Animation vs. Minecraft

50Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.

Excellent animation, and a lot of fighting. Fine for a child who already plays the game. It ends, which helps.

The glance

Household, Piety, Republic are the thin ones.

This phone

Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

After the credits

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

Alan Becker is the rare popular channel where the craft is the reason to stay. You can see the work. A child who draws should see that a stick figure takes a crew and a plan.

The story is combat. If the afternoon is already full of fighting games, this adds a better-drawn fight, not a rest. One episode. Then paper, and they draw something that is not a weapon.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

The eight

Industry
9/10
Frame by frame, a real animator doing a job you can see.
Household
4/10
Friendship among the figures. No family.
Piety
2/10
The world is a battlefield.
Courage
6/10
The small one stands up to the large one. It is still a cartoon war.
Republic
3/10
A team, inside a game, against a boss.
Temperance
6/10
A long episode that actually finishes.
Truth
5/10
The rules of the game are kept. The violence is not real and not pretended to be.
Stewardship
5/10
A child might try to draw. They might also try to narrate every afternoon as a battle.

Live historicallyOne episode. Then ten minutes of their own drawing, of a thing that is not a fight.

Video · YouTube · Mark Rober · 2018

Craft · A teenager who can close it

Glitter Bomb vs Porch Pirates

48Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.

The machine is worth seeing. The pleasure is the thief covered in glitter.

The glance

Household, Piety, Republic, Temperance, Stewardship are the thin ones.

This phone

Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

After the credits

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

Someone takes a box off his porch. He builds another box. Inside is a cup on a motor, fine glitter, and cameras behind one-way film, so you watch the person in the car realize what they opened. The engineering is the part worth a teenager's time. You can follow the build without liking the ending.

The ending is the glitter in the air and the face. If the only piece a kid retells is that face, they missed the craft and kept the humiliation. Ask, after, what a house should do about a stolen package that does not require an audience. The answer is usually dull: a camera on the porch, a police report, a neighbor. None of those go as hard as the cup.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

The eight

Industry
8/10
A motor, a cup, one-way film, and cameras. He shows the mechanism.
Household
4/10
It starts on his own porch. The answer he builds is a trap, not a lock.
Piety
3/10
Getting even is played as the joke you are supposed to enjoy.
Courage
5/10
The thief takes the risk. The engineer is safe at the edit.
Republic
4/10
Theft is wrong. A private trap filmed for strangers is not the law.
Temperance
4/10
You stay for the glitter. The interesting part was the build before it.
Truth
6/10
He has had to answer people who said some reactions were staged. Keep that in mind.
Stewardship
4/10
A teenager might learn to build. They might also learn that shame is the payoff.

Live historicallyWatch the build. Then ask what you would do about a theft that nobody is going to film.