Red Riding Hood

Here's my take on Red Riding Hood, which I prepared for the Masterclass on Animation Design I gave at KLIK! last november, together with Wouter Tulp. 

Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival promo

Here is the official promo we made for Klik! Amsterdam, which takes place from 7 to 11 november in the new EYE film museum building in Amsterdam. All in all it took us about 4 weeks with a crew of 4 to complete it.Watch it in HD if you can!

Shot 33

Here's a little update. Final BG and layout for shot 33.

Some Snippets of Indy Animation

Here are two backgrounds and a finished shot of a collapsing staircase done for a piece of Indiana Jones animation I'm working on at the moment. Just for fun.

  

'Kiekje' in cinema's soon!

Here is the poster and a still from our short film 'Kiekje' (Snapshot) we've been working on for the last couple of months and just finished. It will be shown in front of Madagascar 3 in Dutch cinema's nationwide.

Full credit list:

Director: Arthur van Merwijk
Producer: Daan Velsink
Production assistent: Miek ten Brummelhuis
Project manager: Lukas Krepel

Concept: Daan Velsink
Story team: Arthur van Merwijk, Daan Velsink, Joost Lieuwma, Patrick Schoenmaker, Lukas Krepel
Storyboards: Joost Lieuwma, Patrick Schoenmaker, Arthur van Merwijk

Character and Production design: Patrick Schoenmaker
Animation: Patrick Schoenmaker, Lukas Krepel, Joost Lieuwma
Additional animation: Daan Velsink
Coloring: Miek ten Brummelhuis, Tom Clercx, Mark Bastiaan, Rogier Henkelman

Editing and Compositing: Arthur van Merwijk, Daan Velsink
Sounddesign and Foley: Jeroen Nadorp
Music: Alexander Reumers, Jorrit Kleijnen
Soundmix: Bob Kommer Studio's
DCP: NedciPro

Thanks to: Miranda Sloot, Yvonne van Ulden, Willem Thijssen, Rink Klaassen
Extra thanks to: Arno de Grijs, Egbert de Ruiter
 

Revenge of the barbarians

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.