I had a student writing a 22 minute sitcom, but he was having problems writing detailed action/ description. Frameforge gave us the opportunity to explore the sets he'd built, allowing me to pick his mind and help him figure out what he could do in his locations, which inspired him to finish the screenplay.

FrameForge Studio has affected my career not just as a filmmaker, but also as a high school teacher.

I had spent eleven years prior to teaching as a film director, storyboard artist, animator and illustrator, and once I started teaching, I found myself spending class time we couldn't afford, just teaching drawing skills.

When I introduced my students to FrameForge, they were either thrilled with this new addition to our curriculum or were anxious about complicated set creation, and building unique props.

But as time went on, my students and I found the amazing value of exploring ideas in FrameForge, and we've had an excellent time putting them to the test, as a storyboard creator, written project visual enhancement, sideshow animation, and title art.

Besides working at a Technical High School, I also worked at an alternative high school that was changing the curriculum to project based. We started to use FrameForge to enhance student projects, which produced written work with fantastic storyboards

I had a student who was working on writing an essay about Dr. Martin Luther King's march on Washington in 1963. He found a picture of Dr. King from the front and from behind. He started to use the FrameForge tools to create a virtual reality that allowed him to see other angles, once he moved the camera around his Dr. King, which helped his project and allowed him to see an event he wanted to know more about.

When pressed for time, we created great images in FrameForge, and exported them to Final Cut and/or Motion to make titles or key animated projects. It has helped students who were insecure about creating images, become masters.

Its possibilities seem nearly endless, one student wanted to create a comic book for his English class, used FrameForge to build the sets for his Dante's Inferno project, and then exported the stills to Adobe Photoshop to create the book layout.

FrameForge has given my students a chance to previsualize their creative ideas for various mediums, and combine their original storyboard with numerous software. FrameForge has given me the opportunity to create virtual realities as a filmmaker, illustrator, and animator and it's possibilities have inspired me to always thinks of it as my first pre-production tool.

D. H. MacAulay
Teacher, Hoboken High School