Better late than never...

Make A Wish Foundation

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

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

Character design concepts for an upcoming project.

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!

Demoreel 2010

With Bolton, you can!

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

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!

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

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

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

'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.

More character designs for Fallin' Floyd.

Medusa

I hate to be her optician.

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

Another character design for "Fallin' Floyd".

Take me drunk I'm home!

Character design for 'Fallin' Floyd'.

Hermes

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

Poseidon!

God of the seas.

Cyclops

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

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

Ani-versary

Anikey turned 3! Yay. We had cake.

Paul & the Dragon on TV

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

Different sketches and illustrations for all kinds of projects.

Triple Trouble!

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: