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Even today, with the proliferation of fancy electronics, computers, and video games, people are still enchanted by the simple, funny movement created by a flat, two-dimensional paper puppet. They are automatically, and inherently, amusing. This book teaches readers how to make a wide variety of moveable paper puppets, charming toys, and novel, artful gifts. The projects are beautiful, magical, whimsical and will appeal to readers with many different craft interests. There is something very childlike about puppets, yet they are not easily dismissed into something strictly for children . Paper puppets are versatile, easy to make, and can be used with many types of artwork, such as on cards or in shadow boxes.
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Norma Toraya, aka Crankbunny (the pseudonym she uses for her artwork), is an animation director for Curious Pictures in New York, where she works on commercials, music videos, TV intros, documentaries, and projections for different clients. Her interest and experience in puppetry grew through working in animation.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book does exactly what it says on the tin, or rather in the subtitle. It's a quirky colection of articulated paper puppets to make. They're of varying difficulty, but nothing too hard. They'd make great one-off birthday 'cards' too. Once you've cracked the methods, it's easy to apply them to your own ideas.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
ME GUSTAN LOS DISEÑOS,YA VIENEN PREPARADOS PARA CORTAR, PARA PASAR UN RATO ES MUY ENTRETENIDO, TAMBIEN INSPIRA, LOS DIBUJOS SON BUENOS.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful Book that offers more on paper doll mechanics
26 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I purchased this book after buying the authors wonderfully whimsical paperdolls on ETSY. I'm an illustrator and have always loved making paper dolls and would like to create some to sell that can serve as wall ornamentation. This book helped me to figure out how I can do this, for those looking to make paper dolls from the author's designs, she offers her own designs in the book for the hobbyist to cut out and create.
Paper dolls are coming in to their own and I am busy working on some designs now. I think this book offers more info on how to construct a doll so they move mechanically and well.
I'd suggest all art doll creators, teachers, animation teachers, illustrators invest in this book if they want to animate their hand drawn characters or get their students involved in construction of 2-D characters that can move.
Suzanne Urban
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Paper Puppet Palooza: Techniques for Making Moveable Art Figures and Paper Dolls
Paper dolls are coming in to their own and I am busy working on some designs now. I think this book offers more info on how to construct a doll so they move mechanically and well.
I'd suggest all art doll creators, teachers, animation teachers, illustrators invest in this book if they want to animate their hand drawn characters or get their students involved in construction of 2-D characters that can move.
Suzanne Urban
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Paper Puppet Palooza: Techniques for Making Moveable Art Figures and Paper Dolls
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
a world of puppetty excitement!
11 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
How we love this book! Crankbunny's off-beat sense of humor shows on every page of this book. That alone makes it worth purchasing, but the instructions and illustrations are also very clear and clever. Turns out, paper puppet making isn't all that difficult or expensive, but newbies will benefit from the confidence and encouragement this book provides.
Instructions include basic paper puppets with just a few joints, puppets with moving mouths, shadow puppets, puppets with pull tabs and even gift cards containing puppets or other movable parts.
Two big bonuses - both the front and back cover flaps include a full color, heavyweight, glossy puppet template for you to put together and play with while you dream up your own puppet characters. What fun!
Instructions include basic paper puppets with just a few joints, puppets with moving mouths, shadow puppets, puppets with pull tabs and even gift cards containing puppets or other movable parts.
Two big bonuses - both the front and back cover flaps include a full color, heavyweight, glossy puppet template for you to put together and play with while you dream up your own puppet characters. What fun!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Magical!
7 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The artwork in this book is fantastic! It is like taking a tour through a magical kingdom, where fantasy and reality meet. Norma V. Toraya has provided templates that can be copied onto cardstock, colored, cut, and assembled into fully working puppets - there's even 2 gorgeous puppets that are ready to cut and assemble. However, a skilled artist could use the techniques provided to create original puppets. The materials are easily available in any art and/or crafts store. I highly recommend this book to school teachers, artists, doll makers, animators, and anyone who enjoys dramatics.
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