The maneki-neko, aka the Japanese fortune cat, gets a frenetic overhaul by 26 artists in 26 seconds in this smile-inducing project put together by Moscow animation studio Petrick.

Nadya and Misha Petrick: “We approached artists from all over the world and asked them to share their vision of the famous cat’s design, then we helped with the animation.”
 

Production: Petrick
Producer: Nadya Petrick
Concept: Misha Petrick
Sound: Qbsound studio

Artists:
Ruslana Mirzaalieva | Alena Voronkova
Alena Voronkova
Patrick Sluiter
Joe Taylor | Alena Voronkova
Radik Zagidullin | Oleg Kulinich
Nikita Melnikov
Leonard Furuberg | Alena Voronkova | Vova Orlov
Dmitry Stolz | Oleg Kulinich
Mikhail Kalinin
Misha Petrick
Violett Stolz | Pavel Borisov
Vova Orlov
Valery Zarytovsky | Vova Orlov
Katya Dorokhina | Alena Voronkova
Oleg Kulinich
Ksenia Kopalova | Egor Keon
Evgeniy Yudin | Misha Petrick
ZINKETE
Pedro Piccinini | Pavel Borisov
Matthias Mödl
Alexis Tapia
Milena Vargas | Pavel Borisov
Lesha Petrick
Ilya Kazakov | Pavel Borisov
Dima Maseykin
Seva Vyvodtsev | Oleg Kulinich