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Here’s the result of the Animation Jam we hosted at Animate the World recently!
Thanks to everybody who spent 15 hours creating these animations with us. We had a blast!
The next one is 03-03-2017. E-mail Tinus (e-mail at the end of the video) to sign up.
Check out this part of My animated world 10 years later. It’s a stop motion version of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombread!
Watch out this part of My animated world 10 years later. We made a tattoo animation! And yes, They are real tattoos!
2 December 2016 we had a super fun animation jam at the Animate the World HQ. We invited a lot of animators and illustrators to join us for a looong day of creating animation. Tinus made a soundscape, and each group got 10 seconds of it to associate, storyboard, design and animate upon. Here you see what happened Behind the Scenes. We will post the results soon.
The last weeks @ Animate the World we did a lot of preparations and shoots for our new independent animated short film “My Animated World: 10 years later
Last Week @ Animate the World we had several live action shoots involving jumping and dancing our asses off. We researched the works of Eadweard Muybridge for a very special part of our new independent film. Method acting is another thing we do a lot. We got into the mood for some vocal recording for a parody on Mortal Kombat. We also made a technical design and a small prototype animation for a special mega skateboard we are creating together with prop builder Peter de Been.
Celebration time! Our music video Space Sheep became Vimeo Staff Pick!! And it has over 1 million views on the internet. Super proud! Thanks to Oliver Heldens & Chocolate Puma for the opportunity to go wild on this one together with the awesome UBERcut.
Check out the new music video we made for Oliver Heldens & Chocolate Puma. The song is called Space Sheep. The sheeps are taking over space and….. the whole world! This project was a very nice collaboration with UBERcut!
Last week at Animate the World: Jelle and Britt made a timelapse of Rotterdam’s skyline for a new animation we’re making for Yacht. We stop motion animated a Lego Darth Vader character and Max made a motion graphics animation for ABN Amro.
Last Week at Animate the World we moved in our new office space at AVhuis Breda. We just didn’t fit in our old one anymore, so we are really glad with the new space. We finished our 3 YouTube preroll ads for candy brand Look-o-Look and had a second film shoot for Yourzine including this stop motion street snowboard shoot.
Last week at Animate the World was all about characters. We did motion colouring for our characters for the National Healthcare Hotline (Nationale Zorgnummer). They will also be used in the print campaign. Just like the super hero characters for Anddare. It also started with animation, a motion comic. Now they use the characters based on the employees on their website, business cards and the real life comic book we named The Guardians of E-commerce. We also created avantgarde-ish types of characters for a new project and did a little test with the outlines.
Last week at Animate the World: We attended the World Premiere of the new I Am Hardwell: Living the Dream documentary in Tuschinski Amsterdam. Director Robin Piree brought us to the team to create 2D character animations of a young Hardwell making his first steps in becoming a real and succesful DJ. One of this weeks projects involved animating in a forest at night (creepy!) to create mysterious stop motion animations for Yourzine. What a week!
There we were last night at the premiere of I am Hardwell, living the dream! They even asked us to come on stage. What an experience and what a night. Thanks to http://www.falsumid.com for the very cool photo!
Last week at Animate the World: We received over a thousand kruidnoten (little cookies basicly) from Bolletje. We are going to create stop motion animated films for Bolletje for the Sinterklaas festivities. And eat kruidnoten till we drop 😉 We also showed the stop motion and 2D animated film we were working on last weeks to the client in our little movie theater. And we went to Kasparov, located in one of Breda’s prettiest buildings, the watertower.
Last week 40: We’re working on a very fun project for the National Healthcare Hotline involving a mix of stop motion and 2D animation. Here are some character sketches and work in progress (uncolored) shots. We also love to play tabletennis to get away from keyboard. Our neighbours from YourSocial joined and we made a massive around the table match! Last week we also visited candy brands Chup a Chups and Look o Look and got a funny candypizza as a present. Thanks guys!
Work Hard, Play Hard! Last week we began celebrating Britt’s birthday with vlaaien (cakes) from Limburg. Yum! Jana created props for a new stop motion animation. Max animated an owl frame by frame. Raph got underwater hockey instructions from Britt. She recently got silver at the World Championship under 23, Go Britt! And this weekend we went out to Breda Barst festival to party and check out our animations on the big screens. We are sponsor of this festival because we love it so much!
Last week 37: We went up in the air, did a lunch presentation of our showreel at an advertising agency, made a paper version of Last Week and had a dream come true driving a BMW i8!
Last week 36: The word is out! We created animated scenes for the documentary Hardwell: Living the Dream. We also got ourselves new tabletennis bats and they had to be customized with characters of ourselves. We also made our Showreel for 2015 (check it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Here it is, Animate the World on the poster of the new Hardwell movie. Thanks to Robin Piree (www.robinpiree.com) who Jelle van Dun and his guys collaborated with! In Cinema 15 october 2015!
Besides creating awesome animations, we at Animate the World love some good music. When we’re not on stage playing with our own bands, we’re probably rocking at a great concert or festival. So for us, combining animation with music makes perfect sense.
This year we will focus on working together with the music industry. Therefore, we made a compilation of the music related animations we already created.
We love to work on music related projects like your band’s music video or a promo video for a music festival.
As an animation video producer, we keep the audience and the atmosphere of your music or festival in mind to create the most unique animated video content!
To accomplish that, we use stop motion animation, motion graphics, film or mixed media.
If you are looking for an animation video producer, feel free to contact us at +31 76 21 00 105 or jelle@animatetheworld.eu
Did you know, when watching a movie, people automatically focus on faces? In animation, this works the same way, even though we use cartoon faces. Wondering how we know this? Well, we used an eyetracking device on one of our latest animations. Karin den Bouwmeester from Userproof is a usability expert who normally tests the usability of websites. With the eyetracker, she makes visible where the user is looking at. With that knowledge you can check if this matches the strategy you had in mind for your website or whether you need to make some changes.
To check whether our viewers see all the info we show them in our animations, Karin let us use the eyetracker.
In this video you’ll see the test subject looks at every visual. We always let the visuals enter the screen one by one, the test shows the viewer needs this to see everything clearly.
We also got confirmation that graphics work better then text. The test subject mostly sees the visuals in one glance, while reading text takes more time and effort.
We made a new website for our own animated series Wasted Times. Here we will post our progress of our creations. Check it out! http://www.wastedtimes.tv/
We always deliver custom animated films. We spend a lot of time trying to find the perfect visual animation style for your story. And to support the story’s feeling we started composing our own music and producing custom sound effects. Soon we will publish the first examples of our music and sound design.
The script for the pilot of Wasted Times is finished. Wasted Times is our first animation series, we are going to produce with ATW Entertainment. And with the script finished, Max could start storyboarding. It’s now up on our office wall. Let’s start designing!
Nowadays more and more explanation animations, better known as explanimations, are published. Often, a character is animated, a voice-over is added and there you have a nice way to explain your product or service to your consumers.
For our client ‘Check your service’ we made such a straightforward explanimation, as you can see above.
This style will not always be appropriate for every message and audience. Therefore, we at Animate the World, customize explanimations in different animation styles.
For instance, we create a totally different visual concept to tell the story.
Then your explanimation may look like this film we made for Clypper:
It’s also possible to use only stop motion animation, like we did for Canon. This nonverbal animation speaks for itself.
Sometimes we choose a combination of the examples above. We did so for the healthmix of Topbuxus. We tell their story in stop motion animation, assisted by animated infographics to show how the product works.
This film is also nonverbal, which is perfect if you want to show your film on a busy convention.
Sometimes, the message isn’t so cheerful. Even then, you can use animation to convey your message. Dark, calm images, combined with an old and dark voice give your animation the right mood.
As you see, every message needs a different approach. And that’s what we like about creating client films!
In our graphics showreel you can see more examples of how we use motion graphics:
Recently we signed a new employee that’s a real 3D motion graphics/motion design talent. Check out Ruud’s film showing our new animation possibilities. The 3D animated film also shows our animation services, for which brands we’ve worked and where our films have aired.
During Playgrounds Digital Arts Fest 2012 Animation Director Jelle van Dun will give 2 workshops in Theater De Nieuwe Vorst Tilburg. The workshops are about the beginning of Animate the world to where we are now and is called “From viral to company”. Part of talent devellopment from Toonbeeld.
A new television programme from German international TV station Deutsche Welle aired our film “I Love Kruidnoten”. The show “Shift” features the most remarkable things happening on the internet.
Shift about Jelle van Dun: “Der niederländische Filmemacher Jelle van Dun ist ganz verrückt nach Kruidnoten: kleinen holländischen Plätzchen. Doch in seinem Stopp-Trick-Clip bekommt er sie einfach nicht zu fassen. Dieses und 50 weitere verrückte Videos finden sich auf seinem YouTube-Kanal. Mehr als 1,5 Millionen User haben sie bereits angeklickt.”
Watch the episode here (Our film at 10:47):
http://www.dw.de/shift-leben-in-der-digitalen-welt-2012-11-26/e-16362380-9800
“Jelle van Dun, Breda-resident and the founder of “Animate the World,” a Dutch animation company famous for its stop-motion videos, created this trailer for TEDxBreda, a fun stop-motion tale exploring the event’s theme: “Remix Your Reflex.”
http://blog.tedx.com/post/36818193088/tedxbreda-remixes-stop-motion-jelle-van-dun
After being broadcasted on several TV networks all over the world, My Animated World has now entered Swedish TV. The Educational TV station UR played the stop motion animated film on the programme REC to inspire children.
This film has inspired a lot of people to make their own stop motion animations or to use this technique for commercials.
Animate the World has a new headquarter at the AVhuis in Breda, the Netherlands. This new building houses filmmakers, photographers, sound engineers and now a top notch animation studio!
ANIMATE the WORLD is going to move to the AVhuis (AudioVisualHouse) in Breda. This building is being built at the moment and will be finished March 2012. ANIMATE the WORLD is looking forward to moving to this creative building ment for companies related to animation- and filmmaking!
A preview can be seen right at www.avhuis.nl
ANIMATE the WORLD is featured in a double page studio profile in Imagine Animation Magazine’s autumn issue. This leading UK based animation magazine loved ANIMATE the WORLD’s work and wanted to know all about the studio. Check it here.
Jelle was interviewed by Revu for issue number 29 about ANIMATE the WORLD and all of his accomplishments up till now.
Next to paper media Jelle also had interviews for television. Check out this link for a cool report about him.
When I travel I can’t resist using the place I’m at for some stop motion animation. Foreign money is always a good object to animate! Unfortunately it got a little too dark at the end, but it gives a nice effect as well. Thanks to Mark Thijssen for helping out.
Jelle is Elsevier’s talent in issue number 8! He’s been interviewed and photographed for this leading dutch magazine. The issue releases the third week of february and Jelle makes his appearance in the talent column of the culture section.
The BBC will broadcast several films from ANIMATE the WORLD. The films will be part of a TV show called Teethgrinder.
ANIMATE the WORLD also developed a series of animated “stings” for the show. Stings are short bits of a TV show. They are used to shortly break down the show in an original way to keep the viewer’s interest.
Before this TV networks such as MTV, the CW(USA), MDR(Germany), Deutsche Welle, VARA(Netherlands) and The Box(Netherlands) have broadcasted films from ANIMATE the WORLD.
Click here to see an example of a short animated film for VARA’s TV show De Wereld Draait Door
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Telephone (+31) 076 21 00 105
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