
Toodle & His Family
Writer & Director · 2026
@mothmilk · Creative Director • Narrative Architecture • World Building • Visual Systems & Composition
Toodle & His Family In the cozy, canal-lined world of PuddleHollow, a mother is raising her family with love, laughter, and the little rituals that make a house feel like home. Alongside Pebble and their mischievous companion, Gloop, is Toodle—a robot who gradually becomes much more than a machine. Through everyday moments of feeding, comforting, protecting, and tucking the children into bed, the mother teaches Toodle something no instruction manual could ever explain: how to care for the people he loves. But as her health begins to decline, these ordinary lessons take on a meaning the family cannot yet understand. When she is gone, Toodle must find a way to carry forward everything she taught him. Toodle & His Family is a tender animated short about motherhood, loss, memory, and the quiet ways love survives. It asks a simple but profound question: perhaps a future worth living in is one where the care we give continues long after we are gone.
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