Insects have such weird, fun shapes to play around with. Like this colony of queen bee design sketches, created to explore character design directions. I played around with pencil, ink and watercolors to sketch variations to see what works and what doesn’t. These were commissioned for a happy insects project geared towards kids that never
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I 🖤 Analog Inking. So I filled a stack of papers with hand-inked characters and elements for last year’s moving Brabantsedag poster, all inspired by carnival iconography. Then I scanned them all to create a sculpture in Blender which I could animate. Here’s a little overview of all those ink drawings, since I never shared
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Turning the Cat Empire logo into little Cat Emperors. Ink & Watercolors.
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Who says rules can’t be fun? A series of safety posters, featuring cartoons drawn for Vriendenkring De Rijten’s construction site. Starring the little character from the Rijten logo, originally designed by Frank Schooleman.
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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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Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah The moon This is another little animated gag I directed as a promo for my old animation studio ‘Matte! Nande?’. Introducing the voice talents of Koyuki as Astronaut #1 Co-Written, Co-Animated and Backgrounded by Nicole Ten Cate Co-animated, Directed and Alien Voiced by Matty Jorissen
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💚❤️ Happy Holidays, everybody ❤️💚 Have yourself a merry little bonus cartoon. I originally created it as a Christmas greeting for my previous animation studio ‘Matte! Nande?’. MimiChair co-wrote and backgrounded this cartoon, check her YouTube channel at @mimichair • https://www.instagram.com/mimichair.art/ • https://www.twitch.tv/mimichair Starring Koyuki as the voice of Little Girl and Santa as the
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Enjoy some biting satire on smartphone consumption! People liked the upload of the previous short gag promo cartoon I directed at my old animation studio Matte! Nande?, so I thought I’d add another one as I build my portfolio on my own site. If you’d like to see all six cartoon in this littles series
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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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Fly me to the m’aaaawwww Just playing around to give a little rocket some life and come up with cartoony movements. I tried cleaning up this guy with an ink washy look using Toon Boom Animation‘s bitmap brushes. It was a bit rough since I put the animation on 1s, but hey, I gave it
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