Private Project

Gender Perceptions of Childhood Toys

An older and wiser look at toys and how play differs by gender. This was the project I was working on when I was putting on the ASIFA-Hollywood Stopmo Expo in Burbank. It is a lot shorter than I planned because one of the teenage boys who took part in the Stop Motion animation jam cut the eyes out of my lead character dancer doll during the jam for no good reason except he was a teenage jerk boy, kind of proving my main point. I just found the footage while updating my ebook “Stop Motion Animation on a Shoestring”. The sound track is my son and I singing “Boston Charlie” from Walt Kelly’s Pogo. Walt’s widow, Selby Kelly, died about the same time I was working of this project. I knew her because she was a teacher at the Kubert School when I was a student.

  • Larry Loc
    Director
    Larry Loc is a Stop Motion and 3-D computer animator and an animation educator. He has been a Board Member of ASIFA-Hollywood, the founder of Orange ROP Animation Program, a History of Animation Professor at Cal State Fullerton and other colleges, an after school instructor of Stop Motion Animation at a Junior High School, the director of the an International Short Animation Festival and the author of “Animation on a Shoestring” and “Stop Motion Animation on a Shoestring”. Credits include; Return to Innsmouth (CGI Undersea City) , Bill Plympton's Guard Dog Global Jam, Innsmouth Turnpike, Race Gods Race, P.P.F., Debate & Weiner Olympics, Litter Bugger: Attack of the Trash Hount etc.
  • Larry Loc
    Writer
  • Larry Loc
    Producer
    An Evening With Bill Melendez / Floyd Norman.
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 23, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Larry Loc

Larry Loc is a Stop Motion and 3-D computer animator and an animation educator. He has been a Board Member of ASIFA-Hollywood, the founder of Orange ROP Animation Program, a History of Animation Professor at Cal State Fullerton and other colleges, an after school instructor of Stop Motion Animation at a Junior High School, the director of an International Short Animation Festival and the author of “Animation on a Shoestring” and “Stop Motion Animation on a Shoestring”.

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Stop Motion Animation is the red haired step child of animation education. By and large stop motion is just not being taught in animation programs. I do everything I can to change that.