After Emil’s repeated requests here’s one of the most difficult origami models I made: the fiddler crab by Hans Birkeland - posted here with his permission - is made from one single square paper and looks amazing.
I usually make the origami model before I make a video of it, to avoid hang ups and mistakes, in this case the first one I made came out better, even if I made a couple of mistakes. The claws were the most difficult part as it was hard to make it out from the diagrams - you’ll notice I didn’t fold them correctly. Don’t even think about making the fiddler crab simply by looking at the video, be sure to check out the diagrams. If you can’t make it don’t worry, get some experience with some simple and intermediate origami.
An interesting fact I found out about fiddler crab is that if it looses it’s big claw it will develop the opposite claw.
The video was over 100MB and over half an hour, so I uploaded to Google Video, the quality leaves much to be desired, but I do it with what I have.
Diagrams on Hans’s website and another picture with the video after the break.
Here’s a picture of the bottom, the crab legs look unnaturally natural.
14 responses to “Video: Fiddler crab”
Well Karl also only the males have the big claws.
It’s actually Hans Birkeland:P but anyway, I like that crab. I think i’m going to use an A3 format paper to fold it. Easier to fold the legs=) Thanks very much!
umm… where’s the video? it magically dissapeared!?
it did’t come up and there’s a white space where it should be.
emil, did you see the video?
@Castword: corrected, thanks (in the video it was correct though).
@blue heron: video still there, maybe problem on Google’s side.
well blue heron i did not see the video but just go on google and type origami fiddler crab and it should com up or go to google video and do you know where to find a video for michel lafooses horeshoe crab
oh, okay. i went on the google video website before anyway and it was there.
hm… i can’t find the video anywhere, not on google, not on here… where is it?
@oriagmiguy777: I assure you the video is there, it worked for me. Search Google video for origami fiddler crab if everything else fails.
i tried that, as you suggested earlier, but it still isn’t coming up… maybe it’s just something wrong with my old crappy computer. :D
I dont speak english well,I love origami and U are the best folder I ever see.
this model is amazing!
Once i finally made it I was fascinated
except i mostly used the digrams but i saw ur video whenever i needed help on a model
it was hard to fold it
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