A new stop motion animation for Secrid announcing their latest product edition: The coin Pocket.
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Online Guest Lecturing at Stamps School of Art & Design
It’s always a pleasure guest lecturing with Heidi Kumao for her advanced animation class at Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan. I share about my work and how I got started in Stop motion and I share a lot of case studies and breakdown of projects and the process pipeline. I also did a live demo for a fun animation.
GOLD CLIO for Vice logo ID
VICE Global Logo ID’s has won the Gold Clio Award. I am very honored to be part of this project and to be amongst such incredible artists from around the world.
Sony Alpha | Stop Motion For beginners Class in Arabic
I am happy to announce my collaboration with Sony Alpha universe in the Middle East. For our first collaboration I have prepared a Stop motion series in Arabic of four videos explaining the whole stop motion process with a demo to an animation as well.
Read MoreAnimation Industry Podcast - How I Built My Career from Scratch in Egypt
This is one of my favorite chat/interviews in all times, I spoke with Terry about how I started my stop motion career from scratch in Egypt.
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I am teaching Stop Motion on Skillshare!
Stop Motion for Beginners: Create Expert Animations in Dragonframe
Join my skillshare class as I explain my whole animation process and share what crucial areas you should focus on to advance your skills in order to take your stop motion animations to the next level!
This class is for stop motion beginners who have dipped their toes in the stop motion world, who maybe made a few animations with their phones and now would like to learn how to make stop motion on a more professional level. Or for professional photographers who would like to add stop motion animation to their skill set.
I walk you through the entire Stop Motion Animation process including:
Coming up with inventive ideas
What equipment to invest in
Laws & Principles of Animation
How to set up for your animation
Using the Dragonframe software
Exporting your Animation
Annd Dragonframe is generously offering $50 discount code when buying the full or student version of the software to the first 50 students of this class!!
Check the class description for link and instructions
Manifest: Animation Show & Tell | Rotterdam
I was super happy to take part of Tess Martin’s Manifest: Animation Show and Tell, we talked all about my favorite stop motion short film ‘Stems’ by Ainslie Henderson. The video of the event can be seen here, and links to films we were looking at are in the video description!
Thank you to Hosein Danesh for taking the photos, and showing exactly how much goes on behind the scenes.
Make Friends At Home | Free Stop motion Printable
I made a simple Printable that you can download to create fun stop motion Jiggly Friends at Home. I’ve also prepared step by step tutorial videos (In English and Arabic) to show you how to use the PDF file, how stop motion works, and which app to use and how to use it to create your video or GIF. It’s a fun creative activity that you can do with your kids and get them occupied during lock down. Or even if you don’t have kids, older kids like us can enjoy it too! All you need to do is click the button below. Have fun!
I made a talking book - Stop motion experiment
I wanted to make a video for Kevin Parry’s Instagram Challenge, the theme for February was a ‘Book’ 📕
I want to animate more objects and I wanted to not add more to the book but instead use the books elements in a way and animate it. I used the technique of book folding to create different mouth shapes and used ‘replacement’ stop motion technique to make the animation.
I documented the whole process of how I made my talking book, you’ll also get a glimpse of a used books market we have in Cairo called Azbakeya Market.
What's inside the things you throw away | A Stop motion
These are all products I would find in the Friday market (scrap market) here in Cairo. Some work, in perfect conditions, some don’t but have parts that still function.
I might have changed careers and now I am a stop motion animator, but product design will always be my biggest fascination. The idea of designing something that ends up in trash saddens me the most, and the solution is not to stop creating, humans will never stop making things. But rather
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Eye Pixels // Stop Motion // New Sign For My Studio
HI! I love to animate/make things from "trash". Like this new sign/artwork for my studio wall. I saw this animated in my head and wanted to try it out.
Read MoreKahk Stickers | Instagram and facebook Eid Stickers!
When non Arabs talk about different Arabic food, the whole conversation consists of three words; Fallafel, shawerma and Baqlava! I am exaggerating obviously but I noticed that’s all my non Arab friends know about the different Arabic cuisines. So when it was Eid time I decided to share more about the different food we have, after all food is the best way to get to know a culture and what better way to share something other than turn it into an animated GIF sticker!
Kahk is a sweet cookie that we eat in Egypt only during the three days of Eid, thankfully, you are possibly looking at 3000 cals 😅😂 Jokes aside, kahk with a cup of tea is perfection!
I made 7 different GIF stickers that can be used on Instagram and facebook or anywhere really that can embed giphy stickers and shared them so people can play around with and spread the kahk love. And It has made in total 26.3 Million views* (updated on 12th june 2019)
Reasons to Opening Titles | Stop Motion
I animated the opening titles for Reasons To conference in UK (that sadly happened to be the last reasons to) I picked characters to represent each speaker and animated little skits. I brought all the lil creatures in the video all the way from Egypt and we displayed them on stage, and attendees got the chance to see them up close and snap photos. I gave most of them away to the speakers and some attendees who where in London!
Reasons To // Brighton, UK // 2018
Another great conference in a beautiful city. Reasons to had a great line up of speakers, very honored to have been one of them. It was great meeting everyone from the audience too. And I got to do the opening titles for reason to 2018! You can see them below 👀
Read MoreHow I animated the doll's hair | Stop motion process
A peek into my stop motion process. Hope you enjoy watching this (:
Read MoreHow I set up the Lighting for my Stop motion Animations
I am definitely not a pro, so if you are starting out you might find this helpful. This how I set up the lighting for my doll head stop motion + some mistakes I've made before that you should avoid.
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What's Inside My Floppy Disk?
This was an interesting one! I kept seeing pink slugs on my instagram feed, I asked one of my insta pals and came to know about The pink slug project! And that there are actually PINK slugs in real life!
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What's Inside My Date?
This week I opened a Date! It’s Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month and there are dates everywhere! I make sure to eat a few every now and then throughout the night. But I always feel so bad when I throw away the pits!
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What's Inside My Cassette Tape?
I choose a cassette tape last week because I’ve been piling up with side projects that I wanted to do and wanted something simple to animate that week, or so I thought! Knitting on its own is very time-consuming, let alone stop motion-ing it!
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What's Inside My Euro Profile Lock?
This week I chose a lock because I got bored from opening ewaste, electronics is not something I comprehend, I like to see how all pieces come together, but examining PCBs is not something I enjoy at all. And a lock is an extremely interesting “puzzle” product.
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