From eleven o clock till somewhere half past one several guests will be discussing Japanese gameshows, anime and other weird stuff. Live. And one of the guests is going to be me! I'm already stricken up with a good dose of excitement and nervousness, but I hope I will be okay. I expect there will also be a lot of shockworthy clips they're going to show, but I hope to be able to put things in good perspective. Cross your fingers with me? If you find the time at this late hour, please watch it! It'll be one crazy night this one.

BNN, ned. 3 from 23:00 til around 00:30

A new beginning for my Junglebook project. It will take it's time to evolve and find the right vocals and dance steps. But at least it's out on stage again. No idols committee that can touch it now anymore. It isn't competing. It's dancing on it's own, singing as if no one is watching. It might even sprout wings when no one is looking.

 Arr, I tend to be so slow on updates here. 

Alright, a quicky then:

-Animating on my year and a half Sammy project now for Cineventura. It's finally started up!

-A second scriptwriter joined the team on project Itshou, my three volume funded graphic novel. First volume is expected to be out somewhere next year.

-Been approached to draw a yaoi manga on a script by the German Fireangels publisher and we're in the first stages of looking at the script.

-Drawing two manga at once for OpenMinded at the moment, one yaoi, one yuri :)

-Wishing to get a team together to produce the first ever Dutch anime. Something small mind you. :)

-I'm involved in organizing stuff now more than ever. You'll hear all about it later.

-Settling down in our new housing. Doing the laundry and such, need to clean up more.

-Am visiting the sportschool now once a week thanks to bakenius 

-Wishing to get a good working hour routine so I can also meet up with my friends more in the evenings.

Voor wie het leuk vindt om te lezen, de komende drie zaterdagen is mijn 24hrcomic 'Als ballonnen zo ver' op stripster te lezen.

Het is een lief klein spiritueel verhaaltje dat mijn extra dierbaar is geworden met de gebeurtenissen omtrent oud en nieuw. De eerste zeventien pagina's zijn in oktober binnen 24 uur getekend, de rest heb ik rond oud en nieuw afgemaakt, al is het eigenlijk de bedoeling voor de 24hrcomic uitdaging om 24 strippagina's in 24 uur te tekenen ^_^ volgend jaar weer een nieuwe poging!

Your Type is
INFJ

Introverted	Intuitive	Feeling	Judging
Strength of the preferences %
100	12	62	22

 You are:

• very expressed introvert
• slightly expressed intuitive personality
• distinctively expressed feeling personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

Beschrijvingen van de persoonlijkheid:
http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=3&c=counselor
http://typelogic.com/infj.html
^_^ yay, ik ben ook infj. Hmm... had gedacht dat ik iets minder introverted zou zijn tegenwoordig. Maar het zijn ook van die harde ja nee vraagstukken. We zijn samen zeldzaam, Joyce ^_^ Ik had volgens mij jaren geleden hetzelfde type, al denk ik dat het type composer ook in de buurt komt, maar dat idealisme is een belangrijke defining factor. Composer is type ISFP.

Gezien bij sereighna  en fenko .

Mijn oom is op nieuwjaarsnacht overleden aan de gevolgen van andermans vuurwerk. Als dierenliefhebber wilde hij zijn paarden in het veld kalmeren en dit lukte hem ook. Helaas werd in het dorp verderop op dat moment gillende keukenmeiden afgestoken en sloegen de paarden opnieuw op hol waar hij naast ze stond. Hij heeft dit niet mogen overleven, net nu hij onlangs na een leven van veel tegenslag geluk had gevonden en een trouwdatum had vastgelegd, de bouwtekening voor een grote verbouwing rond had en eindelijk een nieuwe auto had kunnen kopen.

Ik ben al lang tegen onnodig knalvuurwerk en voor alle argumenten die in deze petitie genoemd worden en heb dit burger initiatief met verdriet in het hart ondertekend. Kijk er eens naar voor wie zich geroepen voelt. Wie zich ook in dit burger initiatief kan vinden vraag ik dit mee te ondertekenen. Dat kan digitaal op deze plek:  link. Het kan mogelijk even duren voordat de site laadt door het grote bezoekersverkeer.

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My uncle died on new year's eve due to anothers fireworks that upset his horses. He was a great animal lover who had had a hard life and was finally settling down to marry and undertake new things in his life. To finally have a bit of luck, but it was not to be.

I have always been against loud fireworks that cause victems all around and this petition has more good arguments to leave fireworks to the hands of professionals as is the case in a lot of other countries. If you find you agree with this petition, please sign it here: link.

See the trailer!!

Did you see the shot in the beginning with the woman screaming and jumping up? I assisted and cleaned those two shots as one of my assignments during my internship at Walking the Dog in Brussels two years ago! They were animated by talented Rudi who really thought me the good things about squash and stretch, which I rarely used before in my animation. Brussels and my internship was very special to me during that time. It's so great to finally see the movie we all have been a small part of finally coming together.

Promise me you'll all go and see it! I don't know yet if it will run in Holland, but I'm sure it will in Belgium, France and Ireland. So go there! ^_^

Voor de eerste keer meegedaan met Scott's McCloud 24 hr Comic Day - de uitdaging, teken een strip in 24 pagina's in 24 uur from scratch.

Ik was tot en met pagina zeventien gekomen. Dit zijn de onge-edite foto's van de pagina's. Ik ga ze komende week opschonen en de resterende pagina's afmaken - zal het nog online plaatsen wanneer het helemaal af is. Was een hele ervaring zo, eerste keer dat ik echt een nacht doorgehaald heb. Mijn zwaartepunt was rond een uur of zes, zeven in de ochtend >< moe! Maar het ging veel beter dan verwacht met wakker blijven en kunnen doortekenen. De massage was heerlijk! Die mag volgend jaar zeker terugkomen, die wist echt wat ie deed. volgend jaar ga ik zeker weer meedoen en dan wel de 24 te halen ^_^ het was een hele fijne sfeer daar. En pentel penseel brushes zijn fijn. Heel fijn :D

Het verhaaltje gaat over een engel die een jongetje komt halen omdat hij die nacht zal dood gaan. Hij komt alleen een jaar te vroeg en hoewel de engel snel foutje bedankt wil zeggen, dwingt het jongetje hem op aarde te blijven en verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor deze bureaucratische misser. Het kindje krijgt wat aparte levenslessen mee van de in eerste instantie ongeïnteresseerde engel tot langzaam maar zeker de eindstreep nadert.

       

Haa! The deed is done! I can call myself officially master now! The thesis was great and well documented so... ahhh.. I'm so happy! So incredibly happy! After the graduation exposition next weekend the chapter of my student life will finally have closed and I can move on into the real world. Hope to see you all there on the exposition!

I passed my exam! It was a tight working schedule the last week, but with all the help from everyone, I managed to pass as a bachelor and as a master also, if I edit my thesis a bit before half september. So that means there's gonna be a graduation exposition with me in it, even though my movie is far from finished yet (luckily, doing a research master emphasises the thesis and the research, not the final movie, so it was okay that it wasn't finished yet).

My diploma will be handed to me on the 20th of september, and the expo will be the 20th and the 21th. I'll be posting more details about it lateron when all the dust has settled so people who'd like to come see my work and that of the other graduates can come pay a quick visit. But for now, I'm happy and proud that I didn't gave in to the despair and gloom of impending deadlines.

Once again I am filled with direction and cause, something that has been slipping away from me the last years, but is now fully reinstated. I am going to change the world!

Festival news! My sand animation Seasons has been selected for the new Klikfestival in Amsterdam. And my boyfriend's movie also got selected ^_^ hahaha, now we can go together to the openingsparty and have some healthy competition to boot! ;)  there's also a lot of movies on the list that I have already seen in Annecy in june, two actually from my roommates from there! I really hope they come over, it'd be fun to see them again ^_^

On a semi-downside note, this probably means I will definately not be going to the Abunai convention this year. I'll still be working hard in september to finish my graduation movie and I simply can't miss three weekends in a row in my tight schedule. This seems to be the year of goodbyes on old habits and amateur work as I'm slowly saying farewell to the doujinshi scene. I know myself and will probably move behind the curtains for a bit longer, maybe even putting out some artwork for it, but, with school coming to an end, it is time now to venture into big unknown to whatever ends.

          Finally started animating, even if it's some random tests which will find their way into the movie cause they're awesome ^_^ especially the one with Mowgli running in profile clawing away at the ground and nearly losing his footing. Straight ahead aproach is still my best working gem, even if it does take some time to generate the mood for it. But once the flow kicks in, things start cooking!  : D
Watch here some animation tests, of which two detailed running ones will be more or less final lineart animation. The frontal run still needs to be cleaned a bit, but the profile run is good to go. Intro and city will be final scenes and fitted in somewhere as well.

I worked a full day on both the lineart runs. So more or less 3 sec per day can be managed. That still does not bode good for august, however I'll just keep working on it and see where and when I end up.

Here's an incomplete animation test. It actually came out great, so my hopes are rising once again a bit. If I can just keep this up and gently start animating my motivation and faith will probably grow along with that too. Need to keep working.

http://junglebook.hku.nl/jb/Tests5.mov

Got out of the emotional low I hit with my graduation movie and am moving again, thanks to a certain someone who gave me the courage to persue a more true and stylistic approach.

So here's some new designs, I'll soon be animating now and hope to put up here a first animated sample by next week.

     (some poster doodles)     

After getting extensive reviews and advice from Daan and Wilbert, I've really been put to think. Almost been put down. But in the end, when all is said and done, there are indeed some points to be made about Junglebook and how it's not working as it is. I know it's not working, I want it to work, but I know deep down it's not.

And also, I don't think it would not be working at all to have to complete a first half and then lateron after graduation to be still working on it for what could easily be two months to complete the rest. That just won't do. I want to finish this movie, have my say on life, the universe and everything and then move on to something new preferably before I graduate. There's still so many stories I want to tell in animation and in comic book form and this will not be the greatest movie I ever made (that would be a rather grim outlook on my career if it would be), but it will be the greatest one I have made so far. I should treat it accordingly and not be so damn epic and angsty about it. That gets in the way of my better judgement.

So it's time to put up some priorities. What do I want about this movie? More than anything I want certain images. Certain storypoints. Not even the complete story or how I get from one point to the other. That doesn't mean to me as much as the mood, and the images. I don't really care about how I get there, as long as I get there and finally for once get the message straight. Beyond the Window (my second year movie) suffered a great deal because of the vagueness and last moment decisions I made. No more.

So for the time being we have more or less this:
-Mowgli = happy with animal friends and forest
-Friends disappear after a roaring sound
-Mowgli think the roar is from the tiger and goes out to hunt it for revenge
-Upon getting there, there's no tiger but a machine
-The machine cuts down the forest and menaches the hell out of him
-Mowgli thinks the machine might be a tiger (sounds the same, looks a bit the same, and threatens him)
-So he tries to charge it as he would a tiger (perhaps in a not so epic way as before as it steals the climax at the end)
-But fails miserably as he appears now to be in a modern city amidst people and machines (the machines kept on building)
-Freaked out like hell he runs around in search of familiarity.
-When he sees it, he is overjoyed and runs towards images of plants and animals
-He finds himself in a large domed buidling and rejoices
-For he sees all his animal friends and the trees
-Then he is shocked to find them killed and stuffed and we now clearly see he's in a museum that has his friends on display.
-Mowgli gives up on modern life and joins the exhibition in anguish. (the public by now should feel either very depressed or feel guilty about being human - I'll get back at you Frederic Back!!! See how you like it!)

http://junglebook.hku.nl/jb2
In the old storyboard, I was taking a lot of time to have Mowgli charge the tiger twice, get picked up by a crowd and transported to the city. Now he could already be in the city and amidst the vehicles so that this part can be summarized. I've got till tomorrow night to make it work. Wish me luck.

Another storyboard revamp - not a biggy, but different temporary soundtracks, I added some soundeffects myself to see what a possible future outcome could be. It really helps, yet I'm still torn between wanting to make half the movie, trying to make it as a whole or to compress it into a workable piece of less length...

http://junglebook.hku.nl/

Another Junglebook update. It seems the teacher thinks it wise to cut the film in two to increase the rising odds of me actually completing this lengthy project. I'm in doubt. I love the total picture. I don't want to throw away my punchline or the museum scene which was the actual reason for me wanting to do this project in the first place. On the other hand, it feels like the storyboard isn't working after the first half. Can't put my finger on it. I so want to make this work!

http://junglebook.hku.nl/