How To Pinch Twist In Balloon Modeling

Video Transcript

"Hi everybody, Malik the magic guy, expertvillage.com and now for the pinch twist. Well a lot of people don’t say this is an intermediate technique I kind of think it is that’s why we’re putting it here. This is how you’re going to start doing some of the more detailed one balloon stuff and this is a pinch twist as a valuable tool for adding like sort of angles on balloons. I’m going to show you how to do it, basically what a pinch twist is it’s a really, really small loop or fold twist, so you would take a bubble and you want to pinch it like this and twist the base of it together like that so it really makes like tiny little loop twist or fold twist, you can add these together and that would make you like a different style of animal ears, like you can put that on a cat, these are the ears that I put on a stegosaurus sometimes and if you’re working with the balloon and you want to put an angle in it you can make a small bubble and put a pinch twist on it and that kind of gives it an angle. So if sometimes if you’re making a character and you want to give it like an elbow or a knee this is a pinch twist and that’s how you do it, so we’re going to do more with this later, that’s a very valuable tool that’s something you should learn is a pinch twist."