THE STUPID..ER I MEAN INFORMATIVE(yeah leeper'll buy that)BLOG ON CHILDREN'S MEDIA THAT IM REQUIRED TO POST ON FOR THE QUIZ.....YOU REMEMBER.....QUIZ# 2?...THE ONE FROM YESTERDAY...???

Even though it was already blogged upon (no thanks to you Seth! Thanks for stealing my thunder!) I too shall take it upon myself to give Co Hoedeman's "The Sand Castle" some insight. 

A long time ago in a LAND(didn't say galaxy so Im totally not plagiarizing ;) ) far, far away there lived a man named Co. Co was a dutch-canadian animator with a high sense of quality and entertaiment. Being the talented soul that he was, Co decided to also be a total boss and show the world how sand animation is done. It took him a very hard and miserable year of blood, sweat and tears(minus the sweat probably)but Co eventually finished his film. His gritty year in a sandbox had finally come to an end and the result...well, it speaks for itself.  

In short, the film details the actions of a sandman creating animal friends out of sand and leading all of the creatures to their main purpose: Building the world's most utterly stupendifyingly(totally a legit word) awesome sand castle!...I mean what else are you gonna do in a desert wasteland?...certainly not hallucinate sand creatures coming to life and building a giant sand castleOMMYGOSH....I just blew my own mind.


In all seriousness though, I really love this film. It is a perfect example of what I think we as filmakers should strive for: The act of pioneering in excellence. Co Hoedeman may not have been the first person to try to animate with sand, but in a time when sand animation was still a relatively new tool to animate with, Co saw the potential in the gritty, dry quality of sand and took it upon himself to make a difference in media with it. 

To animate already takes a lot of dedication, but to animate with something as feeble and brittle as sand takes even more dedication and Co was willing to give his time to pursue making the film he wanted the world to see. Hoedeman is still a boss to this very day. LEEPER! PLEASE CALL UP HOEDEMAN AND MAKE HIM VISIT CAMPUS AGAIN!!!! DO IT FOR THE FANS...namely me. :)