P&D wins @ Ranimatie!

Yesterday Paul & the Dragon won the Animation for Kids price
at the Ranimatie festival in Rotterdam!
Special thanks to the jury and organization of Ranimatie!
We are now the proud owners of this most excellent lamp:

Festival news!

Last weekend 'Paul & the Dragon' won the first prize in the competition for professionals at the Zwolle Animation festival 2009. We won an Adobe CS4 software package. Excellent! Special thanks to the jury of the festival and to Adobe! The film will also be shown this weekend and Monday at the Ranimatie festival in Rotterdam. The film has also been selected for this year's International Film Festival Zlin for Children and Youth in the Chech Republik!

Fallin' Floyd

Some very early concept art for a project, where we want to try to mix cut-out animation with hand drawn animation.

P&D reviews, interviews, fanart and...oh my!

First off, a big thanks to the crew of Animated Views. They put up a review of our film Paul & The Dragon, plus they interviewed us on the making of the film.
Click *here* for the interview and *here* for the excellent review.

Then, here are two more (Dutch) reviews in two magazines, BSM magazine and Nederlands dagblad:

Last month, in connection with the International Childhood Cancer Day, the kids of primary school Johan Friso held a fundraiser for the The Dutch Childhood Cancer Parent Organisation (VOKK). Those crazy kids raised 1170,93 euros! And in class they also made these wonderful Paul & the Dragon drawings and paintings. Sweet! Check out all the other art pieces by clicking --->HERE.

Happy Easter!

So what Easter was two days ago. I was busy searching eggs.

Saint Nick is coming to town

Here are some early characters designs and sketches for an upcoming project: