I’m all excited. I just learned a new skill. I can now draw animated diagrams for future Isopop posts and primarily for the DVD. You can learn more about creating animations in Photoshop: here. We had wanted to incorporate moving diagrams since the inception of the project. I had been imagining dry illustrator type graphics which would have been very clean and modern, but really wouldn’t add life to the project.
Well my dear friend Ariane Conrad, co-author of The Hooping Book, is currently working on the written version of The Story of Stuff. The Story of Stuff was a video by Annie Leonard which has been viewed millions of times, has brilliant ideas and employs nicely done animated graphics. These little graphics give the video life while concisely sharing more complicated ideas. If you haven’t seen the video, it’s a must, recently falling under attack by the likes of Glenn Beck.
Back to my story… Lauren saw The Story of Stuff and recognized the opportunity for me to sieze upon my hand drawing skills. Given the white background we were imagining for the DVD, the pieces all seemed to fit. Tonight I created my first little test animation. Many more to come.
