3D Origami Paper Swan (HD) Tell Me What You Think!

That's awesome Maker.

As well as your designs, your video production skills are also impressive.

Thank you! I borrowed some background from my school's art studio and used iMovie to edit it together.

Now that's some art, very nice.....

Thank you SolarEagle!

Hey, very nice.

Thank you!

Very nice swan and a great video....

...but you know this and I suspect you know you can do better. Your bridge was better and the fact that it was significantly load bearing makes it all the more interesting.

You can make beautiful objects. It is a foregone conclusion using someone elses design. It may take a month of tedious work, but the outcome was never in question. Of course you could, from your previous work, no one had any doubt.

You could rest on your achievements and be content with your current skills, or you could continue to expand and improve your already formidable skill set.

If you want to grow, push yourself. Commit to making something outside your comfort zone, something you don't know how to do well right now, something you would really find impressive if someone else were to do it....something that committing to is a little bit scary.

And then commit to a deadline to finish.

We can help in lots of ways. One big way in which we can help right away is to be a place to announce your project and deadline...an accountability sounding board.

I'd be far more intersted in seeing a venture outside your comfort zone that results in something ugly you made in just the nick of time for the deadline that works,maybe just barely but it works...... than the next undeniably beautiful construction that remained well within your comfort zone.

This interests me, truth is not a compromise. In my last video, someone suggested working with warping wood. I have never tried that and I would like to do it from home if that is possible. I am out of school currently an d will be gone from home for a month a few weeks from now. When school resumes I could use the tools at school to attempt something with warped wood. This is just one idea. what are your thoughts?

That sounds like a fine idea.

Setting timelines/goals and then reviewing, holding yourself accountable, and having a formal process for reassessment/modification of goals is well worth gaining familiarity with.

Research and plannning is needed before you ever need tool, so perhaps scheduling some time for fleshing out what you want to make, designing it and then developing the processes for manufacture could allow you to be ready to start using tools once they are available.

So what processes are you considering for bending? Chemical softening with ammonia or alkali solutions? Steaming in a bag or box? Gluing thin laminations? Kurfing? Providing restrictive forms into which trees are forced to grow and conform?(this last one will need to allow considerable time for the trees to do their part.)

Have you ever tried to grow trees like that? That also interests me. I know it takes a lifetime though!

Only in the garden. Nothing that should invite sitting upon.

Could you do it with a fast growing weed tree, like honeysuckle?

A vine like honeysucke should be very accepting of being trained to a form. Check out espalier and pleaching.

Cool! thanks

Nice job, kiddo! You really have some skillset there. I am sure the world will be ready for your talents, the more you have to share down the road.

I hope that I can offer the world something new and creative!

You already have what it takes. Just go for it, full speed ahead!

Make one out of stainless steel, and mechanize it, and automate its movements, and you can terrify the heck out of several back woods communities.

Or you could make it into a medical robot??

In a book, the medical robot would go haywire.