The Nerdmanship Animation Studio

21/11/2017

If you appreciate animation, you will love this. This is perfection in my opinion. Do the world a favor and share it. Animated short (10 m)

Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of the west, and with courage face the Shadow. From Shadow into Light. “No tree, it is said,...

13/03/2017

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This little orb had a pretty nice roll on Twitter and Codepen a few weeks ago. He was a picked project for the front page, featured in Codepen Spark and got spoiled by the Twitter community with hundreds of likes and retweets. He ultimately trended as the most popular project on the platform. We're both very pleased.


The attention is super fun and some pre-launch traction is very valuable, but in this case it's still kind of secondary. This experiment was made to try out some new interesting animation techniques I've been fiddling with and to explore the process of creating fun and engaging cartoon-inspired animations for websites. In the end, I want to use similar methods to communicate the user value of clients' innovative products.


That's at least how I'm starting to frame things. Innovative tech companies always face the challenge to communicate the greatness of their products to the masses. Web-animations like mine can inform and educate potential users in a fun and effortless way from the very first second. This will increase interest, understanding, engagement, retention, conversion and all that stuff that I would be wanting myself, if I was launching a cool and smart product.


What do you think, does that make sense?


Check out the interactive animation here: http://codepen.io/nerdmanship/details/ZLoyPG/

10/03/2017

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Here's another animated and interactive Miyazaki character. This time from Spirited Away. Made for web as usual.
His name is Kaonashi. One of his hobbies is to corrupt creatures with gold. He's pretty good at it. He'll follow you around as you move the mouse.
Check it out here: https://codepen.io/nerdmanship/details/RpoYOL
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07/03/2017

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Some very impressive animation work and interactive storytelling about ✨💉✨

By Evan Beohm: https://twitter.com/evanbbb

Do you remember spook?

07/03/2017

⚡️🚀 More happy news!
For the second time in a month (!!) my work got featured in the Codepen Spark – a weekly email to all Codepen members with “all the can't-miss links”. It’s incredibly rewarding that my stuff gets to inspire more people to go explore web-animation. Big thanks to CodePen!
Regardless of who creates it, I hope that we get flooded be this kind of stuff – because it feels good, makes sense and potentially adds a lot of value to both brands and users. More happy users ftw!�.
Check out the issues of Spark (also other great stuff in there!):
Issue 14 – Miyazaki experiment: http://codepen.io/spark/14
Issue 10 – Starwars experiment: http://codepen.io/spark/10
Or why not sign up and get all the goodies every week?
https://codepen.io/accounts/signup

06/03/2017

🎉 Happy news
Last summer I snatched the graphics from Firefox homepage and animated it. I sent it to them and offered them to sue my for copyright infringement.
But they didn't. Instead they loved it and we started to talk. I changed my offer from "law suit" to "use whatever you want".
✨ And they did! ✨
Yesterday the UX lead sent me their thanks and a link to their new onboarding experience.
I'm proud of the contribution and super happy to see big industry leaders recognise the value in bringing web experiences to life!

03/03/2017

Hello friends,

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Lots and lots of updates I haven't had time to share with you yet. Stay tuned (don't turn the k**b on your radio) for oodles and oodles of tasty updates!


First one out is an interactive animation dedicated to the brilliance of Hayao Miyazaki and a blog post about the thoughts I had while creating it.


Animation: http://codepen.io/nerdmanship/pen/xgmBKg/

Blog post: http://codepen.io/nerdmanship/post/miyasaki-ghosts-and-performance-trolls


Very blessed to see both works being selected and published on the front page of codepen!

05/02/2017

What I love more than observing beauty in this world, is that extra layer of magic that happens when someone else observes it and let me see it thru their eyes.

This little gif is just marvellous!

13/10/2016

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Wow, I’m so grateful for the attention and appreciation we’ve got from the creative coding community this week, helping us to smash our own past records in reaching out to people.

The last experiment that we shared was picked up and published on the front page of Codepen.io, which is a huge deal to us. From there it just took off generating thousands of views and a bunch of likes, forks and followers, which in turn brought us to the top list of most popular projects, where it's still growing as we speak.

We’ve also seen a new record in likes and retweets on Twitter and the icing on the cake is that the creator of GSAP (the animation framework that we use) shared our project and gave thanks for "making such a good use of the tools".

This acknowledgement is like a high five to my dreams! It means a greater confidence to keep pursuing them and inspire others to do the same. It means that the word of our services to web users is slowly getting out there, and that a new more fun and useful web is on the rise!

These experiments are not made for the attention, but I want you to know that each and every little like, share and comment brings joy and energy into the work.

13/10/2016

Have you ever wondered why simple but captivating storytelling like this haven't made it to the web?

Our mission is to change that.

Why? Because joy tingling from your gut, around and along your spine and up to your head is a pretty cool thing.