The Letter Z

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

An educational animated cartoon produced by the American Lung Association, set to music, about a mythical land which is invaded by an eight-armed, fast-talking pitch man, whose attempt to induce the citizens into smoking cigarettes is foiled by a group of children.

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

Beginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia and boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion, and cell animation with simple objects found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation.

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structures evolve into larger buildings...

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

After a day of gathering hundreds of seashells and rocks from the beach, Jarnow uses the found objects to construct a stop motion commentary on how we look at nature through various cinematic techniques.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.

Mixed animation set to music.

Kids rapping about the number 17.