Hideo Komatsu's Fox

This workshop will be teaching Hideo Komatsu's Fox! Komatsu is an amazing creator and adherent to the Genuine Origami school of design pioneered by Jun Maekawa in his 1983 book Viva! Origami authored with Kunihiko Kasahara. The Genuine style is about precise folds at every step, creating models with a mix of angular and shaped features, aiming not entirely for precision but artistic interpretation of the subject, with folding instructions purposefully meant to fold, creating models that not only are marvelous to see for their unique interpretation, they aspire to be a joy to fold at every step!

This fox is Komatsu's first ever model! Created back in his highschool days in 1993 and revised multiple times in the years since, it is a beautiful testament to the beliefs and successes of the Genuine origami school.
The model artistically balances pointed legs and shaped neck, with a tail that is a almost completely unmodified raw corner of the paper, with a flatter back and rounded tube-like body rare-to-see in animal origami, with a head made of almost no actual folds! Instead leveraging creative and simple shaping to produce a wonderful model.

This model features an open sink, many inside reverse folds, and two unconventional and important swivel folds. The tolerance for failure is high and no individual step is overwhelmingly challenging.
Written in only 75 steps, this model is a very good engagement for folders pushing the high-intermediate category, and a joy to fold for more comfortable folders.

here's a video made by NOT ME showing the fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcBzJAc5Ay4