Using Animation for Social Justice
People with learning disabilities, elderly people, disadvantaged youth and adults, and other minority and community groups are now being supported by Arts and Creativity, thanks to a creative enterprise called Just Animate.
Their aim is to build confidence and improve social issue awareness through an enjoyable animation filmmaking experience with the communities in which they work.
“We look for ways to apply animation to environments and disciplines where creative media has traditionally had less focus, such as social work, physical and mental health and well being, advocacy, and other, wider socio-political community issues. We wanted to provide the means for others to experience a wide range of styles of animation creation.” explained Seymour Lavine, Director at Just Animate.
Participants get to use a wide range of tools to stimulate their creativity through interesting projects, from planning to visualisation, to testing basic animation. They are then able to produce animation projects using software such as Toon Boom Studio along with Toon Boom Storyboards.
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