Through technology and collaboration, students bring stories to life.

Students taking 3D Animation, Creative Writing, and Acting classes are working on a collaborative Design Cycle project that was awarded the 2018 Innovation in Catholic Education Award for Technology Integration from Today’s Catholic Teacher magazine. Students from all three classes recently gathered in the IMC to discuss storyboards and characters for the animated stories they are building together.

HOW IT WORKS

For this award-winning project, 3D Animation and Creative Writing students meet up for a character concept brainstorm; together, they plan characters and a world—the foundational elements of the story that the writers will script, the animators will illustrate, and the actors from Acting classes will voice. Once designed, the 3D printed character models made in our Phyllis M. Taylor Maker Lab are sent to the scriptwriters to help them envision their characters as they finished their script drafts. The finished scripts and 3D designs are sent to the Acting classes to perfect their voices before heading into the recording studio to lay down the voiceover work. The finished product is an animated, original short story.