The Marginalian
The Marginalian

The Life-Cycle of a Single Water Drop, in a Pop-Up Book Animated in Stop-Motion

By Maria Popova

Given my soft spot for pop-up books, I was instantly taken with this collaboration between paper engineer extraordinaire Helen Friel (who brought us those amazing 3D paper sculptures of Euclid’s elements), photographer Chris Turner, and animator Jess Deacon, visualizing the life-cycle of a single drop of water as a pop-up book animated in stop-motion, nearly a year in the making:

To fully appreciate the incredible craftsmanship that went into the project, here is a timelapse of the making-of:

Complement with a different kind of 3D papercraft labor-of-love, celebrating favorite books.

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Published January 23, 2014
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/23/revoluton-helen-friel/
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