Animating Balloons For Lemonade

I was commissioned by Lemonade to create a looping animation for their Instagram account under the theme “Connected By Lemonade”. I was free to use anything as long as the animation had a cool transformation, at least one frame had the “pink line” connecting from top to bottom and It was generally pink to fit their branding.

I had the idea of snapping a thin long balloon into a Balloon dog, sort of a magical “How Balloon Dogs Are Made”.

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Trickiest part was animating and shaping a Balloon in extreme positions, after many experiments I made a wire skeleton and glued it to a balloon dog that I made from different parts, this allowed to move and pause the dog in many positions without it popping. I also used wire inside inflated balloons to shape and create my in between frames during the transformation.

You can read my Interview with Lemonade here and view more of my projects on Instagram here

Vimeo Best Of The Year 🎉

So honored and extremely happy to announce that I’ve won a Vimeo Best Of The Year Award for the stop motion animation I made for ifixit.com for the “Made for Social” category.

Check out the limited edition AR Print of the animation 👀✨

IDE Webinar | Malaysia

I started 2021 with giving an online talk at my University in Malaysia talking about the adventure in the animation world that I embarked on, how it all started and how Industrial design intersects with the stop motion animation world in its various departments whether it’s puppet making, armature design, rigging, set fabrication or props making.

Limited Edition Stop Motion AR Print | What's Inside My Walkman?

I have an online shop now 🎉 My first product is a Limited Edition of 50, signed and numbered print by me.

Museum quality fine Art print on Epson Matte paper with archival inks.

AR Print 70x55 cm (with white Border)

Image size: 60x50 cm

You can use Artivive app to bring this poster to life and play my full stop motion animation in your living room, or studio or even bathroom, I wont judge where you hang it as long as you enjoy it.

Glue Life no.1 | My first lip sync stop motion!

I am more like the glue gun lately... I wanted to learn new things in stop motion and at the same time lately I've been struggling with getting things done, I noticed I tend to put my problems in videos, just like writing your problems down on a piece of paper then forgetting all about them, making a stop motion video helps me I guess but it just takes months longer haha... I've been stuck for months doing really boring not so creative jobs to make ends meet and it has been weighing me down, hopefully I get out of this non creative hole soon..

Stop motion workshop // wysiwyg* // Düsseldorf

I gave my first stop motion workshop at wysiwyg* agency in Düsseldorf. I had a great time, explained all about stop motion and animation principles, shared all my stop motion tips and tricks and they made really fun creative stop motion loops by the end of the workshop. I can't wait to see the things they'll create now!

,,Trash-ure" Machine // Stop motion with Doro Otterman

Doro in ‘person’

Our main character

Doro’s box of trash-ures, one of many.

I made this Desktop factory in collaboration with Doro, we worked on it when I was in Hamburg and released it in bits first on instagram (the foodie parts) to confuse people a bit. Doro also collects things that people throw away (on the street, or washed up by the river) and we started tinkering with these till we came up with an idea.

https://www.instagram.com/dorobot/