How the Indonesian siblings behind Animasinopal found YouTube success through animation and ‘pure chaos’

Naufal said his new house is also more conducive for creating content. “Now we have air conditioning but back then, huddling together to record lines was like recording in a furnace,” he said. 

The walls in the new house also isolate noise much better. “Sometimes when we screamed for help when recording lines, people actually come to our (old) house. Like once, when we had a fire scene,” said Naufal.  

Elements of their new place have also found their way into their videos – like the fish pond which Naufal’s father specially asked for. It makes regular appearances in Nadiah’s own YouTube channel – where Naufal is seen parodying The Little Mermaid. In another their father dips his feet in as though he was at a fish spa.

SEEKING FRESH IDEAS (FROM THE TOILET)

To keep the channel’s content exciting, Animasinopal has since ventured beyond the Cuty-verse. While the cast of characters were limited to Nopal’s family members, Cuty and her friends in the early days, “now, I want new and different concepts, like talking animals and body parts,” said Naufal.  

“I get most of my ideas while going to the loo and when I look at the environment around me to look for ideas, I thought ‘oh yes, the materials are just here,’” said Naufal. “Turns out there are many stories that you can make from the toilet world.”

This has given birth to a series of videos featuring the adventures of anthropomorphised waste matter in the human gastrointestinal system. Yes, you read that right. Animasinopal also animates body parts such as the brain, pimples and body cells.