Finally posting this, back in May we worked on a trial project for Boona 🚿
Boona (https://boona.com/) is a tandem shower brand, which was our first time working on a brand like this but it was soooooooo fun!
The brief was open enough that we had to dig, not just the Instagram feed but the website, the product itself, what it actually feels like to share that experience with someone. Everything kept coming back to the same thing: intimacy, closeness, two people in a moment that's usually just one.
We didn't end up working together but the founder's feedback made it worth sharing 🤩
I don't usually share my trial work but I'm thinking it's about time to do it, what do you think?
Rive Ambassador · Mascot and Character Animation Expert
A little @Rive experiment - expressing emotions through walking cycles. What's your favourite? You can poke it, download and remix it in the Rive Marketplace: https://rive.app/marketplace/29159-55279-walking-with-personality/
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The best characters are the ones with character, and Knowie is definitely one of those special ones to me.
Every interaction, state, reaction, and motion was designed to give students a small, joyful moment while they study, helping them to delightfully break the routine.
The current setup is already quite complex: standalone animations, looped states, animated custom brush outlines, eye and head tracking, plus a mix of rigging and frame-by-frame animation. And there’s more to come.
Can’t wait for everyone to meet Knowie in the Knowunity app! 🚀
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I couldn't just stand aside and not join in on the fun of this character challenge. So let me share this mesh animation I did a while back for the Stompers app. These guys have an incredible creative direction and really fun app design. I had a blast animating these characters and hope you'll enjoy watching it.
Over the past few weeks, I have shared a lot of what I have been working towards for years with Halate (https://www.linkedin.com/company/halate/). It’s the part of my life I share most often, and something that genuinely makes me proud. But there are also other sides of me that I like to share every once in a while.
Building a personal brand and starting a new company are deeply personal. It can feel like you are creating something for yourself, but in ways it can also feel like you are simply trying to make enough money to pay the rent and cover your basic needs. Sometimes I feel like just another cog in the machine we call capitalism.
Over the last few years I have been working a lot on myself and trying to see who I really am and what I really want. But because of internal and external struggles I also feel like a ghost in a shell that is just here to fulfill the social standards that we have build. I struggle with depression, loneliness and a general feeling of uselessness. I question life often and a lot of times it feels meaningless.
Besides those internal struggles, I am constantly confronted by everything happening around us… trying to find a home, searching for more work, struggling to form meaningful connections, the state of the world, people blaming minorities for society’s problems, the rise of AI and whatever else comes next…
These thoughts occupy my mind almost every day. Even though I have managed to turn my passion into my work, I still struggle to tell my own stories and express my own creativity.
So from today, I want to do something with these thoughts and struggles. I want to make space for my own stories, not to chase likes or views and not because I expect to change anyone’s mind.
Simply to express myself, for myself.
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Today, we’re launching Halate. 🎬
After months of building, creating, refining and probably overthinking a few things along the way, it’s finally time to share what we’ve been working on.
Halate is the next chapter for @Omar Duyarlar and me, a creative production studio built around something we both care deeply about: telling stories through film.
We partner with brands to turn ideas, innovations and real experiences into films that people actually want to watch. From case studies and product films to event productions.
But instead of writing a long post about who we are and what we do, we made a film about it.
So… meet Halate.
This is just the beginning.
halate.io (http://halate.io)