AniKey @ Annecy

Bonjour bonjour everybody! Well we're back from the Annecy 2007 festival and we had an excellent time over there.
We met lots of cool people & talented artists. We had a couple of drinks. We saw a lot of great films and shorts (and unfortunately as always a lot of crappy ones as well) . We had a couple of drinks. We had a relaxing time on the beautiful lake. We had a couple of drinks.
Check out some of the pics from last week:

Most of the week we hung out with Ka-Ching Joost and many other people from the Skunk Fu crew working for Cartoon Saloon. All wonderful artists and we updated some of the links to their blogs, so be sure to check them out.

Next year we'll definitely be there again and hopefully we'll be having our short playing in the festival as well.

We'll be posting some more pics later! Au revoir!

Viva La France

We'll be leaving to France tomorrow to attend the animationfestival in Annecy!


We'll be back next week!

Au revoir people

(PS Thanks to Bas for the picture)

They came from outer space

Top secret alien character designs concept art stuff.
Including some in hipster-emo-style.

VPRO Interview with Anikey Studios

We got interviewed the other week by the VPRO TV Guide for our work on the film 'n Beetje Verliefd.

Forest pan PART DEUX!

Whoa. It's, like...superlong.

Forest pan

Uncomplete forest pan. To be continued!

Paultje & de Draak Storyboard

Here are some shots from the new storyboard we are doing for Paultje & De Draak animated short.

Lousy drunk

What beter way to enjoy your new Wacom Cintiq than with smooth ice cold Duff!

Pigeons!

Some pigeon sketches. Tweet. Tweet.

Enter the dragon

Some new sketches for the Dragon:

Arr, damn that dam!

Pissed off fishermen. Including a tribute to Popeye the sailerman.

This one is for you, Cor

Concept art for the next episode of 'Landgenoten' about Cornelis Lely, a famous Dutch engineer, responsible for the Zuiderzee Works, which meant the enclosure of the Zuiderzee by building the Afsluitdijk:

The life of an animator: Beer, strippers & plants

SO in a pathetic attempt to lure more visitors to our little blog, we thought we'd post some pictures of hot chicks. And beer. And a plant!

I got Albert the Jessica Rabbit statue from Disneyland.
Albert says he can't remember where he got the Duffbeer from.
The plant we got from my sister. We called him Charlie. Doesn't he look happy?
The stripper is a birthdaycard illustration.

Burn, baby, burn!

This week we're going insane on ' Paul & the Dragon', improving the story, burning all the old storyboards down, making fresh new layouts and designs. It's mental.
We'll post some new storyboard panels soon. Here's a new sketch for the dragon:

Knighty Knight

Quick character sketch for the openingsscene of 'Paul & the Dragon'.

~Paco