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Published: 2010-01-19 06:49:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 10531; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 807
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It was a sunny day today, so I took some photos of my new origami zergling design.
I liked the way the light plays on the texture of the stone surface here, so I thought I'd feature this one in particular. You can also see the model from some other angles: [link]
In this one the plates of the carapace down the back got tweaked a little accidentally so it sticks out above the tail. It's actually supposed to follow a smoother arc down to the tail. But it looks kind of cute this way, so oh well.
Instructions forthcoming. In the meantime, you can check out my origami hydralisk instructions: [link]
Hope you like it.
Update:
Want to learn to make a zergling of your own?
The narrated tutorial video is here, in ten parts for your folding pleasure:
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 1 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 2 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 3 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 4 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 5 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 6 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 7 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 8 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 9 of 10
- How to make an origami zergling - Part 10 of 10
I'll let you know when I finish the photo diagrams.
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awesome turorial, I admire your patience
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Ha, nice!
Thanks for sharing - I always enjoy seeing what people make from my designs!
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wow this is a WIN origami
definitely will follow the video and make and army of zerglings.
viva zerg rush!
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Totally tried it out using your (super useful) video, though I got a little iffy on the back and upper arm-blades, particularly when flattening the bit on where you have to fold the back in and the upper arms get all wonky. Also think something is wrong with his neck... D:
BUT I'm trying again tomorrow in the hopes of refining him!
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Yay, let me know how it went.
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Went well! Your video is really great help. It's just a matter of refining my folds... :S
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...FFFFFFFFfffff~
SO CUTE.
Though my origami skills are currently modest at best, I may try this out!
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Are you still going to be posting the instructions for folding this? I'd love to get a swarm of these suckers running across my desktop.
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Oh, yeah, the video tutorial is up already - just forgot to mention it: [link]
Actual diagrams might take a bit longer... Like sometime in the summer, when it's sunny out.
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Omgg the Zergling is my favest char on StarCraft! XD;
Wow that looks amazingg!
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And... I made the zergling tutorial video. This one is much slower, at an hour and a half. With narration.
Part 1 here: [link]
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OMG! I've been gone too long. I'll check out your tutorial video. THANKS A BUNCH!
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Haha, thanks for the encouragement.
I just finished making a thirty-minute tutorial video for the hydralisk, which I've had some difficulty uploading but hopefully I can get it to work. If not, I'll try recording it again.
Once that works, I'll make a video for the zergling and then I'll think about making diagrams too.
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ARITEH, I'm in the process of posting pictures of recent origami. Go ahead and check 'em out!
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Hehehe. So, was this design like yours?
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Yes, it's very similar as far as I can tell, though I used a different approach to finish off the limbs and such. My first attempts were more geometric, until I figured out how to use the same sort of style as my hydralisk without it looking weird...
I think we use the same points for the limbs, except possibly reversing the front and back legs. I use the top two points for the upper claws, the middle points for the front legs, and the lowest points for the back legs.
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AH, I see. I was thinking that because of legs needing power, and the fact that the claws were over the shoulders, that the legs would be better covering the arms. I made a prototype with the frontlegs in the middle, and it turned out okay. You can see it in mah gallery XD
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Yeah, the legs are supposed to be farther apart than the arms, but I couldn't get the right look to it if I switched them like that.
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Ah okay. You never did say how you think mine turned out... XD
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Heh, I'll have to try it to compare. It's hard to see the full form with just a few photographs.
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Ah yea, tis true. You just gotta bend it around a bit to get the pose ya want. XD
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Oh, haha!
A zergling is a creature from the computer game StarCraft. It's an alien that runs fast and is cheap to grow, so you make a lot of them and then swarm an enemy base with them. They don't last long though.
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Unless you ONLY have zerglings XD
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