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In ‘Felt Love,’ a Young Boy and His Mother Learn the Value of Spending Quality Time Together

April 17, 2024

Kate Mothes

A mother working overtime at home as a seamstress finds it difficult to carve out a few moments for her son in “Felt Love,” a poignant short film about family, togetherness, and quality time. Created by a group of students at San Jose State University as a senior thesis project in 2020, the piece combines a miniature 3D set with 2D animation to tell the story of a young boy who learns the depth of his mother’s hard work and adoration and how she learns to share that with him.

Go behind-the-scenes of “Felt Love” on the project’s Instagram, and you might also enjoy the stop-motion short “Visible Mending” by Samantha Moore.

 

a still from a short animated film showing a woman seated at a sewing machine on a desk in a spare room with her back to the viewer

All images © Felt Love Film

a gif from a short animated film showing a young boy playing with a spool of thread and it gets away from him and rolls toward his mother, who is busy working

a still from a short animated film showing a young boy holding up a book he wants to read, but his mother is working hard at a sewing machine

a gif from a short animated film showing a clock ticking by and a young boy's leg's dangling from a chair, viewed from beneath the desk

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