Learn Storytelling—the Pixar Way
Pixar and Khan Academy are putting Pixar in a Box, and by a box they mean your computer screen.
“Tell your story…,” prompts Medium’s back-end each time a writer begins a new draft. Well, now you can do just that, except you can do it like a well-paid CGI animation director! Why? How? Because Pixar, Deliverer of Dreams, has teamed up with the Khan Academy to teach you suckers how to plot and develop characters, that’s why and how! (To be fair, Pixar literally has three blockbuster movies with the word “story” in the title, so maybe it’s worth listening to their folks on this.)
Pixar in a Box—which we can only assume is a riff on “Dick in a Box” but honestly, let’s not go there, Woody—is a new storytelling class, available via handy YouTube videos, in which a bunch of people Pixar pays to create stuff talk about how they create it. Like so:
Normally, we wouldn’t write about this stuff unless Pixar was paying us (hint, hint—actually, just kidding, we totally would), but guess what? The course is free! Guess that makes this something of a public service announcement? Glad we could help.
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