For Caroline Ellerbeck I have made a small animation test (only the left elephants are animated so far), based on her book 'Yndee', the name given to a baby elephant born at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Sooo Hungry....
Mmmmmhh, well, yeah,...some are luckier than others, and if you can have burritos than you are very fortunate indeed....
Here we go again....
When will we ever learn??? by becoming Prime Minister yet again for the third time Berlusconi, which already possess the majority of private Tv stations will now also have indirect domain over state owned Tv, that means he is going to control over 90% of Italy's media. Having said that the blame for this disaster lays at the feet of the majority of the voters which through small mindedness and ignorance have opted for the utopia of easy wealth, something which Berlusconi has accumulated in years of muddy business deals and corruption...we are royally f****d!!
The Choo Choo train
Here is the almost final design: after some adjustment to fit the tee I had to 'edit' the design and remove some extra rails and landscape, also the 'rollator' had to go...
If you like it, please take a moment to vote for my t-shirt, thank you! you can vote here
Old fashioned fun
I am working on a fun illustration to be entered on the excellent Threadless tees site , the current theme, yes you've guessed it, is 'old fashioned fun', i'll post the final design as soon as it is done...
Ariadne animations
Cultural project commissioned by Jeanne van Heeswijk,see also previous entry below, for my Flash animations based on a real person and related infos see here
Whistler boy
Flash animation (this is a longer version, the final one will be much shorter,) for an upcoming commercial website, great fun to make! the character design is from the multitalented Bobby Pola, sound design is from Frank Burks. More characters animations to follow...
Potato head
Old concept character sketch for a cautionary tale about an enthousiastic party-hard little guy who wants to have a good time, goes partying and ends up getting waisted on drinks and drugs.
Ariadne
These are preliminary sketches for a cultural project which aims to involve the inhabitants of a large elderly's people institution in the south east of The Netherlands.
I have been asked to create a virtual character, Ariadne, which is the identity of the site, custom built for this project to enhance and stimulate communication between the 700 and more people living in this place.
She is the hostess and the mediator, and accompanies you in the various phases of the login and profile making, participates in the online discussions and the uploading of stories by the members.
This character is based on a real woman, Eva van Welzenis, who acts out her role as Ariadne and periodically visits the institution to initiate the slow process of bringing people together who have very little or no computer knowledge.
I have drawn her and defined her look and style, as well as using very flat, plain colors to be used as the main color palette on the site. It was quiet difficult to think of a character that is not 'hip', but still has a presence and 'feels' comfortable.
After this process I have imported all the illustrations in Flash and made simple animations, moving gently her head sideways, looking up, pointing, showing some photos or writing. The animations were very tricky and much more work that I originally planned, and that meant adjusting head positions or add face expressions directly in Flash to make her 'flow' from one pose to the other, which I have done with different degrees of succes. I will upload the animations as soon as I am finished. This kind of work is quiet unspectacular and laborious, nothing any commercial person would be interested in, but the process of understanding how a character which is very much steeped in reality can be made to move on the screen has been a very learning experience...
Heavenly Goddesses
I found this amazing book on Bhuddist art, I just could not resist its huge reproductions of these incredibly detailed sacred paintings, they are such an inspiration...I am thinking to make a ledge on the wall so that it can be displayed in all its glory, a sort of mobile poster setup...and the all family loves it! :-)
Groping in the dark
Spring is almost here and underground creatures are beginning to stir from their winter sleep deep down in the bowels of the earth...
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