Before
Look at the episode guide together: what happens in each moment and what you will hear.
Slow looking, together.
Every day, a beechwood ball wakes up in its nest, travels through the mechanisms of a workshop of toys made of wood, felt, brass and string, and at sunset rolls back home to sleep.
- Designed for age 3, suitable from 2
- 26 episodes of 6 min 11 s
Premiere: on the official YouTube channel.
Kitomo at a glance
- How long
- 6 min 11 s26 episodes
- How to watch
- With an adult nearbyone episode, one shared moment
A day in the workshop
Each episode is a whole day, and every episode follows the same order. Every day brings three new corners.
- Minute 0:00
Morning
Light rises through the window and the ball sleeps in its nest.
- Minute 0:26
The breath
Someone blows, the pinwheel turns and the music box plays. The ball sets off.
- Minute 1:39
Three corners
Each day, three new mechanisms, each moved by a cause you can see: the weight of the ball, a string, a lever, a spring.
- Minute 4:58
The merry‑go‑round
The ball looks back on the three moments of its day.
- Minute 5:33
Home
The sun sets. The ball returns to its nest and, with its weight, winds the music box for tomorrow.
Six minutes that begin and end at home.
Minutes from episode 1, “Round”.
Watching together
Kitomo is made to be watched with an adult nearby: one episode, one shared moment. It is made for every child, including autistic children and children with colour blindness.
During
Say little and leave time. Looking is playing too.
The guide suggests what to look at and what to ask.
After
At the end, the ball falls asleep. You can say good night to it.
The guide shows how to carry the game on afterwards.
A moment in the workshop
The video starts when you press play. Running time: 23 seconds.
What you see and hear. The ball rolls slowly along a taut string between wooden posts and crosses a little bridge wound with string. It goes into a blue felt tunnel and reaches a beechwood rack with wool spools and brass pulleys, in front of a blue wall. You hear the ball rolling on string and wood, the mechanisms moving and soft instrumental music.
Four materials, four sounds
In Kitomo, everything sounds like what it is. Felt sounds like felt; beech, like hollow wood; brass, like a little bell; string, like a low note. What you see is what you hear.
You hear: the ball on felt, on beech and on string, then two brass taps, one after another.
Before each episode
Every episode has its own guide: how long it lasts, what happens in each moment and what you will hear. So you know what you are about to watch before you press play.
How it's made
The whole workshop is built in code in Blender, with the physics of a real table. Every image on this website is a real render of the series.
Press and industry
Synopses, fact sheet, a high‑resolution frame and the contact for broadcasters, distributors and festivals.
