Banan’s Journey Into Handicrafts
رحلة بنان والحرف اليدوية
2D Animation ⁕ Character Animation ⁕ Children’s Animation ⁕ Music Video
This project is a 2D animated children’s music video commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia for the Saudi International Handicrafts Week.
With a team of over 20, we delivered a beautifully crafted music video that explores the handicrafts of Saudi Arabia.
On this project, I mainly worked on Animation and Clean-up & Color. However, I assisted with Storyboarding and Animatics as well.
The animation software used for this project was Toon Boom Harmony.
Credits
Produced by - MOC and 8iess
Director: @ramada_3w3_
Producer: @mer_meladraws
Production Manager: Ibrahem Bahamedan
Production Assistant: @hashembaha
Storyboard Artist: @ramada_3w3_ @hibsey_
Animation test: @hibsey_
Animatics: @ramada_3w3_ @icrus31 @hibsey_
Backgrounds and Props Design Lead: @mahalhamdi
Backgrounds and Props Designer: @lollipop_tb
Animation Supervisor: @ammar_2d
Animation team:
@asuqart @absart.ca @nopperaa @tachii_xx
@hibsey_ @racoon_trash121 @ed_kh4n @yamiameer @andrerosal_animation
@artbysima.n
Clean up and Color Team:
@ed_kh4n @yamiameer @samaherbantan
@mana__bun Kaci and Bart
Compositing: @ed_kh4n
Sound Design: @lilydepicts
Process Videos
For this scene, I worked on rough animation for all of the characters, tools, and transitions. I worked on clean-up and color for the girl (Banan), the cat, and hammer.
I went through a few challenges, but I’m incredibly thankful to the Director @ramada_3w3_ and Senior Animator @ammar_2d for the endless help and feedback.
As you can see, the top video is before posture changes for Banan. And the second is after feedback and changes, which is a lot more dynamic.
This dancing Dallah was first an animation test I created for the team. Its purpose was to show the animation style we were going for, which was heavily inspired by Beauty and the Beast - Be Our Guest.
The Dallah ended up being in the final cut of the video, dancing with all the other objects.
It was a lot of fun animating Safsaf, the yarn cat. I did the full pipeline animation, from rough animation to clean up and color.
For the final scenes, almost the whole team was working on them. Our teamwork was impeccable.
After the dancing Dallah, I had the opportunity to animate another object for the finale scene which is the Mabkhara. It was my first time animating objects with this project, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.