Ocreana

Tomorrow night BNN anime night, with me in it!

2009-09-03T09:02:03Z

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

Junglebook 2.0

2009-07-16T14:26:00Z

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.

Of Tigers and thoughts

2009-07-16T13:14:44Z

Ever since last night my old and as of yet unfinished graduation project is burning in my mind more vivid than ever. I always felt bad that it's been lying still, limping in the back of my mind somewhere since last year august. I never was happy with the changes I made from my original strong view and vision on what it should be to accommodate everyone in school, teachers, colleagues and very skilled people from the comicmakers forum. When I last saw my original storyboard I could nearly cry to see all the strength and original vision shattered, thrown away and badly resurrected in the final graduation proposal. Yes, it was very nice and all for the teachers, but it had become of ghost of my original intentions. While the same has happened three years ago with my Beyond the Window movie (which turned out very nice and moving, but a 180 degrees turn from what I original intended) I had found peace with that and made it work. Junglebook, I never could get to work as I couldn't get past it and it became a coat of too many fabrics, old and new and in the end it wouldn't even work if you poked it with a stick. I feel horrible looking at the last storyboard version now, feeling, seeing my chaotic and stressed state of mind, tricking myself into believing anything was an improvement.

No more.

And the strangest thing is, it was the original soundtrack inspiration that pulled me back. More strange is, that it's been the second time that that has happened. Originally Beyond the Window came to life from new sketches, an old short comic I did about a boy in a wheelchair and, as always one piece of exceptional music that stirs my mind into composing animation. Music has always been my greatest inspiration to visual a story, and with Beyond the Window that was the song 'One' from Metallica. Though not the original version, but an instrumental version of the song by acoustic band Apocalyptica. It told the original dark, raw and bittersweet story true to life in my mind against the much sweeter dreamy version that Beyond the Window in the end became. During my work on the movie Daan, a classmate, acquainted me with the original version and more importantly with the original text and videoclip. There unbeknownst from me was a storyline to be discovered which was in heart the same as my story - here it was a veteran on life support that wanted to die and be free from all the tubes. The boy in my story wanted to be free from his wheelchair and fly, with death as the only option to give him that. I was amazed that the heart of the stories were the same when the two had never met.

The first real shimmer of light into the project came when about a month ago I was visiting a modern art exposition from Leo's old drawing teacher. It triggered my wish of exploring motion in a confined space, a loop, or perhaps motion without a to b stories but motion in animation that convey feelings, thoughts, glimpses, moods, but not really the restrictive storylines that always cause me to get in trouble with myself, teachers, audiences as they have to follow rules and be logic while the things I want to convey mostly are moods, symbols and feelings, though they usually have a storyline to produce said feelings and moods. It was something I had tried for the first time with Brisk and the story of Orpheus at group project on school. But I didn't really understand what I was searching, eventhough the first inspiration also had come there from modern paintings like those from Klimt and Rothko. Eitherway... I was struck again by how much I want to make 'moving paintings' in animation, in endless loops, flowing, moving in intricate detail and colors. I went home inspired and wishing that I could transform Junglebook into that, as that truly was what I had always intended with it before I came entangled in setting out storylines and plots for the viewers and critics.

But then my animation job Sammy kicked in and I had to forget about it completely. I am very grateful and proud of this job and it will provide me with a stable income for a year and a half. I love it and it's just my type of hand drawn animation, too. And I'm glad it's finally taking off now. At this moment I'm animating on sequence 5, shot 45 to 52 (we started somewhere near the end). It's gonna be a lot of work still, but I'm confident that by the end of this project I have gained a lot of experience in animating. It's really challenging. I had to animate people walking down from a stair (try to find a good youtube example from that! -I did by the way-) and a person locking a door and casually but with purpose dropping the key chain into his pocket. There will probably be a lot more where that came from. But eitherway. A lot of things were starting up and changing. The wife of my scriptwriter for Itshou, my funded graphic novel, died and he contacted a second scriptwriter to help on the team and take away some of the burden. The second writer is also very great and really has a feeling for the development for the characters providing more the deeper insight and strenght in them, so I know this will be a great team! So I again forgot a little about that unfinished business called the junglebook project.

Then a couple of weeks ago I came across the band Mice Parade purely by chance as an inspiring soundtrack to an ancient video game I came across. The music (Circle 1) was an endless ambient loop and I liked it, but it was when I was sitting in the train listening to it endlessly seeing trees rush past me to it, that I realized this is it! This is the new impulse I need for Forests of Tomorrow... my junglebook project. Strip away the straightforward a to b story and make a kinetic movie only consisting of images, loops and bits and pieces that the viewer might puzzle into the message I want to give.

And then it went to sleep again, but that song, every time it came across my playlist, I felt it burn in my ears.

And then it was yesterday, late in the afternoon. I was listening to my epic trailer music list because I had found out that working out your arms to battle the ever present foe of all computer based artists alike, RSI, feels a lot more epic than the actually boring excercises are. I went working on Sammy with that list still on, and it being such a huge collection means that I have actually listened only a small part of it, mostly the same parts I like, but once in a while I go on listening to new songs. And to my shock, I came across a different version of the original inspiration track to Forest of the Tomorrow, that originally being the Serenata track from Immediate music. It was very epic, moving and pulling you along with it in a sense that has my Mowgli character run around the jungle and city with vigor almost dancing through the air like Russian free running boys scaling abandoned buildings. The music inspired the run-like motion throughout the whole film and the pacing with the tranquil forest introduction, dreamy which is roughly interrupted then by hard music and the meeting of construction workers taking the forest down to make way for a city. Mowgli does not understand the technology but because of the roaring noises can only see it as being some sort of gigantic tiger that he must battle to defend his forest. He ends up in the city, not understanding it's geometric shapes where he only knows organic shapes and tries to see jungle elements in it, but keeps getting foiled by reality. Defeated he rushes of in a hasted search to return to his forest, but finds that the only nature still present is preserved in a museum. There beaten and destroyed and weary he lies himself to rest as the next item on display, next to the actual stuffed tiger which he thought to have been chasing. The whole orchestra piece set the pacing, the motion and it was grand. But as tends to happen at school and with many voices, everything needs to become literal. You need to speak out the vague and emotion-based visuals and moods into actual storypoints which, ultimately destroys the very fabric of what I had wanted to create.

So, when I heard this alternate version of the original piece, it was longer and to my joy had vocals. Vocals which caught that utmost sadness of feelings with people caught in a dream of their past, living in illusions by choice as the reality is too harsh and uncopable. It fitted, even though they had been seperate all this time like with Beyond the Window before. This is the central theme that runs through many of my works. In a way it en voices a feeling that has always been with me, knowing that as a child bound to be growing up, I clad myself in those illusions as I did not want to say goodbye to them. In a way it placates the need to live in fantasies and illusions to deal with the unmagical, unromanticed real life that differs so much from the fairy tales where brought up with, in a way it is an anger that we get to be brought with 'lies' to learn to dream and fly and think everything is possible, only to be stripped off your beliefs later by saying, oh, yeah, about that santa clause... the easter bunny... they're not real. Disney versions of fairy tales aren't actually what really happened, and no, you're prince isn't going to come to that school dance prom to sweep you away, especially not when you're twelve. We are thought as children we can believe in anything, but when we grow we are as quickly untaught. Is it better to never have been taught to believe in miracles then? Or do grown ups simply forget to believe in them and want to beat it out of their happy children as quickly as possible, thinking, well, damnit, you need to wake up and see the real world I'm working hard in to earn a living, no fairytale princesses for you anymore, mommy has a headache. As a manner of speaking of course. I never encountered that during my growing up (except the part of santa clause and such, which seriously made me afraid that Jesus Christ then wouldn't exist also and god knows what more) which gave me a numerous other amount of troubles fitting in while I remained to believe in just about anything until I went to highschool and the bullying really began.

I had a point in this ramble.

I might have lost it along the way. But I wanted to say, I think I refound that message I want to spread out and tell to the world. It can come in many shapes or even as it's counterpart. It can be as a mirror or a two-edged sword, which it more usually is. It is okay to dream and to believe in miracles. Stay away from literalist thinking, live the dream, dance, sing. But the other side is being an outcast, not fitting into the rest of the world anymore which is slave to left brained thinking as if they never leave school, while the real school of life is something entirely different all together. To leftbrainers, the mowgli story is sad and delusional, but to rightbrainers, the story is wonderful, provocative, and deeply touching. And both are true. The bittersweet taste of it together, making it all worthwhile.

So I'm back at the instrumental and vocal version of the original inspiration track. It's pulling me along as hard as ever to believe in this project. It's funny how going through development for a film you tend to move away further and further, and then start back at the beginning but wiser for the journey. Some people will probably call me crazy for turning back to the original views (albeit altered a bit), throwing away, months and months of advice, reworked storyboards and painfully devised plot twists. The point is, it never was meant as a story, but ironically as my teacher had stamped it like that early on in the progress, as a kinetic film (that actually shows how good teachers can secretly be sometimes, they can be years ahead of you!). It might have a story and storyelements in it, but it's not a conventional story. It's not an a to b story, for the very least it's not told like that. It flies and whirls like a storm and bits and pieces will hit you and you will make something of it, but it's not a story in the kind of way that you can simply write down in words but need to sing, need to draw and present in moving images and music, only that can do it justice. In a way, I have to make the entire movie before I can actually tell what it is. And perhaps even then I cannot explicitly tell the story points or what it is (even aside from the fact that I'm horrible at summarizing stories or getting through to the actual core). It has to be experienced. Maybe some then will call it a bad film, or a bad story, or me a bad storyteller. But it's not a film and it's not a story to begin with. It's a feeling caught in time, an experience. The look of a butterfly wing in flight. And that's all it is. And that's the kind of movies I really want to make. Of course I sometimes want to do something like the thing that Beyond the Window became. To do storydriven animations. I've got already an idea lined up for the next one. But Junglebook was never meant to be a mainstream film. It was, like Seasons, to be artistic, to be an author's film, not the next Beyond the Window (where many of my youtube fans are probably hoping for). In my graduation project I wanted it to be both I guess and it ended up being neither. But I do not want to make a Beyond the Window now. The things that really, utterly move me and thrive me to create are much different and as of yet, still caught in those butterfly wings in my head. I hope I can catch them and make a print on paper of them before letting them fly free again.

Need to update more >

2009-07-03T10:36:38Z

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.

24hrcomic af ^_^ lees hem op www.stripster.nl

2009-01-10T10:27:00Z

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!

Jung typology test

2009-01-03T11:56:39Z

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 .

Burgerpetitie: Meer plezier met minder vuurwerk / More fun with less fireworks

2009-01-02T10:18:01Z

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.

My internship feature film has a trailer!!

2008-12-10T23:45:16Z

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! ^_^

24 hour Comic Day entry!

2008-10-19T21:47:48Z

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.

I Master

2008-09-17T09:36:39Z

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!

Eindexamen expositie en stemmen op mijn filmpje!

2008-09-09T10:58:29Z

Zoals al eerder gemeld, ik ben afgestudeerd! Nog even de details!
Ik wil iedereen die dat leuk vindt, uitnodigen om de expositie en mijn afstudeerwerk te komen bezichtigen. Naast mijn werkstuk, dat nog in productie is, zijn er nog tal van andere leuke en informatieve producties en films om te bekijken en het gebouw waar de expositie gehouden wordt, het Hilversumse Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, is zelf al een bezoekje waard en het is nog gratis ook. Ik hoop jullie daar te zien op 21 of 22 september. Kijk hier voor de routebeschrijving. Yay ^_^

Zandanimaties blijven het goed doen ^_^ mijn filmpje Seasons draait komend weekend op het klik festival in Amsterdam in studentenblok 2. Daarnaast is Seasons ook geselecteerd voor het Nederlands Online Film Festival. Deze maand september kan er op mijn filmpje gestemd worden. Dus allemaal stemmen! ^_^ Hahaha, nee, kijk maar gewoon lekker de filmpjes en als je hem leuk vind even een thumbs up geven bij het stemmen knopje hier. De filmpjes worden random gedraaid dus hij komt vanzelf een keertje langs. Dank!

Graduation!

2008-08-31T08:30:38Z

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!

Seasons selected for Klikfestival Amsterdam

2008-08-12T12:42:17Z

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.

Junglebook updates

2008-07-30T19:24:33Z

Junglebook storyboard!

So there it is at last (and pretty late at that) the final locked version of the Junglebook storyboard, well, animatic more or less, as there are quite some scenes in it with rough animation. This month I'll go and try to get as far as I can before trying to graduate. Wish me luck as I have still plenty of work to do, this and next month. So don't expect much interactivity from me, I'll be too swamped for the next two months... after that, I hope to return to normal social life ;) (not to worry, Leo, the social stop does not apply to you)

The soundtrack you hear at the end was included by me, the music is not yet written for that part. Also, the soundeffects are temporary examples I included to give some idea of what it should be lateron.

Junglebook updates

2008-07-22T20:27:45Z

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.

Junglebook updates

2008-07-04T21:18:25Z

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

Junglebook updates

2008-07-03T09:34:56Z

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.

Chopped liver day for Jungle Book

2008-05-27T19:01:32Z

(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.

Junglebook updates

2008-05-16T21:32:00Z

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/

Junglebook updates

2008-05-13T21:13:50Z

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/

Prijsuitreiking en een dubieus beeldje

2008-05-06T13:40:32Z

Foto's van de prijsuitreiking in Zwolle op het Deltion College ^_^ ik ben nu een video camera en een dubieus gevormd beeldje 'de Peperbus Award' rijker ;) het was erg leuk om ook even op de animatie afdeling daar te kijken. Als tegenprestatie ga ik waarschijnlijk nog een keer een workshop daar geven als ik afgestudeerd ben.

Jee, ik kijk daar wel erg fout...

Junglebook updates

2008-04-25T23:09:50Z

Updated the first half of the junglebook storyboard with some animated titles, sketches and different scenes, also there's some audio sketches from Joram underneath it. The first part of it where Mowgli is still in the jungle is already sounding pretty much as it ought to be (save that there should be real instruments and singers lateron), the rest are just drums for my editing ease.

http://junglebook.hku.nl/

De Peperbus Award ^_^

2008-04-23T20:02:36Z

Vanmiddag naar Zwolle geweest om mijn prijs op te halen. Afgelopen weekend was het echt balen en blijdschap tegelijkertijd omdat ik een gedeelde eerste prijs had gewonnen op het animatie festival in Zwolle met mijn filmpje Voorbij het Venster in de studenten categorie. Alleen ik zat dus dat weekend op de Elffair boekjes te verkopen omdat ik dacht dat het toch niks zou worden en kom ik dan thuis met zo'n bericht in mijn email . ><; Geen applaus, geen Gerrit van Dijk die de prijs overhandigd zou hebben. Need to sort out my priorities!

Anyway, het was erg leuk naar het college te gaan waar de organisatoren mij de prijs wilden overhandigen en ik had nog een felicitatie mailtje van Arjan Wilschut gehad, dus dat was dan wel top! Nu ben ik in ieder geval een beeldje en een video camera rijker en heb ik ook de mbo opleiding animatie daar even kunnen kijken. Ik ga er nog een keer in de toekomst een workshop geven. Maar wel pas als ik afgestudeerd ben. First things first! Let's jungle all the way!

Sounds of the jungle in my head

2008-04-10T20:08:16Z

Junglebook storyline is coming along great ^_^9 and also I found renewed strength in Joram's fabulous and enticing soundtrack. Damn.. I already wanna see the film along with it! Better start drawing then. I hope to start production in the last week of April with the first scene. Check the site for some new sketches. This really is the way I want to portray Mowgli, so I just need to find a way to make that workable. I'll be having 14 weeks for production, needing to do about 4 seconds a day. And that's really pushing it. Still, I'm confident I'll find a way.

Sand animation to Annecy!!

2008-03-13T11:40:02Z

It's official! - my sand animation Seasons has been elected for the great Annecy animation festival in France! It's part of the official competition in the student graduation category even though it's a third year movie! I get all my expenses covered aside from travel costs. I never believed this could be! That'll be a real exciting week in June then! I'll keep you posted!