Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Two ways to animate slam poetry

2013-07-20

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Slam poetry packs an emotional punch by using powerful verbal metaphors; animation can do the same using visual tools. TED-Ed animators show how two separate techniques -- rotoscoping and more traditional hand-drawn animation -- bring to life the multilayered process of becoming a slam poet.

Lesson and animation by TED-Ed.