Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Bringing a pop-up book to life

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In this short video, we're going to show you how we constructedand animated a pop-up book to explain Earth's tectonic plates.The supercontinent Pangaea broke apart 200,000,000 years ago,but the pieces haven't stopped shifting.Although with animation we can show this movement easily with drawings,we thought it'd be more interesting to depict gigantic sliding slabs of rockusing a tangible object that also moves and shifts.and the pop-up book idea was born.(music)To make your own pop-up book, you'll need some basic paper tools,such as scissors, an X-Acto knife, glue, double-sided Scotch tape, a ruler,a bone folder or other creasing tool, and, of course, some paper.For this lesson, we first determined the visual styleby making illustr...