The Banana Fold in Balloon Modeling

Video Transcript

"Hi, Malik the magic guy, expertvillage.com and now for the banana fold. The banana fold is an important structure to learn because when you start getting into more building of characters this is going to be pretty handy. So what you want to do is start off like we did with the bow twist and the heart and tie the two ends of the balloon together, now we’re going to pinch here at the opposite end from the knot, so here’s the knot we want to pinch here and we want to give that a twist so we have two really long bubbles like this, can sort of make like a giant mouth type of thing, do something for a joke about that if you want. Then we’re going to fold this in half, we’re going to twist across these two bubbles so it’s kind of like a bow twist now but there’s a joint right here, now you want to fold it in half and you want to tuck one bubble here through this kind of like you did the roll through and you want to just twist those around each other so that you end up with something that looks kind of like a football and this is a classic banana fold. This would be handy for doing some bodies on some characters later, you can use this sometimes you could put a 5 inch round in here, sometimes if you’re working with one of the eyeball balloons you can tuck that in there like that, so banana fold is handy to know as well, simple to make there it is."