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[Tavin] Hello, today Stephan Weber is with me
[Tavin] as a guest on my channel, and he shows you something you can do with a birdbase
[S. W.] Hello I'm Stefan Weber, I'm a friend of Tavin
[S. W.] and he helped me a lot with my new Channel
[S. W.] he's a very geenerous person, it's a big honor to be his guest today
[S. W.] because he's a Youtube-Guru [laughter] I really can say this
[Tavin] You're very welcome, so what we'll see now?
[S. W.] besides this he's very nice. [pause] I'm folding and bird base,
[S. W.] the birdbase has it's name because, because we can fold birds out of it
[S. W.] not just the Crane, hundrets (of birds)
[S. W.] now I'm bringing the wings down, maybe untile here we can follow,
[S. W.] this is not inteded to be a tutorial, it's to show some variations
[S. W.] In the beginning , I fold slow, so you can maybe follow 1 model
[Tavin] we started with an bird-base, you can see this on many of my videos
[Tavin] you can click the annotation
[Tavin] you can follow this, but the intention is,
[Tavin] like Stephan allready pointed out, is to show you what you can do
[Tavin] ,what kind of metamorphosis with just one sheet
[Tavin] What is the first bird you'll fold?
[S. W.] A Raven, and now I'm pulling the leg out
[S. W.] we only have one leg, we're using the centre of the paper as a leg
[S. W.] I always try to explain for what we use each part of the paper
[S. W.] now we're locking the wings, so the model does not open
[S. W.] and we're forming the tail, in just one move
[Tavin] lock mechanisms are something you use very often
[S. W.] Yes, because a model should not fall apart if done
[S. W.] I propartion the tail, meaning I bring it to the length I want
[S. W.] In the beginning we all make mistakes with proportions, here the wings are longer than the tail
[S. W.] now I do a trick-fold
[Tavin] an Inside-Reversefold, I think
[S. W.] Yes, first it's easy, but then I bring up a small sqaure
[S. W.] wich I pop out later
[S. W.] to make the head 3D
[Tavin] Your famous 3D-folds you often use to give your animals such an lifely shape
[S. W.] Oh, I think they're not my 3D-folds, but I love to explain them
[S. W.] all good folders are using them
[Tavin] so the 3D-folds, not especially Stephan's
[Tavin] but there are very usefull so take a closer look at what he's doing now
[S. W.] I poped it out and now this raven nicely sits on a bookshelf an his one leg
[S. W.] but now I will tear this small thing in pieces again
[Tavin] and change it to something very different
[S. W.] I try to give it a completely different character
[Tavin] I think it'll become a singbird
[S. W.] It will, now I change the head back, because I didn't like it
[S. W.] the poped out head is much more pretty
[S. W.] now I pull it up to give the bird eyes
[S. W.] and to position the nose of the bird differently, and we see that looks completely different
[S. W.] now we have the singbird character
[Tavin] now you just made those nice small eyes wich make the model very lifely
[S. W.] I open the tail because singbirds are often more funny
[S.W.] they don't have to be sitting around so serious
[S.W.] they jump around, and this is why I give this bird a action position
[S.W.] meaning, I bring the tail up
[S.W.] I don't know how to do this yet, I fgutre out different ways
[S.W.] maybe this looks a little violent and it is for sure
[S.W.] now I figured, and oraganize my squeze-folds
[S.W.] in the beginning I do something, I don't know what'll come out of it
[S.W.] it just point the paper somwhere and then I figure out the folds
[Tavin] Just try - don't be afraid of the material - wich is an impartant thing
[Tavin] you've thought me
[S.W.] right, just touch it!
[S.W.] now I'm doing fethers in the wings with small valleyfolds
[S.W.] with those feathers we can breake the straight charcater of the wings
[S.W.] we can curve them
[S.W.] I just do three birds have about 30 feather in each wing
[S.W.] 24 to be precise
[S.W.] but in origami 3 are enough, better too few than too many
[S.W.] now it's a bird playing in the sand
[S.W.] now I pull the 1 leg down
[S.W.] Now I noticed that I won to legs by folding the wing up.
[S.W.] see? the to side-corners I'm touching?
[S.W.] I'm pressing the centre back inside the model
[S.W.] so I can use the corners as legs, because it's better with 2 legs
[S.W.] You see one leg... [Tavin] two, indeed [S.W.] 2 legs
[S.W.] I did not plan this, somtimes by chance something beautiful happens
[S.W.] We just have to be open to what happens with the paper
[S.W.] follow more the paper instead of your will
[S.W.] this is maybe an aspect [Tavin] a good pointer
[S.W.] feel the paper sense paper better
[Tavin] don't force the paper let the paper become the form by itself
[S.W.] think how you whould paint a bird, and maybe you can just put away what is too much
[S.W.] a singbird sitting in the sand
[S.W.] now I destroy the beautiful thing again
[Tavin] and it'll become an eagle, if I remember right?
[S.W.] Yeah, I'm starting now to make an eagle
[S.W.] I'm bringing down the tail while trying to keep the two legs I won earlier by bringing the tail down
[S.W.] I keep the legs because then I can put it on something, like a glas
[S.W.] still having the legs, I fold the tail down
[S.W.] the wings are free
[S.W.] I can fold all birds from a birdbase
[S.W.] But mostly I work..., if I fold an eagle, I fold up to 6 models, and keep one at the end wich is just the most characteristic
[S.W.] while improvising a lot happens that is not perfect
[S.W.] I just like to show that we can improvise in origami
[S.W.] just like in music
[Tavin] it's not just following diagrams, you can be creative in origami it's an art not following instructions
[S.W.] Yes, that is the idea - to bring live into the paper
[S.W.] the chest ist very strong - it's charactertic for an eagle
[S.W.] the big nose
[S.W.] the eyebrows
[S.W.] but I still not like the back of the head, I'll later change it
[S.W.] I think the head is too flat
[Tavin] You're changing the feet again?
[S.W.] yes, so it's abeled to sit somwhere
[S.W.] we also could squeeze feather in the tail
[S.W.] because having feathers just in the wings is not so good
[S.W.] not feathers in the wings, no feathers in the tail looks fine
[S.W.] to unify a model is often better than using two different techniques
[S.W.] we should put everything in a relation
[Tavin] it should fit together.
[S.W.] Yes it should, it's a matter of style
[S.W.] now I figure the thing with the head out
[S.W.] the head has much more character now
[Tavin] Again you used the little triangle, you used in the beginning
[S.W.] I poped it out, but I also have eyes here
[S.W.] I use the same kind of eyes, I often show on my channel
[S.W.] thank you, Tavin!
[Tavin] You are very welcome
[Tavin] And I encourage you to visit his channel
[Tavin] it's www.youtube.com/origamilive
[Tavin] and his website is www.origami-live.de
[Tavin] So, thankyou for beeing here Stephan. And maybe we'll see him soon
[S.W.] Thank you very much
[Tavin] goodbye!