fun & faves

One of the best opening title sequences ever. Nexus Productions: Kuntzel + Deygas.

Pierre Coffin @ Passion-Pictures in the early 90-ies.



Awesome creative guerilla style - Pes

Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 2007 - Michael Dudok De Wit

Oktapodi: 6 animators from The Gobelins - one awesome school.

So "simple" yet so beautiful. 'Cube'

Original use of wall space. Very impressive... Muto, by Blu

stop motion on a grand scale: Sony Bravia in 2007, ad agency Fallon, created by Gorgeous Enterprises (director: Frank Budgen), anim by Passion Pictures (Darren Walsh)

If ya gotta go there, do it with the GOGS! from the Aaargh! Animation Studio. Deiniol Morris and Michael Mort (the same guys who made the Levi's Mr Boombastic commercial underneath)

Levi's "Mr Boombastic" (Shaggy)

An early Aardman - it got me psyched about animation. Peter Lord.

I thought I liked stop motion, until I saw this sometime in the 80ies, and I went nuts. Jeff Newitt.

This and 'Screens' ... must see. Barry Purves.

Back Home - Sept 2009
I'm back home in Los Angeles after directing & co-producing the feature film "Suske en Wiske & de Texasrakkers / Bob et Bobette & Les Diables du Texas / Luke and Lucy & the Texas Rangers".
For more info on the movie, see here. Here's a quick trailer clip:



The film has now been in theaters for about 2 months, and it's doing well. What a great experience: a lot of fun, a lot of hard work, and I'm proud of what we've accomplished. You can check out excerpts, interviews, articles etc online - there are many of them out there. I will post just a few of the official teasers and trailers - in Dutch, Flemish and French. You'll also find a number of images, some general info and links to sites and press about the movie.

I want to also re-thank everybody who worked on it: they did a great job and they should be proud of the end result. The movie is proof that good animation, with a decent story, entertaining and fun, and without gratuitous violence, is possible, even with an indie budget. But it would be impossible without the talent and commitment of a group of gung-ho cg professionals who give it all they've got. Thanks.

I have also added a few old animation QTs I happened to run into again. You'll find them with the other animation videos here.