How a rejected idea leads to a new one A couple of years ago I worked on a pitch for a DAF Trucks Christmas short, back when I was half of Matte! Nande?. The premise we came up with was sort of Christmas Candyland meets William Friedkin’s Sorcerer: a tenseful truck journey as imagined by
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“Eindhoven is Groen” – one of the pre-show scenes I drew for Toekomst040 at Glow 2025. Since the original campaign identity (developed by Thinc Ahead) was based around colored pencil doodles, I wanted these animated visuals to spring from the same medium. Even though I drew everything digitally due to a tight deadline, I approached
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Eindhoven City Hall glow up ✨ The Toekomst040 campaign needed to convey the creative future of Eindhoven with a pre-show on city hall during Glow Eindhoven 2025. So Thinc Ahead and I collaborated to create fitting vibes through animation, capturing the ideas of hundreds of Eindhoven citizens in 6-7 colored pencil visuals I drew &
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Pretty surreal to see my colored pencil scribbles plastered all over my hometown’s city hall. You can see said scribbles come to life during Glow Eindhoven as the pre-show on city hall. The animation was created for the Toekomst040 campaign by Thinc Ahead and the city of Eindhoven. Merci for the creative collaboration! 📷: Thomas
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Here in the Netherlands it’s 37°C (that’s 98.6°F), so here’s a cool animation reel to cool you down today ❄️ Want to create something cool together? Let’s connect! A selection of winter-y animations I co-created. Naturally, animation is an extremely collaborative artform. The following artists contributed their creativity to help these visuals come to life
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Dit bericht op Instagram bekijken Een bericht gedeeld door Matty Jorissen (@matty.jorissen) Unfortunately, this is the only copy of this limited edition moving version of the 2025 Brabantsedag poster. Luckily though you can now go grab a regular stationary copy at Brabantsedag HQ in ‘t Perron Heeze! The previous two Brabantsedag posters I co-created as part of
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Making of: turning ink paintings into an animated Brabantsedag poster. Here’s a little look-see at how it was done. Just swipe through the process 👆 Dit bericht op Instagram bekijken Een bericht gedeeld door Matty Jorissen (@matty.jorissen) This selection of images shows the various stages: from sketching ape scribbled to get ideas on paper, to
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Last year, I was invited to design a third Brabantsedag poster. The previous two, like most of my work over the past 13 years, had been co-created through collaboration. But this time, due to circumstances, I found myself flying solo. Those same circumstances also left me feeling completely lost. I was still working my way
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Never underestimate your smallest animations! ‘Halloween Candy’, a 15 second gag cartoon co-created with MimiChair as a promo for ‘Matte! Nande?’ back when the old studio was still around, is playing in LA at Hot 30 Microshorts tonight. Thanks for having us! CREDITS‘Halloween Candy’Co-written & backgrounds painted by MimiChairStarring Koyuki as the voice of Cute
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I thought the most moving theatrical parade in the world deserved a moving poster, so I created one. Check out the animated poster for the 66th Brabantsedag here: With many thanks to:🖤 The Brabantsedag marketing & PR team: Christa van den Broek, Boukje van Ettro and Mark Damen🖤 Composer Robert Jung (Dreikelvin) for the music
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