From angry clouds to dead-inside lemons – this project had it all. Full of big emotions and relatable expressions, it was definitely one of the highlights of 2025.
WhatsApp reached out to BUCK to help them produce a couple of sticker packs for their app, handling everything from concepts to final animation delivery. A true animator's dream job, I was lucky enough to have animated these stickers below.
Escape From Reality, designed by Mijke Coebergh ↓
An adorable Cat Duo, designed by Catarina Alves ↓
The brief required us to produce 60fps Lottie animations – quite a challenge for sure. Creating extremely smooth character animations in AE is never an easy task. On top of that, we had to deal with loads of technical limitations so that these animations could be transformed into code and played in real time on any device.
Client → WhatsApp
Production studio → BUCK
Producer → Bárbara Scatolini
Creative direction → Jennifer Zheng, Joe Sparkes, Ellen Turnill Montoya, Ward Graumans
Animation direction → Joe Brooks
Art direction → Simon Buijs
Design → Catarina Alves, Mijke Coebergh, Lea Zhang, Yana Abramova, Joe Sparkes
Animation → Otilija Morozaitė, Greta Sennekamp, Fabien Rousseau, Andrés Cuevas, Paola Chen, Nicolas Grandry, Lana Simanenkova, Emanuele Colombo
2025

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