As soon as I saw the title of this video let me tell you I SCREECHED. There are multiple videos on pop up mechanics and tutorials about how to make them but trying to find info about binding one is like trying to find a mythical creature, even though binding a book is as important as creating what's inside! I believe the only other video I ever found about binding a pop up book was also yours (the one that you show how to repair the spine). Thank you so so so so much from a paper engineer from Spain.
Hi Julia, I too could not find any videos on the subject, which was what motivated me to make it. The processes and subtitles became an interesting problem to solve. Luckily, I was able to study what was going on with existing pop-up book covers over a long period of time. Like you said, making the cover is just as important as the mechanics. Over the years, a good number of my students would make wonderful pop-up books, only to ruin their work with a bad binding. For quite a while, I also found binding process to be a mystery, but then one day it started to make sense.
Absolutely a perfect tutorial! I watched the whole thing. I can't thank you enough! I hope everyone who wants to learn how to bind a pop up book stumble upon your video! It's absolutely amazing
Thank you Nina! This is a very kind comment. It took many years of teaching pop-up book design in my 3D-Design class before I understood any of this. It was like a mystery to me, but I slowly discovered how it worked by troubleshooting students' binding problems and analyzing pop-up books in my collection. I'm glad you find this useful!
@@McGinnisArtistry wow..I'm grateful for your generosity that made you share this tutorial with us..now your valuable experience is available for everyone ^^
THE tutorial/guide that I've been looking for so long!. Perfect for beginner's like me....great explanation, easy to understand with enough mechanism demo from published examples, down to the last detail of tiny curve insert between each leaf. Wonderful. Thank you, sir!. 👍👏
this is so helpful, thankyou so much for making this video! i'm making pop up book as my final project in uni and i didnt think that binding the book is a problem that needs to be studied aside from the pop up mechanism until i've finished all the pages :") so, coming across your video is a god send!
I have a huge stack of pop ups I want to organize into books, but I've been afraid I will ruin them. Your excellent video has given me the courage to do it. Thank you so much.
That sounds cool, I would like to know how it comes out! My recommendation is to give yourself a little more hinge space (not too much), to guarantee it will lay perfectly flat.
Thank you VERY much for this detailed tutorial! The first time I attempted to make a pop up book on my own, without the benefit of your wisdom, I had issues with the spine not opening flat, and I didn't know how to fix the problem! Now, I do! I very much appreciate your generosity in creating and sharing this content. THANK YOU!
Hi Jill, It might be possible to repair your first book. Before I put this video together, I made another on repairing a pop-up book spine. If you would like to see that video, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/Et8xXdQ31gI/w-d-xo.html. Regards, Michael
@@McGinnisArtistry Thank you! I am fairly certain that my first project is beyond redemption, because I used way too much glue at the spine… there is no room for the contents to shift. 😉 The next iteration will be much better! Thank you, again!
Much appreciated. If it wasn't for Covid, I never would have put this information online. I wish all of my students would actually watch through this video when it is time to do their binding, so it would take less time in class to do it.
Hello Andy, When you are finished, would you mind sharing your video? I think this would be great to show my students. It would be wonderful to see different ways of being creative with Pop-Ups. A music video is an interesting integration.
Michael McGinnis I’ve just uploaded a video of my book: th-cam.com/video/RmKolDf_TX0/w-d-xo.html Thanks again for posting this video, it was really helpful!
@@katparkerart Dear Kat, what a powerful message you have created. It brought me to tears. My wife and I are trying to make a difference in whatever ways we can to combat our impact on the environment. We all need to make this a top priority. Thank you for creating your work, sad as the message is.
Hi Michael, This is Roy here from Kolkata, India. I am learning the tricks of paper engineering and trying out pop-up models for the last few months. Ever since I started practising, I have been dreaming of publishing a pop-up book - the world quality standard, here in India. But the more I was trying to figure out who could do so keeping the standard same, the more I was getting disappointed. But your video has given me a new ray of hope. If not a ready publisher or binder, I can make someone a binder with the tricks you have shown here. Thank you would be a super understatement here from my side!! I watched the entire 2 hours at one stretch, and I salute your effort of doing a detailed video on this subject. This video tutorial has recharged my enthusiasm. Cheers!!
Hello Mon-e Roy, I expected the video to last for an hour when I first began, but in reality it took much longer to explain everything satisfactorily. My students were in the midst of the stay-at-home order after starting a normal semester, so they were not prepared for online learning. They were making their pop-up books, and normally I could show them in person how to make a properly bound book.
thank you so much for making this! i'm so glad i found this video and it's like a blessing. i'm making a pop-up book for my friend as a gift and i was so confused because there aren't a lot of tutorials talking about making covers
thank you so much! me and my bestie were about to screw up our final college project, we haven´t thougt about all the details besides the binding of our pop-up book, this one it´s totally a helpfull video!
Hola, muy minuciosa tu explicación Tienes una comunicación fluida y con detalles comprensibles a pesar de la diferencia de idioma Gracias por tu generosidad y la solvencia técnica de tus conocimientos Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷 Margarita
You are welcome. I made the video because it took me a long time to understand the process myself. I found no information on the subject in any text or website.
Excellent guide, thank you! Also, I wish they used this type of binding for all "Art of" books as well. I know these usually don't pop up, but so much of the full color pages is lost in the binding when the book won't open and lie completely flat. It would also be a useful binding in general large reference books so we can set them out on a table and study without having to hold them open or having the page flip on its own. :/
@@McGinnisArtistry there are accordion sketch books I see urban sketchers and watercolor artists using. They're a long piece of paper I think designed to be drawn or painted on both sides. But I'm wondering if it could be used as a base for a pop up book, but then attach the pages together, and add a spine on one side
@@recoveringsoul755 This makes perfect sense, as the construction is essentially the same. There is, however, one issue I have found regarding preassembled spreads. When students are making a pop-up book, they make a lot of mistakes, which are best made on something other than the finished product. If the spreads are made independently, one spread can be scrapped and remade before final assembly. If you do create a pop up book from a preassembled accordion, I suggest gluing all of the pop-ups in place before affixing the accordion leaves together or putting the cover on. This is because it is much easier and accurate to assemble the mechanics when the spread is flat open on the table.
Thank you so much for making & posting this video! It's been so helpful in learning how to make a case bound pop-up book properly. I'm still a bit confused about the hinge measurements. My spines have been a little tight. I have been book cloth for only for the spine (including hinges) and handmade paste paper for the covers. (Several of Robert Sabuda's books are bound this way and I want to replicate that binding.) I'm going to keep trying until I get those hinges right! I have a tv in my studio so I can watch your tutorial as I work. Again, thank you so much!!!
Hi Pam, I would love to see what you are making, and even any problems you are having. If the hinge materials are a little bit less flexible than what I am using, increase the hinge by 1/8" or so, and that should make it loose enough to open fully with a thick hinge material. Leave the spine the same as you planned it, but just focus on the hinge being looser.
Thank you Ivany for checking this out. I wish you great luck on your project! It is so wonderful to know that so many people are interested in making their own pop-up books and creative projects in general.
Hi Michael, thank you for such an informative video! I have a question - I am hoping to put together a book with some pop up elements, but I imagine at least half of the pages would be normal and wouldn't need the double thickness. Do you think it would be possible to put together a book that was one half the accordion style pop up spine as you have shown above, attached to a more standard binding of pages on the other half - provided that enough space is left in the spine for the pages to lie flat in the pop up sections?
Hello Julia, This is an interesting problem. There is a pop-up book in my collection about Fenway Park. It has only one pop-up; a large structure of the baseball stadium. Most of the book is actually standard pages. They made that book in a unique way, where the front cover has a large inward-folded flap. When the cover board is opened it allows you to open the extra, rigid flap, opening the big pop-up. Affixed to the inside of the back cover is the rest of the pages as a single stapled set. This portion is a saddle stitch binding. I think in your case, it will work to make sections of the book saddle stitched, and interspersed with the pop-ups. I suggest you make a simple mockup of maybe 2 or 3 basic pop-up spreads (just v-folds or something easy), and also a few saddle stitched blank test pages, maybe 6 pages each, and put them together. If you do, let me know your result!
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Hello Keema, the cover material is produced by a company called GANE BROTHERS. In particular, I used PELLAQ. Here is a link to my teaching page about materials for the cover: canvas.santarosa.edu/courses/62842/pages/cover-materials-and-suppliers?module_item_id=2494269
Hi excellente tutorial.Thank you,i am a book binder and now i am trying to do an scrapbook album and the way it is bind together meaning the binding to the spine and the hinge is quite différents .for binder it inconceivable .May be if you check the way it is done it is not a nice flexible opening .i am trying to see if there a way to do it as they can open flat and have a long duration.it is all done in cardstock for pages with pop up and card board as covers which is covered in cardstock too.if you could help me in this problem as there isn’t any hinge in them.please help me
Hello Yudana, are you trying to bind together existing loose pages, or are you making an empty book from the start that can be filled with scrap book items? This can make a difference because if you are starting from the beginning you can make a book bound like mine in the video and fill it with scrapbook items, but if you are assembling existing pages, the strategy may be different. I wish I could see what you are making.
This is great! I've been slowing it down so I understand. Why is it important to keep the cover loose? What I mean is, wouldn't it be better for the mechanisms, even if cover the allows the book to be sort of puffy, that you secure it? I was thinking that if you had a button or a latch, or some sort of tie, that it would keep the mechanisms in place, and decrease wear and tear on the book. The other question is how can you tell which is the spine, and which is the edge that you added the glue to? I mean I'm assuming that you know because you're actually working with it. However there's something I'm not understanding about how it's different. Meaning there were Black Pencil lines on both sides, so is it just that you make a judgment call about which side is considered the spine? It also could have been because of the white that I couldn't see something. Anyway thank you and I'm working on my own book and this is really helpful. Actually it was really really helpful because I didn't know any of this about all of the extra sort of padding that you have to do to make sure the mechanisms run properly.
Hi IronEarthDesigns, great questions. I have a few pop-up books that do have latches on them, and some that tie closed as well as open. One that has a magnetic clasp is of the inventions of Leonardo DaVinci, and the book itself resembles a latched note book. The ones that tie are meant to open completely around 'till the covers touch each other and tie fully open 360 degrees in the round; examples I have are a Victorian farmhouse and a haunted house. I find myself ignoring the ones that tie because they really only need to be tied when opening them up fully to keep the houses popped up. I have noticed that on books that have too narrow a spine, the book looks bloated in the middle, and the cover boards begin to permanently bow inwards along the edges. Also books like this do not lay flat with other books. The cover doesn't necessarily need to be loose, but it is important to make the spine wide enough to not cause the book to fan out permanently. If the spine was too narrow, this fanning out may be the result. Another reason to make sure the spine is the correct size is to allow it to sit well and look nice on a book shelf. Another factor to consider is: if the hinges are not loose, then the book will not open fully flat. An interesting observation is that the spine is only really necessary to protect the gutter folds, to keep the book durable, and to make the book look great. The mechanics will still function even if there was no spine at all, though without one, the book may degrade quickly. About the SPINE: the narrow, stiff board, made from matboard or cardboard that runs between the two covers is the spine The two flexible areas between the cover boards and spine are the hinges. These hinges are what actually attach the spine to the rest of the cover boards and pages. The spine board gets fully glued down to the cover material so that it looks nice, and strengthens the overall book. The hinges shown in my video are where the narrow tiny strips are placed to space the spine between the cover boards. These narrow strips are discarded after the gluing process is done. For quite a long time, I also didn't understand the ins and outs of pop up book covers either. It took a lot of trial and error to grasp it all.
Thanks for explaining the mechanics of the spine. I'm working on learning book structures. I mean really understanding them because I want to include other processes inmy books like printmaking and stitching. Thanks again.
Hello Tamara, at your scale of 24", you do need something pretty rigid. One option is 4-ply Bristol paper. This paper has more stiffness than the 2-ply material I use in my demo because of the extra layers in the same way plywood becomes stronger with more layers. You may also consider coated card stock/cover stock. This paper is thicker than ordinary papers but not too rigid. Usually coated card stock is only coated on one side, but that should not matter for a pop-up book because of the way two leaves are affixed opposite to one-another. Since the individual spreads are glued to one-another at the leaf, it makes the leaf stiffer and stronger - at the same time it allows the coated faces to be facing outward on both sides of the leaf.
Thx for this awesome tutorial, just a quick question related to a problem I'm running. How would that work if I'm putting together 25 popup cards I have already and that I want to make into a book? I was thinking of using like velcro dots to avoid glue, but here is the thing, the cards are different sizes so I'm like going around thinking how to make this effect. I was hoping maybe you have some tips or steps that could help in this specific case 😅. Thank you again for this Epic video I'm taking a lot of pints. And thank in advance for your time and help.
Hello, you have an interesting idea for keeping a collection nice and tidy. Maybe you could consider making the "book" in the form of a 13-spread book that allows you to place two pop-up cards on each spread? In this way, you could either create pockets, ribbons, or the velcro dots to secure each card to its page, two per spread? The velcro will add thickness to each page. Take a look at the BEST POP-UP BOOK's video on Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy: th-cam.com/video/rbBojswrSKc/w-d-xo.html I suggest you see this because of how Matthew Reinhart added so much content to his book by inserting more pop-ups on every spread with the use of flaps in every corner. This book is an amazing achievement. Depending on the size of your collection cards, maybe it could be possible to do more than two cards per spread, reducing the number of pages overall. If this idea does not appeal to you, then you could choose the largest card as a template for each spread size, then affix the cards to the gutter of a book that has spreads as big as the largest card. The concern I have is weather this would cause any creasing problems or opening issues if you try to tuck a folded card into an existing gutter. They may likely conflict with one another. A simple test construction will determine this.
@@McGinnisArtistry sorry for late reply, thanks for getting back, so at the end after analyzing what you mention plus your video, I decided to take jump off faith and I used little dots of velcro I add it 6 per page, leaving the pace to open like you explain in the video, plus I'll be adding creative a back and front cover using plywood for the front and back and for the spine I'll using something similar. And creating the joins with either vinyl or something more simple. So the tower is holding just with the velcro you cna open them and everything without any problem, one mayor mistake I didn't do was the orientation of each card its off, so they are one aline, and that's the little mistake but with the cover it should looked better. Thank again for your video, comment and awesome help.
@@jbos9142 I credit you with the great idea of cataloging your pop-up card collection! Your idea can also be used to make a materials swatch book, a hand made photo album that can lay flat, and many more applications. Chuck Murphy's books essentially apply this technique in COLOR SURPRISES, ONE TO TEN, and others. In his books, each spread has two pop-ups or mechanics, one per page; in the two books mentioned, none use the spread's main gutters as a power source. Instead, a supplemental fold or pull mechanism provides the action.
The paper we typically use in the classroom for prototypes, and was used in my demo, is 80lb Bristol. It comes in smooth or vellum. It turns out that 80lb is difficult to find. So a heaver Bristol would work well, such as 100lb, and is common at art supply stores. You can also use papers that are considered "heavy gauge". Cardstock common for use in pop-ups. The general idea is to use paper that creases and glues well, takes a medium of your choice, and is stiff enough to form strong pop-ups. An incredible pop-up book by one of my students was done with Epson Exhibition Watercolor Paper. For reference, 80lb Bristol is 175 gsm, and the Epson paper is 225 gsm. GSM=Grams our Square Meter, or the weight of the paper.
Hello Marieke, you can make a pop-up book of any number of pages you choose. For my classes, I expect students to create a minimum of 6 pages, which is a good length for a pop-up book. Make as many or as few as you desire. Professional pop-up books are often 6-8 pages.
Omggg thank you!!! Ive been binging so many popup book tutorials for a school project this is sososo helpful!!!
I hope your school project comes out great! Pop up books are so complex and challenging to make, but amazing, and worth it.
Thank You so much for this Tutorial!!
As soon as I saw the title of this video let me tell you I SCREECHED.
There are multiple videos on pop up mechanics and tutorials about how to make them but trying to find info about binding one is like trying to find a mythical creature, even though binding a book is as important as creating what's inside! I believe the only other video I ever found about binding a pop up book was also yours (the one that you show how to repair the spine). Thank you so so so so much from a paper engineer from Spain.
Hi Julia, I too could not find any videos on the subject, which was what motivated me to make it. The processes and subtitles became an interesting problem to solve. Luckily, I was able to study what was going on with existing pop-up book covers over a long period of time. Like you said, making the cover is just as important as the mechanics. Over the years, a good number of my students would make wonderful pop-up books, only to ruin their work with a bad binding. For quite a while, I also found binding process to be a mystery, but then one day it started to make sense.
Absolutely a perfect tutorial! I watched the whole thing. I can't thank you enough! I hope everyone who wants to learn how to bind a pop up book stumble upon your video! It's absolutely amazing
Thank you Nina! This is a very kind comment. It took many years of teaching pop-up book design in my 3D-Design class before I understood any of this. It was like a mystery to me, but I slowly discovered how it worked by troubleshooting students' binding problems and analyzing pop-up books in my collection. I'm glad you find this useful!
@@McGinnisArtistry wow..I'm grateful for your generosity that made you share this tutorial with us..now your valuable experience is available for everyone ^^
THE tutorial/guide that I've been looking for so long!. Perfect for beginner's like me....great explanation, easy to understand with enough mechanism demo from published examples, down to the last detail of tiny curve insert between each leaf. Wonderful.
Thank you, sir!. 👍👏
You are welcome, and I appreciate your comment!
this is so helpful, thankyou so much for making this video! i'm making pop up book as my final project in uni and i didnt think that binding the book is a problem that needs to be studied aside from the pop up mechanism until i've finished all the pages :") so, coming across your video is a god send!
Same here 😂
Thank you so much for this video! Saved my life for my uni project as an absolute beginner
I have a huge stack of pop ups I want to organize into books, but I've been afraid I will ruin them. Your excellent video has given me the courage to do it. Thank you so much.
That sounds cool, I would like to know how it comes out! My recommendation is to give yourself a little more hinge space (not too much), to guarantee it will lay perfectly flat.
Thank you very much! I watched the full length of your video so I would get it right the first time! Very easy to follow along!
Thank you, it was the best tutorial for binding popup books!!
Thank you VERY much for this detailed tutorial! The first time I attempted to make a pop up book on my own, without the benefit of your wisdom, I had issues with the spine not opening flat, and I didn't know how to fix the problem! Now, I do! I very much appreciate your generosity in creating and sharing this content. THANK YOU!
Hi Jill, It might be possible to repair your first book. Before I put this video together, I made another on repairing a pop-up book spine. If you would like to see that video, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/Et8xXdQ31gI/w-d-xo.html. Regards, Michael
@@McGinnisArtistry Thank you! I am fairly certain that my first project is beyond redemption, because I used way too much glue at the spine… there is no room for the contents to shift. 😉 The next iteration will be much better! Thank you, again!
Can't thank you enough for this absolutely perfect tutorial! Thank you so much sir!!
Much appreciated. If it wasn't for Covid, I never would have put this information online. I wish all of my students would actually watch through this video when it is time to do their binding, so it would take less time in class to do it.
I was so excited to find your video.
Thank you so much for the explicit instructions with such detail.
Thank you Thank you Thank you 🌹
Thanks so much for making this! I'm currently making a pop-up book for a little music video and this helped SO much.
Hello Andy, When you are finished, would you mind sharing your video? I think this would be great to show my students. It would be wonderful to see different ways of being creative with Pop-Ups. A music video is an interesting integration.
Thank you so much for posting this!! I’m making a pop-up book for uni and I had no idea of how to bind it, so this video is going to be so useful!
Kat, I would really enjoy seeing your book! Any chance of that?
Michael McGinnis I’ve just uploaded a video of my book: th-cam.com/video/RmKolDf_TX0/w-d-xo.html Thanks again for posting this video, it was really helpful!
@@katparkerart Dear Kat, what a powerful message you have created. It brought me to tears. My wife and I are trying to make a difference in whatever ways we can to combat our impact on the environment. We all need to make this a top priority. Thank you for creating your work, sad as the message is.
Hi Michael, This is Roy here from Kolkata, India. I am learning the tricks of paper engineering and trying out pop-up models for the last few months. Ever since I started practising, I have been dreaming of publishing a pop-up book - the world quality standard, here in India. But the more I was trying to figure out who could do so keeping the standard same, the more I was getting disappointed. But your video has given me a new ray of hope. If not a ready publisher or binder, I can make someone a binder with the tricks you have shown here. Thank you would be a super understatement here from my side!! I watched the entire 2 hours at one stretch, and I salute your effort of doing a detailed video on this subject. This video tutorial has recharged my enthusiasm. Cheers!!
Hello Mon-e Roy, I expected the video to last for an hour when I first began, but in reality it took much longer to explain everything satisfactorily. My students were in the midst of the stay-at-home order after starting a normal semester, so they were not prepared for online learning. They were making their pop-up books, and normally I could show them in person how to make a properly bound book.
@@McGinnisArtistry The more the merrier. A detailed analysis helped and will help forever! Thanks again
thank you so much for making this! i'm so glad i found this video and it's like a blessing. i'm making a pop-up book for my friend as a gift and i was so confused because there aren't a lot of tutorials talking about making covers
thank you so much! me and my bestie were about to screw up our final college project, we haven´t thougt about all the details besides the binding of our pop-up book, this one it´s totally a helpfull video!
That's cool that you are doing a pop up book for your college project! That would be fun to see. Good luck on the final!
Hola, muy minuciosa tu explicación
Tienes una comunicación fluida y con detalles comprensibles a pesar de la diferencia de idioma
Gracias por tu generosidad y la solvencia técnica de tus conocimientos
Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
Margarita
Gracias! I appreciate this. I wish I was fluent in Spanish.
Thank you so much for this comprehencive video. I learned a lot here!
Merci pour toutes ses explications, j'apprends bcp grâce à vous , bien amicalement
This is amazingly in-depth and much appreciated! Thank you very much for producing this!!
You are welcome. I made the video because it took me a long time to understand the process myself. I found no information on the subject in any text or website.
Excellent guide, thank you! Also, I wish they used this type of binding for all "Art of" books as well. I know these usually don't pop up, but so much of the full color pages is lost in the binding when the book won't open and lie completely flat. It would also be a useful binding in general large reference books so we can set them out on a table and study without having to hold them open or having the page flip on its own. :/
Very good ideas. I think this would also be great for artist sketch books.
@@McGinnisArtistry there are accordion sketch books I see urban sketchers and watercolor artists using. They're a long piece of paper I think designed to be drawn or painted on both sides.
But I'm wondering if it could be used as a base for a pop up book, but then attach the pages together, and add a spine on one side
@@recoveringsoul755 This makes perfect sense, as the construction is essentially the same. There is, however, one issue I have found regarding preassembled spreads. When students are making a pop-up book, they make a lot of mistakes, which are best made on something other than the finished product. If the spreads are made independently, one spread can be scrapped and remade before final assembly. If you do create a pop up book from a preassembled accordion, I suggest gluing all of the pop-ups in place before affixing the accordion leaves together or putting the cover on. This is because it is much easier and accurate to assemble the mechanics when the spread is flat open on the table.
Thank you so much for making & posting this video! It's been so helpful in learning how to make a case bound pop-up book properly. I'm still a bit confused about the hinge measurements. My spines have been a little tight. I have been book cloth for only for the spine (including hinges) and handmade paste paper for the covers. (Several of Robert Sabuda's books are bound this way and I want to replicate that binding.) I'm going to keep trying until I get those hinges right! I have a tv in my studio so I can watch your tutorial as I work. Again, thank you so much!!!
Hi Pam, I would love to see what you are making, and even any problems you are having. If the hinge materials are a little bit less flexible than what I am using, increase the hinge by 1/8" or so, and that should make it loose enough to open fully with a thick hinge material. Leave the spine the same as you planned it, but just focus on the hinge being looser.
@@McGinnisArtistry Thank you so much for your advice! I will try that for my future pop-up books. I'll be emailing you a link to my finished books.
Thank you for such an informative video!
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merci pour ce tuto extrêmement clair et précis.
De rien 🙂
Excellent! That was very kind of you!
Glad to do it. Your comment helped me improve the video.
Excelente video, Muchas gracias Michael. Congratulations !!! I'll try It.
Encontré lo que buscaba !! ✨🌟.mucha agracias.
Que maravilla.
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I am glad this is useful to you!
just a brilliant video! thank you : )
Hey, thanks, I appreciate it!
Thank u so much. I have a proyect for my University and this gonna help me for the book that I wanna do
Thank you Ivany for checking this out. I wish you great luck on your project! It is so wonderful to know that so many people are interested in making their own pop-up books and creative projects in general.
Thank you so much for posting this
I am just glad it is of use to you.
Great explanations!
Thank you so much for this! Bookmarking 58:25 for the cover binding tutorial
Hi Amy, Thanks for marking that. I should have done so myself!
Thank you so much!
Amazing video thank you so much for this it helped me make my own pop up book and su-er happy with it :D
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Hi Magical Mia, I am glad to hear that you made something awesome! I would love to see it if possible.
Thank you very much, sir!
Thank you so much 🤩❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Michael, thank you for such an informative video! I have a question - I am hoping to put together a book with some pop up elements, but I imagine at least half of the pages would be normal and wouldn't need the double thickness. Do you think it would be possible to put together a book that was one half the accordion style pop up spine as you have shown above, attached to a more standard binding of pages on the other half - provided that enough space is left in the spine for the pages to lie flat in the pop up sections?
Hello Julia, This is an interesting problem. There is a pop-up book in my collection about Fenway Park. It has only one pop-up; a large structure of the baseball stadium. Most of the book is actually standard pages. They made that book in a unique way, where the front cover has a large inward-folded flap. When the cover board is opened it allows you to open the extra, rigid flap, opening the big pop-up. Affixed to the inside of the back cover is the rest of the pages as a single stapled set. This portion is a saddle stitch binding. I think in your case, it will work to make sections of the book saddle stitched, and interspersed with the pop-ups. I suggest you make a simple mockup of maybe 2 or 3 basic pop-up spreads (just v-folds or something easy), and also a few saddle stitched blank test pages, maybe 6 pages each, and put them together. If you do, let me know your result!
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SO GOOD. Thank you for the detailed demo. One question: How do you spell the name of the wrapping material used in the video?😊
Hello Keema, the cover material is produced by a company called GANE BROTHERS. In particular, I used PELLAQ. Here is a link to my teaching page about materials for the cover: canvas.santarosa.edu/courses/62842/pages/cover-materials-and-suppliers?module_item_id=2494269
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Hi excellente tutorial.Thank you,i am a book binder and now i am trying to do an scrapbook album and the way it is bind together meaning the binding to the spine and the hinge is quite différents .for binder it inconceivable .May be if you check the way it is done it is not a nice flexible opening .i am trying to see if there a way to do it as they can open flat and have a long duration.it is all done in cardstock for pages with pop up and card board as covers which is covered in cardstock too.if you could help me in this problem as there isn’t any hinge in them.please help me
Hello Yudana, are you trying to bind together existing loose pages, or are you making an empty book from the start that can be filled with scrap book items? This can make a difference because if you are starting from the beginning you can make a book bound like mine in the video and fill it with scrapbook items, but if you are assembling existing pages, the strategy may be different. I wish I could see what you are making.
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This is great! I've been slowing it down so I understand.
Why is it important to keep the cover loose? What I mean is, wouldn't it be better for the mechanisms, even if cover the allows the book to be sort of puffy, that you secure it? I was thinking that if you had a button or a latch, or some sort of tie, that it would keep the mechanisms in place, and decrease wear and tear on the book.
The other question is how can you tell which is the spine, and which is the edge that you added the glue to? I mean I'm assuming that you know because you're actually working with it. However there's something I'm not understanding about how it's different. Meaning there were Black Pencil lines on both sides, so is it just that you make a judgment call about which side is considered the spine? It also could have been because of the white that I couldn't see something.
Anyway thank you and I'm working on my own book and this is really helpful. Actually it was really really helpful because I didn't know any of this about all of the extra sort of padding that you have to do to make sure the mechanisms run properly.
Hi IronEarthDesigns, great questions. I have a few pop-up books that do have latches on them, and some that tie closed as well as open. One that has a magnetic clasp is of the inventions of Leonardo DaVinci, and the book itself resembles a latched note book. The ones that tie are meant to open completely around 'till the covers touch each other and tie fully open 360 degrees in the round; examples I have are a Victorian farmhouse and a haunted house. I find myself ignoring the ones that tie because they really only need to be tied when opening them up fully to keep the houses popped up.
I have noticed that on books that have too narrow a spine, the book looks bloated in the middle, and the cover boards begin to permanently bow inwards along the edges. Also books like this do not lay flat with other books.
The cover doesn't necessarily need to be loose, but it is important to make the spine wide enough to not cause the book to fan out permanently. If the spine was too narrow, this fanning out may be the result. Another reason to make sure the spine is the correct size is to allow it to sit well and look nice on a book shelf. Another factor to consider is: if the hinges are not loose, then the book will not open fully flat. An interesting observation is that the spine is only really necessary to protect the gutter folds, to keep the book durable, and to make the book look great. The mechanics will still function even if there was no spine at all, though without one, the book may degrade quickly.
About the SPINE: the narrow, stiff board, made from matboard or cardboard that runs between the two covers is the spine The two flexible areas between the cover boards and spine are the hinges. These hinges are what actually attach the spine to the rest of the cover boards and pages. The spine board gets fully glued down to the cover material so that it looks nice, and strengthens the overall book. The hinges shown in my video are where the narrow tiny strips are placed to space the spine between the cover boards. These narrow strips are discarded after the gluing process is done.
For quite a long time, I also didn't understand the ins and outs of pop up book covers either. It took a lot of trial and error to grasp it all.
Thanks for explaining the mechanics of the spine. I'm working on learning book structures. I mean really understanding them because I want to include other processes inmy books like printmaking and stitching. Thanks again.
What is the best thickness of paper I should use for like a two foot long pop up book open. Like what should I use for that pages ?
Hello Tamara, at your scale of 24", you do need something pretty rigid. One option is 4-ply Bristol paper. This paper has more stiffness than the 2-ply material I use in my demo because of the extra layers in the same way plywood becomes stronger with more layers. You may also consider coated card stock/cover stock. This paper is thicker than ordinary papers but not too rigid. Usually coated card stock is only coated on one side, but that should not matter for a pop-up book because of the way two leaves are affixed opposite to one-another. Since the individual spreads are glued to one-another at the leaf, it makes the leaf stiffer and stronger - at the same time it allows the coated faces to be facing outward on both sides of the leaf.
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Thx for this awesome tutorial, just a quick question related to a problem I'm running.
How would that work if I'm putting together 25 popup cards I have already and that I want to make into a book? I was thinking of using like velcro dots to avoid glue, but here is the thing, the cards are different sizes so I'm like going around thinking how to make this effect.
I was hoping maybe you have some tips or steps that could help in this specific case 😅.
Thank you again for this Epic video I'm taking a lot of pints. And thank in advance for your time and help.
Hello, you have an interesting idea for keeping a collection nice and tidy. Maybe you could consider making the "book" in the form of a 13-spread book that allows you to place two pop-up cards on each spread? In this way, you could either create pockets, ribbons, or the velcro dots to secure each card to its page, two per spread? The velcro will add thickness to each page. Take a look at the BEST POP-UP BOOK's video on Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy: th-cam.com/video/rbBojswrSKc/w-d-xo.html
I suggest you see this because of how Matthew Reinhart added so much content to his book by inserting more pop-ups on every spread with the use of flaps in every corner. This book is an amazing achievement. Depending on the size of your collection cards, maybe it could be possible to do more than two cards per spread, reducing the number of pages overall.
If this idea does not appeal to you, then you could choose the largest card as a template for each spread size, then affix the cards to the gutter of a book that has spreads as big as the largest card. The concern I have is weather this would cause any creasing problems or opening issues if you try to tuck a folded card into an existing gutter. They may likely conflict with one another. A simple test construction will determine this.
@@McGinnisArtistry sorry for late reply, thanks for getting back, so at the end after analyzing what you mention plus your video, I decided to take jump off faith and I used little dots of velcro I add it 6 per page, leaving the pace to open like you explain in the video, plus I'll be adding creative a back and front cover using plywood for the front and back and for the spine I'll using something similar.
And creating the joins with either vinyl or something more simple.
So the tower is holding just with the velcro you cna open them and everything without any problem, one mayor mistake I didn't do was the orientation of each card its off, so they are one aline, and that's the little mistake but with the cover it should looked better.
Thank again for your video, comment and awesome help.
@@jbos9142 I credit you with the great idea of cataloging your pop-up card collection! Your idea can also be used to make a materials swatch book, a hand made photo album that can lay flat, and many more applications. Chuck Murphy's books essentially apply this technique in COLOR SURPRISES, ONE TO TEN, and others. In his books, each spread has two pop-ups or mechanics, one per page; in the two books mentioned, none use the spread's main gutters as a power source. Instead, a supplemental fold or pull mechanism provides the action.
Thank you so much! This was just the information I needed! Is there a certain weight of paper you recommend for the pages?
The paper we typically use in the classroom for prototypes, and was used in my demo, is 80lb Bristol. It comes in smooth or vellum. It turns out that 80lb is difficult to find. So a heaver Bristol would work well, such as 100lb, and is common at art supply stores. You can also use papers that are considered "heavy gauge". Cardstock common for use in pop-ups. The general idea is to use paper that creases and glues well, takes a medium of your choice, and is stiff enough to form strong pop-ups. An incredible pop-up book by one of my students was done with Epson Exhibition Watercolor Paper. For reference, 80lb Bristol is 175 gsm, and the Epson paper is 225 gsm. GSM=Grams our Square Meter, or the weight of the paper.
Michael McGinnis thank you so much! I make cards, and most of the cardstock I have on hand is about 80lb, I think.
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Do pop up books have to have 6 pages or can I bind it with more?
Hello Marieke, you can make a pop-up book of any number of pages you choose. For my classes, I expect students to create a minimum of 6 pages, which is a good length for a pop-up book. Make as many or as few as you desire. Professional pop-up books are often 6-8 pages.
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