TYPE: DVD
AUTHOR: Bob Coleman
GENERAL INFO: This is in 3 parts. The first is for beginners, the middle is for medium to advanced, and the third part is "big balloons." The run time is around 90 minutes.
GENRE: Mostly animals, some characters and a couple of hats
COST AND AVAILABILITY: Go to https://www.balloonbob.com
CONTENT AND SUMMARY: Section one contains many one balloon sculptures. I will mark if it is more than 1 balloon. Dog, Horse, Cat, Snake base (2), Heart, Ninja turtle, Ninja sword, numb-chucks (2), Monkey, Pig, Poodle. Pink panther (3) UFO alien and Flying saucer (4), Teddy bear with flower, (2) Spider (4). Part 2 has poodle (on a barrett, ET in a flying saucer, (4) Large bird, (6) Horse on carousel, (8) Skeleton, (9) Rose (2) Little fish
Part 3 is labeled big balloons. Dolphin (3) Dog (blues clues,) Spiderman (3,) Alien hat (3) A Spiderman hat. Listed but I could not view were the Road bird and Rabbit
REVIEWER'S PERSONAL OPINION. This was a welcome surprise. There are lots of good one balloon things which I am always looking for. The DVD was transferred from tapes so the quality is a little fuzzy. Bob, on the other hand has a great teaching style everything is both shown and demonstrated. Bob uses lots of rounds and a few 160 and occasionally a heart balloon and a 360.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES: The strength of this DVD is the vast number of sculptures many of which are not ones I have seen elsewhere. The weakness is the slight fuzziness, I viewed this on my computer screen and it was not too distracting.
WHAT I LIKED AND DIDN'T LIKE:
My rule is if I get one thing I will use often, it is worth the price of the DVD. This surpasses that. I love the pig, the snout looks like a real snout, the ninja turtle is one I can�t wait to show off and easy enough for line work. As one who loves balloon weapons the num-chucks made me smile. The heart, carousel and other things placed in the base are just fun. Also the pink panther is a nice medium-sized sculpture. There are lots of things I have never seen before. So often when I review a tape, it is a new way to make the same thing. The down side of this is the fuzzy quality and at least my copy I could not run the last few sculptures.
Ashes Test: Yes, I would purchase this a second time.