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!

Wohoo!!! Little Quentin coming soon...

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!

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

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!

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.

Color me!

Here's a layout for one of the forest scenes:

Tree of Life

Currently we're working on Paul's absurdly detailed forestworld. It's a work in progress:

Enter The Dragon!

Some more screen shots for you today. As you see the last picture shows how many frames can go into a yawning dragon.

Animation process

As the following film shows we only need 3 buttons to make Paultje & de Draak.
1. The "Make Rough" button, which is pushed by Paco
2. The "Clean up" button, which is pressed by Paulo
3. The "Make It All Cool Coloury and Shiny" button which i get to press at the end of the day

Doctor

Its been while but here are some new screen dumps of the doctor suspecting something is wrong with Paultje.

Whats Up Doc?

Paultje meets Dr. Rob Pieters for the first time.