Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Partly as animation practice, and partly to quiet the noise in my head, I have been creating small hand-drawn studies of animals. This rabbit became an exercise in traditional 2D animation, frame-by-frame movement, repetition, and the nervous little personality that emerges when a few imperfect pencil lines begin to move.
There is something peaceful about reducing life to its simplest gestures. A twitch of the ears. A shift of the body. A brief illusion of life created by hand, one drawing at a time.
No spectacle. No perfection. Just pencil, paper, movement, and a rabbit briefly learning how to breathe...
What do you think?
Music by Drown the Riot "Senesce"
iamYork is a boutique Animation, Sound and Visual Effects studio in Hell's Kitchen, New York city created by NiTen Iwato, a mixed media artist, animator and anti-designer...
iamYork Website iamyork.com
Lossless ALBUMS: iamyork.bandcamp.com
Custom Ae tools & Synth Patches: iamyork.gumroad.com
Insta: instagram.com/i.am.york
My "traditional" Digital Animation and Independent Experimental Film Work can be found here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWl_nVCEeEzujp534UtDOzOEcbFrA2k2
We reject the grip of algorithms, refusing to be defined by sterile metrics and empty validations. Life passes swiftly, but the things we create linger quietly beyond us. We don't aim for fleeting clicks or passing trends, but rather hope to offer something genuine. In our brief moment, we simply choose to craft, to shape, and perhaps gently speak some beauty into the silence. In the end, maybe our voices matter, not because they drown out silence, but because they dared to speak at all.
#framebyframeanimation #humanmade #pendrawing
Partly as animation practice, and partly to quiet the noise in my head, I have been creating small hand-drawn studies of animals. This rabbit became an exercise in traditional 2D animation, frame-by-frame movement, repetition, and the nervous little personality that emerges when a few imperfect pencil lines begin to move.
There is something peaceful about reducing life to its simplest gestures. A twitch of the ears. A shift of the body. A brief illusion of life created by hand, one drawing at a time.
No spectacle. No perfection. Just pencil, paper, movement, and a rabbit briefly learning how to breathe...
What do you think?
Music by Drown the Riot "Senesce"
iamYork is a boutique Animation, Sound and Visual Effects studio in Hell's Kitchen, New York city created by NiTen Iwato, a mixed media artist, animator and anti-designer...
iamYork Website iamyork.com
Lossless ALBUMS: iamyork.bandcamp.com
Custom Ae tools & Synth Patches: iamyork.gumroad.com
Insta: instagram.com/i.am.york
My "traditional" Digital Animation and Independent Experimental Film Work can be found here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWl_nVCEeEzujp534UtDOzOEcbFrA2k2
We reject the grip of algorithms, refusing to be defined by sterile metrics and empty validations. Life passes swiftly, but the things we create linger quietly beyond us. We don't aim for fleeting clicks or passing trends, but rather hope to offer something genuine. In our brief moment, we simply choose to craft, to shape, and perhaps gently speak some beauty into the silence. In the end, maybe our voices matter, not because they drown out silence, but because they dared to speak at all.
#framebyframeanimation #humanmade #pendrawing
