Planning a Picture Book
Learn how to take a written story and go through the steps necessary to plan and design a visual story that supports a written manuscript.
Understanding Worldviews for Contextualized Storytelling
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Worldview Teaching Summary
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Cultural Self-Awareness -
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Uncovering Worldview
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Honour, Power, & Innocence - Part 1
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Honour, Power, & Innocence - Part 2
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Bridges and Encounters
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Individual vs Collective
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Examples of Contextualizing Stories to Meet Different Worldviews
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Syncretism
Understanding Children's Books
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Section 1 Teaching Summary
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Lesson 1a – Types of Children’s Books
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Lesson 1b – Q and A: Types of Children’s Books
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Lesson 2a – Elements of Children’s Books
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Lesson 2b – Q and A: Elements of Children’s Books
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Lesson 3a – Manuscript Breakdown, Part 1
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Lesson 3b – Manuscript Breakdown, Part 2
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Quiz – Understanding Children's Books -
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Preparatory Work - Manuscript Breakdown
Preparing a Children's Book
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Section 2 Teaching Summary
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Lesson 4a – How to Paginate, Part 1: Dividing Up the Story
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Lesson 4b – How to Paginate, Part 2: Controlling the Flow
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Lesson 4c – How to Paginate, Part 3: Spreads and Pages
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Lesson 4d – How to Paginate, Part 4: Spots and Insets
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Quiz – Preparing a Children's Book
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Preparatory Work – Dividing Up Your Story
Designing a Children's Book
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Section 3 Teaching Summary
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Lesson 5a – Visual Storytelling, Part 1
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Lesson 5b – Visual Storytelling, Part 2
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Lesson 5c – Visual Storytelling, Part 3
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Lesson 6 – Visual Storytelling Demo
This Instruction is brought to you by "Mr. B." His identity must remain anonymous because he runs and animation studio which is located in a sensitive area, so no association with a CREATE International may be expressed publicly, so please DO NOT publicly post anything that would link him to this Course.
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Lesson 7 – Shape Meaning
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Lesson 8 – Importance of Value
This Instruction is brought to you by Mr. Tod Polson. This video was created originally for the CREATE International Animation Course, so he talks about using Blue and Red Gels (colored lenses) to view the images. NOTE: You are NOT expected to use these, but follow his teaching to understand the vast importance of VALUE in your illustrations.
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Lesson 9 – Emotional Colour
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Lesson 10 – Cultural Colour
This Instruction is brought to you by Mr. Tod Polson. He is an entertaining and skilled artist of great talent and experience, working in the field of animation for many years. This video was created originally for the CREATE International Animation Course, but it serves its purpose for us as well. Please think of his teaching in terms of STILL images, and you will get the idea of how it applies to creating a Children's Book.
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Lesson 11 - Thumbnail Sketching
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Quiz – Designing a Children's Book
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Assignment – Creating Your 1st-Draft Book Dummy
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