Experience the Chilling Magic: Holiday in the Dark App

Experience the Chilling Magic: Holiday in the Dark AppExperience the Chilling Magic: Holiday in the Dark App

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Surriya Zahra

pro

• May 6

Holiday in the Dark is a cinematic, holiday-themed horror app with 7 original animated stories—where festive visuals merge with chilling, interactive storytelling. This project was fully handcrafted by me, combining design, animation, and editing into one immersive, “impossible UI” experience where the interface behaves like a living narrative rather than a traditional app.

Tools Used:

☠️ MagicPath – App design & UI

🔪 Rive – Interactive animations & motion

🦇 Descript – Demo editing

🩸 IBIS Paint – Hand-drawn frames

🕸️ InShot – Final video polish

🔗 Demo / Build:

https://www.magicpath.ai/projects/352199860956594176?token=3024a582540e8f6fe4b0acc78e0c60d967676592680e4cf3a6519ba6ac11b4af

🔗 X Post:

https://x.com/i/status/2052025824472350758

Holiday cheer meets handcrafted darkness.

Holiday in the Dark ☠️

Enter… if you dare. 👻🕯️

Graphic Design Animation Video Editing Ibis Paint X Rive MagicPath impossibleuiwithrive

han son

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Rive impossibleuiwithrive

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pro

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Web Design Animation Motion Design Adobe Photoshop Adobe After Effects

Taras Oliinyk

pro

• May 7

Stunning!

Chiara Arcostanzo

• May 7

I designed an imaginary 3D OOH campaign for Gentle Monster. Here's what's behind it.

G is the first letter of my 26Lab — one imaginary campaign for each letter of the alphabet.

Gentle Monster was an easy choice. A brand that already lives outside reality, where surrealism isn't a style but a baseline. Character and botanical elements are already part of their visual language — I just took both to a different scale.

For the visualization I used Flora: its node-based system was key to keeping the character and the environment consistent across iterations — dozens of them — without losing direction.

AI handled the execution. The concept, the direction, the choices — that part was mine.

#artdirection #3DOOH #conceptdesign

Completed work