Pop-up

Pop-up turns every picture into a pop-up book spread. The picture is cut by its brightness into a few paper sheets, each hinged along its bottom edge at its own depth, and when the picture becomes active the sheets stand up one after another, back to front, like a page opening.

How it works

A waiting picture's sheets lie down and grey. Direction sets which way: Back lays them away from the viewer, like a printed page seen from above; Forward folds them down toward the viewer, showing their plain card backs. As a picture becomes active the sheets rise and take their colour; leaving lays them back, front to back. The sheets cast their own cut-out shadows on each other and on the scene. In Tilt mode the cursor tips the sheets near it back a little, like a fingertip on the paper.

Settings

• Sheets: how many sheets a picture is cut into.
• Separation: the depth between the sheets' hinges.
• Closed: how far a waiting picture's sheets lie down, in degrees from upright.
• Stagger: how much the sheets rise one after another rather than together.
• Smoothing: how rounded the cuts are.
• Shadows: the sheets cast shadows.
• Page and Page color: show the paper page the sheets are hinged to.
• Tilt: how far the cursor tips the sheets.

Use it for

Children's stories, storytelling campaigns, editorial features and craft brands. More paper: Shadow Box and Fold.