2021
Rise of the Ottoman Empire
TED-Ed
In the late 13th century, Osman I established a small principality sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and a weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Rum, in what is now Turkey. In just a few generations, this territory had outmaneuvered more powerful neighbors to become the vast Ottoman Empire. What enabled its rapid rise? Mostafa Minawi details the early days of the Ottomans.
Educator: Mostafa Minawi
Director: Serin Inan
Narrator: Jack Cutmore-Scott
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director: Alex Rosenthal
Producer: Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Editorial Producer: Elizabeth Cox
Script Editor: Eden Girma
Storyboard Artist: Gürkan Gürler
Art Director: Gürkan Gürler
Animators: Tuncay Çetin, Gürkan Gürler
Layout Artists: Can Tugrul, Gürkan Gürler
Composer and Sound Designer: Deniz Dogançay
Executive Creative Director: Logan Smalley

Think Like a Coder
Client:
TED-Ed
Year:
2019 - 2020
We’re thrilled to announce our series: Think Like A Coder. This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles to fix the problems plaguing their world. Coders and the code-curious, alike, are invited to join the adventure and practice thinking like a coder!
Client: TEDed
Studio: Kozmonot Studio
Directed by: Tolga Yıldız
Written by: Alex Rosenthal
Narrated by: Addison Anderson
Producers: Gerta Xhelo, Serin İnan, Alex Rosenthal, Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Executive Producer: Logan Smalley
Creative Producer: Serin İnan
Music by: Tolga Yıldız
Edited by: Serin Inan
Animation Director: Serin Inan
Sound Design by: Deniz Dogançay
Puzzle Consultant: Eric Wastl
Production Coordinator: İpek Nurullahoğlu, Gizem Tutumlu
Concept & Character Design: Ali Anılır, İbrahim Hakkı Uslu
Character Modeling: Elif Kaya, Hür Serhat Öz
Scene Modeling: Saman Khorram, Tolga Yıldız
CG Supervisor: Saman Khorram
Layout, Animatic, Pre-visualization: Saman Khorram, Emre Çamcı
2D Motion Design and Animation: Sena Çelebi, Gürkan Gürler, Tuncay Çetin
3D Animation: Ece Gener Dogan, Emre Çamcı, Eyüphan Uslu, Çagatay Özkan, Gökhan Aslaner
Lighting, Shading and Rendering: Tolga Yıldız, Dolunay Bal
Texturing: Ali Anılır, Tolga Yıldız