Memorables

2D Animation

2D animation drawn on a flat plane: hand-drawn frames, vector work, loops and characters.

2D animation covers motion drawn or designed on a flat plane: hand-drawn frame-by-frame work, vector animation, animated illustration and characters. It lives in brand films, apps, editorial pieces and loops for the web and social media. The pieces gathered here favour clear shapes, strong timing and a lot of personality, from character animation to animated posters and brand films, most of them made in After Effects, by animators such as Con McHugh, Jack Forrest and Alex Abraham.

53 works by 43 creators, newest added 11 November 2026. Each is credited to the people who made it and links to the original.

All 53 2D Animation

  1. Slush Illustrations by Holographik — Animated brand icons for Slush, the crypto wallet built with Sui, where friendly objects in bold outlines and soft 3D depth replace the usual abstract Web3 imagery.
  2. DeepBook Illustrations by Holographik — Isometric illustrations for DeepBook, the on-chain order book of Sui, that explain liquidity and building on top through stacking blocks, coins and charts in blue and black.
  3. Everpure Banknote by ILLO — A 2D brand animation from the Everpure campaign made with Bloomberg Media Studios, where cursor arrows assemble a banknote from slices of pastel colour, then let it melt into pixels.
  4. Terrain Vague by Malika Favre — An animated op-art illustration of Terrain Vague, a limited-edition print, where rippling black and white stripes flow around a tiny isometric house that alone stays still.
  5. Typography Animation (Motion Study) by Felix Hackmann — A kinetic typography study on Form folgt Vorstellungskraft, form follows imagination, a twist on form follows function, its words scattered and clipped by masks before they regroup.
  6. Layers by Jordan Coelho — A looping 3D animated illustration of profile heads turning like pages hinged at the crown, glowing eyes and halftone grain giving shape to conflicting feelings, face after face.
  7. Depth-Swapping Intersection by Yuma Garments — An optical illusion animation of a Japanese street intersection, where a camera move swaps depth and front-to-back order, so the flat corner and the deep street trade places.
  8. DICE Characters by Dev Joshi — Hand-drawn character animations for DICE, the gig ticketing app, made with the studio Animade, in which a door, a turntable and a clock sprout eyes and legs and strut off in thick ink.
  9. Factory Sketch by Office Commun — An animated orthographic drawing of a factory that sketches itself in black ink on squared paper, from the hatched ground and sawtooth roof to the dimension lines that close it.
  10. Arcade Cabinet by Dann Petty — An animated SVG illustration of a retro arcade cabinet with a CRT screen, where a pink bear’s winning game is cut short when an arm reaches in and pulls the plug on the machine.
  11. Saving Daylight by Marcelo Meijome — A 2D animation made in Cavalry for the night the clocks fell back, three clocks whose hands sweep dots aside, pile numerals at the bottom and stretch the dial, as if time were spilling over.
  12. Damgeumju by Noyah Jung — An animated illustration of damgeumju, the Korean fruit infused liquor, where tangerines drift in and out of focus in a paper-capped jar, a still life with grain and shifting depth.
  13. A Dose of Textures by Jack Forrest — A 2D motion design texture study in electric blue, where blurred forms are sliced into glitching tiles and grainy flashes, a seven-second loop about surface more than shape.
  14. 5Rs of Brand Experience by Saffron Brand Consultants — 2D motion for the 5Rs, the five qualities that make a brand experience deliver on the brand, now a Figma tool, where an unseen circle inverts black discs into white crescents and rings.
  15. Find a Why by Jack Forrest — A kinetic typography piece after a setup by Antonin Waterkeyn, where a mirrored column of everyday chores collapses into Find a light, then grows into a large Find a why.
  16. Dot Morphs by Emanuel Costa — A 2D motion study in morphing, where four plain black dots each unfold into discs, ellipses or rings and fold back, proof of how much movement a single circle can hold.
  17. Halloween Projection by Con McHugh — A Halloween projection mapping piece where hand-drawn animation on a wall is synced with a real phone, so a giant figure’s pupils seem to jump out of its eyes and onto the screen.
  18. Halloween Ghost by Nicolas Jesenberger — A Halloween drag interaction where you dress a peeking character yourself, pulling a dripping sheet over its head until it comes alive as a ghost that blinks, squints and smiles.
  19. Boo by Mat Voyce — Halloween lettering animated by hand, BOO! in wobbly glowing letters whose two Os take turns becoming a startled ghost, the grain and boil keeping it alive like a drawing.
  20. Born Logo Animation by s.engineering — A logo animation for Born, the AI companion app maker, where a silhouette hand opens to let the serif letter of its logo appear, as if releasing something it had just made.
  21. Kayaks on the Water by Lagan Bansal — An interactive animated illustration made from a watercolour turned into digital water, where two kayaks paddle across the painted lake and ripples spread under the cursor.
  22. eddy Expressions by Aron — Mascot animation for eddy, a brand whose character is a hexagon, given new expressions and small reactions, two dashes for eyes enough to make him wobble, blink and feel alive.
  23. Reward Icons by Dean Majemite — An animated icon set of rewards, flames, trophies, hearts and tickets, drawn with slightly rough edges so each flat shape feels made by hand and moves in a way of its own.
  24. Gliding Over Punjab by Vignesh — A 3D web playground built with Three.js to daydream in, following a bird as it glides over the mustard fields and canals of Punjab while its coordinates tick beneath it.
  25. Conservation of Intelligence by Alex Abraham — A 2D character animation that puns on the conservation of momentum, as the Grok Bot mascots hang like a Newton’s cradle and each one changes shape mid-swing.
  26. Ueshima Coffee Dragon by Con McHugh — A hand-drawn line animation for Ueshima Coffee Co., the Japanese coffee brand, where the steam of a mug becomes a dragon that coils round the drinker and leaves him calm.
  27. CASI by Templo — Brand motion for CASI, a climate non-profit for the art world, whose pictograms drawn from hobo hieroglyphics are hand-animated frame by frame, each sign morphing into the next.
  28. CASI Identity by Templo — A logo animation for CASI, a climate service for the visual arts, whose figure drawn from hobo hieroglyphics dances, hand-animated with onion-skinning, free of alarmism or guilt.
  29. Motion Basics by Dutch Design Agency — A kinetic typography loop that puts the principles of motion into practice, squash, anticipation, arcs and timing, as pink capitals drop out of line and fall back into rows.
  30. The Somersault by Igor Brod — A Motiontober 2026 entry in 2D line animation, where a creature built from jointed links somersaults over itself, a character study in how few lines a body needs.
  31. RTS Kids Eyes by Hymn — The animated eyes of RTS Kids, the children’s world of Swiss public television, running through every mood in seconds in a minimal, colourful language at a child’s height.
  32. Triangle X by Clemens Makoschitz — A kinetic typography practice piece in After Effects, where a bold X is assembled from small triangles that slide like a pattern, letting the letter shrink and swell without breaking.
  33. NKORA Walking Miles by monopo london — The walking mascot of NKORA, an independent London coffee chain, a linocut figure with a cup in hand, from an identity built around the quiet, contemplative power of a walk.
  34. Headspace Characters by ITAL/C — Characters from the Headspace rebrand, a simpler and bolder identity for the meditation app, where its smiling orange dot is suddenly joined by a crowd of flat, colourful friends.
  35. Glassware Morph by Fafa Zhu — A flat shape morphing loop made in After Effects, where a wine glass becomes a goblet, a decanter and a carafe, a return to the simple stuff with nothing but a silhouette.
  36. Split by Vincenzo Lodigiani — An animated short about the dualistic mind that sees the world in black and white, told through a single profile whose silhouette and negative space keep trading places.
  37. The Run by Enle Li — A looping animated illustration from 2022 that shows a runner from directly below, against the sun and a deep blue sky, a shift of viewpoint that makes an ordinary run feel unreal.
  38. Split Attention by Con McHugh — A hand-drawn loop for a reMarkable paid post in The New York Times, where a writer’s face disappears behind a tablet, a phone and a screen that each keep an eye on them.
  39. Infinite Scroll by Philip Nordström — A looping 2D animation built on an infinite zoom, in which a girl falls through her phone into the same reel again and again, a wry picture of the scroll that never ends.
  40. Clap Your Hands by William Garratt — A hand-drawn line animation of a crowd, hundreds of tiny blob figures who raise their hands to clap and cheer in one burst, then fall still, a loop with the timing of a joke.
  41. Grow Your Memories by Aiden — A kinetic typography promo film for the One Year app, made in After Effects, that treats memories like a garden: hand-drawn words bloom one by one until a flower becomes the logo.
  42. Summer Jam by ILLO — A flat 2D animation for summer in which lutes, drums, maracas and pan pipes return one at a time, each swaying to its own beat until the whole page plays like a band.
  43. On One Million Runner by Skala Design — A halftone dot animation for the sports brand On and its first million followers, where single dots join into a runner and a shoe, an image of individuals forming a movement.
  44. Nero Architecture Identity by Javier Diconca — A modular logo animation for Nero Architecture, a Buenos Aires studio of liveable, sustainable and affordable homes, where four glyphs keep swapping to write a new mark at each beat.
  45. Bouncing Grok Bots by Alex Abraham — A looping Grok Bot animation that plays on the old DVD screensaver, the mascot drifting across black and changing into a new character every time it bounces off an edge.
  46. Blister Pack Character by Alex Socoloff — A brand character exploration on how hard it is to make a mascot feel alive, a blocky green figure leaving its blister pack and multiplying into a row of small figures that chatter.
  47. Handwriting Workout by Con McHugh — A hand-drawn animation loop for a reMarkable paid post in The New York Times on how handwriting exercises the brain, a tiny figure rowing a giant pen across the page like a workout.
  48. Interrupted Flow by Con McHugh — A hand-drawn animation loop for a reMarkable paid post in The New York Times, where notifications pull a writer away from the page until the scene folds back into one pen stroke.
  49. Look Up by DeeKay Kwon — An animated illustration about what we miss with our eyes on a screen: in a crowd bowed over glowing phones, the one boy who looks up at a firefly is met by a bloom of flowers.
  50. Vases from 2D to 3D by Timea Balo — An animated still life illustration in a 2D to 3D to 2D effect, where flat vase silhouettes fill one by one with glowing gradients and seem to gain volume before turning flat again.
  51. Pier Rides 10p by Peregrin Studio — A type specimen in motion for Ashcroft, a flared serif after early twentieth-century British lettering, where magpies perch on the words Pier Rides 10p against a seaside sunset.
  52. Chelsea Royal Garden by Peregrin Studio — An animated type specimen for a light weight of Ashcroft, a flared serif rooted in carved and painted British lettering, with petals and a bird drifting through Chelsea Royal Garden 1913.
  53. The Continuum by Lindsay Kokoska — A looping 2D animated short in generative, organic forms, where translucent blue cells nest inside one another down warm paper until the microscopic and the infinite become one shape.

Featuring work by

Con McHugh, Holographik, ILLO, Jack Forrest, Alex Abraham, Templo, Peregrin Studio, Malika Favre, Felix Hackmann, Jordan Coelho, Yuma Garments, Dev Joshi, Office Commun, Dann Petty, Marcelo Meijome, Noyah Jung, Saffron Brand Consultants, Emanuel Costa, Nicolas Jesenberger, Mat Voyce, s.engineering, Lagan Bansal, Aron, Dean Majemite, Vignesh, Dutch Design Agency, Igor Brod, Hymn, Clemens Makoschitz, monopo london, ITAL/C, Fafa Zhu, Vincenzo Lodigiani, Enle Li, Philip Nordström, William Garratt, Aiden, Skala Design, Javier Diconca, Alex Socoloff, DeeKay Kwon, Timea Balo, Lindsay Kokoska.

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