Paul Stickland Big Bug Little Bug - The making of a Pop Up Book

Big Bug Little Bug!

These are some of the stages that went into the production of the final pop up spread for the children's pop up book, Big Bug Little Bug by children's author, illustrator and pop up book designer, Paul Stickland.

I knew I wanted to create a splash for the final pop up spread in this children's book about bugs.
A flower seemed like a great solution, so I set about creating a pop up mechanism that would be both dramatic and allow me a lot of space to place all the pop up bugs in the book.
I had a lot of pop up bugs to place too!
Oh and some text!
It took a lot of attempts to get them all to play nicely!
This is the finished result. Created after many, many different design versions.

Foldboat

Foldboat

This is Genius! Using really simple paper engineering principles and taking advantage of the great possibilities of curved folds, Foldboat have created something that I wish I had!
Brilliant!

Template for a rotating pop up mechanism

A rotating pop up mechanism.

THis is a fantastic rotating pop up mechanism. Tricky to cut out and fold, so do try the easy version first! Here are the free pop up templates for the two rotating paper mechanisms shown in the video above.

Beginner rotating pop up mechanism

Advanced rotating pop up mechanism

Prof Yoshinobu Miyamoto

Prof Yoshinobu Miyamoto

Incredible paper sculpture, origamic architecture and paper engineering from Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto, architect, and teacher of architecture at the Aichi Institute of Technology (AIT) in Japan.

There is a good article about his work on the wonderful uponafold.com.au

There are many more exquisite examples on his Prof.Ym Flickr Pages.

Free Torus Template to download and make below.

upon a fold

If you love paper, upon a fold is a treasure house!
Everything paper art, paper sculpture, paper fashion, paper folding, paper craft, pop up book, paper toys, paper clothes, origamic architecture, incredible paper resource.

Then there is their upon a fold shop...

Curved folds secret weapon!

Curved folding tool!

One of the best ways to make curved folds!  Yup, pizza cutter!

Check out the curved folding examples that were created with this pizza cutter!

Free Curved Folding Template here.

Curved Folds - Free Curved Folding Template

Curved Folding

Paper fold lines don't have to straight.
Try scoring a curved line and see what you can do, they can be a little bit difficult to fold but the results are very beautiful and often unexpected.
These are from the Curved Fold group on Flickr.

Free curved folding template below, good luck!

Jun Mitani - Paper Magician

Jun Mitani - Paper Magician

Jun Mitani: I’m an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba. My specialty is geometric modeling in the field of computer graphics. I have been studying algorithms and user interfaces for generating 3D shapes on a computer.
When did your fascination with origami begin? Did you fold a lot of origami when you were a child?
When I was a kid, I didn’t have much interest in folding origami, but in papercraft. I fabricated a lot of paper models, such as cars, ships, buildings, and animals, etc. by cutting and gluing pieces of paper. I felt that origami, just folding, was too restricted. On the other hand, I was enthusiastic about the computer, which my father bought when I was a first-year student in elementary school. As a fusion of two objects of interest, papercraft and computer, the theme of my Ph.D. thesis became a method for designing paper models with the computer.

Free Black Cat Bookmarks

Free Black Cat Bookmarks!

If you love books, here are some Free Black Cat Bookmarks to download, print, cut out and share!

Lots more Free Black Cat, Crow and Owl Bookmarks on Paul Stickland's Free Stuff Album on Google plus. 

A whole range of Black Cat Gifts on Paul Stickland's StrangeStore.

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