Food Brand Animations

Three short 3D animations for food brands. Ando is a food delivery platform running across Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. City Kitch is a shared kitchen in Charlotte where independent chefs sell under one roof. Surefire is a Charlotte spot for late night smash burgers and hot chicken with a little market inside. All three start with one dish and follow it out into the world, told in a toy isometric style that reads fast on a phone.

For Ando the story is the delivery. A burger stacks itself, gets wrapped and boxed, and the box lands on the back of one of their riders' bikes. The street builds as the rider goes, then they carry the box to the door and ride off. The colors, the wordmark and the heart icon come straight from Ando's own site, so it looks like them from the first frame.

City Kitch is one place with multiple menus, so the box fills up from a bunch of kitchens: a rice bowl, jollof, sushi, biryani, cornbread. Their cleaver icon even chops the scallions. A green box truck weaves through traffic, the box flies off and becomes a house, and the walls fold open on a family sharing the whole spread.

Surefire is the opposite of a delivery story. People come to them, so the camera never chases the food, it just keeps zooming out. A patty gets smashed on the flat top, the burger goes in a box, the box turns out to be one of many on a conveyor belt, the belt runs through a toy kitchen, the kitchen sits inside the whole restaurant and market, and the restaurant sits on a busy block. Then the lights go down and the sign glows with the late night hours, because that's the hook.

Every scene is built and animated from a Python script inside Blender. That means a change like swapping a truck for a motorcycle, a burger for a rice bowl, or writing a new ending is an edit and a rerender, not a rebuild. I traced each logo into 3D, matched brand colors to the hex, and designed the sound effects in code so every plop, fold and horn lands on the frame.