Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Creating a Simple Setup to Photograph
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Creating a Simple Setup to Photograph
Overview
“We’ve been using a lot of coloured paper so far and we will continue to do so. We can use bigger sheets of paper or we can create a backdrop by mixing smaller sheets. By using colours that mix well with your character we will make it stand out. Then we will place our character in the picture. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Creating a Simple Setup to Photograph , which is part of the Domestika online course: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners. Design and sew your own playful textile characters using paper, thread, and your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating a Simple Setup to Photograph Now that we have our toy, I'll show you how to create a simple setup to photograph your character. For this we're gonna use a phone, some colored paper like we used before, some tape and some thread. I'm using here fisherman's thread because it's transparent but you can also use regular thread. You can use a dimmer to control the power of the light but that's optional. For the paper I've chosen colors that match the color palette on my character. Now I'm gonna start sticking the paper to the wall to create the background for my character. It will use tw...”
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Course summary for: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Toy Design
Maria Mandea
A course by Maria Mandea
Maria Mandea specializes in researching and designing how play happens in our daily lives. She is the founder of Micul HAOS (“little chaos” in her native Romania), a brand focusing on creating playful objects and characters that help develop a culture where play can happen for everyone.
Maria is also the co-founder of Super Serios, a design studio that develops urban games and playful art installations across a range of different mediums, including toys, human-scale board games, and stop-motion animation. You can find out more about Maria’s projects on Instagram and her websites.
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