How to Make Complex Characters in Balloon Folding

Video Transcript

"Hi this Jeremy here on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about weaving larger complex balloons like this one behind me, the Expert Village logo. Kind of just a backdrop to help set the mood. It used over actually a hundred balloons in that and it's fairly, fairly loosely woven, you would need a lot tighter weave on that. And then Expert Village itself, each of the letters used one sixty get them as small possible. We're making that sort cloth. What you do, is you're going to be creating diamond shapes and I'll go ahead and just show you with four balloons how to do that. Go ahead and twist these two balloons together so you get a V-shape. You want two of those. Once you have two of those together, what ends up happening is you create an upside down V with those two. And usually, you would have more of a, I'm just going to go ahead and create sides as if you had more of them twisting into each other. You basically keep on doing that, as far as you want, to make diamond shapes in the fabric. As you can see there's a lot of different diamond shapes in this one. The more attention you spend to the sides, the flatter you get the material. A lot of times you don't want it flat, you want it curved so that you can make a person design. And a lot of times too, balloons you can stuff back in the diamond shape to fill it out. And you can actually weave back and forth in through the balloon."