How to Fold Origami Tomoko's Cat

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I will show you how to make Tomoko's Cat. This was obviously designed by Tomoko Fuse. It's a rather intermediate model. So, starting with a fish base we are going to fold the fish base in half so that the triangles stick out on top. For one of the sections, top sections we are going to fold up like this. And, if you look at the other side you will see that the point comes out the top maybe a third of the way like this. So, that middle crease is aligned. Ok. So, this is the side that we folded. Now, we are going to turn our unit to the other side. With it horizontally, we are going to take one of the triangles one of the rabbit ears fold the folded edge down to the middle like this. And, same thing on the other side. Fold the folded edge down to the middle. And, once we have done that we are going to pick up the entire unit and this is a little bit tricky. Because, for this section we are going to do a valley fold along these edges. A valley fold along those edges that we just folded. But, this section we are going to do a mountain fold. So, that when we do that the unit automatically stands up like this. And, the rabbit ear folds inside will come up in between this triangle. Allow it to come up right nicely in between that triangle that we just made. So, mountain fold this section. Valley fold this section. And, you have a general shape like this. Now, for the face what we are going to do is do a sort of a outside reverse fold. Except, that it will go from this point up. Outside reverse fold. You kind of have to unfold the entire unit a little bit, but retain that shape."