The supercontinent Pangaea that connected South America and Africa broke apart 200 million years ago. What a better way to convey the moving and shaking of the earth within a physical object than within the confines of a movable book. In ‘The Pangaea Pop-up’ Lesson at TED-Ed, animator Biljana Labovic explains how she and her team of animators created a pop-up book to visualize Pangaea -- and how you can make your own. [youtube]http://youtu.be/RZR_b753ZJ0[/youtube] Previously on Book Patrol: America's National Parks: Pop-Up Style Waldo Hunt and Pop-Up Books: A Brief Overview Pop-Up Books Meet Photoshop Maurice Sendak's First...
Animated Pop-Up Books
Welcome to the world of animated pop-up books, a healthy new genre which combines the art of paper engineering with animation.Above is an entertaining trailer for Il étais une fois [Once upon a time] by Benjamin Lacombe, where a white rabbit guides us through a sampling of childhood classics.Below is one of the wildest things I have seen - a pop-up book of papercuts transformed into a stage for a projected animation.Of course the big boys are getting involved as well. Here is one for JP Morgan Chase, titled ‘Change’ by Psyop and the folks at Google Sandbox have created this beauty:Screenshot from an animated...
Springing to Life: An Exhibit of Movable Books and Mechanical Devices
Currently on view at the University of Rochester's Rush Rhees Library Rare Books and Special Collections Department is "Springing to Life," an exhibit of over 50 pop-up and moveable books spanning nearly 500 years.These are books "that spring to life before our eyes" and showcase the amazing work of paper engineers. David Carter's "One Red Dot: A Pop-up for Children of All Ages" (2005) Exactly what is the difference between a "pop-up" book and a "moveable" book?Well, a "pop-up" book features collapsible paper devices that elevate off the page into three dimensional structures, while the "movable" book contains mechanical paper devices...
Waldo Hunt and Pop-Up Books: A Brief Overview
Meggendorfer, Lothar. Travels of Little Lord Thumb and His Man Damian. London: H. Grevel, n.d. [1890s]. The pop-up or moveable book has come a long way since the groundbreaking work of Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), the gifted Munich-based illustrator who brought visual sophistication, innovative paper engineering with complex mechanics, and humor to movable books. The Genius of Lothar Meggendorfer: A Movable Toy Book. New York: Random House , 1985. After Meggendorfer, the form declined amongst artists and faded from the general public’s consciousness. The skills were at risk of becoming lost. Much, if not most, of the credit for the revival...