When I Grow Up

This is a really nice story about kids' aspirations and anxieties. It's a nice example of the range that our stories in Rainbow hill can have.

When I Grow Up from woody yocum on Vimeo.

A Ticket to the Circus

This story is a nice mix of 'Kid Issues' and curriculum. It's not always easy keeping a character focus when so many demands are made for curriculum. I think Pom Pom has done a good job of this.

A Ticket to the Circus from woody yocum on Vimeo.

Our New Promo

This is our new one minute sales trailer for 'Pom Pom and Friends', a quick taste of the series and brief introduction to our approach on handling curriculum with character.

PP PROMO 1min from woody yocum on Vimeo.

Sounds in the Night

This is a really nice show for acting and personality of Pom Pom and the whole ensemble. Some beautiful new locations make nice use of the Mental Ray renders too. The beautiful storyboard from Llyn Hunter was the key to getting so much heart into a seven minute episode.

Sounds in the Night from woody yocum on Vimeo.

Wilma

This show focuses on Kiki and Melissa as Pom Pom helps them search for for Kiki's lost caterpillar, Wilma. This is a nice example of how we mix a bit of basic science curriculum with our social development theme. Pom Pom as always leads the way in Creative Problem Solving. The setting of much of this show in the Musical Garden, is just beautiful.

Wilma from woody yocum on Vimeo.

Let's Eat Right!

This is a really cute show focusing on Pinky the Sheep and his candy problem.
A nice introduction to some of our lovely inventive backgrounds in this episode as well.

Let's Eat Right! from woody yocum on Vimeo.

The Big Mystery

The Big Mystery from woody yocum on Vimeo.

This episode is a nice example of our approach to our curriculum combining Social Development and Critical Thinking /Problem Solving. Our character Pom Pom is a 'Hero in Training', so our audience learns with him as he is learning about his world. In this episode, the theme of 'Facing Your Fears' is dealt with as Pom Pom relieves May's fears by asking questions. Because the animation has a lot of heart, our audience takes in both the theme and curriculum in a memorable way. It is the emotional content that makes the connection, that in a nutshell is our approach to making educational programming an active experience for our audience.

Festival Update!

Our first Pom Pom show, 'Pom Pom the Hero' will premiere at the

Chicago International Children's Film Festival

on October 22 , 9:45 at the Notebaert Nature Museum. This festival is one of the largest and most celebrated festivals devoted to films for and by kids and is the only Academy® qualifying children's film festival in the world. We thank them for their acceptance!

Pom Pom Interactive

With MIP Junior fast approaching we thought it might be a good time to mention our IPTV award from Spring MIP. While we are in production of our series we are also developing Pom Pom for new media platforms.

IPTV is one of these. We also have on-going development in stereoscopic presentation, as well as web, mobile, HTML6 and C++ 'casual' gaming development and next generation ebook development including the IPAD. Pom Pom is essentially a new kind of interactive character that leads kids to learn with him as he discovers the world, we are trying to make the most of that in every way.