Nabil Samandari

@nabilsamandari

Nabil Samandari 🇩🇪🇮🇷🇬🇧 He/him. Story artist 🎞, animator ✏, voice actor 🎙, and amateur cook 🥘! Creator of #QuestChefs and @meansofdestruction.bsky.social! You might remember me as @OrangeAndInsane on Twitter! Portfolio:

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Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· 19d

I love Avatar. But we must acknowledge that it was always an orientalist story written by white people, and its greatest saving grace has been the meticulous research and deep reverence for the cultures that inspired it. Now that that's an afterthought, it's just plain old orientalism.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· 28d

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Nabil, I'm an animation creative based in Germany! I've directed, written, storyboarded, animated, voice acted, and done a bunch of other stuff! Also I launched a KS campaign for my project @meansofdestruction.bsky.social, check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nab...

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jul 12

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jun 13

CATCH YOU IN ANNECY 🇫🇷

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· May 28

me when I suddenly abandon all my morals and convictions and make some stupid AI trash

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Apr 2

I've finally made a VOICE DEMO REEL! If you need a voice for animation, games, or more, feel free to reach out 🗣🎙

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Feb 16

Happy #indieanimationday everybody!! Here's another page from the Quest Chefs pitch deck! Those bell peppers sure are persistent... 🫑 🫑 #indieanimation #questchefs #fantasy #animation #food

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Feb 7

Of course a hero is no hero without people to care for and a home to return to! For Crouton and Rosbif, that's the little mountain village Pierrade, home to folks of all walks of life. #indieanimation #questchefs #fantasy #village

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Feb 3

in light of recent events

A four panel comic.

Panel 1: Two people are talking to each other, one is red, the other green. The red character is holding an AR-15, and wears a camouflage baseball cap. The green character says "Do you really need that? Those things kill hundreds of innocent people, y'know."

Panel 2: The red character smiles at their gun. They say "See, it's enshrined in our constitution. We need to be able to protect ourselves in case the government goes rogue and attacks us." The green character squints skeptically.

Panel 3: A sudden shift to a dark, firey backdrop. Green is being beaten bloody by two ICE agents. Red stands by, still holding their gun, staring into the middle distance. Green screams "OH GOD!! The government went rogue and is attacking us! PLEASE HELP!"

Panel 4: A close-up of Red with their rifle, illuminated by the flames. Their eyes are staring in opposite directions as they smile gormlessly. Green shrieks in pain from off-panel.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jan 30

Food monsters come in a huge number of varieties, with lots of different abilities to be wary of. No two battles are the same! Here you can see just a few of the battles our heroes find themselves in! #indieanimation #questchefs #fantasy #animation #cartoons #monsters #food #vegetables

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jan 29

There they are, the big bad food monsters! The world of Culina is just teeming with monsters who are out to make a snack out of anyone. They're as delicious as they're vicious! #indieanimation #questchefs #2danimation #animation #cartoons #monsters #food #vegetables

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jan 22

Another page from the Quest Chefs pitch deck! Bouillabaisse must taste better when served in a giant mussel shell 😋🦪🐟 #indieanimation #questchefs #2danimation #animation #cartoons #adventure #food

Rosbif and Crouton sit on white cliffs overlooking the ocean. A gigantic marlin breaches in the distance, narrowly missing a ship with its bladed beak.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jan 20

I've rebuilt the QUEST CHEFS PITCH DECK from the ground up, just in time to submit it to festivals! Over the next few weeks I'll be posting more of the pages for you all to enjoy. Looks like Rosbif caught Crouton while she was... supposed to do her chores 😅 #indieanimation #questchefs

An illustration of Rosbif bursting into the messy kitchen while Crouton assembles a huge chocolate cake instead of cleaning up.

A text caption on the top left reads:
"Rosbif and Crouton's relationship is our story's heart. We'll be following how they help each other grow.
When they first meet, they don't get each other: Crouton is too perky for the dour old grump, and Rosbif's insistence to "cook by the book" gets in the way of Crouton's impatient need to prove herself as "worthy hero material".
Her love for the biographies of famous Quest Chefs is also a sticking point: Rosbif's actually met most of them, and he has something to nag about them all. To her, they're role models. To him, they're twits. It seems like these two might never get along..."

A close-up of a furious Rosbif, soaked to the bone by a rainstorm, bursting into his kitchen with lightning flashing behind him.

A close-up of Crouton, in the middle of decorating a tiered chocolate gateau. She looks stunned, like she was caught doing something she wasn't supposed to.

A preliminary 3D build of the same scene, used as reference.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Oct 30

A man sits at his kitchen counter, with a cold glass of crisp onionade in his hand. The words "Flavor Notes" are superimposed at his side. There are no bullet points.

The man's expression is a mixture of quiet, slow distress, looming nausea, and a dawning, unspoken misery.

The man has leaned to the side, his hand at his mouth.

The flavor notes now have one bullet point: "ubughugh"

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Oct 30

YouTube has decided to just up and sucker punch me in the face today

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Sep 22

And here's a few WIP pics!

A very rough thumbnail sketch of the previous scene, done in colored pencil on paper.

The scene with flat colors and no hue adjustments.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Sep 22

I've been really busy writing, boarding, and preparing for a pitch session lately, but I took the time to update the art for my business cards! #QuestChefs #IndieAnimation

Crouton, a young girl with a frying pan, and Rosbif, a burly old chef with a cleaver, fight off a horde of monstrous vegetables.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jul 26

(Original Nabil design by @jesterpunk.bsky.social)

"10 years ago I was unsure about my artistic career and my life goals. Undertale not only helped me find my way, but more importantly lifelong friends I wouldn't have met otherwise."

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jul 15

Poached chicken breast is such a sleeper hit, with a probe thermometer you can cook your chicken to 65°C and hold it there for two minutes That way you get perfectly cooked and extremely tender chicken breast every time Here I poached it in some ratatouille I made, turned out delicious

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jun 1

Always remember, sometimes the coolest shots start off as a dumb lil scribble on a post-it

A vague scribble made with a ballpoint pen on a pink post-it.

A rough sketch of a rocky landscape, made with colored pencils on paper.

A black-and-white storyboard of the previous scene. Monsters surround two heroes while ominous shadows loom from above.

The finished scene. The rocky crags cast harsh shadows over the landscape as the sun sets dramatically on a fiery red sky.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· May 29

The proof-of-concept teaser for QUEST CHEFS is here! 👩🏾‍🍳⚔️🍎🥕🐔 In a world where ALL FOOD IS MONSTERS, chefs are the greatest heroes of all! Join Rosbif and Crouton on their culinary conquest! View all credits in the replies! BON APPÉTIT! #IndieAnimation #QuestChefs

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· May 24

Y'all, the #QuestChefs teaser is SUPER CLOSE to completion and I absolutely cannot wait to show it off! 👀 Until then here's a tiny snippet of the full thing, with a gorgeous background by @mallowscreme.bsky.social and FX animation by my friend Nico! Get ready everyone, it's gonna be delicious ✨

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· May 22

The other website is doing really well

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· May 8

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Apr 28

Working on a bunch more production art for Quest Chefs. I want to really polish the art and present the project at the level of quality it deserves! #QuestChefs

Crouton, a young curly-haired girl wearing a leather coif, jumps onto the shoulder of Rosbif, a large bearded chef wearing armored tassets and carrying a huge potato and carrot under his burly arms. As she laughs, he grimaces and strains under the sudden added weight.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Mar 30

#8: One of my biggest pet-peeves in Western action animation is that firearms/projectiles don't feel dangerous enough. The solution to this, without obliterating your age rating, is to show the projectiles impacting and destroying things. No more pew-pew sparks. Show me stuff exploding.

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Feb 28

These are ancient by now, but I still like them

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Jan 25

Rabbithood is a spectrum Original post by madeupbunnies on Tumblr Voice acting by me #voiceacting #rabbits #bunnies

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Dec 14

Well, now I'm utterly obsessed with the concept of Creature Comforts but with Pokémon (Original post by @tinkerjinks.bsky.social)

Nabil Samandari@nabilsamandari· Dec 10

I... becamed a vampire. 🧛‍♂️ (Voice by me)