Pop up card workshop with Chisato Tamabayashi

This day long workshop with Chisato was very beneficial for the progression of my work, as it allowed to envisage my paper cut work be 3D in a different method that I currently have been working with. She initially showed us various techniques for pop-up cards and then we were able to design and make our own.
The following images are of the four techniques we learnt. These were cut and constructed from templates brought in by Chisato. The first image is the technique which I adopted for my design. Despite being the simplest, I was interested in creating a series of paper cut layers to my pop up design.

Considering my lack of time left in the project, it was important that I made the pop up card revelant to my chosen text. Following on from my experimentation with making a paper model of the main character, I decided to make a similar composition. In the text, the protagonist, Anne, is described to have read up a lot on the navy to keep up to date with her love interest, Wentworth. I thought it would be a nice idea to use the simple layer technique to create a face looking a book. My original idea also included hands, however, it took me the afternoon we were given to create the face and book, and the hands weren't necessarily needed to illustrate the scene.

 Keeping in mind the feedback from my crit, I tried to create shadows by positioning the book cover further in front of the book. Although they are not as prominent in this piece of work, I am glad there is some evidence of the development of my ideas.

 I would definitely like to demonstrate these skills again in my practice. However, with the little time left in the project, I will not be using it again in this project. I'd like to spend some time over the christmas holidays building upon these skills as it may be interesting to make pop up cards as part of the professional practice unit. Despite not making any pop up cards in the rest of this unit, I will most definitely continue with the layering effect. This is a straightforward way to present and photograph the scenes for the poster/final images.