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Halloween Candy animation

I 🖤 Halloween. And to wish you a happy one, I thought I’d upload this little animated promo I directed at my old animation studio ‘Matte! Nande?’. Happy Halloween, everybody! If you’d like to see all six cartoon in this littles series of promotional gags, check out this playlist. CREDITSCo-written & backgrounds painted by MimiChairStarring […]

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Creating Animations for a Cardboard Parade Float | Brabantsedag 2022: Vriendenkring De Rijten

Creating Animations for a Cardboard Parade Float | Brabantsedag 2022: Vriendenkring De Rijten

For over 10 years I’ve had the wish to use animation on a parade float. The 2022 edition of the Brabantsedag, a theatrical parade of floats in the Netherlands, finally presented the perfect use. Our theme for that year focused on the colorful fantasy of children, and how imagination creates life & keeps us connected

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A Horror Book Cover for a PhD on Stephen King’s It (1986)

Stephen King's It Phd book cover illustration

It makes me giddy to see a horror illustration on a university PhD cover 🤡 Vincent Neyt commissioned me to paint the cover of his PhD on how Stephen King wrote his classic novel ‘It’. Vincent lays out the history of the making of the book quite extensively, from the initial conceit to first edition

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Creating a Simpsons Arcade Game Themed Fight Stick

Simpsons Arcade Game watercolor fightstick mod

At the risk of you thinking I might be a geek, here’s a modded arcadestick with Simpsons Arcade Game themed watercolor artwork. The new joystick and buttons are from Sanwa. Funnily enough playing this game in a Spanish arcade while on vacation got me into The Simpsons. Also, the colorful cartoony visuals of the game

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Halloween Mixtape 2024 Festival Selections

Not one, but twoOOOoo animations I directed will help usher in the Halloween season tonight at the Halloween Mixtape film festival in LA: a gag cartoon co-created with MimiChair and a music video co-created WanQing Wang while they interned at ‘Matte! Nande?’. Let the spooky times roll 👻 The music video ‘Johnny and the Devil’

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Banana Peel Horror Story | Ultra Short 2D Animation

Banana Peel Horror Story 2D animation

A teeny tiny horror story involving a banana peel. I created this 2D animation as an experiment of playing with the foreground and background space, to practise animating in perspective, but also to utilize these things in storytelling. FEATURING Robert Jung on Sound Design • https://dreikelvin.nl/WanQing Wang on Color Design • https://www.instagram.com/straciata/Jil Siu on Coloring

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