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I started doing origami in late July 2015 and did my first My little Pony origami in early September of that month. The Origamis have come some way since then and this picture shows the evolution of my MLP origamis using the example of Pinkie Pie.
On the far right we got a Pinkie Pie I folded in early September 2015. I handpainted the Origami back then. A major Problem was that any light colors (e.g. of Pinkie Pie's cutie mark) wouldn't show clearly on the colored paper. Also note, that the tip of Pinkie Pie's belly is not folded in (as in all the later versions). Moreover the head of the "first generation" Pinkie Pie is folded differently. In fact folding the head the way I did in this first version had some advantages. The head would overlap the neck, making it look a bit more plastic and also ears could be cut from this folding variant, that could stand upright rather than the somewhat rearward ears of later versions. When I started doing the prints for the characters the head had to be folded differently though for in the "generation one version" the unprinted side of the paper would form the head.
By the early October 2015 I had created prints for origamis of the Mane6. The second Pinkie Pie from the right was probably made around that time. It is based on my first print, but I was still folding the legs in a way that made some folds unnecessarily prominent.
The third Pinkie Pie from the right is based on the same print as the previous one, but I used pretty much the same folding I would use today if I made a pony origami without a more detailed mane and tail.
In the winter of 2015/2016 I began to cut out the manes and tails of origami ponies in more detail, using some paper layers that had in early versions just been folded in and left unused. The fourth Pinkie Pie (second from the left) is one for which I created a new print in February 2016. Using the scissors a lot more and putting the so far unused paper layers to better purpose Pinkie Pie got a more voluminous and detailed mane and tail. The ears are printed rather than cut out in this version. One can also see the limits of the so far unused paper layers however. For lack of paper there there would always be a kind of notch between the mane on Pinkie Pie's head and the mane on her neck.
On the left we have the current version of Pinkie Pie (as of June 2016) which I created about a week ago. It is not exactly a pure origami anymore but a bit of a hybrid. rather than using the origami paper to create the mane and tails I printed them on adhesive labels and attached them to the figure of Pinkie Pie. This takes a lot longer than just the origami folding, but apart from the larger and more detailed mane it also allows for the head of Pinkie Pie to be given a shape more similar to the way she appears in the series (though the proportions of the heads in the series are still much larger compared to the rest of the body).
The main incentive for me to give this adhesive label printing a try was not so much based on those advantages however. Using such labels for the manes and tails will enable me to create origamis of characters with much lighter manes than the rest of their bodies which I couldn't create so far since it doesn't work to print lighter colors on darker origami papers. Using this technique I'll be able to come up with such characters in the future.

What's that?
The evolution of Pinkie Pie is going in the wrong direction from right to left and opposed to the horse evolution in the background?
You know, they are just being Pinkie Pies

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Posted previously at: 2016-08-13T13:45:41 | Posted previously by: patec