Little Quentin Interview

French Art blog La Maison Wert’n had a few questions about 'Little Quentin' and Paco was happy to answer them. Click the image to go to the interview:

Little Quentin 100k views

A milestone! 'Little Quentin' reached 100.000 views on Vimeo.

Little Quentin on Vimeo

Now finally online! Our short cartoon film noir 'Little Quentin'. Proud winner of the Wiz Art Grand Prix and of course the Gouwuh Règâh 2011! Enjoy:

Little Quentin from Anikey Studios on Vimeo.

Anikey Demoreel 2012

Our new Anikey demoreel:

Little Quentin @ Cultura24

For all the Dutch digital tv viewers, you can watch 'Little Quentin' tomorrow on Cultura24 @ 20:09 in a line-up of il Luster animated short films. The program also includes the excellent films 'Bricks' & 'Twijfellied' by Frodo Kuipers and 'Vent' by Erik van Schaaik.

Little Quentin wins ‘Gouwuh Règâh’

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)

Wiz Art Trophy

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

Little Quentin wins Wiz-Art Grandprix

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!

Little Quentin festival madness

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:

Festival Update!

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!

Another Festival Update!

'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

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

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!

Little Quentin @ NFF 2010

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

Festival update

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’.

Little Quentin Sneak Preview

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!

That's a wrap!

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:

Little Quentin poster

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

Sweet Sounds!

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