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Hey Contra Community!
Here is first challenge submission 🙌
I wanted to explore how a single creative workflow could turn a concept into a complete animated design story.
The project is built around three animal archetypes - Lion, Camel, and Horse - representing three different superpowers translated into fashion.
Inside Kittl, I experimented with typography design, t-shirt mockups, and style variations such as vintage, pop-art, and 90’s typography, before placing the designs into scenes and animating them.
The idea was to show how concept → typography → mockup → motion can exist in one visual workflow.
View the project here:
https://app.kittl.com/project/cmmltwibg5mr10i9rv27rikpr
Congrats on the first challenge submission! The idea of building a visual story around the animal archetypes is really cool.
For this challenge, I built a short story around one of my favorite chairs — the Wassily chair.
It’s a piece I’ve admired for a long time and hope to own someday. The design is simple, bold, and still feels incredibly modern almost a century later.
Using @Kittl Video, I visualized a small evolution leading up to it — starting from a primitive stool and gradually introducing structure, new materials, and modernist thinking.
Each step moves the design closer to what it would eventually become.
The sequence ends where the story was always going:
the Wassily chair (1925).
Design evolves. Icons remain.
Project Link
Loom Link
Behind the scenes of this piece!
https://www.loom.com/share/efa4cad2510f4bf6a69e21eeeb8bb926
Second submission for the @Kittl Challenge and this time, I wanted to push the brief further
Instead of just picking up a product and creating an ad, I built an entire brand from scratch and made an ad for that product.
Meet HAVN, a hypothetical luxury chocolate bar with a promise:
"Every Bite Pulls You Further"
From product ideation to packaging design, storyboarding, scene generation and final video, everything was created inside Kittl.
Final edit and touches done in @CapCut
What surprised me most was how far Kittl actually goes, this became a full creative production!!
Very nice 🔥
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