“Friendlets” Animated Shorts

Client: One Love

In response to One Love Foundation’s goal to start its healthy friendships curriculum during a formative age, FableVision created five 45-second animated shorts called the “Friendlets.” The animations focus on different themes of friendship, including isolation, belittling, honesty, independence, kindness, responsibility, respect, and equality.

By creating familiar, humorous scenarios that kids will immediately understand, FableVision and One Love aim to help elementary-aged children understand the importance of communication and appropriate responses in healthy friendships. Each scenario-based episode follows the same narrative structure: a negative friendship interaction with “That’s Not Love” is displayed, then the tape rewinds and the same scenario resets in a positive way, with “That’s Love” displayed. To appeal to a wide range of children, FableVision developed non-human characters with a global lens, without a specific gender or ethnicity, and with subtle nods to diversity. The films and workshops are available on One Love's Education Center.

A Peek Inside

Product: Five 45-second animations

Age Range: Upper elementary

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