This story is inspired by real events that happened at our office during winter. Dedicated to our dear friend, Fly.

In Summer 2018 we launched and managed an artist collaboration called Maneki-neco. Misha Petrick, the founder of the studio, came up with a neon cat design.

Being huge fans of feasible artifacts, we decided to order a real neon sign with that design.

Every day the sign has delighted our eye, greeted and farewelled our guests, colored the room into nice pink-blue colors.

But one day something happened.

We noticed some kind of burnt odor which led us directly to the sign. A part of the neon cat was not working anymore, while the sign itself emitted an unpleasant odor.

When we looked closely we saw that something had gotten stuck between neon tubes and therefore caused the power failure. That something was a fly - little and barely visible dweller of our office. Floating freely in a spacious studio, it initiated a too-close encounter with the neon cat.

We decided to honor the memory of the flying creature by making a short cartoon about its daily life in the office and the tragedy, that happened from the pure love for our beatiful sign.

Favorite activities of a cheerful fly

Team

Script and Direction

Ruslana Mirzaalieva

Supervising animator

Vova Orlov

Animation

Karina Pogorelova

Cleanup and Painting

Slava Kovalev

Inga Shafeeva

Sound designer

Alexander Maslyuk

Titles design

ESH Gruppa

HeadHunter

Renovation

HeadHunter

Flower Shop

HeadHunter

Coffee Shop

Rovio

Angry Birds

Zemfira, Playrix

Austin

Ivan Dorn, WWF

Wild

Unofficial

Gus Dapperton

Unofficial

Caroline
Polachek

Unofficial

Sevdaliza

Tretyakov Gallery

Russian
Fairytales

Tinkoff

Anniversary

Tinkoff

Eco Challenge

Yota

Family

Committee Against Torture

Police Cartoons

Lego

Birthday Studio

Rocketbank

Arcada

Motion Design School

What Is Motion
Design School