Tag: visual storytelling
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Learning from Vivian Maier #2: The hidden eye
Searching for clues of Vivian Maier’s long time undisclosed photographic work, it would be easy to argue: “She was an odd fish, no wonder she couldn’t relate to whatsoever audiences. Maybe she wasn’t ready for it.” But truth be told, no one of us is ready for success and public exposure until those things reach…
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Learning from Vivian Maier #1: Stockyards & trash puppets
At this year’s Berlin film festival Berlinale, John Maloof’s documentary “Finding Vivian Maier” touched me most in my own experience of being creative. Vivian Maier is one of those antiheroes most of us probably wouldn’t have liked, had we met her personally. Many statements of people who knew her evidence what an awkward person she…
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Storytelling in four comic panels: Yonkoma practice
The vertical four panel comic is a format commonly used in Japan, for good reason. A yonkoma, as it is called in Japanese, serves wit and humor in a nutshell. It provides a reduced, very efficient framework to train visual narration – a reason why I’m using this format in my workshops to get creative…
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Another filmic tribute to Hong Kong: That Demon Within
Once again, Hong Kong film director Dante Lam turned the city itself into the main actor of his new motion picture, “That Demon Within”. His work caught my interest first in 2009, when he presented “The Beast Stalker” at the Berlinale film festival. Despite the predictability of the action movie genre with all its exaggerations, climaxes…
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Sharing outcomes: Visual storytelling
After leading a workshop, I rarely have the time to pause for a review, following projects and deadlines in queue. Yet a growing reservoir of teaching experiences calls for closure, be it only momentarily. So I’ll go with a fragment for now, resuming some of the recurrent key issues I often address with the participants…
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Drawing together, getting better at it.
All of the images shown above were done by participants of my workshops. I added gray shading and texture to enhance the visual effect. Special thanks to Kilian, Ania, Kasia, Pavel, Ricardo, Danica and many, many others for inspiring, great contributions! Upcoming workshops in Berlin @ VHS Tempelhof Schöneberg: manga illustration (09.11.2013 – 10.11.2013) storyboarding…
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