Sandimation

I very much enjoyed Caroline Leaf's sand animations.  To me, sand seems to be a completely different medium for animation, as opposed to things like drawings, 3D, or clay.  In most forms of animation, you're typically re-drawing the same figure in a different pose or you're moving limbs on your tangible clay figure to create a new pose.  But with sand, you have to move the sand to create a new pose, while still retaining the basic shape of the figure.  I would imagine that keeping the same shape of the thing you're animating must take lots of practice when it comes to sand.  Although I wasn't really drawn in by Leaf's characters or stories, I was captivated by the actual animation.  As far as these films go, I think that's all that really matters.  What I loved most about Peter and the Wolf and The Owl Who Married a Goose was her transitioning over to scenes of negative space.  Not only was it a nice idea in adding to the overall look of the film, but it just amazed me how she seemed to move her negative-space characters as easily as she could when the characters were made of sand.