The real shops, in the real order, with your child walking past them.
Seeing your street needs no account. Drawing your family needs a free one, because consent has to belong to somebody.
Nobody scrolls past their own child standing outside the bakery they went to on Saturday.
What makes it land
Every town starts as a row of data imported from the map — the real businesses, in real street order, at frontages measured off the building footprints. Where the map does not know a shop's name, the sign goes up without one. A made-up shop on a real street is exactly the thing a five-year-old notices.
These two streets are in the same city, a mile and a half apart. One is a red-brick main street with green awnings; the other is glass, pale stone and string lights. A cartoon that draws "a town" gets both of them wrong.
8 towns are drawn so far, and this is what your child walks past in each — in the order they walk past it.
Main Street
Powder Springs Street Southwest
South Main Street
West Main Street
North Main Street
South Main Street
Avalon Boulevard
Crabapple Road
Every name above is a real business, checked against the map by an audit that fails on a truncated name or a shop too far away to be that town's — which is exactly why Avalon is its own entry and not part of Alpharetta. Four are painted up for film so far; the rest are drawn and queued, and the queue is ordered by who asks.
And everyone in it
A photograph of each of you becomes a character. You tell us who each one is — we never guess that from a picture — and you see the drawings before anything is animated.
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The catalogue
21 episodes written for three- to seven-year-olds — a first day at a new school, a lost dog, a wobbly tooth, being trusted with the shopping. All of them in your town, all of them with your child in.
What it costs
Your town is already drawn, so looking at it costs nothing. Drawing your family is real work — about 4 minutes of it for a family of four — and that is the part you pay for.
Somebody else's child
You are being asked for pictures of your children. Here is what becomes of them, including the part that is a trade-off rather than a feature.
Whether somebody is a girl, a boy, a grown-up or the dog is asked, never read off the picture. A model guessing that about your child is not something we will ship.
The drawings come to you first. Nothing is animated, and nothing is sent, until you have said it looks like them.
Every character is checked before you see it. If it fails twice we hold the order and refund, rather than send you a cartoon of somebody else's child.
We keep your photographs so a second episode or a book never means uploading your family again. One button deletes them and everything drawn from them — the sheets, the rigs, the voice clips — and we would rather promise that than promise we keep nothing and quietly stop meaning it.
Not for billing. Permission has to belong to somebody, deletion needs a person to ask on behalf of, and you cannot be held to terms you were never shown. No password — we send a link. Looking at your street needs none of this.