With clay, touching is essential. Clay gives kinesthetic pleasure. It is so easy to forget oneself in the trance of creative work. It is multi-sensory and more tactile than nearly any other material.
Marvin Bartel
As a teacher and practitioner of character and story development for animation and games, I have found that many books and courses on screenwriting and animation pre-production recommend writing as the primary creativity support tool. Whereas I saw visual and tactile creativity support tools as a more effective creativity tool for animation, which is after all, a visual medium. I found too that my students were more likely to have kinaesthetic and visual learning styles, so privileging literary creativity support tools in animation pedagogy didn’t make sense to me.
Justine Wallace 