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“Define: Dancing” Egg

April 14, 2022

Another Bombshells ATL Egg Hunt submission!

Wall•e and EVE are blasting off in one of my favorite sequences from the movie wall•e when EVE asks wall•e to "Define: Dancing" and they have a beautiful dream sequence in the sky. I had SO. MUCH. FUN. creating this one.

Wall•e and EVE are made entirely of paper and card stock; there is a wooden egg as the base and a single 28-gauge wire running from wall•e's fire extinguiser to the egg base for support to help him fly. The entire piece is covered in a coat of matte Mod Podge for protection.

Wall•e on the ½" grid cutting mat to show scale

Wall•e and some of the "crafting carnage" and tools I used

Detail of wall•e's back showing the paper texture taken after the first night I worked on him

Wall•e and the wooden egg before I drilled the hole in the egg and settled on the wire shape

Wall•e with his trail (all individually-punched circles) and the finished "galactic" texture on the egg (achieved with layers of torn tissue paper)

EVE has joined the party!

I debated making two eggs; one wall•e and one EVE and turning them in as a set.

However, time was not on my side; so EVE was added to wall•e's egg.

Full turnaround of the egg rotating counter-clockwise

Tagged: Bombshells ATL | Disney | paper craft
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