About the video: The Box and Floating Platform 2
Overview
“The second mechanism I will demonstrate is the Floating Platform. This mechanism creates a nice effect of weightlessness. You can also use it to insert a light beneath it.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The Box and Floating Platform 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization: Paper Art Storytelling. Explore advanced paper sculpting techniques to create impactful, dimensional artworks inspired by nature or architecture.
Partial transcription of the video
“So the second mechanism is the floating platform. And you can see this creates a really nice effect. If you're looking at it from the top, It appears to float above the page. And you can see it. From quite a few different angles, creates a really good effect. It also allows us to put light underneath it to create a backlight effect. So the way this mechanism works is using three posts One. down the center. and two at the sides. And the central one remains. straights always, And the two side ones pivot out. So as you close your book, they're pivoting like that to go flat. Just like the box, ...”
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Course summary for: Specialization: Paper Art Storytelling
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Areas
Art Direction, Arts & Crafts, Creativity, Decoration, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

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