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Deer couple
Designed and folded January 2022
Paper: 22cm and 20cm kraft
It turns out that the shaping techniques you can use to created gendered human figures can also
be used to create gendered animals--similar to what animation studios shamelessly do all the time.
Even if the proportions aren't completely realistic (real adult deer are skinnier and have
smaller heads than these anyways), it will be clear to human viewers.
For example, in adult humans, women usually have thinner necks, and men usually have
wider shoulders. I don't know if this is true in deer as well, but regardless, I shaped the
female deer to have a thinner neck and the male to have a wider/puffier chest area. The result
is that it's quite obvious which deer is male and which is the female, even without the antlers.
The cp on the left is the male; the reference (green lines) is the intersection of a 22.5 crease
and a crease with slope of 3. The cp on the right is the female; the reference is the classic
"Kamiya reference."
The structures between the two are pretty similar, the only difference is the male is
wider down the middle, which allows for more detail in the head for the antlers. Because of this, the female is
a bit more efficient, and if you want the female to be the same size (or smaller) than the male,
you will want to fold the female with a smaller square than the male.