24 Hour Comics Day 2008

I attended my first ever 24 Hour Comics Day this weekend! I wanted to at least try this challenge once. Writing and drawing twenty four comic pages in twenty four hours! Alas, I didn't complete them all, but still got 10 "finished" pages out of it...

Hope you like them!

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Although it doesn't count any more I'm still going to finish page 11 and want to put a page between 7 and 8 making the story 12 pages long in total...

Many thanks to the excellent services of comic store Lambiek in Amserdam for hosting this event.

Canon PIXMA

For the "fathers day coloring contest" in Donald Duck magazine (number 23 this year) I was asked to make the drawing. I had to use elements from the Canon PIXMA site

The (Addicted) Line - part 2

It will take a bit longer for the new issue to be printed, but here are a couple of panels (in different stages) from my contribution. It's a one page comic called ~SOAP OPERA~

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It wasn't my intention to color this comic due to time constrictions... so after the deadline I just did it for myself, but unfortunately (though luckily for me) the final printing wasn't done yet when I finished...

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Still, only the cover can be printed in color... all the comics inside are gonna have to do with either a black & white or a greyscale printing. It was eventually up to me, so I went for the grayscale version...

The (Addicted) Line - part 1

Remember this post a while back? Well! I decided to make something new for their upcoming issue. The deadline is very, very soon... so I'll just have time to make one page. The theme is "addiction" and this here is gonna be my main character (...more or less at least, it's only a ruff sketch of course!)

"At your service"

I like it when the client has a clear picture in mind, or at least knows what they want...

"I would like to have a new company logo depicting the earth (green and blue being my company's main colors) and kids from different ethnic groups surrounding it"

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- The first go -

(Okay, here we go...)

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- Approval of first go -

(but of course with some corrections...)

(Correction: "Could you just give them normal shirts, no flags... and some rounder heads?")

(I thought "Green and blue being the main colors and all... suggesting couldn't hurt")

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- Almost right... -

(just a few more corrections)

...I'll post the final version soon I hope, but I think this will be it!
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EDIT:

- Final version -

A different graphic designer "tweaked" my illustration a bit and put some text over it. I don't mind 'cause I had fun making it and I got payed for it!

Guilty pleasure - Nr. 1

Yes, taking from real life is the best or better way to learn how to draw things or keep that wrist of yours in shape. And it is that I just finished a nude model class with some comic/animation colleagues, (which will hopefully go on and on and on in the near future...) but sometimes I just have to sketch from mind in which I can take all the time I want/need and draw lines that don’t really exist. These then fall in the category "guilty pleasure" of course!!!

So, if you recognise someone -or perhaps yourself- in this drawing... maybe, just maybe you could tell me what she is, or you are doing inside my head!

Clogwork

From now on I'll be posting some of my work on a new blog together with a whole bunch of other great Dutch and Belgian artists, called:

CLOGWORK.NET

Best Short Film

Great news! The short film Hard Boiled Chicken by Arjan Wilschut (on which I helped with the animation) won the 3rd price at the Animacor Festival in Cordoba, Spain in the category 'Best Short Film'

This Thursday (and Saturday) Hard Boiled Chicken will also be showed at the Holland Animation Film Festifal in Utrecht.

The Digital Party Piggy

Last week our Donald Duck Magazine existed 54 years. For that special occasion I made an animated party piggy you can invite for extra fun on you’re birthday (because non of his family or friends were able to come that day, uncle Donald had to have somebody to invite right?)

PARTY ON!

The design (and the annoying soundtrack) of the party piggy was made by my colleague Maarten Janssens, I did the animation and almost all the sound effects / voices... the interactivity I did together with another colleague, Bas Schuddeboom.

PS before you can begin your torment on the pig (yes you can!) you must first click on the frame ones...

Andreas Deja Seminar at Cinekid in Holland

This last Friday I was able to go to a real nice seminar with Andreas Deja. One of my favorite (and probably many traditional animators alike) artists at Disney. I recorded the whole 2 hours of audio with my MP3 player/recorder... so if you like you can download the files here. It's good to share!

The whole folder

01 The Beginning

02 Learning from the Nine old Man

03 Rodger Rabbit

04 Different artistic views

05 Losing a good assistant and Casting

06 Voice track analyzing

07 Drawing from own experiences

08 Beauty and the Beast - Influence on Preproduction

09 Aladdin - Influence on Preproduction

10 Marrying you’re crew members

11 Lion King - Getting into Character

12 Mickey Mouse

13 Lion King reel and Walt’s Legacy clip

14 Inspiration and New winds

15 Hercules and Micro Movements

16 Kingdom in the Sun

17 Lilo and Stitch

18 What turns me on

19 Q and A

Workspace upgrade

Last week I upgraded my workspace some more. It was a little investment, but boy-o-boy does it feel great! Finally I got myself some filing cabinets for all my paperwork, such as bills, illustrations and 2D-animation scenes. I also got a new Wacom Intuos3 pen tablet and TWO 19" computer monitors...

...which is really handy, because now I can have one entire screen as work field and the other one for all the tools and options.

At work I won a bright orange fatboy® ones, with which I made this little reading and inspiration corner just outside my workspace. Now, I did have to give up some space -because of the filing cabinets- but didn’t mind that to much though ;)

Of course I still use good old fashion paper & pencil and will never give that up! I like to have more options when I work.

The (Dream) Line

The last time I made a "real" comic strip was in february 1997. I never was one for long stories (tried it once when I was 8, but stopped after page 11 or 12 for some reason) in those times I mostly did one page gags (and they were terrible). Anyways, awhile back I was asked to make something for a new periodic Dutch comic magazine (small press) where artist can experiment in… as long as the stories were on theme for that issue and you made your artwork as traditionally as possible (meaning: only use pen and ink to make the artwork... no computer.) This issues theme was DREAMS... and I made a 3 page story about a narcoleptic (sleeping disorder) bum who has a number in his head. This weekend the magazine can be bought at the comic convention in Haarlem or via The digital line no doubt.

Here’s the end of page one in several stages.

Sketch 1:

My good buddy Maarten made some suggestions, which I then used of course.

Sketch 2:

Ink:

Final:

Woman are aliens

Sorry for the long absence... Last month I had some unpleasant things on my mind, but lately I’m just a bit busy. I’ll be back soon, though! For now a quick warning to all you men…

Video test

Just testing some stuff you've already seen as an animated gif...

Duck cinema (3)

Here's a sneak preview of a roll-over animation. You'll just have to imagine a good old fashion "KA-TSJHING" sound effect if her arm goes up.

The Duck cinema webpage