Animations

A repeating pattern featuring purple-tinted bottles on an orange background, with a white circle in the center containing a purple play button.

Just like with illustrations, the sky’s the limit when it comes to animation. We’ve created a wide variety of animations for our clients, ranging from impressive TV commercials to clear installation guides and charming Christmas greetings. Our expertise covers both stylized and realistic animations. We also animate various types of characters and other creatures (3D and 2D).

Projects on this page

Advent calendar
Itis's seasonal animations
Kera Group Installation Animations
A repeating pattern featuring purple-tinted bottles on an orange background, with a white circle in the center containing a purple play button.
A cute, furry spider with legs that look like lollipops hangs from a string in a dark hallway.
Red amaryllis flowers and green leaves against a bright orange background.

Showreel

Interactive animations

Our expertise also includes creating interactive, browser-friendly animations, either in 3D using  Spline or in 2D using  Rive. Ask us for more information about the possibilities! Work samples coming soon...

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Projects

Project

Advent calendar

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We took on a Christmas challenge where the goal was to post an animation related to the date every day of the month.

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We had to come up with some guidelines for the challenge, which were as follows: the animations had to be square in shape and consist of a loop lasting about 5 to 10 seconds. Its main element had to be the day of the week or a shape resembling it. We also created a Christmas-themed colour palette, which we generally followed in all our pieces.

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The purpose of this project was to experiment with new animation and illustration techniques, explore different visual styles, and, in the process, learn as much as possible. The challenge was that we didn’t have much time due to other client projects, so we had to come up with ideas something very quickly. This meant accepting imperfection, which required letting go of the urge to endlessly polish the work.

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Riesen Design

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  • Animation
  • Texturing, lighting, rendering
  • Modeling
A piece of burning wood against a green background.
A blue-and-white toy car with a wooden seat and a red backrest against a light blue background.
Three snowmen standing in a row, each wearing a different hat and sporting a different expression, with a hazy house in the background.
A red and green, fluffy, Christmas-candy-style number 17 on a light blue background.
Two men dressed as Santa Claus in red suits are dancing on a black-and-white zigzag floor in front of a red curtain, with a formation of flames spelling out the number 19.
A number 15-shaped gingerbread cookie in the center, surrounded by decorative gingerbread cookies with red, green, and white icing.
Two translucent, organically shaped 3D forms in shades of orange and pink, set against a light background.
Six different gift boxes featuring gold bows and the number 24 on a bright blue background.
An Advent calendar featuring colorful numbers and the text "Riesen Design you a Merry Christmas" in the center.
Client

Itis

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Starting point

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At the end of the main corridor of the Itis shopping center is a giant mesh screen that follows the contours of the ceiling and displays advertisements, among other things. Itis’s marketing department is looking for a creator who can produce eye-catching animations for this unique canvas.

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Solution

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We designed several seasonal animations that made creative use of the screen. Among other things, we created an Easter animation in which a giant bunny peeks out from the edges of the screen and eventually comes to greet the viewers. For Halloween, we produced an impressive ghost train animation that takes viewers on a wild ride.

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In all of our animations, we sought to take advantage of this unique platform’s features, such as its size and curved shape. This allowed us to create more than just animated content – media experiences that come to life and take Itis’s customers on a magical journey.

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Riesen Design created
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  • Illustration
  • Animation
The lobby of the shopping center, with a large illuminated Halloween pumpkin at one end, surrounded by floating eyes and bat figures.

Halloween

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Here is a video compilation and a few stills from the Halloween animation. The 3D animation consists of a circular track along which the carriages travel. During the ride, viewers see, among other things, a spider and flying eyeballs, after which they are led through the mouth of a giant pumpkin into an underpass and finally back to the start after a short outdoor ride.

A cute, furry spider with legs that look like lollipops hangs from a string in a dark hallway.
A large, illuminated jack-o'-lantern with its mouth wide open and teeth showing, surrounded by blue and black bats and loose eyes.
A multitude of floating candles illuminating a stone-vaulted ceiling.
A smiling, ink-drawn ghost and a bright full moon at night above the castle walls.

Easter

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We designed two Easter animations for Itis. In one, chocolate eggs rain down from the sky before the Itis logo pushes them aside. In the other, a giant bunny comes out and greets the viewers.

A cute pink cartoon bunny on a black background.

"Working with Julien has been exceptionally smooth and effortless. We have been extremely satisfied with the quality and creativity of the work. The content produced for Itis’s mesh screen has attracted a great deal of attention and received a lot of praise."

Johanna Tolppola

Head of marketing, Itis

Client

Kera Group

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Starting point

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Founded in 1971, the Kera Group and its subsidiaries manufacture construction supplies, including skylights, glazing solutions and smoke control ducts. When launching products, clear and easy-to-understand installation animations are needed for both consumers and installation professionals.

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Solution

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Riesen Design regularly Riesen Design new videos for Kera Group that use 3D animation to clearly demonstrate how different products work and how they should be installed. In this seamless collaboration, we are able to utilize CAD models provided by the client: we retexture them according to the client’s wishes, design the lighting, and finally animate all the elements together.

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Thanks to 3D animation, we can remove all unnecessary background elements from the image and focus on what matters. Best of all, we can easily customise the colours and materials of the products with a single click. This allows us to create different versions of the videos in a cost-effective manner.

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Riesen Design

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  • Texturing
  • Lighting
  • Animation

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The blue-framed window is raised using a chain and secured to the corner of a light-colored wall in a bright room.

This is a compilation of the many installation animations we've created for Kera Group.

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An electrical junction box with several colored wires visible against a gray metal surface.
Fire-resistant foam is sprayed around the orange electrical wires inside a metal electrical cabinet.
A wooden pergola with a deck-style structure, featuring a roof made of translucent material mounted on a metal frame.
A close-up of a white corner bracket attached to a wooden structure.
A heated greenhouse featuring a clearly visible UV-protected mesh panel and a wooden frame.
A yellow spirit level placed on a wooden surface to check for levelness.
A glass wall and door leading to a wooden deck next to the exterior wall of the house.
An electric drill is drilling a hole in a metal door handle.
On an orange base, there are two switches with differently colored electrical wires attached to them, and in the center, a green sign depicting ventilation.
There is a white electrical cabinet on the wall with a yellow warning triangle and two orange electrical cords.

"Working with Riesen Design has been smooth and hassle-free. We have created a variety of installation animations that can replace traditional multilingual installation manuals. The 3D drawings produced by our design team have made the animation process fast and cost-effective."

Jouni Tuikiainen

Technology director, Kera Group

We do that too

Logos & visual identities

An open book featuring purple graphic symbols and three colored blocks: black, yellow, and red.

Illustrations & Characters

A colorful abstract painting on paper, featuring a purple paintbrush, sitting on an easel.

Packaging & Product Images

A purple bottle with an ornamental label and cap in shades of orange and yellow.

User interfaces

A website with a yellow background featuring a purple bottle on a pedestal and a repeating pattern of purple bottles.

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