Happy Holidays!

Hansel & Gretel backgrounds

Thought we would share some Epic Tales: Hansel & Gretel backgrounds with you! Lay-outs and rough colors were done by Paco and Sjan Weijers did the awesome final color rendering with all the beautiful textures and effects! We'll post some more soon.

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 = Short of the Week

'Little Quentin' is featured as Short of the Week. Check out the awesome review!

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:

Now in the Appstore: Epic Tales Hansel & Gretel!

We are proud to present our first Epic Tales animated storybook: Hansel & Gretel, now available in the Appstore. Congratulations and a big thanks once more to the art & animation team: David Muchtar, Jelle Brunt, Sjan Weijers and Ruben Zaalberg! And of course to Paul! We couldn't have done it without you guys!

Click --> HERE <-- to go directly to the App store.

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.

New adventures in India

The epic stories of the three Yogis have come to an end, but we continue to create animated short stories for the new season of tv talkshow Chatney by Hindu network OHM. This season will feature different characters, including some Hindu gods; watch the first 2 episodes here:

Concept and background art:

Of course created together again with the help of special guest animator Jelle Brunt!

Anikey - 5 years!

Today's Valentine's day. And exactly 5 years ago on this day our studio was born into existence out of love; our love for animation. Thanks to everyone we worked with the past 5 years! Here's to the next 5! Cheers! Proost! Skol!

Hansel & Gretel trailer

Coming soon to an iPad near you! A big thanks to the art & animation team:
David Muchtar, Jelle Brunt Sjan Weijers and Ruben Zaalberg! And of course to Paul! We couldn't have done it without you guys!

Yogi extravaganza

The past 5 months we did some more short stories featuring the 3 Yogis. Animated for tv talkshow Chatney.nl by Hindu network OHM, created together again with the help of special guest animator Jelle Brunt. Be sure to at least check out Episode 8 and learn the true meaning of Diwali, the festival of lights.

Episode 8: The Diwali Holiday Special:

Episode 7: A New Guru

Episode 6: The Fire Offering

Episode 5: Hapiness

Episode 4: A New Hope

Some backgroundart:

Casa Luna

Last night we were interviewed live on Dutch Radio 1 show 'Casa Luna'.
We talked about 'Paul and the Dragon', Klaus Wunderlich and the upcoming featurefilm 'Trippel Trappel'. If you missed it, (because you were probably sleeping) or if you simply just can't get enough of the soothing sounds of Klaus Wunderlich, you can listen to the show HERE.

Epic Tales: sneak peek

The past months we've been very busy creating tons of animations & backgroundart for the soon to be released iPad app 'Epic Tales', developer and publisher of interactive storybooks for the iPad. The first story is the fairytale of Hansel and Gretel and is told by the dwarf Silvertongue. Here's a little preview of what's to come:

More information and artwork coming soon!