Kiwi!

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Kiwi! is a 2006 computer-generated animation created by Dony Permedi, a student in the New York City School of Visual Arts, as his Master's Thesis Animation. Though scarcely three minutes long (including the closing credits), its bittersweet story of a kiwi bird that aspires to fly created a major Internet phenomenon after it was hosted on the video sharing site YouTube.

As of March 2007, the animation has been viewed over 7.3 million times, making it the most popular video in the "Film & Animation" category [1] and one of the most popular on the entire site [2]. It won official recognition on March 26, 2007 when viewers voted it the Most Adorable video of 2006 in the first annual YouTube Video Awards[1]. This was an event large enough to draw the attention of the press[2][3][4] with ABC news describing Kiwi! as "so cute it hurts"[2] while the International Herald Tribune, critical of the awards, characterized the video as being "sweet but dull."[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ YouTube Video Awards. Retrieved on 2007-03-29
  2. ^ a b Rebecca L. Lee, YouTube Goes Hollywood, ABC News. Retrieved on 2007-03-29
  3. ^ 'Ask a Ninja,' OK Go win YouTube Awards, CNN. Retrieved on 2007-03-29
  4. ^ a b Virginia Heffernan, YouTube awards the top of its heap, International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 2007-03-29

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