The main theme of this project is appreciation of materials, we waste so much. I'm a bit of a paper hoarder; print outs, previous projects, and a lot more.
I decided to see how many paper cranes I could make out of a single sheet of paper, salvaging as much as I could.
It took around 2 days but I ended up making 104 paper cranes, they weren't all the same size but the paper squares ranged from 1.5-2.5 cm
This is how I started cutting out the paper
The smallest strip was too small, couldn't make the cranes properly so I didn't count those, couldn't thin the wings
Then I decided to make a stand for the cranes, with little to no knowledge about 3d modeling, I looked up some blender tutorials, learned how to make a general frame by messing around with a square and it's side scaling.
I streamed making it on dlive but there was a problem with it and it didn't show up on steemit. I had a few issues making the stand. First I didn't realize that I was making the object in mm and not cm, so I had to scale up the object(after creating the papercraft model), them putting it into pepakura every rectangle was separate even though I joined them in blender. I ended up just gluing the pieces together since I noticed after printing.
Organized the parts to take as little paper as possible, looking back I should have made the side legs shorter and added a weight on the back side.
Here's what the cranes looked like before I hung them on the strings, the pink one is for reference, that's the size of the 2000 cranes I folded, the box was very useful for storing them so I made a post about it.
Watched some stuff while making this, re-watched groundhog day, great movie.
After finishing this project I decided to finally reuse some of the old paper I have and make and make a fun origami model, I'll probably finish by tomorrow.
Thanks for reading :)