Maggie Stiefvater on Creating an Animated Book Trailer for 'The Raven Boys'

August 06, 2012

The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy author wrote a blog post detailing the lengthy process she undertook to create an animation trailer for her forthcoming YA novel. Prior to establishing her full-time writing career, Maggie Stiefvater worked as a colored pencil artist. In addition to drawing the animation, Stiefvater enlisted Kate Hummel and Matt Montoro to help her with the music.

"I was doing most of this in iMovie, iStopMotion, Photoshop, and on my kitchen table. I was doing my sketches with my Wacom tablet (that was the source of the digital Gansey), tweaking the movement when I could (altering the frames just slightly) in Photoshop, and then sequencing the frames in iStopMotion, before exporting the tiny movie sequences to be pasted together in iMovie. YES. I'm aware there are easier ways, Stiefvater. But I could never do my algebra in the correct order, either."

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