Anikey Studios

Hansel & Gretel trailer

2012-01-20T14:57:00.003+01:00

Coming soon to an iPad near you! A big thanks to the art & animation team:
David Muchtar, Jelle Brunt Sjan Weijers and Ruben Zaalberg! And of course to Paul! We couldn't have done it without you guys!

Yogi extravaganza

2011-12-23T10:25:00.009+01:00

The past 5 months we did some more short stories featuring the 3 Yogis. Animated for tv talkshow Chatney.nl by Hindu network OHM, created together again with the help of special guest animator Jelle Brunt. Be sure to at least check out Episode 8 and learn the true meaning of Diwali, the festival of lights.

Episode 8: The Diwali Holiday Special:

Episode 7: A New Guru

Episode 6: The Fire Offering

Episode 5: Hapiness

Episode 4: A New Hope

Some backgroundart:

Casa Luna

2011-12-06T20:53:00.004+01:00

Last night we were interviewed live on Dutch Radio 1 show 'Casa Luna'.
We talked about 'Paul and the Dragon', Klaus Wunderlich and the upcoming featurefilm 'Trippel Trappel'. If you missed it, (because you were probably sleeping) or if you simply just can't get enough of the soothing sounds of Klaus Wunderlich, you can listen to the show HERE.

Epic Tales: sneak peek

2011-11-23T18:37:00.007+01:00

The past months we've been very busy creating tons of animations & backgroundart for the soon to be released iPad app 'Epic Tales', developer and publisher of interactive storybooks for the iPad. The first story is the fairytale of Hansel and Gretel and is told by the dwarf Silvertongue. Here's a little preview of what's to come:

More information and artwork coming soon!

Little Quentin wins ‘Gouwuh Règâh’

2011-10-13T10:01:00.008+02:00

Yesterday at the Shoot Me film & music festival our film 'Little Quentin' won the Gouwuh Règâh / the Golden Heron award!
(The heron is the weapon of the city The Hague)

Sinterklaas is coming to town

2011-10-07T13:55:00.013+02:00

Yesterday we received the great news that the Netherlands Film Fund has granted us & our producers at il Luster films financial support for our first animated featurefilm 'Trippel Trappel'.
This means a lot not only for us as a studio, but it's a great deal for the Dutch animation industry as well. We want to thank the Film Fund and everyone who has been involved in some way in developing the film to this point:
Michiel, Arnoud & Chris from il Luster of course.
Ronald and Jeroen from Bob Kommer sound studios.
And of course all the collegues and interns who contributed to the project so far. A big digital round of applause for:
David de Rooij, Jelle Brunt, Junaid Chundrigar, Davor Bujakovic, Ben Vinkenburg, Justin Wallace and Wouter Tulp.

Concept art for the film.

Now let's go make that movie!

Wiz Art Trophy

2011-07-11T14:08:00.002+02:00

We just received this beautiful Wiz Art Trophy in the mail :)

Little Quentin wins Wiz-Art Grandprix

2011-06-01T16:19:00.006+02:00

Our film "Little Quentin" won the Grand Prix on the IV International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art in Lviv, Ukraine! This is what the jury had to say about our little cartoon noir:
"This film impressed us with its light and fearless storytelling, with its characters and its humor. In a strange world we become partners in crime and go along with the plot to a surprising twists with unseen horrors." A big thanks to the jury and organization of Wiz-Art!

Return of the Yogi

2011-05-18T15:56:00.007+02:00

The 3 yogis story continues in this episode where they get stuck in...a tree. Or do they?

Animated for tv talkshow Chatney.nl for Hindu network OHM, created together again with the help of special guest animator Jelle Brunt.
And some backgroundart:

Fallin' Floyd artwork I

2011-04-15T11:19:00.016+02:00

After weeks of story changes, we've now finally started animation on 'Fallin' Floyd', and here's a selection of pre-production artwork:
Ben Vinkenburg has developed some great colorboards and a lot of concept art, exploring the look and feel for the film:

Character sketches and designs by Jelle Brunt:

Modelsheets and concept art by Paco:

Dyflexis

2011-04-12T12:25:00.005+02:00

We made a short animated video for Dyflexis, a company that develops online software for personnel planning. The video explains in 1 minute how the company works:

The Yogi Strikes Back

2011-03-28T15:01:00.009+02:00

Our epic yogi saga continues in this second episode. This time the three yogis are faced with an old problem. It features cooking, cleaning and taking out the old garbage. Check it out:

Again with a tight deadline, animated for tv talkshow Chatney.nl for Hindu network OHM , it broadcast last weekend on Nederland 2, and with the help of superanimator Jelle Brunt, we were able to finish this piece in the course of a week.
Some backgroundart:

Cam-on-in!

2011-03-24T16:00:00.004+01:00

We recently animated a short promo for company Camonin, an online communicationplatform which makes it easy to contact companies and professionals through live chat and videoconnection. This explains in 1 minute what the company's about:

Concept sketch:

Keep on fallin'

2011-03-22T16:10:00.007+01:00

We're currently close to finishing the final final final story changes of our next shortfilm 'Fallin' Floyd'. In the meantime the talented backgroundteam, Ben & Robin, have been working hard on the 2D/3D backgrounds.

Here's some work in progress from the film:

credits: backgroundart by Ben, characters by Paco.

Little Quentin festival madness

2011-03-15T14:42:00.010+01:00

Our film 'Little Quentin' has been selected for 7 new filmfestivals, all across the globe, from Nijmegen to Melbourne. Excellent!

Go Short, Nijmegen, 16th - 20th March 2011:

Art Filmfest, Slovakia, June 17th - 25th:

Melbourne International Animation Festival, June 19th - 26th:

Brussels Short Film Festival, April 28th - May 8th:

Animabasauri/Animabasque, Bilbao, April 1st - 8th:

Badalona, Catalonia, November 4th - 12th:

Imagine, Amsterdam, April 13th - 23rd:

Yogi Yogi!

2011-02-28T14:03:00.013+01:00

Here's a short animated story we animated for tv talkshow Chatney.nl for Hindu network OHM. We finished the whole piece in less than a week:

Concept art by Jelle Brunt:

Concept and background art by Paco Vink:

Anikey @ Ochtendspits

2011-02-24T10:07:00.007+01:00

We were interviewed by the morning news show 'Ochtendspits' about animation in Holland. Our item starts at 6:00 minutes into the broadcast, after the bit about the 96 year old prostitute. Click the image to watch the video:

Bekijk de video in andere formaten.

Oh boy oh boy!

2011-02-02T10:58:00.003+01:00

Monday my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! His Uncle Paco made this drawing for him which we printed on a large wallpaper and is now decorating one of the walls in his room :)

Festival Update!

2011-01-12T10:35:00.011+01:00

Our animated short 'Little Quentin' has been selected to play at the following festivals:

4-12, February Clermont Ferrand:21-26 March, Festival International du Film d'Aubagne6-15 May, Planete Doc:So if you're anywhere near France or Poland the coming months go get them tickets!

Startin' Floyd

2011-01-05T18:48:00.003+01:00

A new year, a new short film. This week we started working on Falling Floyd. We're doing some final rewrites on the story about the man and his demon.
More coming soon.

I read the news today oh boy

2011-01-05T11:38:00.004+01:00

Today in newspaper 'Trouw' an article about animated features in Holland, including a couple of pre-production drawings from 'Trippel Trappel', the featurefilm we're working on. Find a digital version of the article here.

Better late than never...

2010-12-27T17:28:00.003+01:00

Make A Wish Foundation

2010-12-15T13:54:00.012+01:00

A couple of weeks ago we were asked by the Dutch Make A Wish Foundation, a non profit organization established to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, to help fulfill the wish of a young man; Mats van Balen. Mats is a big fan of Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean. So we wrote a little story for a short pirate film Mats could star in. Then we teamed up with animation studio Mirage 3D to film Mats against a green screen as the famous Captain ~~Jack Sparrow~~ Mats! Later in the studio we put Mats in different scenes. Mats even helped animating some of the characters and scenes!
Check out the short film 'The Adventures of Captain Mats" below:

It was a really fun day; check out some photos below:

*BONUS* Here are some of the awesome backgrounds Ben made for the film:

Hope you enjoyed this day Mats! We sure did!

Paul & Dragon coloring book

2010-12-10T11:29:00.008+01:00

Last year we already posted some coloring pages but now it's finally here! A while ago we finished the Paul and Dragon coloring and puzzlebook and this week we received the first books. It contains 25 pages full of puzzles and coloring pages for the kids. It'll soon be available in the VOKK store, but for now you check out some of the pages below:

Fantasy character designs

2010-12-08T11:54:00.006+01:00

Character design concepts for an upcoming project.

Another Festival Update!

2010-11-16T11:23:00.012+01:00

'Paul & the Dragon' is now playing at the 30th Amiens International Film Festival in France. It's shwowing in the Panorama - European animation cinema- program from the 12th-20th of November.

Then our second shortfilm 'Little Quentin'will be playing at the International Shortfilmfestival Leuven in Belgium in the Going Dutch 3 selection.

We're honored to be selected in the same Festival Favourites selection as Michael Dudok de Wit's Oscar winning Father and Daughter.

Little Quentin @ HAFF 2010

2010-11-04T09:38:00.004+01:00

Another festival update! 'Little Quentin' will be playing today and this weekend at the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht. It's in the Dutch Animation Competition (Audience Award) and it will be shown in Movies 1, today at 20:30 and Saturday 6th of November at 12:30!

Little Quentin @ Leids Film Festival

2010-10-29T18:03:00.005+02:00

Little Quentin will be playing in the 'Dutch New Animation' competition this weekend at the Leids Film Festival in Leiden! You don't have to pay for a ticket, even the more reason to check it out if you're in the neighbourhood!

Demoreel 2010

2010-10-06T14:21:00.001+02:00

With Bolton, you can!

2010-09-21T16:40:00.010+02:00

Recently we finished this short animated project for real estate development company Bolton. With the help of animation talents David de Rooij & Jelle Brunt, we show how Bolton can solve and customize your new house. Watch the film below:

Here's some visual development and concept art:

Little Quentin @ NFF 2010

2010-09-07T10:46:00.004+02:00

Our animated cartoon noir 'LITTLE QUENTIN' will be playing at the Nederlands Film Festival 2010.
It will be shown on these days accompanying the film 'Tirza' by Rudolf van den Berg:
26-09-2010 at 16:00 in Hoogt 1
28-09-2010 at 19:30 in City
29-09-2010 at 19:30 in Rembrandt 1
30-09-2010 at 22:00 in Rembrandt 1

Denmark!

2010-09-01T14:56:00.016+02:00

Today, 'Paul and the Dragon', or as they call it in Denmark 'Lille Poul og Dragen' was officially presented to the Børnecancerfonden in Den mark! On the picture below there's Paul (not a little boy anymore) and his father handing over the dvds to Helle Nissen of the Børnecancerfonden.

Festival update

2010-07-22T16:37:00.015+02:00

Our second animated short, Little Quentin, is selected in the competition of the International Animated Film Festival Cinématou, which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 2nd to 10th 2010.

Little Quentin is also selected in the competition programme of Anima Mundi from July 16th to 25th in Rio and from July 28th to August 1st in São Paulo. The animated short Slim Pickings Fat Chances by David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt, the talented animators who also worked on Little Quentin, will also screen at the festival in the non competitive programme ‘Animation of course’.

Falling for Floyd

2010-07-05T16:37:00.003+02:00

We just got the fantastic news that the National Film Fund has granted us financial support for our third animated short film ' Fallin' Floyd'!

Paul & the Dragon goes international

2010-06-03T15:22:00.005+02:00

'Paul and the Dragon' goes to Denmark! Yes, 'Lille Poul og Dragen', as the film will be called in Danish, will be distributed in Denmark by the Børnecancerfonden.
Next up is Croatia. We're very happy the film is slowly starting to have an international audience. And look, it also makes animators Davor & Junaid very happy:

Can't live with them. Can't live without them.

2010-04-28T10:03:00.003+02:00

More character designs for Fallin' Floyd.

Medusa

2010-04-27T16:29:00.002+02:00

I hate to be her optician.

I'm not crazy, I'm a plane!

2010-04-26T15:22:00.003+02:00

Another character design for "Fallin' Floyd".

Take me drunk I'm home!

2010-04-19T17:11:00.003+02:00

Character design for 'Fallin' Floyd'.

Hermes

2010-04-01T15:25:00.002+02:00

Back in the day when people didn't have MSN, Facebook, Twitter and all that, there was Hermes, Messenger of the Gods.

Poseidon!

2010-03-26T18:28:00.001+01:00

God of the seas.

Cyclops

2010-03-25T18:03:00.001+01:00

He's a bit annoyed. And I can't blame him. You would be too if you didn't have depth perception.

Fallin' Floyd, part III

2010-03-24T17:00:00.003+01:00

Working on improving the story and creating some new concept artwork for 'Fallin' Floyd'!

Ani-versary

2010-02-25T11:02:00.002+01:00

Anikey turned 3! Yay. We had cake.

Paul & the Dragon on TV

2010-02-15T09:43:00.007+01:00

Today it's International Childhood Cancer Day; also today it's been exactly one year since our film 'Paul and the Dragon' was officially released.

This week the film will be broadcast for Dutch viewers on the digital television channel Familie 24. The film will be shown on Monday the 15th, Wednesday the 17th and Saturday the 20th of February at 20.30. Or you can watch the film online on their streaming live channel.

Sketchfest

2010-01-22T16:10:00.002+01:00

Different sketches and illustrations for all kinds of projects.

Triple Trouble!

2010-01-13T13:11:00.003+01:00

Currently we're in pre-production of our new film 'Trippel Trappel'; working on concept art, character designs, storyboards and animation tests. Recently we started a new blog together with il Luster about the film. Check it out by clicking the image below:

Paul & the Dragon coloring pages

2009-12-30T16:48:00.008+01:00

To conclude this crazy year, here are a couple of Paul and the Dragon coloring pages for the kids and a crossword puzzle (in Dutch of course) :

More coloring pages will follow in the new year!

Little Quentin Sneak Preview

2009-12-29T17:24:00.012+01:00

About 2 weeks ago our new animated short 'Little Quentin' had its festive sneak preview first screening for friends, family and collegues in filmtheatre 't Hoogt.
'Little Quentin' was shown together in an action packed double bill presentation with the animated short film 'Pivot', also produced by il Luster films. It was really fantastic and we wanna thank everyone that came to our little party!

Check out some photos below:

HO freakin' HO!

2009-12-18T18:03:00.002+01:00

I heard the news today, oh boy...

2009-11-04T23:55:00.010+01:00

Well actually yesterday. RTL news came to take a look in our studio for a small item about the Holland Animation Festival and Dutch animation.

Click on the image below to watch the item (we come in at 0:50):

Anikey @ HAFF 2009

2009-11-04T16:27:00.008+01:00

Tomorrow the Holland Animation Festival 2009 starts and our film 'Paul and the Dragon' will feature in 2 competitions; the competition Commissioned films 1 and the competition Dutch Animation Audience Award 3 .
If you want to catch the film, it will be shown in different theatres every day of the festival:

5 november, competition commissioned films, 14:30 in Kikker
6 november, competition Dutch Animation Audience Award, 20:30 in Movies 1
7 november, competition Dutch Animation Audience Award, 14:30 in Movies 2
8 november, competition commissioned films, 14:30 in Hoogt 2

We are the children...

2009-11-04T16:12:00.007+01:00

While this picture may look like we recorded a Christmas single to raise money for a good cause this Monday, we actually had a lot of fun recording some temporary scratch voice acting at Bob Kommer for the feature film we're currently setting up.

il Luster & Anikey in the press

2009-11-04T15:54:00.008+01:00

This weeks VPRO TV guide brings an interview (in Dutch of course) with our producer Michiel Snijders from il Luster with some nice pictures and info on films produced by il Luster, including Paul and the Dragon. Then there's also a nice small article about Anikey in business magazine ZJournaal:

Cinekid 2009

2009-11-04T15:42:00.006+01:00

We had a great screening and a nice short Q&A of Paul and the Dragon at Cinekid. Afterwards we got a nice Cinekid Certificate and a pile of chocolate.

That's a wrap!

2009-10-23T11:18:00.004+02:00

Yesterday we wrapped up the final audio mix for Little Quentin at Bob Kommer Studios. Now it's ready to go on film! Couple of weeks ago we already did a little test at Cineco, it looked great and so we got our very first filmroll! Bonus: the final final poster of the film:

Anima Mundi award

2009-10-23T10:52:00.003+02:00

The beautiful Anima Mundi award from Rio de Janeiro! The character even walks when you pull the small lever on the globe. Obrigado, Brasil!

Festivals update!

2009-09-17T10:16:00.009+02:00

Paul and the Dragon will be shown at quite a few festivals in Holland the upcoming months.
First, we have the KLIK animation festival in Amsterdam. This Saturday the film will play in the Hollandse Nieuwe (Fresh animation from the Netherlands) shows at 14:00 in De Balie Small and on Sunday at 16:30 at the Kriterion.

Later this month the film will play at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. It will play on Friday the 25th of September at Hoogt 2 at 14:00 and on Wednesday the 30th of September at Hoogt 3 at 22:15.

Then in October, the film will play at the Cinekid festival in Amsterdam, on Friday the 23rd at Ketelhuis 1 at 14:00.

Finally the film will play at the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) in Utrecht. It will enter the commissioned shorts competition and the audience award for Dutch animation.

Little Quentin poster

2009-09-09T08:46:00.003+02:00

The official film poster for our new short film 'Little Quentin'. Voila.

Sweet Sounds!

2009-09-07T13:41:00.022+02:00

Here are some photos taken at the Bob Kommer Sound Studios where we recorded the sound effects for our new animated short, 'Little Quentin':

Paul & The Dragon wins Brazil

2009-08-12T09:47:00.006+02:00

Paul & The Dragon did well at the Anima Mundi festival in Brazil
We won 1st prize for Best Short for Children in Rio de Janeiro.
Click HERE to see a list of all the winners:

We also came in 2nd at the festival in Sao Paulo.
A big shout out and thank you to all the local Brazilian people who voted for the film.
Hope to be there in Rio next year!

'Paul & the Dragon' wins Divercine!

2009-07-17T17:23:00.010+02:00

Last week Paul & the Dragon won the price for 'Best Animated Film' in Montevideo, Uruguay, at the the 18th International Uruguayan Film Festival for Children and Teen-agers, DIVERCINE. The film also got a Special Mention on the festival. Excellent!

This is what the jury had to say about it:

"Por el excelente guión que, sin diálogos, logra transmitir lúdicamente la visión y las emociones de un niño ante el diagnóstico de cáncer en su cuerpo. Logra encontrar humor donde habitualmente sólo hay drama y logra encontrar vida donde se cree que solo hay muerte"

Roughly translated by Google:

"Its excellent script, without any dialogue, manages to convey the vision and playful emotions of a child before the diagnosis of cancer in his body. It finds humor where there is usually only tragedy and finds life where it is believed that there is only death"

Interview Digital Movie Magazine

2009-07-17T15:16:00.009+02:00

A couple of weeks ago we got interviewed by Digital Movie Magazine. Here's the result with a whoppin' four pages interview (in dutch) full of 'Paul and the Dragon' goodness:

'Floyd'...falling soon!

2009-07-03T14:57:00.008+02:00

This week we got the most excellent news that the National Film Fund has granted us financial support for the pre-production of our new animated shortfilm
'Fallin' Floyd'.
This means after wrapping up 'Little Quentin' this summer, we can start the pre-production of two new film projects: a short and a feature film. Excellent.

The End is Nigh

2009-06-23T12:14:00.003+02:00

As we are slowly approaching the final scenes, here are a couple of stills from our upcoming new animated short film noir 'Little Quentin'.

Paul travels to South America

2009-06-23T11:18:00.014+02:00

Even more festival news: Paul and the Dragon will be playing at the 18th International Uruguayan Film Festival for Children and Teen-agers, DIVERCINE 2009, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, between the 29th June and the 12th July 2009.
'Paul y el dragón' will be playing there on Saturday the 4th and Friday the 10th of July in the Sala Zitarrosa theatre. After Divercine, the film will be playing at different festivals in South America.
Below you can see the shiny Hermína Týrlová Award, we won at the Zlin festival in Czech Republic. It's sorta looks like a magic crystal ball, except you can't predict the future with it, but when you place it in the bowl, you can spin it around and it keeps spinning for a real long time, which is awesome.

Paul & the Dragon wins Zlin!

2009-06-08T11:04:00.015+02:00

This Saturday our film, Paul & the Dragon, has won another prize; the excellent Hermina Tyrlov Award (Award for Young Artists aged fewer than 35) at the 49th Zlin international Film Festival for Children and Youth!

For Dutch visitors, read all about it on Dutch news sites: NU.nl and Telegraaf.nl

*UPDATE*: Click HERE for another nice Dutch review of the film by filmsite Movie2Movie. Four out of five stars.

P&D screening @ Warner Bros.

2009-06-02T10:47:00.007+02:00

Bob Beresh was kind enough to organize a screening of 'Paul and the Dragon' at the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank on Friday, the 12th of June at 7:00pm.
If you're in the neighborhood, we hope you'll be able to make it to the screening.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to paulscreening@gmail.com with the names of all guests. Bob made this nice official invitation for the screening:

P&D mini international website

2009-05-21T17:29:00.012+02:00

Better late than never: here's the international website for 'Paul and the Dragon'. It's basically a mini version of the Dutch version with all the basic information about the film, plus the trailer available in glorious HD!

In other news, the film got selected for the Anima Mundi Festival 2009 in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil! Excellent!

Stuttgart Animation festival

2009-05-15T15:47:00.005+02:00

Here's a small impression of the 16^th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
We had a couple of very successful screenings of 'Paul & the Dragon', had too many bratwurst and got into a couple of nasty fights with some Dreamworks characters:

Fallin' Floyd, part II

2009-05-02T15:53:00.003+02:00

More early designs for Floyd! Still trying to find a nice mix in cut-out shapes and hand drawn animation.

P&D wins @ Ranimatie!

2009-04-28T10:26:00.009+02:00

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!

2009-04-24T17:27:00.008+02:00

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

2009-04-17T16:43:00.008+02:00

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!

2009-04-14T15:49:00.013+02:00

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!

2009-04-14T15:26:00.005+02:00

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

Saint Nick is coming to town

2009-04-07T18:22:00.012+02:00

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

Stuttgart here we come!

2009-03-26T09:49:00.010+01:00

'Paultje en de Draak' will be playing at the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film in Germany. It's been selected for the Tricks for Kids competition. We'll be attending the festival from the 5th till the 10th of May.

Warm up sketches

2009-03-09T17:58:00.004+01:00

Couple of warm up sketches from this cold February. Let spring commence. Please.

Paultje in the news

2009-02-13T10:45:00.010+01:00

On the 15th of February, International Childhood Cancer Day, our film Paultje en de Draak will be officially released and distributed in Holland.
Yesterday Paul himself presented the dvd in the Radboud Hospital in Nijmegen.
The newsshow Hart van Nederland was there to report and you can watch their item here: Hart Van Nederland.
Also special thanks to Animated News and AnimatieBlog for mentioning the film in this week's news.

And now for something completely different

2009-02-05T11:36:00.003+01:00

When I grow up I want to make a movie about pirates and monkeys. That'd be great.

Hey! Who turned off the lights?

2009-01-19T12:53:00.008+01:00

Last week we were out of sugar in the studio and Jelle panicked. To make it up to him, I got a megapack o' sugar and as a bonus here are a couple of moviestills from Little Quentin, our hipster dark darky dark cartoon noir:

Hey, look at the date

2009-01-07T17:13:00.015+01:00

It's 2009. And we're gonna work hard to make this the year of excellence.
So we're blasting off the first post of this year with some stuff from our new weird short film Little Quentin. Here's a little teaser poster (sorta Saul Bass ~~ripped off~~ inspired) and a couple of modelsheets for some of the characters:

Happy Holidays!

2008-12-23T16:55:00.005+01:00

Paultje & de Draak: now available

2008-12-17T14:15:00.007+01:00

This week the dvds of the film arrived and also the excellent Paul and the Dragon Special Edition funpack with quartet card game, stickers, pencils, pinball-game and friends/game book. Christmas comes early this year:

Paultje in 3D

2008-12-13T12:32:00.019+01:00

A couple of weeks ago we visited sculptor Frans van Straaten in his studio.
He'd saved three of the larger Paultje sculptures (made for the The Quality of Life Gala ) for us and we picked them up :

Once again, thanks a lot, Frans! The sculpture got a nice spot in our studio!

Little Quentin kick off

2008-11-27T18:36:00.016+01:00

BAM! We started animating on our new animated shortfilm 'Little Quentin'.
Check out some concept art below:

Including some new artwork by the talented David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt:

The Premiere

2008-11-12T11:08:00.012+01:00

Last Sunday at the Holland Animation Festival 2008 our film 'Paultje en de Draak' or 'Paul and the Dragon' had its festive premiere!
It was really fantastic and we wanna thank everyone that came to our party!
Check out some photos below:

*Bonus update* We were also interviewed by the daily festival newspaper, HAFF Daily:

Postermania

2008-10-31T17:15:00.015+01:00

Here are the 4 different movieposters for Paul & the Dragon:

New website. Finally(!)

2008-10-16T16:07:00.009+02:00

Hey, we recently launched a new Paul & the Dragon website.
You can check out the trailer, wallpapers and lots of other info about the film by clicking here:

It even has a freaking guestbook and everything. Some parts are still under construction so watch out where you click.
English version coming soon. A special thanks to HoYin Man and Pepijn Blom for their amazing mad programming skills.

2.1 million!

2008-10-07T11:41:00.020+02:00

Last weekend all the rich and famous gathered at
the Quality of Life Gala to raise money for child cancer research. The theme of the evening was our film 'Paul and the Dragon'. For the auction 50 famous Dutch people painted a statue of our Paul character, a nice bronze statue of Paul was auctioned, some jewelry of the characters and lots of other stuff. Paul himself and his family were also there and in the end 2.1 million was raised to support child cancer research, which is amazing.
Check out some pictures below:

Newspaper article:

New logo, new address, new studio

2008-10-03T15:08:00.012+02:00

This week we moved to a bigger and better studio!
Our new address is:

Binckhorstlaan 36
2516 BE, Den Haag
The Netherlands

Pictures and more exciting news coming very soon!

It's...finished

2008-09-19T18:26:00.006+02:00

Sounds good.

2008-09-04T09:36:00.011+02:00

Clean-up and backgroundart are finished! The brilliant soundtrack by Maarten Spruijt is finished!
And earlier this week we finished recording soundeffects for the film at Bob Kommer Studios.
It was a lot of fun and we'd like to thank Ronald & Jeroen for their professional work, good stories and lots of laughs.

Exciting Update

2008-08-19T16:48:00.006+02:00

So we got good news and we got bad news.
The good news is: we are still alive after finishing the rough version of the entire film. The bad news is we still have to do a shitload of clean-up, coloring, compositing and background painting. And we do not know if we will survive this.
One of us will probably lose an arm, but that's the sacrifice one has to make in creating an animated film.
This will most likely be the coverart:

Welcome to the third dimension

2008-06-23T16:28:00.005+02:00

Last week talented sculptor Frans van Straaten paid us a visit and showed us the model of Paul he's working on.
Check out the beautiful sculpture from all angles below:

FUN HOBBY-TIP OF THE WEEK: If you have nothing to do in the weekends, print the image above 100 times, put them next to each other and run past it. You've created your very own 360 turnaround animation of Paultje, because Albert was too ~~lazy~~ busy to do it for you. Thanks to Monsieur Daan Faudet for the photos!

Wohoo!!! Little Quentin coming soon...

2008-06-19T10:45:00.003+02:00

We just got news that the National Film Fund has granted us financial support for our 2nd movie Little Quentin.
Prepare for this bizarre tail in 2009!

Let us feed the hungry blog!

2008-06-11T17:19:00.010+02:00

Whoa! Blog, we almost forgot you existed! We haven't fed you for almost 2 months, you must be hungry as a dragon! So let us now submerge you with random updates. How about some backgroundart as a starter:

Then a short clip as a main course. With some tasty music by musical maestro Maarten Spruijt:

If that hasn't fulfilled your appetite, here's a strawberry-topped dessert:

Bon Appetit!

Images that will make your life richer

2008-04-23T18:21:00.008+02:00

Whoa. Check out this crazy SUPERcollage of screenshots. Click it. They may be tiny, but that's also what makes them cute. Clicky:

BONUS UPDATE: Background image from one of the fast Michael Bay like action scenes from the film. In fact, it goes by so fast, that you'll miss all the actual detail from the painting, as it flies by in less than a nano-second. But thanks to Blogger you can now enjoy it. So let's thank Blogger for making our lives richer.

More Previews!

2008-04-07T13:19:00.004+02:00

Here are 2 more sneak previews from the Paul & the Dragon movie

The first scene is where Paul has just entered his fantasy world and encounters a new friend.

Second scene is where we are introduced to the dragon.