Step 1: Life Events

A Life Event is a coherent story for a significant part of your life.. Select from this list or any ideas you have.

VOLUNTEER
Causes
Philanthropy

COLLECTING
Arts
Books
Memorbilia

Step 2: Gather Photos

Find any photos or objects that can be imaged to illustrate your stories. Photos can be scanned or images done with a cell camera. Upload using the form instead of trying to email large file sizes. We will add images to supplement any you provide.

Step 3: Draft Outline

This can be easy. Just start telling your story. You can also use your cell audio recorder. Quickly move through the entire story, you can fill in the gaps later. Indicate individual elements that are important to include. If you played high school football you can mention it but be sure to include championships you may have won. Take your time. No hurry. The first Life Event may be challenging but after it becomes easy. It’s story time and can be fun.

Step 4: Enhance Your Outline

To make the Legacy Animation meaningful and inspiring we must include the emotional significance of your events. Let’s talk about failures and what we learned from them. People love rags to riches or failure to success stories. Only mentioning successes sounds like egotistical bragging and is not interesting. Did they lead to your eventual success? For example let’s say you were not just afraid of heights but absolutely terrified. You knew in your bones that rappelling of a 200 foot cliff was way beyond your dreams. But you mustered the courage to do it anyway. That’s heroic and a compelling story. It’s your story and significant because it may inspire your children to meet challenges head on and find that inner strength try to do what they know they can’t. Now that’s a legacy. Go back for Each Life Event and find inspiration or start over with another Life Event. You have one legacy to give so make it count.

Step 5: Animation Characters

We also need some images of you at various ages for the Life Events. Try to find clean images without a lot of background clutter. You can also include images of significant people that you mention in yor scripts.

It is imoportant to note here that we don’t create photo realistic characters. Animation is purposely abstract so characters will be impressionist. However we can include the equivalent of slides from you photos that are indeed realistic. The mix adds interest.

Step 6: Character Voices

Voices are selected from various sources that can approximate actual voices. Again, we are creating animations not filmed documentaries. A layer of abstraction between actual and character voices let’s the viewer focus on the story instead of minutia. Watch a few cartoons and you will see that character voice overs further the fun and stories.

We can simulate actual vocies with AI using a 30 second voice sample. Results vary. It is costly and time consuming to do this so an additional $250 fee per Life Story is required.

Step 7: Draft Animation

Now we are ready to create your Life Event animation. This is done frame-by-frame selecting and customizing characters, matching voices, creating special effects and motion. It is tedious detailed work to make your story come alive. We will let you know when you can review and request any edits

Step 8: Final Animation

We will host your animations and allow access ony to you. You can then provide access to whomever you want when you want.

Step 9: Send Links

Send links to your famuily and friends so they can enjoy the show.