Q:

• If you were going to make a pop-up book, what kind of story would you create?
• How would you play with the structure of the paper to tell your story/narrative?
• How many pages would your pop-up book need to tell the story you want to tell?
• Can you paginate (make thumbnail sketches) of each page of your pop-up book?

I’m very interested in the story of Thumbelina, it was the first story that I know when I was a little girl. I remember there were flowers and huge rabbits. Using paper to build a story world sounds really fun for me.

The easiest way I think to make a pop-up will be like this, cut the paper and fold, stick the object on top of it to make a 3d structure. So it will need double page paper for every page maybe, to make some stands for the structure.

It is a really long story so it will need about 20 pages, so I actually will need to shorten the story.

These are some sketches that I made for a pop-up book with my partner. I have to design the pop-up part before we start drawing.

While I was researching, I found a pop-up book artist that I really like, who is also mentioned in the lecture, Robert Sabuda. His pop-up tells the story from the foreground to the background. What he made is not only a book, but every page of the book is like a stage that the chapter is happening between pages. It really inspired me.