Amazon Prime’s children’s tv series Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street follows the adventures of Gortimer and his friends in their not-quite-normal neighbourhood. The episodes weave animation within their live-action format to tell stories within the drama. This clip is from one of the oil paint animation sequences Em Cooper created for series 2 of the series in 2015: Episode 5: Gortimer and the Vengeful Violinist -Gortimer finds out what happens when parents put too much pressure on their children.

This episode won a Directors Guild of America Award in 2016. The series was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2015.

running time
23 mins