Last week I downloaded the Toonly animation program to start learning how to work with it. For practice, I asked Amelia if she wanted to create a cartoon. She was into the idea.
So we made this little cartoon. She came up with the story and chose the backgrounds/characters, and we worked together tightening it up, writing the script and recording the voice overs.
It was a lot of fun, and Amelia learned a lot. She saw how much work goes into cartoons (not that this is even CLOSE to how much work goes into real ones) and also learned how many times it took her to get her lines right. She had to make choices on backgrounds, and you’ll see that at first she wanted it to be a baby’s room, but eventually made the decision to change it to a little girl’s room instead.
It was a lot of fun and she got to see a different form of the creative process: storytelling. She also learned a bit about plot, character and all of the essential parts that make up a story.
Here is the final product:
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Pod of One 