{"id":10731,"date":"2014-01-12T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10731"},"modified":"2014-01-12T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:47:01","slug":"dreamworks-tablet-for-kids-teaches-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/dreamworks-tablet-for-kids-teaches-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamworks tablet for kids teaches animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would have gone so friggin&#8217; bananas for this as a kid*\u2014<em>bananas<\/em>, I tell you. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/3024615\/dreamworks-new-tablet-entertains-and-trains-the-next-generation-of-animators\">Fast Company<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a feature called &#8220;Be An Artist,&#8221; DreamWorks animators lead a video tutorial, teaching kids how to draw characters from its movies and shows. The lesson can play in a small window as the child sketches, or on a larger separate display screen. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity chefs share their recipes, chart-topping musicians their chord progressions. Here, some of Hollywood&#8217;s top animators teach kids how to draw their creations&#8211;Shrek, Po, the star of Kung Fu Panda, various animals from Madagascar&#8211;using the same pressure-sensitive tablet stylus that the professionals use on the job. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The project resonated with Jeffrey Katzenberg, the studio\u2019s CEO and co-founder. &#8220;He sees it as an opportunity to teach kids how to tell stories and how to draw,&#8221; says Mitchell. &#8220;It\u2019s not what they all get in school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*I slummed with an Etch-A-Sketch Animator and drove myself insane making too-ambitious flipbook animations with index cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have gone so friggin&#8217; bananas for this as a kid*\u2014bananas, I tell you. Via Fast Company: In a feature called &#8220;Be An Artist,&#8221; DreamWorks animators lead a video tutorial, teaching kids how to draw characters from its movies and shows. The lesson can play in a small window as the child sketches, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}