Storyboard in Blender with Storytools + Spark sequencer

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Last year I shot a couple of videos with @StoryBoxLibrary for #StoryTools, their new how-to videos for kids all about the mechanics of storytelling. The first series launched tonight!

I’m one of the featured writers, talking about genre and reading stories - with the help of my co-star Hugo, pictured below. He’s not a writer (yet), but there are so many great authors involved, including George Ivanoff, Lili Wilkinson, Hugo’s human Melissa Keil and many more.

The lesson videos are short and fun, quite different in content and style to what I do at #100StoryBuilding. They’re designed for use in the classroom.

You can find out more and see some snippets from every episode at https://storytools.com.au. (I’m in lessons 8 and 12.)

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This reminded me of another tool I'd seen for creating interactive fiction for the web, but I couldn't remember the name of it, so I started web searching. One of the search results #StoryTools proposal for building the tool Brooker said he needed for Bandersnatch but couldn't find, for film-makers wanting to manage non-linear narrative projects in a single app:
http://opendoclab.mit.edu/storytools-lets-build-tool-writing-non-linear-stories-david-dufresne/
StoryTools: Let’s build a tool for writing non-linear stories | David Dufresne - MIT Open Documentary Lab

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