meerkat pop-up card


This card is intended for my brother, his wife, and their brand new baby boy. This is their first child.

The card depicts meerkats in various aspects. It tells a brief story of conflict and triumph. There are six pop-up pages consisting of various numbers of pop-up mechanisms each. 

First, credit where it is due.

Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhard, God & Heroes
Robert Sabuda's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
David A. Carters adaptation of Dr. Seuss's, Horton Hears a Who
David A Carter and James Diaz, The Elements of Pop-up
Animal Planet, Meerkat Manor
And not least of all, the product of my own sweet imagination, an early animated GIF listed on the left of the home page, titled transgenic meerkats. 

The prototypes, method of construction, trials and errors, joys and sorrows, along with the early versions of these pages can be started here, where six online pages are posted for your casual perusal, one for each pop-up page.


meerkat pop-up card cover

First page 1/2 way opened

meerkat pop-up full body

no head, no feet, background shot

second page 1/2 opened

second page nearly opened

hawk page fully opened

close up of group

straigh-on shot of group

mommy meerkat begin to open

mommy nearly opened

fully opened, second view

closeup of baby

begin of recon, rocket showing, mommy disappearing

recon team start to open

recon almost open, mommy almost disappeared

recon fully opened

closeup of recon

closeup hawk

rocket launcher age half opened

rocket launcher page fully opened

shoulder rocket, closeup

fingers in ears, closeup of arms coming up

fingers in ears, closeup

seated meerkats, half opened

table scene, almost opened

table scene, fully opened

seated meerkats


Tons more photos of the work in progress .