Showing posts with label footprint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label footprint. Show all posts

March 5, 2015

The Footprint - Trailer


My company, Little Animation, makes earth-friendly animated educational content for children. And when I say "my company" I really mean "my family". It's like an animation mom'n pop shop over here.

Our latest project has been a few years in production, (due to being independently financed) and now I'm thrilled to report The Footprint is completed.

The official trailer:


The official description:
"The Footprint is a 21 min. animated film featuring Earth, Little Rosie (from the Little Earth Charter) and special guest Org, a cave-kid from prehistoric times. Org accidentally time-travels to the present day where he notices that there's plenty of everything! With a little help from the narrator, Rosie and Earth teach Org about his eco-footprint. The story is a playful introduction to sustainability issues such as water, food, clothes, transportation, toys, and energy, with a little musical segment on each. The take-away is to avoid wastefulness, with a few tips and tricks along the way. An educational project for children aged 4-8."
It's available for institutional distribution (schools, libraries etc) by CinéFête, and just in time for Earth Day - April 22nd.

Props to Cindy Filipenko for her excellent writing, the wonderful Rosie Emery for inspiration, the Oscar nominated Alexei Kharitidi for his design, storyboards and animation, my fearless editor Robert Yates, Oisín Little (The Huz) for awesome sound design and music, our three terrific children for the vocal characterizations of Rosie and Org, and my brother Colin Pearson for his exuberant voice-over skillz (which some of you may recognize).

I'll probably make The Footprint available for homevideo download via Gumroad. If you're interested in this, let me know.



April 20, 2011

Think About YOUR Footprint.

YIKES. Earth DAY is just two days away!

Here's a little something from my kids site. Whether you have kids or not, you should play this game. It's pretty simple and fairly humorous.



It scratches lightly at the surface of many eco-footprint issues...not least of which is "how much stuff do I really need?"

How did you score on the Earth-O-meter - Happy or UNhappy?

Share for Earth DAY!

March 14, 2011

The FOOTPRINT - Lil' Org.

In case you haven't noticed, I make animation nearly all the time. I'm actually producing and directing a half-hour film for kids called The Footprint, and it's a comedy about a caveman named Org. Cavemen had a very small eco-footprint back in the day. But poor lil' Org somehow ends up in our modern world and kinda goes bananas with all the stuff he suddenly has access to. Hilarity ensues!

I wanted him to be cute, naive and child-like.



The Footprint is a lot of work so I'm working closely with a good friend, the super talented Alexei Kharitidi. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1996 for his film "Gagarin". Much of The Little Earth Charter was animated by Alexei - he's a treasure!

The Footprint is based on a game I made for kids, with my friend @RosieEmery. So far, I'm funding it all by myself...I like to think that children (and grownups) will laugh and discover a little more about their own footprints. Maybe they'll be inspired to live with a little less stuff...

The storyboard will be done soon. Would you like to see some of it?

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