Tag: animation

  • Add Ma Baddik! [As much as you want]

    Presenting… my latest animation! 🙂

    Here’s the original post that the animation was based on.
    [Youtube blocked at your work? See it on Vimeo. Vimeo blocked at your work? Change your job!]

    I’d like to give a BIG thank you to Toni Yammine who offered to help with the sound, making the animation much richer and more fun!!!

    Here’s a sneak peek of the making of, enjoy!

    I will end today’s post with a song by an ‘underground alternative’ Lebanese band from the 80’s, the Quiminboos. This song, called Behsos, is impossibly cute, authentic and funny [mostly if you understand Arabic & Lebanese accents]. It’s from the CD compilation of Lebanese alternative music, Banadoura. Have a lovely day! 🙂

    03 Behsos

  • Birthday wish!

    I have a small surprise/wish that I’d like to share with you! {Maybe next year will take the comics one step further? ;)}

    [For relatively better viewing, click here > photo-passport for the Flash version, but resize your browser to the size of a youtube video :)]

    Presenting: “Passport Photo… The [very sketchy] animated version!” [the vimeo below is low-quality]

    Photo Passport [Maya’s Amalgam] from Maya Zankoul on Vimeo.

    So in case you’re wondering, I just put this up together rather quickly, it’s been tempting me to see what an animated version of the comic would look like… What do you guys think?

    [Credits: the soundtrack is Chick Corea’s Armando’s Rhumba]

    I would also like to share this AMAZING visual sent by the lovely Naeema Zarif! (Click to enlarge) Check out her fantastic work in her Flickr stream. Well, if you’re wondering what Audrey is doing here, Naeema knows she’s my role model 😉

  • Making-of Meedan video

    meedan video storyboard

    I was approached by Meedan to design/animate a short video explaining the concept behind the website “in plain English” and “in plain Arabic”. A BIG thank you goes to the lovely Mohammad Kayali (from Hyperlink Podcast) who recorded the sound & translated the text to Arabic on a very short notice, and to SMEX Beirut for providing me with the flip cam to do the video recording. Here’s the outcome in English!

    Meedan in Plain English from Meedan on Vimeo.

    Go to Meedan News & scroll down for the 2 versions!

    And on another note, what’s a Monday morning without some music! Here’s the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun.

    In other news, this blog was happily selected to be Blog of the Week on Lebanon Aggregator because next week we’re turning 1 year old! So happy about it! Thank you so much! 🙂

    Have a great week 🙂

  • Traveling back in time

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    Sunshine appears above my head

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    More transformation. Avatars of old cartoon characters pop up over my head.

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    Transformation begins. Maya's metamorphosis to younger days.

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    Young Maya watching TV."Go Captain Majed!"

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    Suddenly I left the office and went back to the carefree days of watching Cartoons all day...

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    Thus, the Zankoulizer was born!


    Here’s the story: it all started when @arzleb changed his avatar to Grandizer. It looked odd but beautiful on its own in the middle of real-faces avatars. Then the trend started spreading, and each started replacing their photo with that of their favourite cartoon! Until @SamerKaram named it to: #ThemeThursday or #Thth. I must say my Twitter feed turned to a colorful page reminiscent of the old days when I would finish studying and watch Captain Majed or a Disney movie… It was a beautiful time travel day! 😉

    I’ll now let you enjoy ‘A whole new world’ from the soundtrack of Aladdin. Good old days 😀

    Cheers!