Animate Everything!
2010 · 15m · Canada
Directed by Scott Kiborn
Siblings Lindsay and Will demonstrate animating spaceships, dancing dots, and expressive rocks for young viewers. Four chapters introduce basic techniques using simple tools.
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A pedagogical animation tutorial is basically the opposite of subversive, but there's something perversely honest about a film that refuses to pretend its constraints are anything but constraints—and maybe that's the real experiment.
The film sits comfortably in the educational animation lineage, with clean chapter structure and clear craft demonstration, though it lacks the formal innovation or visual argument that would elevate it beyond competent instruction.
The choice to embed technical education within the siblings' genuine enthusiasm—letting their actual problem-solving and discovery moments become the film itself rather than dressing up a lesson—is what keeps this from feeling like a flat tutorial and makes it breathe.