Paper Cutting Illustration: Create Extraordinary Books
Pull-Out Carousel
A course by Paz Tamburrini , Illustrator
About the video: Pull-Out Carousel
Overview
“I will teach you how to build a pop-up merry-go-round book. In this model the layers are made up of strips of paper folded in an accordion that are reduced to be able to give air between them. This way you will be able to favor the feeling of depth.”
In this video lesson Paz Tamburrini addresses the topic: Pull-Out Carousel, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Cutting Illustration: Create Extraordinary Books. Push the boundaries of traditional books by creating a story illustrated in 3D.
Partial transcription of the video
“Folding Carousel In this unit we'll learn how to build a folding carousel. Folding carousels are a marriage of pop-up and accordion books. They're built by layering strips of paper that decrease in size proportionally. Let's open one to take a look. In this example, we can see one strip, the pink one, which serves as the background layer, a middle layer and a layer that serves as the frame. If I stretch it out a bit, we can see how the sizes proportionally decrease. As with the modular carousel, we'll be able to create small dioramas and we can also choose the overall height as well as the ...”
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Course summary for: Paper Cutting Illustration: Create Extraordinary Books
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Bookbinding, Children's Illustration, DIY, Editorial Design, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Paz Tamburrini
A course by Paz Tamburrini
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paz Tamburrini is a professional visual artist, engraver, and illustrator who specializes in creating books using paper cutting. Her work has been published around the world in editorials such as Edelvives, La brujita de papel, Gerbera and Milrazones.
She studied a Master's in books and children's literature at the UAB and is just as fascinated by the theory of books as she is by the practical side of their creation. Her passion for turning the book itself into a narrative element led her to learn various paper engineering techniques which she uses to create pieces that awaken the curiosity of many different audiences.
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