SpaceCraft

Slower videos from the OFMD album, last part.

This video features some of my own favorites. For example, I like the way the heartstring turned out. It works exactly as it should.

I told once that I can't draw and that's why I make these albums/books.

So, I had a vision of a page with a lighthouse, waves and tentacles. The lighthouse required a lot of calculating, but it wasn't particularly hard to do, but I needed tentacles. I don't even know how long I practiced drawing them, maybe a few months. (Now I can draw tentacles, squids and krakens, they are the only things I can draw. Right now I practicing drawing other things because my next OFMD book needs them - yes, the next book is coming).

The lighthouse page was very slow to make, because first I had to learn how to draw and then I had to figure out how the tentacles work with the lighthouse. I like that page because it tells me that if I really want to, I'll learn.

Usually the easiest looking mechanisms are the hardest to do. In this book it is probably the page where Stede tells to Mary that he's in love with Ed. It's not difficult to get plates to move in opposite directions, but if you want to reveal something underneath it's a different story.

Slower videos from OFMD album part 2/3, because @random-red-ramblings asked for them.

These aren't my favorite pages, but I liked the campfire page before I put it on the album. This kind of binding is a reason why it doesn't work properly (the page doesn't open as flat as it should).

But it was a fun page to make. It was especially fun to make the campfire. I had no idea how to do it, so I just glued things together. If I did it today, I'd probably use a completely different mechanism, but for a first campfire, it's pretty fun.

@random-red-ramblings asked if I could post a slower video of my OFMD book here. It would be too long for here, so I made three videos - each video two pages from the book.

As I said before, this book is not my favorite. But this first video has one page I really like.

That's a good question. I'm not sure how to count them. I made my first album at spring 2020, I wanted to collect memories over the corona time and it sounded to good idea to collect them at the album. So it was first one, but there was not a lot of mechanisms in it.

The next one was a little Spirk album, well it is not little, but it was not so big as my albums now a days. There was more mechanismis, but not so much pop up elements. After that album I fell in love of pop up mechanisms, so everything after that has been more and more pop up's and harder and harder mechanisms. Now I know how they work and how to create them, and it is fun! And frustraiting.

I think that I had made maybe nine or ten pop up -albums, and they are more like books now a days. And there will be more. My next work will be snack, it's theme is Alice in Wonderland and I will be use old calenders and stuff like that - I'm not sure if I share that one here - of course, if people want to see something like that I can show it to you.

@jellybeanium124

You might not feel that it's your best work and parts didn't turn out as you'd hoped, but to me it's just incredible. I know it's difficult when you create something, especially if you work on it for a long time, not to see all the flaws, but I don't see anything wrong. To me it's perfect💖

If you can stomach it I'd really love to see a slower video, or more photos of the pages!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful work!

Thanks for your nice words. I´m a bit of perfectionist and sometimes it makes things quite hard. I think that slower video will be too long to upload here, but maybe I can make many shorter and slower videos - page by page. There are a few pages I don´t like at all, but also pages full of details that might be nice to show.

Okay, this one is not good enough. But I spent so much time with this one, that I just show it to you. There is nice mechanisms and nice pages, but it not work as smoothly as I want. There is a reason for that, I do more and more pop up -book elements and lesser basic paper mechanisms. Because of that the binding of this book is not good. I know how to do it on future, but it was too late with this one - I need to build the pages in another way.

So, next one will be better. Maybe someone like to see this one too - so here we go.

I'm building the OFMD album, maybe about 80% of it has been done for ages, but the rest of it just doesn't seem to get done.

I was trying to get this done before the second season starts.

So the question. What's the title for the cover of this album? Blackbonnet, gentlebeard, Our Flag Means Death, something else?

@memprime Hi, and thank you! I can do mcspirk album, actually it would be nice if I don´t have to cut Bones out all of the pictures. (I usually glue them/him to my notebook.)

I know that fandom - but not as well as spirk fandom. So if you have some favorite pictures and scenes I would like to know them - so you can get the best possible book/album.

@themadmage thank you for feedback, it made me very glad.

@batnbreakfast

Hi! And thak you :).