“No vision is real until it’s enacted upon the earth for the people to see.” —Black Elk I love writers and poets and artists and musicians and all those crazy dreamers who have the guts to enact a vision and put it out in the world for the people to see. But the world is rarely […]
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Book Trailers, Part III
Quick recap: In Part I of this series, I posted ten tips for making a book trailer that avoids the suck. Part II is an interview with artist Kari Lennartson about narrative art techniques and her creative process. And in this final installment on book trailers, I speak with Timothy David Orme, the award-winning filmmaker […]
Book Trailers: Avoiding the suck, Part II
Quick recap: In Part I, I posted ten tips for those interested in creating short trailers (or other animated videos). In this post, we’ll focus on the art used in the Backwards trailer, and artist’s Kari Lennartson’s creative process. If you’ve seen the book trailer for Backwards then you probably know that the art is amazing. What you might not […]

