Category: animation
Short film: Earthling Encounters
In my second semester of my 1st Bachelor at KASK school of arts I mostly worked on this short film. Inspired by close encounters, I created an alien tourist character who is fascinated by human culture but doesn’t fully understand it. This character is a ‘deus ex machina’ in the story when he arrives at
Animations 1st bachelor
the first animations I had to make in our 1st semester at KASK school of arts were walkcycles. in 5 different assignments a character had to walk from one end of the screen to the other. The First walkcycle had to be animated with a cut out character. each bodypart was a seperate piece that
Short film: Not so little not so German not so boy
This week myself and a costudent at KASK: Antoine Watteau had the task to make a short film inspired by the book ‘the blindfold’ by Siri Hustvedt. On friday all the groups presented their film where we all got valuable feedback for our bigger projects in the second semester. A few months later all films
Godzilla Stop-motion movie(part 2)
Today I presented my Stop-motion films at the art academy in Mechelen as well as the maquette I used during filming. This project was inspired by Godzilla movies from the 60’s and 70’s which used miniatures and practical effects in a time before computer graphics. You can tell its not real which gives these movies
‘Maiden Flight’ hand-drawn digital animation
As a first test using the digital software Krita for animation I made this short film. Each frame is drawn by hand making the process time-consuming but fun. Giving ‘life’ to your drawings, making the audience believe they are seeing a moving image. I decided for this first test to pick something that doesn’t have
work in progress: Godzilla stop-motion movie (part 1)
Around June 2024 I got fascinated by old TOHO-studios Godzilla movies. Their use of suits and miniatures inspired me for a project I am currently working on. In September 2024 I started a city maquette spread over a large table and build a Godzilla stop motion figure. Later I added toy cars and a NECA
first attempt at digital animation: school projects
My favourite memories from studying latin were the creative projects. Together with classmates I made 4 animations from 2021 to 2023. While others made the script and recorded voices I was drew all the characters and did the animation and editing. Looking back the visuals were limited as well as the story. The drawings were
‘The first victims’, clay stop-motion
After all the students in my class at the art academy sculpted a clay statue with a model as reference, I decided to collaborate with another student to make this film. This project was very different than my other works but a fun thing to try regardless. The movie follows My clay sculpture (in the
first attempt at traditional animation: Zippy
In 2022 I made my first animation using drawn frames instead of digital animation or stop-motion The animation was based on a character I had designed around 2021 called Zippy this box shaped character on one wheel would be easier to animate than something with legs. Zippy originates from a series of games I designed
