Paper dragons

[ffutures]

One of the things I want to include in the Tooth and Claw game is a fold-out paper dragon. frostfox has let me base it on one of her images. I think it looks pretty good - I'm going to provide a body and pairs of folded or open wings - for this picture I've fitted one wing - as an experiment I printed it onto acetate and it looks very nice indeed. The one at the back worked a bit better from the folding point of view - the tail of the one in front is a little crumpled. On the one behind you can see more of the front of the head. One of the small wings (on paper) is in front of it. They're about 7" long.

Annoyingly I seem to have no good glue or card that will feed through my printer, so further experiments will have to wait until I can sort some next week. But so far I'm rather pleased.



Later - not sure what went wrong with the first photo, this one is better.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ooh - I rather like those.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

So do I.

But then I might be biased.

FF

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think you're entitled. I don't think I'm going to colour them, I shall instead leave that as an exercise for the reader - maybe suggest some colour schemes e.g. golds, pinks and reds for females, blues, browns, and greys for males.

I just tried it in the PDF, the quality isn't quite as good but it's acceptable. Comes out about an inch shorter to fit the page margins etc.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'll include the graphics file for it too, I think. The one page version (includes one body, one large wing, and one small wing - print the page twice to get two complete dragons) is about 800k as a jpg, 1.5mb as png file, so I can bung it on my web site easily enough.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Speaking of folding paper dragons... this is a really neat illusion that I encountered a little while back.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/

Here's a movie of what the finished paper dragon looks like:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amos/movies/dragonmovie.mpg

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've seen it before but it's always nice to see it again, thanks for the reminder.

[lawbag.livejournal.com]

I like the "sleeping" dragon look, reminds me of Smaug.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

More like waiting to pounce, I hope.