Creating Children's Pop-up Books

Overview

“In this lesson I will explain how to join the pages you have built. As you will see, it is very important to balance the thickness of the spine and that of the front cut of the book so that it is not so unbalanced and works well. So I'll teach you how to assemble it with bellows to make up for this unevenness.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut addresses the topic: Assembly, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Children's Pop-up Books. Learn how to create a pop-up book step by step for the little ones to enjoy, from the initial concept to assembling the pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“assembly We are going to learn to put the leaves together. We are going to assemble them with each other. It is a very important moment because our previous process must be put together. It is also very important to realize whether our book needs to have bellows or not. They are little strips of paper that what they do is that they give us air in the back because we have much more distance between the spine and the back of the book. If we stick it all together, the back will be very stuck to us and since we have many elements, it will be very bloated. So there are books that don't need it b...”

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Course summary for: Creating Children's Pop-up Books

• Level: Beginner
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• 5668 students
• 4 units
• 22 lessons (4h 20m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Children's Literature, Creating with Kids, Editorial Design, Paper Craft