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Ka-Ching Finish Making De Grobbebollen

aaron — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:20:09 +0000

The boys at Ka-Ching Cartoons have been mighty busy, churning out a new kids show titled De Grobbebollen Maken Lol (in Dutch “lol” rather appropriately means “fun”). It’s in Dutch, but there’s plenty of physical comedy that translates into any language. [might need Silverlight to view this]

[UPDATE] I learned from Joost at Ka-Ching that they’re making 52 five-minute episodes over 2 seasons. They’re also working with artists from around the globe like Mick Harrison, Jesse Cote and Todd Ramsay

Hoogerbrugge Offers Love to Pet Shop Boys

aaron — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:20:41 +0000

Dutch artist Han Hoogerbrugge animated this new, Flash-animated music video for the electronic dance music group Pet Shop Boys. Love Etc is the first single off the new album, titled Yes, which releases late next month.

Boyscout Earns Remi His Flash Badge

aaron — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:54:53 +0000

Remi Tjon Ajong has recently gotten some attention for Atchoo!, the adorable CGI short he produced with his pal Neils. Prior to putting himself through the Animation Mentor school, Remi produced a series of Flash-animated shorts titled Boyscout. Here’s one of the 5 episodes, which he directed and animated. The short was co-written by Remi and his friend Dennis.

Schiedon Blasts Through Rocket Video

aaron — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33:54 +0000

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.

Ka-Ching Drops Their 3D Machine on Rotterdam

aaron — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:31:51 +0000

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.”

You can view a trailer over at the Ka-Ching website.

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Ka-Ching Cartoons’ New Show Reel

aaron — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:20:00 +0000

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.

Polman’s Flash Film Up For Oscar Consideration

aaron — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:44:00 +0000

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.

Thanks to Stefan de Groot for the story tip.

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Hoops and Yoyo Get Bilingual

aaron — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:30:00 +0000

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.

Young Punx and Hoogerbrugge Shake It Up

aaron — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:59:00 +0000

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.

Fox-Gieg Animates McDaniel’s Manifesto

admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:04:00 +0000

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.