Claymation

Kieran wasn't feeling 100% but has been looking forward to Joshua's birthday for a long time. He'd been away from school half the week trying to recover. Although he was very tired he really wanted to go. So we headed down on the TTC taking the subway and the Street car. We didn't really need to but any opportunity we can we take the TTC hoping the jumpers take the day off. And Kieran just has this affinity for trains and so off we go.

It was downtown across from CityTV at the National Film Board Mediatheque. I've never even been inside this building. I've walked and rode past it from work a thousand times and never actually went inside, until today. Just remember it's the corner door and not the 150 John St door.

In any case it was a different experience for the kids (and some parents) and the out come was a short 1 min (if that) claymation video of all their figures.

Joshua's was the red plane with the black warts (windows).
Xander's was the green plane with the black battle scars (not sure what they are).
Kieran's was the turtle. Thanks to Joshua's aunt for helping him out. He looked very fatigued. But once she started him on his way he got going. I'm surprised he didn't make a train. But the artschool might have something to do with that in expanding his imagination.

All the kids were hovering around the animation table waiting their turn. So they put on the NFB cartoons (no Sponge Bob square pants here) in the other room with the food.

So in the video if you can't tell what they are, and some of them I got wrong.
There was a diver, which I thought was super cool.
A rainbow snail, a hiker with a green hat, a car, a brown dog, a moutain, a red fish, a blue shark (I think?), a 3 stage rocket, a single stage rocket (looks like a brown carrot with blue dots), and a bunny which looked like a monkey.



Mine was the rooster!
They always put the bigger kids at the back of the queue.

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