Writer · Animator · Cognitive Science

Ali
Ghorbani AKA
Coughy.

Writer. Traditional effects animator. Student of cognitive science. Working somewhere between drawn movement, strange ideas, perception, fiction, and controlled visual chaos.

See the work Who is this guy?
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Animation loop 01

Current project.

"Little Spaceship"
music: King Oseaun
animation: Ali Ghorbani
Release date: TBA
Little Spaceship — Current Project

Three practices.
No brain.

Not three unrelated résumés. The writing informs the ideas, the science informs the questions, and animation gives them motion.
01 / WRITING

Writer

Fiction, essays, strange premises, narrative experiments and philosophical troublemaking.

02 / ANIMATION

Traditional Effects Animator

Frame-by-frame fire, smoke, energy, impact, transformation, motion and hand-drawn mess.

03 / SCIENCE

Cognitive Science

Perception, consciousness, cognition and the mechanisms underneath experience.

Selected work.

Surmali ghiz — Animated Short Film [2018]
Traditional effects animation FX animation
ongoing project
Experiment

I make things
that move.
And things
that think.

Animation is not decoration. Writing is not filler. Science is not branding.

I’m Ali Ghorbani, also working as Coughy / Coughman. My practice moves between traditional animation, writing and cognitive science, with a particular interest in perception, movement, strange systems and ideas that are easier to show than explain.