Creating a Winter Scenery Paper-cut Light Box

1. Introduction: Welcome to this new class. We're going to do something totally different than I've ever done before. We're going to create a paper cut light box. I'm going to show you how to build the paper cut lightbox. And for that, I'm just going to show you that I want to switch off my light so it will get dark. I'm going to show you some things. I put down the blinds and now you just don't see anything anymore. That's the whole idea. This is what I created for my previous class. Bohr effect in Procreate and I really liked this. And while creating this afford, we just need to do the real thing. We need to create a real light box. And that is what this class is all about. We're going to turn this into this that you don't see much. Sure, Let me switch it on. You go, we're going to create this together from the actual appropriate design. I'm going to show you how to build a light box like this. We're going to have some fun with that. I do like this. This more just something magical about this. Now to create this light box, we're going to need some light, definitely because we'll do some cutting and assembling and that's best done in the light. So I've put up my blinds again so that we can see each other again. And we can actually start creating the light bulb. In the coming lessons, I'm going to just take you step-by-step through the process to cut how to assemble, how to add these lights, to do some special effects. And how do you just have lots of fun creating this? In the next lesson, I'm going to show you the materials you need so that you can get at them. And then we can just start building together. 2. Things you need: Built a paper cut light box. We're going to need some materials, some supplies to create it. In this video, I'm going to talk you through what I'm going to use and some possibilities, what you could use instead, some alternatives. Alright, let's get into that. The first thing you already see laying on my desk, that's a cutting mat. I would really recommend using a cutting mat. So we're going to cut some stuff. So best to use a cutting mat. And as you can see, this cutting mat has seen some good use in its life. Already. Attached to this class, you will find some documents on PDF documents that contain the design for this light box. There are two A4 versions and there are two letter version. So whichever kind of paper you use to print or to work on, that's the one you pick. There's a regular version that's this one. And there's a version for printing that is this one. And what's the difference between these? What I'm gonna do is I'm going to just take a piece of paper. I want to clip this on here and then I'm going to cut that out. Then I'm left with the cutout on this paper, but you could also print it directly onto the paper. Then you're going to need this one. With this one, what I'm gonna do is the one that is not footprinting, I'm actually going to cut out the white. It doesn't matter that this is in color. And the other one for printing your best using this one. And then you need to cut out everything that is gray. And you need to cut out around here in the line, around, not in the line on the line. For printing, use this version if you're going to do cutting like I will do by using a separate paper, then you have this version. Now if you do not have a printer, what you could do, you could just take a pencil and start drawing designs on the paper. They're not really complicated design, so you might draw every panel on a separate paper. And while we're on paper, I'm going to use some watercolor paper and something like this. Just a pet like this, which has some paper with a nice texture because I just liked the texture. And I also like the way light shines through the watercolor paper, which is different than regular paper. This is quite heavy paper, 300 g, hundred and 510 pounds, something like that, I think will be quite a challenge to cut through, but I'm gonna do that anyway. If you're going to use a different paper, the different papers you could use, you could just use regular white card stock. Then I would go for 180 g. That is quite light already. 200 g or above 200-300 g works best to own 50 like that. Some white craft paper would work, some Bristol paper would work or mixed media paper. And he sturdy paper. We're going to build a box 2.4 the box. Then you will see in the PDF after designs, you will see this, these cutouts ends. There's a second one of this box and there's this back plate. We're going to build a box self. For the box, I would really use 300 g, nothing less, what to 50 might work. Just some sturdy paper, even if you're gonna do lighter paper for the panels. So the panels that are in here for the box itself, the outside, I would use really heavy paper and here you see half of the design already ready. And that's what we're going to make with this texture on it. As you can see, that looks quite nice. So the watercolor paper, and if the light comes through very nicely, alright, that's the paper. So if you have a printer, then print it out on either the paper you're going to work on if your paper printer can handle that or do the same as I printed out. And what I'm gonna do next is when I have this print, I'm going to put it on a piece of card stock and let me find a good piece of card stock like here. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just take this paper and I'm going to use some document clips like this or what they might call them, a binder clips. I'm not sure what the codes that they have different names. And you fold these. These come like this. Normally you fought them. I clipped them on the documents so that this will stay sturdy, not going anywhere. And then I can cut if you print it directly onto your paper. Of course you don't need these, but I really would recommend using these because they give a very nice and firm grip. Don't move easily. And once these clips around, we can just start cutting. So that's how the process I'm going to follow. Now to start cutting, we of course need a knife one-on-one use is just a craft knife. She will seem, I've got two versions here. One, a bit smaller blade. I'm using this to cut out the more details. But then I'm using this one to do the larger lines. You can use one, just a regular crafting knife like this, or get a set with different blades and just find out which blaze work best for you. But one craft knife is enough. I'm going to use a ruler. You see me use a metallic ruler like that, but you can use a simple plastic ruler like this too. And it's mainly to cut out the outside. So we're going to do that with the ruler. That makes a nicer cut. So a ruler. We're going to use the scissors to assemble the light box. I'm going to use double-sided tape like this. Just double-sided tape. But you could use this glue or do I have one or laying around? Or you can use just a glue gun. So regular glucagon, I'm using double-sided tape because for the video, this makes the list mess of all of it. And I don't need to wait drying and I don't have to worry about something drying too quickly. Now, if we look inside this box, see if we can pick it up camera, you will see that I use dividers to space these layers so that they get some distance. If I let for the light on that, you can already see the effect in a little bit by shining through the light. So you need to use spaces. What I'm using four spaces is this isolation strip, just a strip. It's I think it's six 5 mm. Measure it for you. My main Demeter's 9 mm and it's 5 mm thick. It's a form. You can use craft form for it. And that's around four or 5 mm to a half. 5 mm. I'm not sure what is in inches, so it's not this is not fixed stuff. This is two gaps between the window to make sure the draft doesn't come through. You can use foam crafting form for this and you need to cut it into strips. And then it's about 9 mm thick, while about a centimeter there's enough space. Measured this part. So if you're going to use your own strip measured this part that needs to fall inside this strip here. You can also use something like this, just a regular box. It has a nice thick cardboard on it. So thick cardboard boards and then you just cut them into strips like this. Measuring again how wide this is and you need to get it on there. Alright? If you're going to use debt cardboard, then you may use a regular utility knife like this. Not, not these other nice we use, not as craft nights. Those will get blonde really fast with that thick kind of cardboard. So then it's better to use one of these. The last thing we're going to need, well actually I'm going to show you two more things, but the last thing you need some light, of course, let's strip. This one is battery-operated. You have used be operated. And this is about meters. So that would be meter would be about 3 ft, three to 4 ft. That is long enough for this. We're gonna put that inside the box for light. It needs to be light powder, of course. Then the last thing you will see me using at the end, it's colored paper. I've got some colored paper here. And this is not a requirement. This is an extra, I want to use some of these cold favors to, once it is done to put In the back here, right at the back here to get a different light effect on it. But that's for last stage, that is optional if you have some colored paper, regular colored paper. So not thick, just regular copy paper. But then in a color, you can get some special effects. Well, I think that's about it. Let me think this through. We've got everything. We got a knife, we got a paper without Eclipse. Yeah. I think I've showed everything. Oh, and if you don't have a LED light, light like this, you can use these three lights to these are the work fine too? Yeah, you can use them to, these are easier to use. This will work fine too. Whatever your choices. Alright, good. Well, I think we're set for the materials. Well, and that's the materials sold. Say check the list. I've got a list with this class too, so that you can see what materials you can use, what you need, what you could use. Once you get it all those materials, we're ready to start building this light box. 3. Notes on Design: Now that we have our materials, we're not going to start cutting right away. But what I wanna do is just walk you through the design I created first and how I came about to create this. Let's do that. Don't worry, you're not going to need an iPad. I just want to show you something. This is a design I created for a different class for Procreate. How to create a paper cut Lightbox effect. Yeah, in Procreate. And once I was done, I figured, why not take this a step further. Actually create real light box of it. And let me get that one. Again. You saw in the previous one there it is. It's not totally ready yet. I need to finish it. I'm filming this class on different days and in different orders and creating a bit of a mess for myself, the coupling is a mess and this paper is a mess. And now even my editing and filming is kind of a mess. But once this is all done, you get a nice smooth massless class. Can I say that massless? But this is actually, as you can see, the same thing but in a real box. But there's some difference here now with Procreate, I don t need to pay attention for the light. I can just simulate light here. But with a real box, if I would start cutting all of this out in these layers, then actually the light box would not really work well. It wouldn't get the right effect. So what I've done, I've altered this a little bit. So if you want to make your own light boxes, you need to think about a few things and I'm going to show you that Here's the one I created. And I divided everything. Like here it is. We've got the background, we've got the mountains, then there's some bushes behind it. Then we have some trees. We cut this fox. And the reason there's all different layers. And what I've done is I've taken these layers, create new layers of them, and let me show you them. I'm going to hide everything. There you go. That's the first layer you just see simply here on top. And that's a very simple one, is cut out this layer and nothing else. The next layer is pretty much a simple tool that is this layer here. Just cut that out. No regard of light, that is fine. And with the third layer where the snowman and the first tree bonnie is on. The hair. Might be a hair or a bony. I don't have to worry about anything either because this layer, this layer and this layer are all in different heights, so the light will work fine once I get to the next layer. That is the fox and the tree, you see me that I have cut out a part of the tree and I'm going to show you that from the bag, how that looks. And what that does is it makes sure that the light that is behind here can actually reach the parts on front, create a nice glow around the book. And you probably already right away. When I tilt it like that, you see that effect here? That now the trees lights up, the snowman lights up a little bit and depending on the angle you look at, every part gets a little bit the light shining through, which creates that magical Lightbox effect you want for that. And you cut out certain parts. So instead of the background, e.g. this is my background. Instead of doing just a complete background, I cut out the bottom part where all the trees, so a little bit of the trees off. And so this part needs to go completely because in front of that, As you said, there's a mountain. Now, as you see in the design, I let some parts really overlap so that you get the best effect and don't get everywhere gap snap, there might be a little bit tricky to create now and for this class I've created. But if you want to create your own light box, you may need to pay attention to that to make sure that the light can reach every part of your lightbox by cutting out some pieces so that the light can get through. So e.g. if I take this layer, this mountain here, you can see cutout, the bunny, the hair again, part of the snowman, part of the trees, and even part of the fox, so that all the light gets through nicely and you get this effect of the light shining through. Well. Now I've chosen to do the actual designs, but to show to take the actual bonding, actually snowman and all the trees. But you could get away with just creating here. Circle, just an oval here, and some shapes here. So you don't have to go completely with the same shapes, but it works pretty well with the same shape. But it's not necessary just as long as there's parts where the light so there's, there's holes where the light can get through. I really want to say about design. Now we're just going to start cutting. While at least you're going to catch up with me. The next videos will be where it will start cutting all of this and assembling it. And the next thing I'm going to film this and the lights to my books. But you can't add your light yet. You still need to cut everything. And that's what the next lessons are for. Cutting together. In the next lesson, creating the box, we're starting with the box. And then in the box, adding layer by layer until we are at the stage where I met and I'm going to add those lights now, you're going to create a box first. 4. Creating the Box: People got light box. You could buy a wooden box or a wooden frame where you put it in. But we're going to create our own frame. And we're going to actually start with the frame. If we start with the frame, we know that every part which comes after it will just fit in the right place. Well, let's start cutting. Cutting. Throughout this class, I'm going to use the same watercolor paper that's very inexpensive, cheap watercolor paper. It has some structure on it. And actually for watercolor paper, it is not that great, but for these kind of projects, It is great. Now if you're going to use the thinner paper for your lightbox itself, makes sure you get a nice sturdy paper like free on those grams to go around your light box. So the frame, the frame needs to be nice and sturdy. And I would say it's probably about at least 105 pounds paper. I'm going to get three sheets. Need three sheets for this. The next thing you're going to need is a printout of these papers. Or if you want to print right onto your paper, you could do that too. Then this is the print out the sides, top and bottom. And you need to do backing boards. I'm going to start with the backing board. That is the easiest one I'm going to do with death. Simply. I'm going to put this piece of paper on it. If you have printed it, then of course you can skip this part. The next thing what I'm gonna do is I'm going to clip them with this folder or the binder clips, document clips. Then this paper is going no, where anymore. The next thing which I'm going to do is I could cut this off with the knife or just with the scissors. I'm going to use this. This is for that because this is quite easy and it doesn't matter if these fall off, the rest will stay on. So I'm just going to cut this with diseases. For the backing board, that is the easiest. I think I'm going to start on this side too now. Alright, there you go. Last one we're going to do is I might just put extra one-on-one so that it won't fall off right away. So I'm putting securing this just a little bit so that it will stay on. All the way. There we go. Good. This piece of cardboard. We're gonna do our lights later on, or that it's just the back of the box and the lights will go on the site. Actually. I want to put this aside and go to the next part. Let's see how I'm gonna do to them are going to cover the next part. Or I'm gonna do something the same force, of course need paper. And let's see, I could cut this and I could do this with the scissors and I could do this with a knife. I think I'm going to stick to the CSS for this. Make sure this is a little bit nicer than I have it. I might use a few more of these clips to flip everything. Fine. Cut right there. Start right here. I should be fine. Never used this before. They come like this. And you just in-between, clip them over and then you can use them. And if you put them away again, then they go like this in the box again. Alright? So if I cut right here, everything is going to fall off. So I'm not gonna do that. Now. If you have printed your design on the paper right away, then of course you don't have to go through all of this, but this way I won't have any marks. And I can use this very rough paper and still get. Very nice. Results. Come, I do the same. On the opposite side. You go cut it right there. Right there. There and there. And she can see I cut a little bit further so that later on everything will fall off. Let's go for the next piece. It straight. There we go. And I cut should fall off and fall off and I'm left with this piece. Now, these are the folding lines, so this will just fold. This is outside. I'm going to keep the smooth side inside so that it looks nice from the outside. So we're gonna put some scoring lines right there in a minute. But let me first cut this one. Kotlin here. There's the second part. Alright, now I've got a mess on my desk. We get all these clips up of and put this mess away. Don't tell anyone. I'm just throwing it on the floor to make it easy later on our screen. So keep that to yourself please. Alright, I got this part and this part now, I'll do the scoring lines in a minute. Let's get rid of that and let's do the last bit to see where do I have this one? Here it is. Okay. I think I'm I pretty much do the same. That worked pretty good. Get to those clips on it. That's too far. And I don't want to cut these two. Alright, I got four parts needed for The box. Alright, I'm going to start with this. Now I know where scoring line can do. Now you can do, do this in a few ways. You can take the blonde side of your scissor and go right in there. You can take a scoring tool. I might actually have one laying around. Let's see. Actually do something like this. A scoring board that gives you a nice line. You line it up and score it like this. Or you could actually take the sharp side of the scissor and carefully cotton scoring line. That is what I'm gonna do. And for that we're going to need a ruler. Could make sure that the paper is secure. And if you need a length first for that, you could put a line. But since we're gonna go from this corner to this corner, I'm just going to put my ruler nicely in those corners a little bit further then the color. Because I know my scissors are slightly more like that. And there you go. Now I can score them. They need to go inside. This is the outside. So this needs to go inside. That's why I'm putting the scoring lines right there. And I'm going to do the same here. Taking off a little bit of the ruler. If we do it nice and neatly, we get a nice box. So I'm going to score actually all of these cues, the blood inside for that too. By the way, this side might be better for scoring. Now, let's do better. Good. Last one. There's the first part of the box. I'm gonna do the other one right away to on the back corner to corner. The other way around. That's better. That's formed every part. And there we go. Now I need these scoring from corner to corner and put them right. Well, on the desk. Little bit of Campbell for me, since I'm quite far away from the design because there's a camera, of course on top of it. And if I bend, what you're going to see is this, and then you probably don't see much else anymore. So I do everything from a distance. It is working, but it is tricky normally. I would be a lot closer on, but when you filmed quite a lot, you get used to that. Alright, that's the next part and the last part. Corner to corner again. Bit. There. That should do it. There you go. That's all the parts of the box. Now. The back part I've put aside for now. So what we're gonna do is want to keep these paths. We could put them together. And the simple things. If we've colored them right, you should be able to fit them right nicely together like this. And get a nice box. Well, let's put it together. Let's see. I'm going to use double-sided tape. I don't want to mess with the glue, but if you want to use regular glue, want to use a glue gun? Go ahead. Please do so. I'm going to use it in the back. What I'm going to do is get myself though. This is again, I'm going to cut off this under an angle, throw that path away. Take a scrap piece of paper for the parts. Should fit nicely on here. I want it at the back. And you can guess what I'm gonna do on this side. Cut off an angle to the ego. And now I should be able to use this on the other side. Well, my put on the tape on all of the parts. Why nuts. For this. I don't need to go all the way till the end. Could put it on. But I'm not gonna take off the protection yet. Let's see how we can solve for the one now I need to pay attention. One needs to be on the inside. If I have this one on the outside and this one needs to be on the inside because that's where later on the board comes inside of them. Design. Inside of the box we're building. Alright, good. So I need to do the same with the other one. So let's say this is gonna be the outsides. There we go. Then this is going to be the, our insight and dynamic need to make sure that when I put it all together, I'm going to not miss a mess up the sides. Alright. Want to keep that one? Let's see this one the same. This one. This is, this is gonna be my outsides. Line it up. Otherwise I'm going to get mess. Alright, if that is my outside, then this is going to be later on my insight. Don't want any dust and things in it. Okay. So this one is on the inside. Then I'm gonna do this one on the inside to outside in surf. We can turn it around for now as long as we haven't put it together. I can definitely change my mind what is inside and what is outside. This bit here. And now we need those flaps. I've got these. Let's see. This cut enough. Might get away with that. The last bits. Let's see. Yeah, that is the right side, a bit closer to default than the other one. Okay, That we go, alright, let's put it together. Started this site. We're only going to do these ends. So I need to make sure that is this is my front here. On here. We stick our design in here. We stick the other thing that I need to make sure that a line these up just right. And then that should fit nicely together. Let's do this one too. We want to have this one peel that off. They go straight, that we go. And then the last bit peel off the right part and not everything there. Yeah. Better do it this way. I can't see what I'm doing. Line these two up. Alright, now I'm at the right side. Now I can push it and stick this part in. And there we go. Now. Push all of them. Sticky. There we go. Now I'm having everything like it should. The rest I'm going to leave for now because we need to cut the part that goes on top of it. And then what we're gonna do is we're going to open this slide every pardon. And then at the end, we're going to put in our backing board. But for now, we're going to leave this like this. I'm going to put this size. And that's the first part of our paper cut light box. And the next part we're going to cut all of the insights, the front panel and all the panels inside. I want to show you how to do that. Alright, see you in the next part. 5. Cutting the Panels: Time to cut our panels outside of the box, there's a panel and inside the box there are various panels to we're going to cut them together. I'm not going to cut all of them. Yes, of course, I'm going to cut all of them because I need all of them. I'm going to only demonstrate one than the rest on speedup that you can cut all these panels to. And then in the next lesson we're going to assemble the books together. Let's start with cutting a panel. To cut the panel, what you're going to need is a printout. Now this depends on what you're gonna do. If you're going to follow the principle I do, then you're going to need this one. We're going to cut out everything that is white on this one. But you could also take the opposite one for print. And it says on the PDF file that is for print. Then what you're gonna do, you're gonna cut away all the black. The older black will disappear so that you're gonna stay, keep the white so you need to cut inside here. And on this one it's the other way around. We're going to cut outside here. If you would print this on the panels, this one, then you going to print and cut dose is not going to work of course, because then you're left with this oldest gray. So that's why this one is inverted. But I'm going to use this one then. Oh yeah, and, um, pay attention, of course. Then there's your outside line of your panel. The panels are the same size, so you need to cut this way, but then you need to cut around too, so that you keep this panel inside here. I want to actually demonstrate only this one. What I need for that is again, a piece of paper. And there's exactly one left in this block. Now that is quite something. This block is empty. Now I didn't use all of them for this project. Painted on some of them to good. The next thing is, I'm going to put this on here. And a little bit different than before. I'm going to put one on the top, one on the site. And of course than one on this side too. And I'm going to put one here. There you go. The next thing, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to take the craft knife and I'm going to cut out these pieces now I have to craft knife. I have blade like this and I have a blade like this. This one is a bit more sturdy than one. I can put a bit more pressure on it, but you can use displayed everything. Do that with one blade. That is fine to just what you prefer. Alright, I want to start with the tricky part. I'm going to start here. I need to make a night nice incision here. Press quite firm. And I'm checking on the back if I'm through yes, I am. So that's the good pressure. Now, to maintain pressure on these little parts, I want to move you there. That is tricky. So I'm just cutting I know I'm going to cut that away. So if I cut further into this part, doesn't matter. If I cut into this part, is this, then I'm in trouble. And you will see in the video that comes after here, that on two of the panels I actually cut a little bit wrong. But they're not a great disaster. I show you that later on. Now you want to make sure your fingers, these fingers which hold r away from the direction that you cut. If you put Excellent. Make an uncontrolled movements, can use your fingers, are out of the way. Tricky. This I'm pressing pretty firm because I got this really thick paper. Now a cellular materials, you can use printer paper if you want to, then this process is going to be slightly easier than what I have it. I'm going to use the same paper for everything. Because I like the way that the light shines through this watercolor paper. Alright, I'm through with this now I'm going to check if, if I can loosen this. Almost. There it goes, right there, it's stuck. So where it's stuck, the easiest thing is to do is to turn it around. And you might see the cut line right there. If you cutting yourself, you're going to see a cut line right there and it's easier to loosen it from the back. Then go over the front again. Now it's pretty much, should we lose almost there, it's loose. And now it's Lucy. There you go. Let's see if I cut that right too. Yeah, now, this is the trickiest part. I always like to start with the trickiest part. Then. Once fie fie tik, tik, cut their hair, fatigue sets in, then I'm already at the less hard parts. So if you've cut a bit outside of the design, that's not a problem. Try not to cut insight where, what needs to left. So it's better to have more left than less left. Let's see how you know, you're not free. Might do this one. Again. Now it's getting unstuck. But I'm not pressing, I'm just letting the knife do the work now. Yeah. Now it's getting loose good. I like to turn the paper. Keep a nice insight. Although once I get sore fingers, I'll let it go to, alright, let's see how far are we. Check the bank holds pretty much through. You can see that it's still stuck around here. There's a nice clean cost. One isn't open yet. You can see when you turn it around where the light shines through your okay. Alright. That one is open to here. Now careful that I'm not going to cut off his nose per accident. And then we go I want to get outside AND you go. All right. This part is nucleolus c. Now I can clearly see this has not gone totally through. So I'm going to cut this carefully the second time so that it will come loose. And he's loose. Yeah. Good. All right. So there we go. That might right away cut the swamp. There we go. Now these I have to let go because the paper is starting to buckle a little bit and you don't want them, then you have no clue. If you're cutting in the right place. Loose. Alright. Alright, I'll have the knife. I'm here. Okay. The last bit. And then we have our panel. Not not ready, but a lot of it is already see that. Does it come out and that we'd want that is loose here. It isn't this side, definitely isn't loose. See what comes loose. Now to treat this stuff here. Now I'd shoot. Come loose. You go. Right? Now I'm going to change knives. Get the ruler. That is easier for the straight part. Let's see. I want to have this site probably for cutting. Align it like a nice car. Go through it twice and I can feel that I'm totally through. Let's do this side too. Not totally free. Try to decide again. Now it's better. Alright? And this side, if you made it, you made it streetcar at its best. Too few seconds pass that you are actually stuck here in the corner steel now it's loose and it's not stop there. There we go. That we have this part of our panel. Okay, good. Now this part I don't need anymore throwing that for all the others. This I'm going to take a look at once this is off, but first we're going to cover cut off the complete panel this side, right? So I'm going to line up my ruler so that I don't see. There you go. Don't see that great anymore. Here to make sure you secure your ruler nicely. There we go. The last bit. We still stuck. Somewhere, stuck, well, there we go. I think this knife might slowly be getting blonde. And here's our panel under it. And now we're left with a nice white panel. The only thing which I'm going to do is now clean up some of these parts. What I haven't made a clean cars like in here. Bunny's head is not totally nice cut. If I need some effect or some rabble, I'm just scraping it like that. Not with my fingers. And there's our panel. I think I'm okay. Oh, here. A little bit here. Paper tear. This is not nice. That still needs to go. And here it cuts the paper a little bit. There you go. There's a piece carefully taken together. Yeah, no, good. Here. This is not nice. It's definitely not nice, but let's see how much I can take off. Good. And now it's nicely cleaned up. And that's our first panel. Now I'm going to speed up the other panels which are caught. I'm going to show you how I cut those just sped up thing. And once I'm done with that, I'll see you in the next lesson where we're going to actually assemble our panels into the box and create our light box. So now we've got some layers are released. We got one layer. I'm going to create some more. Once we got all the layers done, then I'll see you back. Hello. 6. Assembling the Box: We've got our box, we've got our panels. Now it's just a matter of assembling. Or you may notice a little bit as getting slightly darker out here. The sun is setting, but at the end that might be really good for our light box once it's done. So I'll see how far I get if I get this done today or if I need another day to continue this. Well, but for now, we're gonna put it together. So I've got my panels. I just need to put them in order again. And I messed them up a little bit. So here's the back panel. Then this one goes on top of it. Then we have this mountain going on top of that. And we should have a little bit of a background. And here's the Fox Tree or something. And yet there's the trees behind the fox. Here's the fox and the trees. It's on. Then we have the snowman. In front of that. We have some scenery, grass or whatever. And then on front of that, we have the front panel. We're going to start with this front panel. So now I assembled it and putting this site in the right order. Because we're gonna work from front to back. The first thing we're gonna do is we're going to put this front panel on. Now this is the back. So I'm going to open this up a little bit. And this is the front. So what I need, I need this to go off starting with this one or this might putting it might be slightly tricky. So I'm not gonna do them all. I'm going to just start with this one. See what is the bottom? What does the doesn't really matter that much, which I'm going to put on top and which I'm going to put on front. I should check the original now. Let me first put the box away. Here's the original. Now I can see, oh, I don't want that. What's happening? And once this the other way around, this is the right way. There's that corner, that straight corner. Yep. Alright. So I know now this is the bottom. Okay. Now I need to line this up. And on purpose, I haven't done this, so I can line this up with the bottom nicely. There we go. Now, I'm going to turn it around, press the bottom and that is stuck K. What I'm gonna do next is I only need to do one of the sides. And then I'm pretty much done with it. Then it's stuck. Yeah. We could have moved it over a little bit to this side depending on how you've cut it. So I can put this up the way. I'm going to do one of the sites and line it up with one of the sides way I wanted. I'm going to start actually at the other side. Let's see. I wanted like this, then it should work on the other side. Yeah, that is good. Now I can do this side. If I managed to pull this off. Here, there we go. I'm actually not I'm going to hold it, put my arm in it, make sure it doesn't fall down because I want this part to get off too. Yeah. There we go. Make sure it's not stuck on me. Now I can line this up a little bit. And it should line up at the top right way. Let me secure this. You go. So if you blew this, I would follow the same procedure. Pretty much. Do the bottom. Do one side, then glue the top and bottom and press it so that it's stuck. We have our box and everything else goes in here. Now let's think what's the easiest thing to do with this? The next thing we need some of that foam I have. And if you have, don't have the phone, but you use the distance by using the cardboard pieces, then you've got to put them in right here on top of each other. And I'm going to use the phone. Let's see, The easiest way is probably to just start with. A panel, let me think for this amount want then we're going to throw this in. Yeah. I think the easiest way is to start with putting the tape in there is probably I don't think it matters much. I might put in. Yeah, let's do that. Let's go for the panel first. We're going to stick this stuff on the panel. So I'm going to measure this is about the length I need. And if it is too short or a little bit too long. Another big issue. Actually. Now, make sure you don't stretch this stuff so that there's a lot of tension on it and just let it rest easily. Because if you put a lot of pressure on it, then this thing has gone to Ben's. Okay. That's one of them. Do this one slightly better. That's the next one. The next piece needs to be cut. Right there. These peel off a lot easier than the tape actually on the bottom. Making sure. Hope I'm not putting tension on it. Stay on the bottom place. And heroes the next piece. And there we go. Now this panel will go in here. What we're going to stop at first, but to make it ourselves easy, what I'm gonna do on the back, I'm going to add the tape right away on this back. One. On the bottom. There you go, so that I can fit the next panel on It's quite easily. Now I'm doing all the way, but you pretty much could also do smaller pieces then this I'll leave that up to you. And the stapes should fit nicely. On there. Comes off the last bit. There you go. There we go. What's next? We need to do that in here. We could have done that from the start. But for some measuring, we should be okay because we don't need it to go all the way. So getting it, It's tricky. Alright, now I need to do that the other way around. It's going to be tricky without getting close to it. Take you go, This should work and we both see it. I hope so. Okay. Could have done that. At the beginning. The sugar. There you go. You didn't make that slightly shorter so that it's easier for me to do. Alright, should work. Let me do one right here. And as you can see, this goes slightly shorter or you do a couple of pieces. Let me not to go too long. That is no problem at all. Sticky stuff. Going. Not right. Take this off. Do that again. That better. Yeah. Alright, and now it's in this, get rid of the mess and see if I can peel it off. I can That one is not peeling off, so I have to push that a little bit firmer. There you go. And this one is gonna be tricky to get that off. There it goes. Here. Right? Now, the next thing I need to do, slide in the box. Now, what would be easier is, remember what's the button? Let's see, this is the bottom-up. Easier would be to peel this off now, but then I'm sticking everywhere. So I'm going to make it myself slightly harder, Put it in, push it in the bottom, straight, and then just basically let it fall. Don't push it until, you know, for sure. You've got it in the right place. And there we go. I already can see if you put it in against the light sunlight coming here to move to the other camera somewhere. I'm not sure if you can see that there's light coming down there. But we've got a nice, Let's see. You can see that nice edge already. And that's how we're gonna do basically all of them. There's one thing you need to remember. The last one doesn't need tape on the back. The rest needs old tape on the back and the foam on the front. But the last one, no tape, no phones, nothing on the back because that's the last one. Right. Good. I'm going to do this. I don't think you want to see me do this the whole time I'm going to film it and when I'm done, I'll see you back. Every layer of the light box is in now so I can turn it around. This is what our light box looks like. Well, for now, just a box with layers. We of course need light in it. But that's for the next lesson. So the next lesson, we're going to add lights and create magical look. The light box is half. Alright, see you in the next lesson. 7. Adding the Lights & more: It got a little bit too dark to keep on working while I could keep on working in the evening. I've got light enough in my studio, but I had to do some other things. So it's another day. I'll have to start and I wanted to really finish it while it was dark to really show you the lights the best, but we got to figure something out. I put some lines down at the end. We're going to continue. We've got the box ready. We've cut the layers ready. Now it's time to add the lights. Let's do that. For the lights as you have seen, I'm going to use this strip of LED lights. Now if you use the fairy lights, you can do that too. Might be slightly tricky to get them all neatly in there. But what I will do is show you that I would put them in like this so that they're hanging down and creating that light like that. Alternatively, what you could do, you could also stick them to your back ground, here it is. And then just stick them to the background and go around like this. If you have a lot of lights, you may want to fill them all up. If you have a huge string, just start here and then go, Go back, go like this around the corner, and just fill up the whole back with all of these lights. That would be okay too. But preferably go around the corner if you can if you have lights left over. Technically what you could do, you could go outside again and just put them around. So if you have them insights inside here, bring them outside again, put them around the box. You could do that too. Or at the back of this plate. That would, that would work too. That will create an interesting effect to now, I'm going to put this aside. These gifts, a little bit. Less strong. Load is very light. These LED lights are pretty strong and as you can see, I've got a new strip here. So I'm just going to use that new phone. And a nice thing about this is that it doesn't open. Now, that it does open, that this actually has taper on it. So there you go. Here's that. This has double-sided tape. It already is, as you can see, it is stuck there. And I need to flip that back to make sure it doesn't get stuck everywhere. So I can very easily stick it onto my box. Now, here's the box. So I'm going to bring in those lights around where they aren't, these edges here. Depending on how thick you use, your spaces, you might have less room than I have, but you should have enough room even if you use some thicker spaces to get the lights on. So I'm going to put the lights on. I think I might put them right here at the end. So not right against this. I'm going to use them at the end and leave some room there. D power, power supply I want to keep outside of the box. So what I need is I need to make sure I can put this box in the back of it there. I need to cut out a little piece here where that can go. I'm gonna do that right away in the corner. Let's do it in the corner right away. I'm going to create a little hole like that so that I can put my wife through. And in my playback backing board here, I need there you go. A little hole too. That should work fine. There you go. So we need that to get. You could put it in the middle wherever you like it. This is just the easiest to put it right there. Alright, good. I'm going to put those lights somehow. Going to be too long, probably probably. I'm pretty sure they're going to be too long, but you can cut these. These are the ones you can cut. So I might actually cut them. I'm going to start right there and put it all around like this. Let's see how far we get. I might stick them right away. Why not? Can I do that now? I need to go from the other side. Probably not. When did you measure first? So let me hold this right. Instead of cutting it off, what you could do, you could just glue whatever is left on the, um, what do we say on the backboard to on this piece of thing? I might only have a little bit leftover. So there you go. There we go. That should work. Yeah, there we go. So this is what I've got leftover. And I'm gonna do this one. Cut it here. And now it should still work fine. Now these don't work anymore, but this is the peace of God over. You could put on the back plate, stick it on there, or something like this, like that to give some extra light. But these are pretty good, so I should be fine now I can't get the tape of only from this side. I want this. See if I can get it off from this side. Doesn't have it. So what I'm gonna do, I noticed that if I put this one here, that the first light needs some room. So I'm going to start right there in this corner with this first light here. So peels off. If I managed, that could be enough. There we go. Yes. First light, I'm going to put right there in the corner and I'll put my box like this, but that is a little bit of an issue then you can see this should work. I'm going to try my best to show you what I'm doing. I'm starting with dislikes. And it needs to go right there. Give it a little bit of room so that the board can go in. Now I'm going to move it. You can see that this thing doesn't fall down and press it nicely in the corner and put it down like this. Now what I should've done tested the light, see if they actually work. So I'm trusting this company I love. And that we go. And I'm just sticking these lights and turning those blocks now. And I've gotta get through this corner as well as I can. There you go. We're continuing. This is the fun part because we now know are almost at the end. See, I've got them here. I'm going to put them right there, turn the box and try to wiggle its Can you see it neatly into debt corner? There we go. And I need to move this slightly so that the back panel can still go in. I think I'm getting there, make sure you can see it. And I'm pushing this one into the corner to end. Now, if I've done as well, being in this off now I should get close to the last slide. I'm actually might get on top of the last slide. So let's check that you can see a two. There you go. Now I'm on top of the first slide. So I may, well, since I'm pretty much to the corner, I think I made this cut this light off to right there. Maybe I can get it out. Actually. I can. There you go. Alright, since it's pretty much in the corner, I can cut one off. That's the nice thing about these. You can cut them by one. You have strips, you can cut by three, but by one. Alright, now, putting this down again, putting this camera back again in its regular angle, I need some batteries. I should have some berries somewhere. You hear some stuff falling down. Some batteries, yes, that they are using some rechargeable batteries for this. I don't like buying these non rechargeable. There you go. That was quick and it's working fine. As you can see. We gather. Close this works. Turn it around. We wouldn't have the back plate in yet, but this is what it looks like. See, I got to stand up, take a look at it too. That looks pretty good. Doesn't it? Really? Pretty. There it is. Okay. Good. Well, I don't think I don't even need to close the blinds. You can see it pretty well like this. They go. Now. I haven't put on the backboard yet. Now if you put that in, that is just to make sure the light doesn't spill. Because this is white, it will reflect the light to the front too. So if you put that in, reflects a little bit more of the light and you get a nice lighter background. Alright, I'm gonna put this away for now. The next thing I'm going to show you what I'm gonna do if that colored paper, I'm going to do a little trick with the color paper. I'm going to bring some mood, some atmosphere into my lightbox and that's why I haven't closed it yet. Now this is fully optional. If you think you're done now, you say, well, you might want to watch it and then afterwards decide, I'm not gonna do any of that and just close the box as I will do later on. But if you don't want to do that yet, if following this and see what I'm gonna do. Alright, What I need is some of these colored papers. Now, there's all kinds of colors. Now I know already that this really dark red color is stuck behind some wise is going to work, but you want the light colors, so add some light colors here. There's livelihoods better than the dark blue. I'm just going to show you some colors. But there are some nice orange in here and I know that works great. But I want to open this pack and I'm going to take some papers out. I want to cut them into the same size as this board. And then once I've done that, I'll show you what to do. So I want to speed this part up. Well, let me take the box. Let me just put one of these papers in C if I cut it pretty well. Yeah, that's pretty well. Alright, there we go. It's probably not going to stay where it's supposed to stay because you need to stick it somewhere. I don't wanna do that. Put it on. Put my hands in front of it. I'm going to show you the effect. And now you can see there I'm, what I'm gonna do is I might just close my blinds for this one. I'll be back in a second. As you can see, it suddenly got a lot darker. Switch it on. And this light needs to be disliked. This paper needs to be in there. Nicely going to hold it. And now you can see the effect. Seeing you get a whole different atmosphere. So if you want some, a greenish tint, I'll come take it out. You can see how bright it will become if I can get it out. This is the light box in a nice glow. Interesting already. Looking pretty good, doesn't it? So there's different colors. I've got let's go with some pink line up. I'm just demonstrating. I'll leave it up to you a few. When you use it. I'm blocking some of the light because I'm holding it. And look at that. You get this a whole different kind of atmosphere right away, different kind of life. I know yellow works nicely. Here's the yellow gets a very pretty moot in your book that you go see. Really nice, doesn't it? Now, we're going to demonstrate them all. I got the yellow somewhere. That's a bright yellow. This is a there you go. And you get this tone here. I like that too. That is very interesting. K. Now, let's go with the blue then. The blue, you can more of a night shade if you put in a blue. Of course, we still need the back panel on this, so it's not totally, it's spilling light to the side. Let's see you get this might look like that. Very interesting. Now as I said, too dark, it doesn't work. So let's go for a really dark color. There you go. And as you can see. Kind of works and it makes it really, really dark up. Some people like the stone is an interesting term. And then the dark blue. Let's do that. Oh, I got purple too. Let's go for the dark blue first. And then you can see, and this is a really dark and it blocks pretty much all of the light, so you won't see that much. So that's not working too well. But what you could do is you could cut some holes in this and then some holes and then let some light come through at a different effective might have to same with the purple c. That's the same thing. That light is not coming through. If you get it too dark color, it just not gonna work. And then the last one I'm going to do is this orange and that should still work again. See how that works again, because it's a lighter color. There you go. Now what you could do also, let me demonstrate that with this. Do they lifted darker colors? See what happens with the dark blue? I'm gonna get my scissors. I'm going to cut off a piece. It's going to be a bit random. You see me cutting? Yes, you can. Even in the dark, you can see me cutting. I managed to do this up. This is without measuring anything, creating a little bit of that hole right there. And let's cut this for now. Let's just cut in a hole. You wouldn't have to do that a lot more nicer than this. Of course. I'm going to put this in again. Hopefully it sticks. And then you would get a bit of this effect. Some nice lights under there, some darker tones up there. See this kind of paper. It's not the best. Alright, good. Well, I like it this way, although I do like with the yellow too. But let's continue with this. I'm going to put on my back, instead of opening my blinds, I'm going to put on my main light formula. And then we can finish this. Alright, the last part, we're gonna put in that Back parts. Now, we could have done it like that. I've done it inside. If you wanna do it outside, I think I said that to you. You can do it outside too, if you want to do this slightly easier. Now we need to reach in somehow I'm going to get this off. I'm going to move this way. I'm gonna make sure this is correct. I'm going to push that away. Make sure it is nicely inside. That should work. Rather measure it and then see that I have a problem later on. Stick that that's my back plate. And what is easiest probably do this one. Move it and see if I can close it nicely. There we go. It's not going to stick like this, so turn it around, put it down the ego and I should be able to carefully reach inside, taking the scissors to give myself a little bit of extra reach. And there we go. Now it should stick on this column and not yet. Well, I can't reach carefully with my fingers making sure I'm not destroying anything. You go up again. There you go. Push that in. Right? Now I can do this. Once. And the Swan and then shoot. Get rid of all the light spilling too. It's sticking yet is how I did that already. When I push it, push it over like this. You go it should pretty much stick on all the corners except for there. But the nice thing is I might get something fin and be able to reach through there and push it. I've got something thin enough that a good Push. There you go. Now it should be stuck. There we go. And the back panel is on. Alright. Now it should reflect that backlight nicely. And that's it. My box is done. Okay. Let me switch off the light again. There is our light box. Look at that. It looks really, really nice. I've adjusted my camera a little bit so that it picks up nicely. And now I can enjoy the light box and this is what our light box looks like. Pretty nice, isn't it? There's one little mistake in it. I've noticed that I've somehow for some reason cup the back of the bony a bit too high. Now I've checked my design. You shouldn't have a problem. You should use, should be done a little bit. But for some reason, or I eat a lower this for some reason while cutting it or putting it in, I didn't do it perfectly. But I've checked the designer, that should be okay. And even if it isn't, if you look straight onto it, still looks good. So we have all the light coming through nicely. And that is why we cut out this part so that you can get all these Night Lights, this nice light shining around every part. That looks good, doesn't it? Alright, showing it on the other camera to bid upside down. There you go from a slightly different angle. Now you look up top, you can see this really well. If I turn it around, hi, You shouldn't be able to see it anymore, but you can still see all the light spilling through. And that is the whole idea. Bright, nice scene. And that's it. Alright, I think our light box is done, is totally done. And of course you don't put it laying down, you put it upright, like this. Camera doesn't have the perfect angle for that. I might change that. And then one is upright. The trees, they all fit well and if you need to bend them a little bit so that things spacing a little bit, pushing some parts of it so that you can get a little bit of a better nice light bills. What you could do here too, you could put some foam right there. Can you see that? Yeah. Pushing this back a little bit, put a little bit of foam or one of these three d block, these 3D double-sided tape thing is in-between so that you create a little bit of distance there. That would look a little bit better. Alright, good. Well, that's it. We're going to move to the last part of this lesson. I'm going to just close it like this. I'll see you in the project. 8. The Project: Well, we're, at the end of this class. We've created a beautiful light box together. It's still laying here. It's pretty let's see if we can put it on the help I can get it going. Yeah, there it is. You gotta hold it. There we go. Now, this you could just tape on the back of the box like I have. I hold it now. You could lay lay it still. You could just stick it on the back of it so that it won't move it. I will then line it up with the bottom. So that's it. Just put some weight and then the box won't blow away either. So now I'm getting really strange tend to probably. But there it is, our light box, it's done. Alright, I enjoyed doing this. This was really fun creating this from the previous class, just going one step further and actually creating the real thing or Procreate thing is really nice. But doing this in real life, I was gonna say, yeah, not digital is really, really fun to create this. Thank you for being with me in this class. I've got more classes here. Before you go, we got to talk about the project, of course, for your projects, I would definitely love to see the light box you create. And perhaps you have other light boxes because perhaps you've done this before, created them. I would love to see them, post them in the project section. But I would also like a review of this class. I would really like your feedback on this class. What do you think about this class? Did you enjoy it? Should I make more classes like this? I love to hear from you. Alright, so post your light boxes. Let me know what you think about this class. Perhaps do another class I have. And I love to see you in another class.