For this week I chose to experiment with pop-up mechanics and I had so much fun! I love working with paper so I was really excited to jump into this project, but of course actually making something that A.) looks nice and B.) actually closes was a little bit easier said than done. My process was mostly guided by trial and error, including my work on the final, and instead of working from a sketch I just tested my ideas on a different sheet of paper as I worked through what components I wanted to display in my pop-up.

The biggest difficulty I had (which I’m sure was the same for most) was making sure that my parts weren’t inhibiting eachothers’ movement, and a lot of it had to do with which direction I was having pieces fold. I definitely had to compromise parts of my scene because they were folding into each other. The trial and error process was often frustrating, especially because I was working as I went (obviously not ideal); I ended up having to cut parts of my base in order to fit the foreground in.