Pencil-sketch parent and child catch glowing fireflies
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OUR NOTEA vertical 20-second pencil-style animation of a parent and child in a meadow catching fireflies in a jar, made for the Forever Fireflies memory-journal app; the author says it was drawn in code with music over a few days.
I've envisioned this scene in my head since I started building Forever Fireflies, a parenting memory journal.
The name comes from catching fireflies, catching the little moments before they fly off
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