My paper mind
You know how much I like paper, right? Check out this amazing paper animation by Javan Ivey. Each frame is cut from a notecard and layered on top of the ones behind it. Breathtaking.
You know how much I like paper, right? Check out this amazing paper animation by Javan Ivey. Each frame is cut from a notecard and layered on top of the ones behind it. Breathtaking.
Speaking of paper folding, check out this creation of Matthew Shlian. Very, very nicely done. via Paper Forest: Matthew Shlian amazing paper engineering videos!.
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I needed to make two puppets, a “dancing bear” and a blind man, for a show that Jodi Eichelberger and I are doing at the Puppet Playlist. To begin with, I did a drawing to get relative scale of the things I was building. I’ll usually be a lot tighter with drawings than this, but
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My friend’s nine year old daughter is making paper people. She’s not working from a pattern, mind you. She’s making this up.
Paper Forest spotted this stunning wreath at Cardboard Safari. It’s like a decoration and a puzzle in one.
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Papier-mache is one of the oldest forms for creating puppets and so a lot of people think that there must be something better out there. Actually, there are very few contenders. Done well, papier-mache is light, strong, fast, and non-toxic. I know, we’ve all had the experience of the lumpy paste, and corners that stick
If you are feeling a little adventurous, you could try making this paper marionette from Raven’s Blight. The instructions look pretty easy. Mind you, the control is fairly rudimentary, but for Halloween it should be plenty of fun.
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Sometimes, a girl needs a break from things she has to do and takes it by doing something she wants to do, which uses exactly the same skill sets as the things she’s taking a break from. For instance, I’ve been doing a lot of book binding and work with marbled papers for the show
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Thursday, Jodi and I shot a pilot episode. We were the only two puppeteers on the shoot, and as often happens, the only people in the room with prior puppetry experience. The puppets were charming but, to my eye, built by a stage puppeteer rather than a film and television puppeteer. How could I tell?
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One of the joys, when I’m doing props, comes from creating paper goods. Letters, diaries and in this case, a 40-page poetry manuscript…. I took the text of the scene, fed it into the Bonsai Story Generator and got titles from the Book Title Generator. That gave me about ten pages, which I fed back
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For Steve and Idi I need a fake jelly donut. I started with blue foam, the stuff used to insulate your house, and laminated two sheets of 1″ foam together to get the right thickness for the donut. Then I cut it out on the bandsaw. My beltsander and I rounded the thing. I used
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This is a beautifully manipulated short with a paper puppet. Now, I have to say that though I think this is really well done, it disappointed me. Let’s sum up. Puppet comes to life. Discovers world. Discovers that it is a puppet. Dies. I was really excited when the video started, because it is beautifully
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Bill Schafer, at Subterranean Press, realized that he wanted to send out one other Coraline thank you. We couldn’t do another doll, because we had said that there would only be three of them. So I suggested a Coraline mask. I started by scaling up the pattern from the doll. Basically, I scanned the small
Paper Forest, which is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs, linked to this series of photos of Moneygami. You remember doing this, right? Making a frog out of a dollar bill. There’s a whole new level of skill happening with these. In particular, check out the way the graphics on the money gets reinvented
Kako Ueda does startling works of cut paper. That’s right, the image below is not drawn; all the red stuff is cut out of a piece of paper. Astounding, eh, what a sharp knife can do.
Cut paper, anyone? Read More »