Although often seen as being between two markets or artforms - motion comics or animated Ebooks have gained increasing respect & popularity in the last two to three years. Moving tales has took advantage of the soon to be crowded market of tablet computers by creating an unique mix of 3D interactive animation, traditional audiobook narration & written word. I remember in my childhood a popular book present was to have your name & friends/ families names written into a set story framework for you to read. Moving tales seems to have harnessed this idea for a different emerging technological age of childhood. The core team is the same as most Animated films - a writer, lead animator, producer and marketer; however they have created a very different artform. I would like to see how much this could be blended with user interactivity & AR, if children could appear & interact with these animated characters, with old fashioned voice or text narration, & maybe click links to items form the story to learn more I think this could be the new form of learning reading & writing skills even.
Dexter : "Tonight's The Night" - Motion Comic in 3D from M2 on Vimeo.
As for a more adult context for these alternate forms of animation in a 3D enviroment, I tend to think about more abstract or non-fiction uses for this kind of animation. Researching through the most current apps, books, animations I came across operation AJAX once again an Ipad app that is similar in premise to moving tales' app. However this is a serious graphic novel enlightening the reader into the false flag operation by the USA in Iran which placed the Shah in power, taking the ideology of Joe saccos graphic novels & the visual cues from waltz with bashir, this looks to be an interesting & informative alternate use for interactive animation.
These apps or books although creating suspicions of sounds too good to be true are actually given the technical level of a proffesional animation, they are created using Flash, after effects, Maya autodesk & cinema 3ds max before being ported to Ipad settings. they follow characters & a narrative, a timeline, have voice work, sound effects & offer the interactivity or thirst for knowledge that an animated non fiction film such as waltz with bashir creates. By setting animated tales during real world historical events, unfamiliar audiences can automatically look for reference & historicla information regarding the backdrop of the animated media directly.
http://www.graphicnovelreporter.com/content/comics-ipad-operation-ajax-takes-stage-interview
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