Giant Anteater

Quentin Trollip
South Africa / Canada
www.liveorigami.com

Design and diagram info:

8 April 2010
Date:
Complex
Difficulty:
Time to fold: 90 min

Crease Pattern:

Paper:
Single Uncut Square
Size: 35 cm
Color: White / Black
Good
Type: Kami
Good
Foil
Wet-Fold Best

Ratio: 0.67

1.

2.
Turn over.

3.

4. Valley-fold and unfold.

This is 1/3 of the diagonal.

Length

5. Turn over.

6. Valley-fold and unfold.

7. Valley-fold and unfold.

8. Preliminary-fold.
Enlarge.

9. Turn over.

10. Pinch.

11. Valley-fold.

14. Turn over.

Valley-folds and unfold.

15. Valley-fold.

13. Valley-folds and unfold.

16. Mountain-fold.

17. Valley-fold.

18. Unfold.

19. Reverse-fold in and out.

20. Valley-fold.

21. Repeat steps 15 to 20 on

the left.

22. The result.

Unfold the raw corner.

23. Squash-fold the raw corner up.

24. Valley-folds and unfold.

25. Valley-fold on existing crease.

The model will not lie flat.

26. Push the raw edge through to

the left.

27. Inside reverse-fold on existing

crease.

28. Squash-fold to flatten.

29. Valley-fold two layers to the

right.

30. Lift the top layer to look under.

31. Swivel-fold.

32. Wrap the raw edge around.

33. Flatten the layer lifted in step 30.

34. Mountain-fold.

35. Repeat steps 26 to 34 on the left.

36. Turn over.

37. Enlarge.

38. Valley-folds and unfold.

39. Inside reverse-folds.

40. Valley-fold and unfold.

42. Valley-fold the raw corner

up.

43. Valley-folds and unfold

through all layers.

41. Inside reverse-fold.

45. Collapse on existing creases.

44. Valley-fold and unfold.

See markers.

46. Unfolds.

47. Pull out the raw edge and

hidden corner.

49. Inside reverse-folds.

50. Lift the point slightly.

48. Preliminary Fold on the

existing creases.

51. Open-sink both sides on creases

made in steps 43 to 45.

52. Side view. Open-sink the

indicated point and then flatten.

53. The result.

54. Valley-fold one layer.

55. Valley-fold the next layer, while

squash-folding the edge.

56. The result.

Valley-fold one layer.

57. Repeat steps 54 to 56 on

the left.

58. Valley-fold and unfold.

59. Unfold the raw edges.

60. Closed-sink the triangle.

61. Inside reverse-folds.

62. Valley-fold.

63. The result.

Valley-fold the point down.

64. Pleat-fold the point.

65. Valley-fold one layer to

the right.

66. Repeat steps 62 to 65 on

the left.

67. The result.

Scale change.

68. Valley-fold and unfold.

69. Swivel-fold.

70. Valley-fold the edge.

71. Repeat steps 69 to 70 on

the right.

72. Turn over.

73. Valley-folds
and unfold.

74. Pinch both sides.

75. Pleat-fold.

76. Swivel-fold.

77. Swivel-fold.

78. Swivel-fold.

79. Repeat steps 76 to 78 on

the left.

82. Pleat-fold both the legs.

The model will not lie flat.
80. Place the upper layers into the
layers underneath it.

81. Valley-fold the model in half.

Rotate.

Optional steps to lock the layers of the hind legs.

84. Closed-sink the upper set

of layers.
83. Unfold the pleat-folds of step 82.

85. Redo the pleat-folds of step 82

and place the layers into the
pockets formed in step 84.

87. Swivel-fold the base of the tail.

Repeat behind.

86. Outside crimp-fold the tail.

88. Inside reverse-fold.

90. Squash-fold to shape the ears.

89. Enlarge.

91. Valley-fold.
Repeat behind.

93. Inside reverse-fold.

94. Shape the nose.

92. Squash-fold to form the eye.

Repeat behind.

96. Crimp-fold the feet.

95. Scale change.

97. Shape the belly and tail.

Giant Anteater.

98. Outside reverse-fold.

99. Outside reverse-fold.