- Designer: Supercell's Internal Creative/Animation Team
- Client: Brawl Stars x Duolingo
- Category: Video Design — Animation
- Project Brief: Create an animated video that promotes the Brawl Stars x Duolingo crossover through expressive character animation, fast-paced humor, and cinematic action.
Animation video that fuses two brands has to make the crossover feel inevitable. Supercell stages a Brawl Stars and Duolingo mashup, casting the Duolingo owl as an overpowered boss dropped into the game's cartoon world for a "Boss Fight: Duo!" mode.
The character animation carries the joke. Spike holds up a tablet flashing the Brawl Stars logo while the deadpan green owl looms behind, so both mascots stay perfectly on-model and in character.
The art direction blends both houses cleanly. Brawl Stars' bold outlines and bright park backdrops wrap the Duolingo owl in its own style, so the guest fits the world instead of looking pasted in.
The language gag ties it together. Floating "ciao," "hallo," and "goddag" prompts around the scowling owl turn Duolingo's education mission into a battle taunt, so the app's whole language-learning purpose becomes the fight itself.
