Anyone who has seen Ridley Scott’s monumental movie Blade Runner probably remembers the character of Gaff, played by Edward James Olmos. Gaff serves as a kind of street-smart chorus in the movie, kind of like the scarcely delineated character who tells private detective J.J. Gittes to “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” in Roman Polanski’s movie of that name.

Blade Runner being Blade Runner, however, the character of Gaff is highly ethereal and elusive. Throughout the movie he strews his little origami figures everywhere he goes, as an incessant mocking reminder to Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) that he’ll never be one step ahead.

I had forgotten, but it turns out that in the movie Gaff makes three different creatures—an origami unicorn, an origami chicken, and a little man made from a matchstick. I know this because of the website run by a man named Kenneth Thompson, owner of a construction and flooring company in Michigan, that is dedicated to producing and selling actual origami recreations of Gaff’s Unicorn as well as providing tutorials about how to make all three of Gaff’s figures on your own.

Noticing that there was not a place to buy Gaff’s Unicorn on the Internet, Thompson decided that he “was going to have to make it” himself.

Here’s a section of Thompson’s instructions on how to make Gaff’s chicken:
 

 
If you want to buy one of Thompson’s replicas of Gaff’s Unicorns, you can do so from his site. As Thompson describes it, “At the end of the film as Deckard and Rachael are entering the elevator from Deckard’s apartment, Deckard notices another origami figure on the floor of the hall.” This is Gaff’s Unicorn.

You can buy one for $14.99 or, if you’d like a plexiglass case to showcase it, that’ll cost you $32.99.
 
After the jump, Thompson’s video tutorial on how to make your own Gaff’s Unicorn…...