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December
Sneak Peek We
continue this month with our behind-the-scenes look at THE pop-up book
of the holiday season! |
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The making of The Night Before Christmas - Part Two: Artwork and Production |
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| During the design process tracings on tissue paper have been made of all the pop-up pieces. These tracings can be easily changed as the pop-up design becomes more refined. They can also be photocopied onto card stock to make white dummies. | Once the final tracings are complete they are scanned into a computer. Robert and Matthew use Mac computers in their studio. | Digital drawings are made from the tissue paper tracings using a computer program called Adobe Illustrator. These digital drawings are called die lines. |
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| In the same computer program, color is added to the die lines of the pop-up pieces. Using the computer is very convenient because Robert can try out many different colors. | The color art and die lines are printed out and used to create a more finished dummy to show the publisher. Note that the pages do not have any text. The art director at the publishing house will design the text later. | For production, all the pop-up pieces and pages must fit onto one (or two) very large sheets of card stock. The pieces are fitted together, or nested, as close as possible to conserve paper. |
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At
right is one of two nesting sheets used for The Night Before Christmas.
The sheets are large (36" x48") so printing can be done more
quickly. It's much faster (and easier) to print one, huge sheet than
12 smaller ones. |
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