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

Animating Balloons For Lemonade

I was commissioned by Lemonade to create a looping animation for their Instagram account under the theme “Connected By Lemonade”. I was free to use anything as long as the animation had a cool transformation, at least one frame had the “pink line” connecting from top to bottom and It was generally pink to fit their branding.

I had the idea of snapping a thin long balloon into a Balloon dog, sort of a magical “How Balloon Dogs Are Made”.

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Trickiest part was animating and shaping a Balloon in extreme positions, after many experiments I made a wire skeleton and glued it to a balloon dog that I made from different parts, this allowed to move and pause the dog in many positions without it popping. I also used wire inside inflated balloons to shape and create my in between frames during the transformation.

You can read my Interview with Lemonade here and view more of my projects on Instagram here

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.

Kahk Stickers | Instagram and facebook Eid Stickers!

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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)

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How I made my first lip sync stop motion ✨

How I made my very first lip sync stop motion ✨ Full 7 min information packed video tutorial

Glue Life no.1 | My first lip sync stop motion!

I am more like the glue gun lately... I wanted to learn new things in stop motion and at the same time lately I've been struggling with getting things done, I noticed I tend to put my problems in videos, just like writing your problems down on a piece of paper then forgetting all about them, making a stop motion video helps me I guess but it just takes months longer haha... I've been stuck for months doing really boring not so creative jobs to make ends meet and it has been weighing me down, hopefully I get out of this non creative hole soon..

I make Props for Advertisements in Egypt.

Aside from the stop motion commissions I also get to do Props for advertisements in Egypt. Something I really enjoy doing, it’s usually a job with a very tight deadline (we need this in 2-3 days kind of job) so I don’t always have the time to document the making process.

This headpiece was created for a Burger King Saudi Arabia Ad, shot in Egypt by Nojara production house. I worked from a reference of a headpiece machine that collected tears to water plants. The wire frame was hand bent and shaped then soldered together to create the main piece. It also had a water pump installed to fill up a water tank at the top during the shoot.

Plant 500 Trees ✨

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Event Link with all details here 👀
If you're not in Egypt but would like to plant a Tree here, you can! send me 

I learnt Stick Welding!👩‍🏭

I finally learnt welding! Starting off with stick welding which is the most common in Egypt. We learnt all the theory then went on practicing then cutting the metal and welding a stool together!

We planted 200 Trees!

A tree for every Patron... Check 🌱✔️ So grateful for every single one of them! Thank you for being my very first supporters! And a thank you to everyone who came to the tree planting event!! Not only did we reach our goal, but we even doubled it!! We planted 200 trees in Obour city in Cairo! Together with Shagrha and Hand over we planted olives, lemons, moringa and pomegranate trees.

If you'd like to support my on going projects and become my patron yourself, check the virtual tinkerland ✨👀