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Letter of the day

Size
1080×1080
Frame rate
30 fps
Length
6s

Three bounces, each smaller than the last, and the letter is left behind.

Make your own alphabet animation for kids

Teaches one letter with a bouncing object that starts with it, at a pace a small child can follow. Say a sentence like the one below and your agent writes you a different one — free, in your browser.

Say this to your agent

>Teach the letter B with a bouncing balloon.

Or ask for a different one

Not settings — each one builds something else.

  • >The same for the letter S, with a snake instead of a balloon.

  • >A letter of the day that shows the capital and the lowercase together.

  • >Run through five letters in one video, one beat each.

What it worked out on its own

  • Squash and stretch, with the volume conserved: the deformation is 1/s against s, which is what makes it read as rubber rather than as a scale keyframe.

  • Three bounces, each about half the height and less time than the one before. A child already knows that ratio, and getting it wrong is more noticeable than getting the colours wrong.

  • The shadow shrinks as the ball rises — it is what tells a child how high it went.

  • Letter, then word, then the letter inside the word. The other way round makes the letter an annotation of the word.