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In their talk Weeds: The Making of an Animated Short Film (https://www.facebook.com/thegnomonworkshop/videos/10155383708888037), tech-artists talk about how they cared for the dandelion in the process of rigging dan in 3D animation Weeds 2017. Kevin Hudson, one of the animators, mentions how he started with attention and observation (opening their bodies to a variety of affective states): “The inspiration for the story came when I was out front of my house pulling weeds that pop up in my lawn. I looked across my driveway at my neighbor's yard, which was never watered, and the lawn is dead with only a few dying dandelions clinging to the edge of the sidewalk.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_(2017_film)#Conception_and_writing)