Christmas preview book review: The Gingerbread House at Mistletoe Gardens by Jaimie Admans

(courtesy Rakuten Kobo) By their very nature, books set around Christmas are supposed to be extra specially magical and joyful, a sizeable step away from the grim sheen of reality, festooned with sparkling lights, awash in mulled wine and festive-coloured candy with the air filled with the expressively happy tones Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: The playfully meaningful animation of Train Project

(courtesy Homework Radio (c) Luhan Wang) What a magical world is woven in the few all-too-short minutes of Train Project, the thesis film submitted by Luhan Wang for Sheridan College Bachelor of Animation 2022. Vivaciously colourful and exhibiting near-instant but fulsome worldbuilding, this gem of an animated short film gives Continue Reading