Microsoft UK celebrates World Book Day with Microsoft Surface
Microsoft is celebrating reading and books with an animated short-story.
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For World Book Day, Microsoft UK shared the first chapter of an animated short-story. The story was created using Surface devices and follows the story of some girls who dream of being flying lion superheroes. Microsoft UK will release more chapters of the story throughout this week.
The animated story appears to be drawn on Microsoft’s Whiteboard application. As a narrator and voice actors go through the story, animations sync up with the audio.
Together, with@gregjamesand@itschrissmithwe’ve released a new digital short-story, created using@Surface_UKdevices, just in time for@WorldBookDayUK!Watch Chapter 1 of ‘Stop! That’s Not My Grandma!’ Stay tuned for more chapters this week!#WorldBookDay#Surface#Bookspic.twitter.com/WICQYh64PLTogether, with@gregjamesand@itschrissmithwe’ve released a new digital short-story, created using@Surface_UKdevices, just in time for@WorldBookDayUK!Watch Chapter 1 of ‘Stop! That’s Not My Grandma!’ Stay tuned for more chapters this week!#WorldBookDay#Surface#Bookspic.twitter.com/WICQYh64PL— Microsoft UK (@MicrosoftUK)March 5, 2020March 5, 2020
World Book Day is widely celebrated in the UK, and several companies jump on board to celebrate. One bus company in Englandgave people free rides for showing a book.
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