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Explaining through animation
Last time Comic Art and Technical Information offered an example of teaching technical topics using sequential art in the form of a comic book. Now let's look at using animation. In The Dawn of the Tera Era Hitachi uses simple story telling, combined with trippy animation and music, to educate consumers about high-capacity disk drives. Both convey esoteric concepts by focusing on the benefit they bring to users, less so than how the technology works.
Posted: September 14, 2008 link to this item, respond to this item