Hey! Who turned off the lights?

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

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!

Paultje & de Draak: now available

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

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

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

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

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

New website. Finally(!)

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!

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

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

Sounds good.

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

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

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!