3D Graphics systems > Assignment I : Modeling in blender 2

Modeling a Tsuru

Tsuru is regarded as a sacred bird in Japan and widely known by its origami. As reproducing the original origami folding is nontrivial we'll cheat a bit and use 3 planes to build the main parts of the origami. We'll use one plane for the tail and head, one for the body and another for the wing.
From a basic plane one can easily fold it subdividing (W) and adding vertices, edges and faces (F) to make the basic parts of the bird. Finally we duplicate the wing, and make the head from a duplicated tail.

Scene composition

For composition we add an area lamp to get nice soft shadows, properly position the camera to hide our tsuru defects and add a white background mesh. To finalize, we add a small defocus effect and we're done. Here is the final result.