Thyme for Aleppo

Thyme for Aleppo, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

An old Thyme wrap inside the school bench, left there for the dark days maybe...

في ٦ كانون الأول ٢٠١٢ كتب زاهر عمرين:

إلى حلب التي أطعمتنا لحم أكتافها كله و نامت جائعة

يا رب الجوع
في هذا الليل الوحيد كنخلة البدوي الدليل في الصحراء

أعد لنا عرائس الزعتر المغموسة بالزيت
أعطي أطفالنا حصتهم التي تركوها لأيام سوداء كهذي في درج المعقد الخشبي أو على سور المدرسة

أعد لنا بقيا غزل البنات الذي علق صدارينا ذات اللون الكئيب
وفي اسفل الحقيبة المدرسية الرخيصة الرثة

رد لنا ديننا من مواسم التفاح
من بقايا حبات الخيار التي رميناها على عجل كي تبدأ لعبة الدحل دون يدين مقيدتين

لا تنكر علينا خبزنا الحاف كله
يابسا أو طريا أو بين رصاصتين

ندعوك كما فعلنا صغارا و ظننا انك استجبت : خذ كل الحسنات وهات "خبزنا كفاف يومنا"
أما "الشرير" الذي لم تنجنا منه ....
فدعه لنا ... فنحن من سيكتب الفصل الأخير ...

SNIPER

SNIPER, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

“Crossing to the other side of the road makes me a living prey…
…I wonder: Am I a Gazelle? Am I a rare bird?.."

Few lines from a text a Syrian refugee kid wrote describing the sniper in her neighbourhood.

Jiddo (Grandpa)

Jiddo (Grandpa), a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

We're here.. Goodbye sweetheart.

More for VICHY

Here is some more illustrations for VICHY, it's still the same project but these are for printed materials. 

Moments de Vie - VICHY

We came up with this short educational web film for VICHY in 20 days only and it was my first experience as a character designer, I hope that it wasn't too bad after all :)

Character Design: Yasmeen Fanari
Animation: Matthieu Sivade, Yasmeen Fanari
Production Design: Anaïs Bertrand
Production House: Zorba
Client: VICHY


Psst:
(Voici quelques petites illustrations additionnelles!

Waking-Up

Waking-Up, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

Her house was bombed and now she's waking up before knowing that she lost her hand...

I don't know the name of that poor kid, but it's a true story that happened in Homs, Syria today.

Omar End Titles

Here's what kept me busy for the past 8 months, it's the end titles of a new Arabic historical series about Omar Bin Al-Khattab the second caliph in the history of Islam.

This animation is a production of Hecat Paris, but the series of Omar is an MBC Dubai production. Hope that you'll like it!



Art Direction: Chadi Abo, Yasmeen Fanari
Animated by: Yasmeen Fanari
Music and sound: Far & Here USA, Erekli & Tunç
Production: Hecat Client: MBC Dubai

Une seule Image

Here's a snapshot and a quick test of the animation that I'm working on now, two more weeks and... I'm off to bed :D

Pre-Animation 1

Pre-Animation 1, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

By spring time all the beautiful images will start blooming and forming their parade!

An animation to be :)

Pre-Animation 2

Pre-Animation 2, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

By spring time all the beautiful images will start blooming and forming their parade!

An animation to be :)

To Gaith who wrote:

"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-2 5-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48 -49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-68-69-70- 71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-9 3-94-95-96-97-98-99-100... I can write till 10,000 but my vein hurts"


Gaith Sharashi, 7 years
National Hospital for Kids with Cancer Diseases, Damascus, Syria

Tragedy

MISSING, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.

A white cotton sock is missing...

Public Nausea

Public Nausea, a photo by Yasmeen Fanari on Flickr.
Gossips, hate, lies, envy... The society is vomiting!

From Syria with love

The illustration in "The Syria's Art of Resistance" poster in Denmark at the Round Tower "Rundetaam" in Central Copenhagen

Business Card

CFS Poster for the Child Friendly School project by UNICEF Syria

CFS Child Friendly School TV ad, UNICEF Syria

CFS Child Friendly School, UNICEF Syria

Printed!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready

"Raining cherry and little dreams"

Alicia is leaving London

Alicia is leaving London
Originally uploaded by Yasmeen Fanari

By Trunk Animation London

12 Nov 2010 yippee-ki-yay melon farmer

Here’s Rok Predin’s latest project, we worked with Sam at Treatment Studios to create a back projection sequence to go behind the country singer Keith Urban’s performance of his track “put you in a song” at this year’s Country Music Awards in Nashville. This had a very quick turnaround, we produced three and a half minutes of animaton in twelve days straight, there were lots of late evenings but the end of the project the studio resembled a warzone. Compositing was by Rok Predin, Luca Paulli, Rob Ward and Layla Atkinson. Artworking was by Anita Leung, Yasmeen Fanari and Ginevra Boni.

Octi

Octi
Originally uploaded by Yasmeen Fanari

A tote bag and a T-shirt design for mladiinfo.com
Finally I'm holding my own label! :D

ABCdoublespeak

ABCDoublespeak is a reminder of the evil and grotesque nature of the words used to describe violence in our world. This new dictionary does not have a filter and unveils the reality behind these words, which are masked by a positive image within the public media. Synchronized to the popular song ‘the ABCs’, which children use to learn their alphabet, ABCDoublespeak reads between the lines and shows how innocents and facts can be distorted by warfare and armed conflict. Using traditional animation, pixilation and motion graphics, this video creates a new song, ‘Our Modern Times ABC,’ that children from war-ravaged communities sing too many times and know all too well.
Toolkit: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffect, Dragon Stop Motion and Flash
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Here's few updates from 2012:

ABCDoublespeak was a real success this year!
Yes! Apparently the idea of the film got a deeper depth after the Syrian revolution birth in March 2011.

This year ABCDoublespeak was projected in Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris during the Spring of Arabic Cinema Days at Cinema La Clef.

Not to forget that it was projected late March 2011 in Damascus at the animation festival at the French Cultural Center.

During the show at Cinema La Clef

 The Spring of Arabic Cinema 2012 poster

At the end of the show in Berlin













From Amsterdam

Jayson's ABCs

My dear talented friend Jayson Gillham, a beautiful talent and a professional pianist from Australia playing the ABC tunes on piano.
Thanks Jayson!
Love

http://www.jaysongillham.com/

Sketches 2010

Another accident at Goodenough

Vukile had broke his shoulder while playing football At Goodeough College...



“In fear of ‘Eurobia’”, 2010:
After the banning of minarets in Switzerland early in 2010, I was left wondering: “Are these pointy elements in the European landscape really that dangerous?”
Toolkit: Pixilation, Dragon Stop Motion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects.

Disperella, Characters

"Desperella" Model-Sheet

Kingston 2009

A View Of your Self, Kingston University 2009
Before arriving at Kingston University, students on the MA Illustration and Animation course were sent a project brief to work on over the summer. For this we were given the title “A View of Your Self”, and asked to make simple presentations about our personalities.

Toolkit: Scanned Illustrations, Adobe After Effects





Animation exercise: The lipsynic projects

Toolkit: Hand drawings, Dragon, Adobe After Effects

Shabab Souri