Der 7te Zwerg

Tailer

Past weekend 'the seventh dwarf' premiered.
I worked on this project both on character design and visual development. I was lucky to work with the late Harald Siepermann, (known for his character designs for disney's Tarzan and Alfred J. Kwak)

I attached some of the designs I did.

THE MASTER LECTURE

Good news! I just launched the website for the event : THE MASTER LECTURE
This October John Nevarez, Stephen Silver and Wouter Tulp will speak and teach about their work. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to meet with some of the industry's most talented artists. At the end of each lecture there will be the opportunity for Q & A.  Visit the website for more information!

This is the link for the facebook event page: LINK

Penciltest

wind from Wouter Tulp on Vimeo.

At CTN Glen Keane told me to try and animate some of my drawings. And when Glen Keane says so...you do it... Here's one of my first animation attempts...

Virtual animators masterclass

I am happy to announce that I will be giving a masterclass at the virtual animators school on saturday november 10th 10:00 AM (Los Angeles time) That converts to  19:00 hours in Amsterdam.

I want to thank Bill Recinos for inviting me, and I look forward to an inspiring masterclass. Check out the virtual animators website, or their facebook page to apply:

http://www.virtualanimators.com

https://www.facebook.com/VirtualAnimators

Masterclass at Klik animation festival

On november 9th I'll be teaming up with Patrick Schoenmaker at the Klik animation festival for a concept art masterclass. In this converation/demonstration Patrick and I will share our thoughts and process when it comes to creating concept art and character designs. I hope to see you there!

The Art Before the Animation - Masterclass concept art by Wouter Tulp and Patrick Schoenmaker

Friday November 9, 11h00, EYE Cinema 2

Award-winning artists Wouter Tulp, illustrator, and Patrick Schoenmaker, animator, join forces to share their knowledge with you through this special masterclass. With their different but overlapping backgrounds, they meet one another in the middle ground of concept art for animated films. The dynamic duo will share their tricks of the trade with you, not only by being a couple of talking heads, but also by explaining themselves through the magic of live drawing!
90 min, Dutch

FNV Bondgenoten

FNV Bondgenoten demonstrates agains the expence cuts that were negotiated in the Kunduz agreement. 
They kicked off their campaign with the animation : the social desert.
I had only four days to creat all the artwork for the animation. I had to study the style of Morris' Lucky Luke, to give the design a western touch. This was really a tough deadline, but given the circumstances, I think the clip turned out allright.
Animation was done by Hans Buying.

Turnaround

 

After  seeing some Rapunzel tunaround sketches by Glen Keane, I was inspired to do a turaround exercise of a pose. It is really a good exercise to check if you understand volumes and shapes. The hardest part is to make sure the pose has the same intention and is just as strong from all angles. Finally I placed them in an animation, to check again how the volumes are balanced. I can see I am a bit off model here and there, so I guess I need to do this more often. It's a really good exercise that I can reccommend to anyone!

Klick the image to see it move...

Concept art

Concept sketches for an animated feature.
- Trippel Trappel blog
- Anikey animation

penciltests

My first steps in animation.
I finally puchased animation software, so I can experiment and find out what this medium is about. It is really fascinating studying movement, timing, squash and stretch.
Having good fundamentals in understanding shapes, 3 dimensionality and basiscs of anatomy is essential to make a character move convincingly.

SMURF!

I have had the honor to cooperate on a TV-commercial for Albert Heijn. Hollands biggest supermarket. The commercial is about the smurfs that you can get for free when you do your shopping at AH. It was my job to design the Harry character, and to paint all of the Backgrounds. I had a lot of fun doing this job, and also I learned a lot about animation, since it was my first animation project. The storyboard was done by the great Daan Jippes and the movie was directed by Hans Buying.


As you can see this is the evolution of the Harry character. I had to navigate between likeness and smurfness...