Muzzy!

Hi there,

Any fan of the 90's pop-culture, or general hilarious videos is aware of the painfully awkward commercial for Muzzy. Muzzy is a the worlds #1 video language assistance course for children. Below you'll find the original infomercial from 1996.

If you can look past the overall cheese factor within the commercial you'll notice that the program uses animated characters to teach language. While this technique featured primitive animation, it engaged children and gave them a fresh perspective with learning the language. An example of the simple animation is below.

Flash forward to the 21st century and the people at Muzzy have released a new and updated version of their service. The new muzzy features computer animated graphics and catapults the brand into the millennium of advanced technology.

In my personal opinion the new version of Muzzy looks awkward and poorly put together. I prefer the hand drawn animation of the past and think that it is much more fitting of the company.  I'm curious to see how this new adaption and version of the brand have affected sales for the company.

What do you think of this update?

Until next time,

Alex

How Language Can Effect Our Life

In my first post I talked about the benefits animation could serve for education. I'm going to follow the same train today, sense I recently found another video that beautifully demonstrates how it can make learning much more enjoyable of a task.

(just copy and paste the link – for some reason blogger could not find the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US7wLCbZ84M

I thought the combination of information and animation made this an incredibly interesting video. My curiosity was sparked by this video and I found this TED Talk that covers the same theory.

I was very fascinated by the research behind how language can effect your lifestyle. Of course this is still a theory and is not fully proven, but in a globalizing world this can help us further understand the cultural differences we face between different groups and ethnicities.