Sunday, 3 November 2024

Animation Day by Sharon Tregenza

 


I did a day's course on animation for writers today. Of course in such a short time we could only learn the absolute basics but I've been thinking about how it may have helped with my writing process generally. Here's what I came up with.


Visual storytelling:

It made me think about how scenes could come alive not only with dialogue but with movement too.


Marketing:

It's no secret that book trailers etc can help sell books and as a children's author, animation seems like the obvious choice to grab  attention in an interesting way.


Character Development:

It was also interesting to think about visual cues to character like body language, facial expressions and even colour.


Collaboration:

Most writers work alone so needing someone else to help with relevant software, placing and creating the end product was a useful experience.


Learning new skills:

Always a good thing to do something outside your comfort zone. I can't draw so this was a challenge but knowing that simplicity is often the key helped.




Conclusion:

It was a good experience. Stretching ideas and using a totally different format to create a micro story was thought provoking. It is a whole different way of looking at story and this was just a small taster of the potential. I may well take a online course to extend the tiny bit of knowledge I gained and, at the very least, it was fun. :)


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3 comments:

Andrew Preston said...

Who, where... did you do the course ?

Sue Purkiss said...

Sounds good!

Penny Dolan said...

Interesting! How did you come across the course?