Customer Reviews

Origami Animals

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

Easy step-by-step illustration. Color coded to show back and front of the paper. Need to have basic origami skills to make it easier. Great for kids. Great colorful realistic animal pictures for reference, thus great learning tool. Highly recommended for those who has patience and want a more sophisticated look.

Good book for those who are into thinking and those that have patience. Other books are much more complicated. Details are provided. Origami isn't easy so be prepared to take the time to master it.

I am into origami. This book may not be traditional origami, but it challenges the mind that wants a challenge. My favorite origami book!

The elephant and kangaroo are fantastic. My kids loved the dog best. Many others are good also. This is non-traditional origami with painted models, but it is great fun. Put an elephant atop your monitor and you'll get a smile each time you look up. A couple are hard to make, but the rest more than make up for these.

This book contains several cute origami models of animals, but it has one major flaw - The models are not based on standard square origami paper, or even (second-best) on rectangles. Instead the first steps of each model consist of several cuts to the paper to make the points that form the legs, etc. Most origamiists prefer not to cut the paper except to form the initial square; cutting into the square is generally considered a flaw in a model's design. Therefore, this book will probably not appeal to the traditional origamiist. Nevertheless, the models are very cute, so if you don't mind the cutting, you may want to check it out.

We received this book/kit this Christmas and excitedly broke into it as a family event. We are three adults with varying levels of education (through post-graduate) and three children to 9 years old. We tried the Giraffe first and were immediately frustrated by the instructions. The pictures are insufficient and the instructions are obscure. It seems the author was attempting to give the shortest description possible and by this effort left out needed information.

Independently and as a group we tried to understand his instructions by experimenting for over an hour. The purpose of the book is to eliminate experimentation and teach you how to "do" the work, it fails.

I would NOT recommend this book/kit to anyone. There are other books which show and explain origami much better than this one. Working with this book is an exercise in frustration.

Art and nature got the attention of Hector Rojas early on. He grew up in Bolivia's capital city, La Paz. His parents couldn't buy him toys, so he made his own from what was right at his fingertips: boxes, cardboard, empty cans, and especially paper. He taught himself to make beautiful, fun paper copies of the toys he saw in store display windows, and he followed his imagination. He shares his artistic skills, imagination and love for nature in his book ORIGAMI ANIMALS.

He gives tips on getting good folds and making basic forms. His choice of critters is fun but challenging. Critters include basset hounds, condors, deer, adult and baby elephants, adult and baby flamingoes, giraffes, adult and baby kangaroos, lions, pocket crabs, rhinoceros beetles, tarantulas, toucans, and turtles.

His critters aren't just art for fun. They're also art for learning. With each critter, he talks about their homes and lifestyles. He tells what to use for wildlife scenes of grass, mountains, snow, trees, and water. The finished product's friendly to the environment. It recycles, from nature, dried mushrooms, grasses, leaves, mosses, nuts, stones, and twigs. In the environmentally-friendly tradition of Virginia Tech, the author gets us to recycle nature and deadhead plants, without adding to yardwaste!

Another application is to use the author's art for fun and learning in master gardener-taught and science classes. The critters and their environments make good exhibits for school classrooms, hall display cases, and science fairs. The directions on basic forms and on the book's set of critters are so clear it'd be easy to figure out how to do other paper animals, birds, bugs, environments, and plants.

This is a decent origami book. I can see four stars if it happened to suit your particular taste, but five stars no way. I would suggest Honda's "World of Origami", either of Tuyen's books or Yoshizawa's "Origami Museum I: Animals" for some five star animal origami.

This book starts out as your everyday casual origami book. However, as you work through the models, several flaws show up. First, no mention is made to explain the various folds for beginners. Second, the descriptions of each step are complicated and useless to anyone, save for origami masters. If you're a beginner, DO NOT GET THIS BOOK!!!!! It is horrible, and is not considered traditional anyhow. Thank you.