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Published: 2006-10-29 04:57:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 42980; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 7798
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Update:I've finally finished the fancy photo instructions!
Please take a look at them, they are much better and easier to follow: [link] Full view for the instructions.
These are the instructions for how to make an origami Hydralisk, a creature from the computer game StarCraft. Out of all the origami Hydralisk models I've seen on the web, I think this is one of the best, in terms of accuracy and simplicity.
There are about 30 or 40 steps, depending on how you count them. Foil paper is recommended to make it easier to shape, but it's not necessary. And course you start with a square piece of thin paper, white side up.
I originally designed the model in 2003, and I finished drawing these instructions in the summer of 2006. They're kind of messy, but they work. I might make a vector version on the computer sometime if enough people want it though.
These were drawn in pencil and then scanned. I added color in Paint because the shading didn't carry over too well in the scanned version.
Feel free to print out and distribute these instructions. Just make sure I am credited as the author. Enjoy!
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Glad you liked it. Did you try the newer photo instructions also? [link]
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wait... I was on the internet searching origami up but I somehow end up here again... odd...
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My g*d. Have I actually finished? I can hardly believe it.
Everyone, the new photo instructions are done! Hooray!
Behold: [link]
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I failed 7 is too hard i failed master some drunken monkey should kick me in the balls for not being able to do part 7. [link]
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rfwu i just saw your clip and it is very interesting... after all it looks very good
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Just a quick update: I'm finishing up the fancy Flash photo version of the instructions, and you can expect them to be released during the first week of September.
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Couldn't you just make a Youtube video of yourself making it? I did.
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I could (if I borrowed someone's video recorder), but it wouldn't be as good! 
The instructions will be posted either in a few hours, if I'm still awake, or early tomorrow. Hang in there!
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Thanks! It's great to have some good comments from someone with a clearly superior design. It's just hard to make!
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AWESOME!!!! but having a hard time in a lot of things like part 7....
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Step 10 just can't be completed with your picture and instructions 
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lol 6 complete but stuck at strep 10 too...the a b c d just hard to understand....axcho i cant wait to see your tutorial......ah..cant wait....i wanna built my own hydralisk zerg colony at home.
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pls help me on step 6 i was lost there,the diagram is unclear...maybe i am too noob for this,axcho pls take a photo of ya step it will be very helpful,pls pls...
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not to bother you axcho but could you put up that photo tutorial soon?
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YEEEEEEEEEEEY!!! Can't wait for the photos... and a 12 hydralisks will rule my house D
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Steps A-E are impossible without pictures. There's just not enough information in such small drawings!!!
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Good news everyone! I finally finished taking photos for the instructions! 
Hope, my patient followers - the day of our victory is close at hand!
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*sigh* i hate doing any origami for the first 3 times...so damned annoying. But I digress...
getting it from step 7 to step 8 is making me want to punch babies. I would appreciate being told how to do that step or being able to look at a better illustrated diagram
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Sorry. I was getting ready to make the photo instructions at the beginning of the summer, but then things happened and I got busy. I'm not sure when I'll have the time to make the photo instructions, but I'll keep them in mind in case a good opportunity comes up. I know a lot of people are waiting for them.
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yeah, im lost at step 10b, it looks like im doing it right, a feel like im doing it right, and then a few seconds later i look up and its totally wrong.
maybe some bigger and more detailed drawings of those individual steps would be nice...
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okay nevermind, i can make it, i just cant get the arms right or make him stand...
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Probably the most awesome thing you can turn a normal piece of paper into. I fail miserably at step 10 tho xD
Eagerly awaiting photo instructions :3
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lol... ok... difficult... i must have missed a fold...
does the paper matter?
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The paper doesn't matter too much, but it holds its shape better with foil paper.
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well, I'll keep trying...
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must try... looks easy enough... 
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Ahh this looks amazing but i got lost from step 10 - 11
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Wow, everyone is having trouble with that step. I guess I'll try making a photo version in a few weeks once school gets out. Thanks for the comment!
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steps A-E are really confusing. Perhaps you could show how to do it with a video clip or maybe some pictures?
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Yeah, sometime I'm going to have to make a photo version of the instructions. Sorry that it's confusing.
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i cant make heads or tails of steps a through e, someone plz help
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i cant make heads or tails of steps a through e, someone plz help
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Hey, you have some great directions here. But I too am hopelessly stuck at step 10. I just can't see what it is I'm supposed to be doing...
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Hi, thanks. Have you seen my explanation above? [link] That might help. But it's hard to explain in words. If that doesn't help maybe I'll try some other explanation.
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Yeah, I saw that. I'm still lost >.<
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Urgh. Well, it sounds like I'll have to redraw that step sometime. Do you think it would take a full-blown animation of it, or photographs, or just a cleaner drawing?
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A cleaner drawing would probably do it, but your best bet would be an actual photograph- most of the difficulty seems to be lying in tying to understand what piece of paper you're supposed to be working with at each point.
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All right, I'll try to make a photograph version of the instructions sometime. Thanks for the feedback.
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nice - havnt folded one yet, cant find my metallic paper
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I think you saved the GIF with too few colors, so the dithering makes it kind of hard to see if some of the folds are mountain or valley folds. Maybe resave it with more colors or try a PNG.
Anyway, I managed to figure it out and it looks awesome! I'll have to get some origami paper and make a better one.
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Actually the scan itself is just low quality, and the original drawing wasn't too great either. 
But that's great that you were able to fold one! Let me know if you take a picture of it.
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