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"Young children don't understand that pointing out physical flaws can be hurtful. Tact is a learned skill, and that's the message behind Halifax animator Andrea Dorfman's short animation Big Mouth. [...] Her eight-minute video, which uses hand-drawn paper cut-outs imposed on hand-drawn water-coloured backgrounds, will hold children's attention. The cut-out characters, line-drawn with rounded faces and exaggerated long, narrow arms, move jerkily, just like cut-out paper puppets. Her approach creates a sense of whimsy and innocence and makes the story/poem an easy lesson."
-- Harriet Zaidman


Source:
Zaidman, Harriet. "Big Mouth." Review of Big Mouth. Canadian Review of Materials, vol. 20, no. 7, October 18, 2013.