Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Sharing the Character with the World
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Sharing the Character with the World
Overview
“During this whole course we’ve learned to make our own character but more importantly, we’ve learned to create and explore through play. I consider it is very important to share your creation and I encourage you to do so on the forum and on social media, see what others have done, and join the fun! ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Sharing the Character with the World, 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
“Sharing the Character with the World In this lesson I'll show you how to share your character on social media. For this we're first gonna make a selection of the photos we took in the previous lesson, so let me show you the pictures. I really like the last one I took even though it has this black tape on the side I think it's part of the composition so I'll leave it like that. This is a more detailed photo but I don't like this black corner, so I think I'm gonna cut just the middle so I can see the face better. For this I'm gonna use the app that the phone has, just crop it. I wanna show th...”
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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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