Grachtenhuis Animations

Here are two short animations directed by fellow studio companion Joost Lieuwma, for which I made the backgrounds.

Animated Indy line-up

Something from the Animated Indy Archive.

More barbarians

Topps Galaxy 7 - basecard artwork

Here are two pieces I made for the upcoming Star Wars Galaxy 7 trading cards set from Topps. The Jabba piece is done with acrylics and colored pencil on MDF board, Yoda was done entirely in Photoshop.

Topps Star Wars Galaxy 7 - sketchcards

For the upcoming Topps Star Wars Galaxy 7 trading cards set I've created 50 sketchcards as well as 2 basecards. I can't show the artwork for the basecards yet, but my sketchcards are approved, so here you go.

Snowy Girl

I'm trying out some new stuff and techniques I've been thinking about.

And what do we have here? The first piece of handdrawn animation I made in a long time! Could it be part of something bigger? Who knows?

Considerati

Here's a short film I just finished with Joost Lieuwma en Lukas Krepel. Joost did the designs, Lukas flexed his animation muscles and I did the backgrounds and some of the animation.

Tulok update time

Here is a rough paste-together of the current state of the Tulok poster, with the logos and everything that I will add once the painting is done.

Tulok

If only the 80's had been so kind. An animated Sword and Sorcery feature, not afraid to show buckets of blood and naked bodyparts. Mark my words, if I ever win the lottery, I promise to make this film. Untill that time, I'll have the poster.

The final piece will be painted with acrylics on MDF board. I'm working on this in my sparetime, so it will probably take a while before it's finished, but I've been having so much fun with this already. I can't wait for the weekend!

Way of the Barbarian

Going through one of these phases again.

No time for love, Dr. Jones!

Yes, the inevitable happened. Woke up behind my desk in the middle of the night, to find out I was half way done with a Shorty maquette, to accompany Indy on his adventures on my bookshelve.

Indy animated maquette

Here is something I've been working on in my spare time for a while now, it's a maquette of everyone's favorite Nazi punching archeologist, Dr. Henry Jones jr.! Below is a rather blurry picture of the original sculpt before the molds were made, hopefully I can show a picture of the painted resin cast soon!