Fons Schiedon, a designer/director residing in Amsterdam, recently partnered with the band Voicst on a music video. Feel Like a Rocket was directed and designed by Schiedon, and animated “traditionally” in Flash, set against backgrounds rendered in Illustrator, Photoshop and Maya. The project was completed in five weeks, thanks in part to the Sao Paolo-based team at BIRDO, who helped on the character animation front, much as they had on Schiedon’s 2006 13-episode run of Mobbed for MTV.
Last night at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk, the Dutch artists behind Ka-Ching Cartoons, debuted their new 7-minute Flash-animated short The 3D-Machine. Inspired by 50s monster movies, this film is actually produced in traditional 3D format (glassed encouraged, but not required), and the team used Photoshop and After Effects for the backgrounds and Premiere for the editing. The film is about “a professor who invents a machine that can bring everything he draws to life.”
Ka-Ching Cartoons, which is run by Dutch animators Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk, has recently assembled a new show reel. The clip, which you can view below, features shots from Freaky Frankenbike Patrol, the title sequence from Skunk Fu, Mr. Medicine - the Musical, and the 8-bit episode from Skunk Fu, all of which were animated in Flash.
The Netherlands announced today that Remco Polman’s film Mortel has been submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Animated Short Film category for the upcoming 2008 Academy Awards.
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Polman regarding Mortel: “I really had to draw a lot, although we work with Flash. All the frames are hand-drawn on paper, on an animation table and then scanned in. I worked for nine months on the drawings and I even had help from three interns and two inbetweeners. Wilfred Ottenheijm did the fight scenes, because he loves martial arts. I scanned the drawings with 400dpi and then imported them into Flash and traced them. In this way I preserve a thin line with a lot of anchors which gives me a certain flexibility.”
Polman had help animating the Flash animated short from Wilfred Ottenheijm and Jeffrey Zagers.
Anyone here a Hoops and Yoyo fan? This line of Flash-animated eGreetings created by Hallmark has really taken off, and now features an animated series, a Arj & Poopy and of course, plenty of merch.
Mike Adair, an animator and designer working on the project, recently pointed us to a Dutch TV commercial featuring Hoops and Yoyo.
Adair is obviously pretty handy in the non-digital world, having created this expandable suitcase display for Hoops and Yoyo.
Back in January, CHF featured a music video for a UK-band called The Young Punx. Their video for their song You’ve Got To… was brought to life by Han Hoogerbrugge, the popular Dutch artist and animator. The band has again tapped Hoogerbrugge, and this time for their song Wake up, make up, bring it up, shake up.
Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and video artist currently living in the Netherlands. His latest work is a short animated in Flash titled The Foxhole Manifesto, a 4:30 minute film featuring audio by poet Jeffrey McDaniel. The short is below, but I recommend going to his website for a higher-quality video version.
Fons Schiedon, a designer/director residing in Amsterdam, recently partnered with the band Voicst on a music video. Feel Like a Rocket was directed and designed by Schiedon, and animated “traditionally” in Flash, set against backgrounds rendered in Illustrator, Photoshop and Maya. The project was completed in five weeks, thanks in part to the Sao Paolo-based team at BIRDO, who helped on the character animation front, much as they had on Schiedon’s 2006 13-episode run of Mobbed for MTV.
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