People always ask how long these illustrations take - turns out this one took 4 hours. Here's the whole process in 12minutes.

Here's a higher res video of the animation

Wait you’re telling me great things take time?? Gorgeous work.

Great work Dan. Your work is the inspiration i started working on these kinda illustrations too. What do you think?

What is it about Raycast that drives its designers to suffer in Figma this way

The only way to keep @pitnikola and @thomaspaulmann out of your files is to make sure they make the fans spin up.

oooo i'm going to checkout skew skew, i was wondering how people manage accurate isomorphic transformation in figma

I think it's the best.

so so grateful for what you do

wow

Clueless question: Why not design it in 3D? With the benefit of viewing it from any angle?

You screen recorded the whole thing? That's incredible and - thanks for sharing!! Having watched it back, is there anything you think you should have done differently?

Not taken so long.

4 hours to produce this is a very good return on your time investment, in my opinion. It's awesome

Incredible! Thanks for sharing

it ain't much but it's honest work /s 🔥

Damn I love seeing the craft behind these - so cool of you to share the process 😊

do they pay good for this hard work? :D cool shi

Looks amazing Dan, can't wait for the physical book

These illustrations are one of my favorite details while reading your book Impressive work Dan!

Incredible So much respect

That's awesome to see the process. Really great work Dan

wow! thanks for sharing your creative process. thats awesome.

this is all hand drawn in figma?

Yep

any reason why you don't use the svg instead of img?

this is so nice! I generally use oblique plugin for the extrusion part because sometimes there are lot of complex shapes which needs to be extruded in a certain angle

Fuck that’s god damn magic brother

Four hours of work, I believe this is an exceptional performance. From now on, I’ll be your fan. Regarding the sketches, did you use references or draw them yourself?

Man you are pretty good with vectors. Makes me want to practice this too.

Insane ..I'd make a 3d model in 45 min lol

Thanks for sharing! Is it not faster to use cad?

Probably, but I'd have to learn CAD.

Waiting for people who "do it with AI in 4 minutes"

How do you animate these illustrations? Do you prototype and screen record them or export the svg to lottile labs and animate it?

wow. this is awesome

4 Hours + years of experience

that's cool but what if it was divs with 3d css transforms instead

Really great work man 🔥

hella dope

Type of designer I aspire to be.

@nlevin 🤯