Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

Overview

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They are the seventeen most exciting months of your life. Mood swings, joys, fears ... Everything fits in that wonderful roller coaster in which you live.

We continue to work with the mechanisms that we have already learned. We are going to build a large Ferris wheel based on the grating mechanism we learned about in the previous unit. For the roller coaster, we use a simple paper spiral that, accompanied by the graphic, gives us a lot of dimension.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut (Libracos) addresses the topic: Page 4: "Amusement park", which is part of the Domestika online course: Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books. Learn different mechanisms to create your own three-dimensional book with multiple settings.

Partial transcription of the video

“Page 4 We're coming to the end of our book and we're going to do a page... Right now, our life is a rollercoaster of emotions: extreme happiness, fear... I wanted to represent that as an amusement park. And doing another type of design can also work really well. The two mechanisms are easy: a cut piece of paper that will be a rollercoaster, and you'll see how cutting some paper into circles can be really cool, and a grid mechanism. Cutting it is complicated, but when it's cut out, like now, I've been busy, it's easy to assemble and creates a lot of dimension. Let's get started and see if yo...”

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Course summary for: Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 20 lessons (4h 4m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Creating with Kids, Editorial Design, Paper Craft