{"id":7762,"date":"2020-12-08T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:14:15","slug":"every-story-begins-with-a-sketch-a-remote-learning-series-for-animation-instructors-with-travis-blaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/every-story-begins-with-a-sketch-a-remote-learning-series-for-animation-instructors-with-travis-blaise\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Story Begins with a Sketch – A Remote Learning Series for Animation Instructors with Travis Blaise"},"content":{"rendered":"Moving a course that is designed for face-to-face delivery to a fully online remote teaching environment can be very challenging. Teaching animation relies heavily on collaboration and hands-on instruction, which can be especially hard to achieve completely remotely. That's is why we're pleased to host our long-time friend and educator in the animation industry Travis Blaise for this special 3-part series for online educators and remote learners.\n\n\"\"\n\nTravis, who owns the Sketchtoanimate<\/a> online community, focuses on creating original content that inspires, educates, and entertains. In this series, Travis will share what he has learned from years of streaming and working remotely as an animator and instructor. We encourage you to join his Sketchtoanimate Discord channel.<\/a>\n\n\"\"\n\nIn the first episode, Travis discussed how to set up an in-house studio for working professionally as an animator and educator. He also covered animation basics while live streaming, covering the principles of storytelling and how they relate to every aspect of both e-learning and the animation production process. You can watch it below:\n\n