MacMillan - Pop-Up Spooky Castle
Welcome to Spooky Castle! Who would you like to be your guide? The Grim Reaper? The Headless Knight? Or maybe a friendly poltergeist...Start in the catacombs, and beware of ghastly ghouls at every turn! When you've finished exploring this astonishing pop-up castle, press out the figures and play the game to find out if YOU could be the ruler of Spooky Castle.
About the Author
Steve Cox has been illustrating for many years, and brings wonderful comic touches and superb draughtsmanship to his many books. He has previously collaborated with Nick Denchfield on THE COMPLETE CASTLE and INVENTION MANSION
Words from the Author
This was a pretty massive project for me and at that point, the most complex pop-up I had worked on with Nick Denchfield, who's brilliant concept and paper engineering work fired it all off. From my concept sketches to the delivery of final artwork to the publisher took around 18 months, although I wasn't working exclusively on this for the entire period of that time. I've tried to show some of the work that was involved in developing it as well as final artwork and some photos of the finished pop-up.
Below are the concept sketches for the four separate sections of the model
The finished pop-up with various photos of the model below it
Some of the press-out figures and playing pieces for the model and the included game.
Various sections and pieces of artwork from the model below
Just a few of the inhabitants of Spooky Castle...
One of the four floor sections
A border design for inside the book section
A collecting card which forms part of the game in the pop-up
Inside the main tower you will see this on one side
The End