Learning Project: Shape 7

Can I Fold It? You Bet Jurassican!

For my learning project this week, I decided to try a Tyrannosaurus Rex – a shape that I found a few weeks ago that I really wanted to try but was a bit scared off by its tiny arms. I found a video that folded a version of the T. Rex with fairly easy-to-fold arms so thought I’d give it a shot. The video is on YouTube and is by YouTube user PPO. The video tutorial was pretty good. It has some catchy music and has clear video of the folder’s hands making all the folds. 

I thought this would be a good shape to use a bigger piece of paper with and since I still have not bought bigger paper (by now I think I might just call a spade a spade and say buying bigger paper is just not gonna happen), I thought I would just use a piece of construction paper and fold then cut it to make a square. Unfortunately the construction paper that I have does not fold well at all so I had to scrap this plan and use my trusty 6” x 6” paper that I’ve been using all along. I was reading one of Richelle’s blog posts where she gave some tips and tricks on using tutorial videos and one of her suggestions was to watch the video at 3/4 speed so it’s easier to follow along. Previously I had always been pausing and starting the videos so I could keep up with the folds but this week I tried Richelle’s suggestion and it worked pretty good. Thanks Richelle! 

I had some issues with the head (throwback to my issues with folding the crane head and the hammerhead shark head) and made a few mistakes along the way that could easily be undone (it didn’t have a tail for a short while). 

This week I decided to make a video of me folding the T. Rex. I used a program called Filmora to edit the video. I’ve used Filmora a few times before. It’s probably my favourite video editor as it has a ton of really neat effects and is really user friendly once you figure it out. It has lots of music options and really cool transitions for photos. Plus I like how it has video and audio layers that are easy to edit independent of one another. Unless you upgrade, it does have a watermark on the finished product, but I don’t think it takes away from the final video. I also had some issues trying to crop the video so there wasn’t a bunch of carpet in the background which is why it jumps around a little bit – I split the video before cropping so attempted to crop each part of the video the same which was next to impossible. Oh well – I’ll say it was on purpose to make the video more visually interesting…

I ended up folding two T. Rex’s. As per usual, I folded the first one the wrong way so the plain, white side of the paper was facing outwards. I learned my lesson on the second go around. These are my two T. Rex’s together.