ABC3D: Pop-Up Alphabet

Here's a movie of the complete pop-up alphabet in a book by French designer, Marion Bataille. The book comes out in October 2008. Meanwhile, the little movie below is a great alphabet in its own right. I found this via the Drawn! blog at drawn.ca.




Remember that if you click the video to visit the YouTube site, there may be material there that is unsuitable for young viewers.


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Animated Short: Gagarin

This film was made by Alexei Kharitidi in 1995. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. It is about a caterpillar who wants to fly. The hand-drawn animation is excellent. I found this film via Coldhardflash.com.




Remember that if you click the video to visit the YouTube site, there may be material there that is unsuitable for young viewers.


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YouTube Short Film Winner: My Name is Lisa

This is the winner of the short film competition at YouTube. It was directed by Ben Shelton and written by Ben and Josh Shelton. It is very simply produced with a hand-held camera. It is also a very good film. How nice to see a good film actually making it to the top of the heap as a result of viewer votes, and how unusual.

This film is not intended for very young viewers and has one instance of language that may require adult supervision before viewing.



Remember that if you click the video to visit the YouTube site, there may be material there that is unsuitable for young viewers.


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Disney Scanning Fingertips of Children

It has come to my attention that the Walt Disney Company is scanning the fingertips of children and adults at Disney World. Doing this to anyone at any kind of business is shocking and completely unnecessary. Any system that takes an image of a fingertip and identifies someone by measuring its features is typically called a 'fingerprint.' Doing such a thing to children at an amusement park, no matter what Disney's excuse may be, forces Candlelight Stories to recommend that children be kept away from all Disney parks until the company can prove that all of these machines and the databases behind them have been removed and completely erased.


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Goobies: Animated Candies Fight Epic Battle

Goobies is an animation by four students at the Texas A&M Viz Lab. It's about the land of candy inside a vending machine where terrible battles are fought between different candies. It's well-animated and fun to watch.

Go watch Goobies

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