Epic Tales: sneak peek

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!

Sinterklaas is coming to town

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!

Fallin' Floyd artwork I

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:

Keep on fallin'

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.

Yogi Yogi!

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:

Startin' Floyd

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.