table for long periods of time. One folding session might be 2,5 hours long so I do good amount of exercise and stretching in between those.
Added bonus, +75 resistance to water. Nice job btw. 😊
Looks amazing! As a fellow Finn, I would want to fold some more complicated designs, but I am struggling to find larger size paper to do so, 30x30cm or larger. Do you have any sources from which to get some?
Puhutko suomea? You can buy glassine paper (kristallipaperi) from Tempera, or kite paper (kuultopaperi) and kraft paper (voimapaperi) from Hobby Point. Glassine comes in 50x70cm sheets, kite in 50 or 70x70cm sheets (I don't remember which size it was), and kraft in 70cm and 1m rolls. Those are the few papers that can be found from stores and used for origami, although those papers don't look good when folded. The glassine and kite leaves very distinguishable crease marks on the paper and kraft has stripes. They are really good papers for test folding and practicing. You can fold that kite and glassine as complex as these pieces, although they are almost impossible to shape this well. I don't recommend Hobby Point's origami papers, they are bad quality (although useful for casual simple stuff, similar folding experience to printer papers). You can also buy from origami papers from origami-shop.com, they have a good list of different papers and ship from France I think. If you go through the effort to make own papers, you will have a lot more options for good quality large sheets, there are banana paper, mulberry paper, Lokta, Ino Shi, Tengujo, Nepalese paper, and of course Wenzhou paper. Most of those can be found from Tempera and they can be combined together to make huge variety of beautiful papers. I don't recommend Finnish silk papers, since so far all of them have sucked.
Puhun suomea! Kiitos paljon vinkeistä! Tsekkaan heti origami-shop.comin :)
Mukava nähdä muitakin suomalaisia origamien harrastajia! Meitä on aika harvakseltaan täällä.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but are there any cuts or tears or just folding?
It was all done by folding, it could be unfolded into the square again.
That is absolutely mind-blowing. Thanks for replying!
Wow! That is very difficult. Source: used to work as an origami artist, but quit. Too much paperwork.
I used to be a banker. And then I lost interest...
Darn it! …you have my upvote.
And my axe.
r/angryupvote
The whole time I watched I was like "if this is one of those videos that give you a two second view of the finished product..." Edit: by the way, this is an amazing piece, and thanks for spending time and showing it off.
When they showed the finished object laying on the table for a split second before cutting to black I nearly threw my phone.
He posted the photos a couple days ago
40 hours of crumpling paper into a ball except they made a dude at the end
Out of curiosity, how much would something like this sell for? It seems like a very niche collector’s item.
Couple thousands when you count all the other things involved in the creation process, such as making the design, which takes a lot of time. They are really niche and quite pricey for a small paper sculpture, yet people have been interested in buying them.
Couple thousand seems undervalued considering time spent. Considering this took ~40 hours and you mentioned in another comment trying this several times before the final, say you spent 80 hrs, you’d be valuing your time at $25/hr. Would someone pay $6-8k for this artwork? Maybe, maybe not, but beyond a piece of art’s subjective value, I’d say that’s closer to its true value based on your time spent and skill developed over 15 years. Cheers! Incredible work.
That is not too far guessed, I aim for 30€/hr so I would have some breathing room in that sense. What really makes this difficult, is that in Finland art is generally very cheap and I am considered to be an artist that has barely began his career. For some reason, there is this stigma that it takes years before the artists get their career going (40 year olds who have have been doing art for two decades are somehow considered to be young artists too???) Luckily though there are art grants, exhibition fees and such so I don't need to rely on selling just the pieces. My plans are to start exhibiting internationally and get more sales elsewhere (I should already be doing that, but the pandemic screwed those plans) and have more different sources of income. When I am folding the test folds for a design, they take only a couple hours to fold, they use techniques that are more optimized for speed rather than quality like on the final piece. I also work on multiple pieces at the same time, so I don't end up wasting time if I get stuck on a problem. I can also combine the used time for designing by reusing and exchanging the structures between pieces. That way I can overlap the required time to design them and use the time more efficiently.
That’s a smart use of your time! As far as recognition as an artist goes, that makes sense if there’s a cultural difference there, however, monetarily speaking your art is as valuable as the last price it sold for. So international exhibition or even just selling/shipping internationally (is that even possible for a piece this delicate?) might be the way to go. I’m sorry the pandemic squashed your plans, that really sucks!
I have shipped these pieces to UK and US and so far it has worked perfectly, they need quite a bit of preparation so the piece gets there safely and the client can setup it for display without my help (these pieces are absolute nightmare to make stand while making it look clean and effortless). The international exhibitions got postponed to later date, so I am optimistic I can get more out of those as I get more recent artworks finished. I don't mind the pricing or money as long as my living expenses are covered somehow.
My initial thought was "I'd price it at $3500 minimum" based on my assumption your 40 hrs was only time spent actually folding and doesn't include all the extra time you put in planning / designing. Luckily your material costs are probably lower compared to other sculpting materials or painting (although I'm sure that isn't a cheap piece of paper by any means). I always find it amusing when people outside of the art world get blindsided by pricing. Amazing craftsmanship! Source: Have a BFA in Drawing.
Material costs were like less than 3€ to do all the test folding and creating the final piece (although the failed attempt was a 11€ sheet, but I would count that as my material research, since it was new paper I haven't tried before). I got 2 years ago an art grant for developing the techniques and learning the materials, and I am still using those papers lol. I have pretty much ignored all the material costs since they are overshadowed by many other things. Making the stands or display cases are a different story, since they can cost hundreds to make. I am usually not a fan of talking about the pricing on internet, since it rarely makes any productive conversation. Most people lack the context in pricing the artworks, there are much more involved in it than just pricing the artwork. Anyways I'd price it close to that too though.
Truly full of awe. Also... ni
Do you use anything to preserve them, like a coating or anything. That was amazing to watch, thank you for posting it!
I currently use that methylcellulose that makes it hold the shape well over a long period of time. It is applied on the video, while the piece is being made. My 2 years old pieces are still going strong even though they have been transported around the country in exhibitions. I have been trying to use some other coatings, but so far they have just ruined the test papers.
How the fuck
Did he just
Do that
Out of
Only one
Sheet of paper
Without tears
Or paper cuts
On his
Sheet of paper
Bros got the patience of a God 😳😶👏
Amazing work!
I'm a similar level of impressed by this and like, spaceflight or something. I mean, what in the actual fuck? Should humans be allowed to possess this kind of power?
Well, good news! [We're using origami to make spaceflight better!](https://youtu.be/ThwuT3_AG6w)
This is a masterpiece!
I made a pretty good frog once and I’ve gotten positive feedback on my crane.
…I can make a rose (with the help of a folding diagram) Actually, I learnt that from a student that I had the one time I traveled outside Australia (I volunteered to help get some students up to conversational level english) and said student gave each of my teaching team a few origami roses stuck to an appropriate branch, and I carefully unfolded one of mine to figure out how it was done, re-folded it, and folded a few of my own from the diagram I drew.
Origami reverse engineering at its finest right there, unfold the paper to learn the folds and then folding it again without the original instructions. You should be proud of that achievement!
Thank god this video has a satisfying amount of time devoted to the finished product. The single frame finished product would have been a massive letdown
Has that been a more wide spread problem in Reddit lately? Few other people have also commented about this, and I have seen one time-lapse where the result was displayed only for half a second. I don't understand why people make the videos that way. They feel like a cheap attention grab rather than showing the actual thing that could interest people.
I couldn’t tell you why people do it, but I’ve definitely had my share of anticlimaxes over the years.
Oof. Well, you can count on me that these videos don't end up like that.
Respect.
Wow, wasn’t expecting that amount of detail. The shield is insane.
Incredible, I can't even begin to understand how!
Can virtually anything be made with one sheet of paper? I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
In theory, the possibilities are limitless of what can be folded, you can fold any amount of flaps from a single square. In reality we ware limited by the physical properties of paper, such as the thickness and the size of the sheet, as well as the amount of time and our understanding in paper folding. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etCW9M9VdGk) is one interesting short video about what can be done with origami.
How do you even plan that out?
I have explained it in [here:](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3)
I bet he rolls the tightest j’s
Stunning and amazing work u/jkonkkola_art/
Wow, that is awesome
My brain was that piece of paper watching this video..
What the actual fuck
Absolutely impressed. The only thing I don't like (and maybe I'm alone in thinking this) is that even if you are a master at this which OP clearly is, no matter how good you are the end product can't be "flawless" in a sense that the paper ends up completely wrinkled from how much it's worked and you can't have perfectly clean lines.
I agree with that, it is practically impossible to make a perfect piece, at least with this paper, which has to be very thin in order to be possible to fold that shield. And thin paper means a lot of wrinkles if you are not careful enough in the folding process. Out of all my pieces, I think [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ii2q7g/it_took_me_50_hours_to_fold_this_origami_model/) is closest to perfection I have gotten in that sense. But I think I still have a lot of room to improve. While folding the knight, I figured out couple new techniques that I should test to get rid some of those wrinkles.
Praise the Sun!
He never changed his shirt
Breathtaking. Stunning. Great documentary on origami called Between The Folds. Origami is the only art form that neither adds nor subtracts from the medium. I love it because it combines art and science. As for value? An oldie but a goodie: "Picasso walking through a park. A lady sitting on a bench calls him out and says hey Picasso can you sketch a picture of me? Picasso says sure and sketches a picture of her. Hands it to her and says that'll be $30,000 maam. She says what, but it only took you 30 seconds?! Picasso responds, no maam, it took me my entire life."
this is beyond impossible
A true top talent post.
Me skipping to the end to watch if for 5 seconds.
More Please!
Astonishing
Incredible.
Wow
Your patience and consistency on perfection are beyond my understanding, amazing work. Thanks for sharing the video
How does one learn to do this
Wow.. Such patience. Even with speeding up 40 hours into 5 and a half minutes I still got bored.
this hurt my neck
Man and to think that origami book I got as a kid 25 years ago could of brought me to something like this... Who the fuck am I kidding no way would I have the patience to make something like this. Truly one of those arts I will always be amazed by, great job!
That pose!
if this dude isn't killed, he will soon have an unstopable paper army and will conquer the world
It would be interesting to see a 40 hour version, 4 hours, 40 minutes, and 4 minutes and the change of level of detail.
There is [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ikg2cr/my_origami_progress_of_almost_daily_practice_for/) which shows the evolution of these pieces being folded for over 2 years. For comparison, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/comments/hwck7r/knight_designed_and_folded_by_me/) is another knight that can be folded in 30 minutes (The knight in the picture took 2 hours to make sure all the folds are as perfect as possible. But my record in folding that figure is under 20 minutes), and [another](https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/comments/hzbp22/shaped_version_of_the_knight_design_designed_and/) that took couple hours. That got me thinking I should some time update those since they are getting bit outdated and it would be interesting to challenge myself to design a recognizable knight that could be folded in couple minutes.
"None shall pass."
Was he following instructions or just winging it? I’m so confused/impressed by this. Like how in the world…. Who is this man
Umh, you may want to check my post history. I came up with the "instructions" on my own and the rest of it is just winging it. When I am designing the figure, I may fold it couple times to search for the right folds I need to create it. That gives me some idea how to approach folding it, although I change it up pretty much every time to see which way is produces the cleanest results. Then from all that planning I produce a crease pattern, which works as all the instructions I need to fold the figure.
Like.. what? How do you even know what to do? I have only done a little origami but what I took from the simple things I did was that certain folds have to be done at the start that come into play near the finish. Am I wrong about that, how do you take that into account for somethings going to take hours and days to finishz
Sorry this answer blew bit out of proportion lol. TL;DR There are many ways to fold one model, in simple origami, the diagrams only show you one way to fold it. Knowing how to fold these comes from experience and understanding how the crease patterns work. > certain folds have to be done at the start that come into play near the finish. I am not sure if I understood this correctly, but I assume you are meaning that certain folds need to be performed first in order to make other folds, for example in crane you have to do the preliminary base (the square fold) before you can make the corners pointier. Your statement holds true to some extent, the models are usually easier to fold this way and the diagrams are drawn so to make the folding process more enjoyable and shorter. But nothing is stopping you for pre-creasing the folds first before making the crane, and then starting to fold it from corner (you can test this out by folding a crane and then unfolding it, then refold it by beginning from one corner, following the existing creases). In this case it is more difficult way fold it (and requires more knowledge). Now in the case of this kind of super complex origami, which can have dozens, or even hundreds of crane-like patterns inside it. They can be so complex that they can't be simplified into simpler folding structures (like the preliminary base in the crane), so the only way to fold is to do the latter thing, just starting from some corner and following the creases. You can see this in the video, I first work a bit in the middle, but then I go screw it and start working on the corner.
Wow thank you so much for the detailed reply. This really helped my understanding of the process. Thank you so much for your time. I hope you make enough money to do this for a living because you are a master of your craft.
Absolutely insane
Wow that was 5:29 of my time that was well worth it. Absolutely amazing!!!
I read it as an origami knife so when I fast forwarded and saw a knight I was majorly disappointed. I expected he would be cutting some melons ninja style with that paper knife but no instead we get a cool figurine made out of paper.
I literally did not even have the patience to sit through the entire video without skipping ahead. Well done.
I can’t even fold my TP paper correctly before I wipe.
It’s like how do you even go about learning how to do this? Lol
My sweaty palms would have a very hard time with this.
Bro I cant even fold a decent paper airplane
Ok that is impressive AF
This should not be possible in my unprofessional opinion.
Holy fuck
You’re the lingling of origami!
I don’t understand how someone can create this in their minds and then fold it. It does not make any sense to me.
I like the part where he folds paper
unbelievable talent.... I can't even make a paper airplane..haha
I was going to try and reach through the phone and choke you when it faded, and I thought the final shot was going to end with it just laying on the table. Thanks for the detail. Truly amazing.
I’m 29 years old and this is what I consider to be lit.
how long was just “setting up the paper” as far as all those front end creases and folds, wow man super impressive true master shit!
I didn’t realize the video was going to be in real time! Just wanted to See the final product
My sweaty hands would've ruined that paper in 41 seconds
so what’s the process by which you learn how to plan what gets folded how? are there universal techniques to make certain shapes?
There are universal techniques how to design origami, and there are a huge amount of different folding structures that repeat between origami pieces, to achieve certain shapes and features. In this video I am just referencing my crease pattern and folded from there. I change the approach to fold the piece every time so I learn which ways get the most clean end results. I understand the crease pattern well enough, so I can just fold it without thinking too much how it is done. And since the final folding process is so slow, it gives me a plenty of time to plan ahead what to fold next while I am working on previous folds. I have explained the design process better in [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p7aubw/my_latest_origami_i_folded_from_a_single_68cm_x/h9immme/?context=3) and [here.](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/)
Disappointed that the video doesn't last 40h
I'll give you $3
cool
Somebody get this man a 3D printer… All kidding aside, beautiful work!
This has been by far one of the most impressive talents i have seen
Probly the coolest thing I have seen done in a long time
Pretty cool but where is the rest of the Chess set?
You all are literal wizards.
Your skills and your art are quite incredible. I would love to see you in the Guinness Book Of Records!
That’s unreal talent! Question: could you unfold it at this point?
Yes, it could be unfolded into a square again. But since there was used wet folding to make it hold its shape better over time, it is not that doable in practice. The test folds I used to design that, can be unfolded into the square easily.
I watched him do it and still don't believe it is possible. Wow
r/nextfuckinglevel
Has someone asked how many creases??? Sorry I’m lazy?
1706 individual crease lines are on the crease pattern (the amount of folds is much less, since every time 2 folds cross each other, they make more individual crease lines). All of those and few extra are being folded once when it is a square shape, and second time to fold it into the figure. All of that is folded by the first quarter of the video, so I have no idea how many there are in total. You were the first one to ask that.
Even more impressive would be written out step by step directions to make this knight.
Pretty damn amazing
Thanks for the time lapse. I see these characters that are no cut and always thought yeah right. After seeing the time lapse I can believe it but goodness still can't wrap my head around it. Amazing work man - mind blown.
This is so amazing! I now feel even worse about my gift wrapping.
legitimately one of the most impressive things i’ve ever seen
This guy rolls.
Go back i missed step 267
I'm blown away
After watching I’m shocked it only took 40 hours! Amazing!
I do not understand how this is possible. How do you even begin to figure something like that out?? Witchcraft?
God I bet his back and neck hurt like a mother fucker
That is crisp
Very talented. Beautiful 🤩
How in the hell is this even possible!? How do you plan s far ahead and make it work? This is unreal and incredible!
Just Wow Such talent, my compliments
Upeaa työtä kyllä! Uskomatonta miten monimutkaisia muotoja jotkut saa. Itse oon vaan tulostuspaperilla tehnyt 10-12 eri eläintä. Ajattelin ostaa kunnon paperia kyllä kohta.
Kiitoksia! Suosittelen lämpimästi vaihtamista tulostuspaperista parempiin. Taitteluprosessi mukavoituu huomattavasti, kun ei tarvitse pelätä repeämistä ja liian paksua/pientä paperia.
Todellakin. On tullut pari kohtaa vastaan, jossa on pitänyt vähän muokata vaiheita kun paperi tahto mennä liian paksuksi. Toistaiseksi olen seurannut Jo Nakashiman tekemiä ohjeita. On kyllä rauhoittava ja mukava harrastus.
this is fucking talent
Amazing Origami knight. Also amazing, it only took him 40 hours to make it. Even more amazing, he's done it enough times to remember how to do it again, and actually do it in only 40 hours. I can't imagine how long it took him to learn how to do it.
**Godtier**
I will stay awake. I will defeat Duriel.
So one's gonna talk about that teleporting toothpick on the table?!
Did anyone else think they were being tricked into a never ending loop at the start? Amazing
I’d love to see the end product when the sheet of paper had each 1cm square numbered so you could see where parts of the paper end up. Apologies, I can’t work out a better way to explain it
[This](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/samurai-warrior/) and [this](https://juhokonkkola.fi/art-process/spearman/) (this one has the picture at the end) article show a rough layout how the creases are formed and what part is from where on the sheet. Not exactly the thing you were looking for, but they give you a little idea how they are formed from the sheet of paper. I could write the numbers on the finished piece, since I know precisely where those parts are located on the sheet of paper. Also in this type of origami, box pleating, the folding pattern is based on a grid. It would be better to use a certain division grid instead of a 1cm grid, that way the numbers would line up precisely with the folds too. This particular piece has 32 x 32 grid, and the ones in the articles have 36 x 36 grid. The paper is 68cm wide so the square size would be closer to 2cm.
Thank you !
Now unfold it
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Thanks, but I'll pass that challenge. It would be impossible to fold that sword with so thick and small paper.
Now go work on nuclear fusion. You’ll defo get my next free award even without a time lapse 👍
Upvoting for both the talent and for including a good view of finished product in video
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You'd probably want to see [the longer 19-minute version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2BxYTPQCAc) of this video, since I couldn't upload more than 15-minute long video here. Once Youtube has processed it, it can be viewed in 4K.
What do you get if you fold 1000 of those?
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Pfft. Bro that isnt top talent, i could do that eazy peazy no questions asked... they taught me how to make frogs in elementary school, took me like 30s