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Dedicated Thousand – A Film by Jelle van Dun

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Dedicated Thousand - A Film by Jelle van Dun

Dedicated thousand, an animated film made of 1000 tattoos. The film brings an inspirational message in a unique way for a more sustainable lifestyle. The 1000 people who carry this message on their bodies for the rest of their lives are THE DEDICATED THOUSAND. They take small and realistic steps towards a more sustainable way of life. Together they create impact and they are an inspiration to others.

Creator and Director Jelle van Dun from Animate the World & Rise Above invited top notch tattoo studio Bunker Tattoo to collaborate in the project.

A few years ago they already created a tattooed animation out of 12 tattoos for the film My Animated World: 10 Years Later (Animation and making of footage below). This project takes it to the next level and tries to change the world for the better.

On December 1st, Animate the World and Bunker tattoo artist Jan van Antwerpen will be doing the first tattoo session at Eindhoven Film Festival, to make a start at this unique animation film.

Animation Jam 2016 – Animate the World

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Animation Jam 2016 - Animate the World

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.

Last Week 28 – Animate the World

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Last Week 28 - Animate the World

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.

Last Week 43 – Animate the World

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Last Week 43 - Animate the World

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 42 – Animate the World

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Last Week 42 - Animate the World

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!

Last Week 41 – Animate the World

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Last Week 41 - Animate the World

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 – Animate the World

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Last Week 40 - Animate the World

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!

Last Week 39 – Stop motion and 2D animation making of

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Last Week 39 - Stop motion and 2D animation making of - Animate the World
Last Week 39: A few making of and work in progress shots from last week. We love to shoot stop motion (pixilation) from the hand to create a raw feeling of speed. We also like to combine stop motion and 2D animation as you can see in the work in progress shot of the monster character on top of one our models.

 

Last Week 38 – Work hard, play hard

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Last Week 38 - Work hard, play hard

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 36

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Last Week 36 - Animate the World

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?v=ivz0FLGTmGE). The plant animation was the intro for it, and the cans of beans VS clash was one of the animations in the showreel.

Music Videos

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Showreel Music Videos

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.

Animating a music video

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.

Looking for an animation video producer?

If you are looking for an animation video producer, feel free to contact us at +31 76 21 00 105 or jelle@animatetheworld.eu

Eyetracking animations

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Eyetracking animation

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.

Music composing

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muzikaletinus

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.

Storyboarding

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Max storyboarding

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!

Our view on explanimations

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Check your service - customer

 

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:

I love kruidnoten in German Tv-show

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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.

Duitse Tvshow

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

Blog on TEDx.com about Animate the World

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“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

Film broadcasted in Sweden

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UR

UR

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.

New office @ AVhuis

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AVhuis

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!

Moving to AVhuis Breda march 2012

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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

Studio Profile Imagine Animation Magazine

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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.

Animate the World in Bristol

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Animate the World in Bristol

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 in Elsevier

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Elsevier

Elsevier

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.

 

Films op BBC

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BBC

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

 
Samsung
KPN
Mercedes
Canon
MTV
BBC
Rabobank
De Bijenkorf
The CW
UWV
Gemeente Breda
Verkade
Ted
Swiss
DWDD
Auto Scout
ASR
Alphabet
Bolletje
Consumentenbond
Hardwell
Oliver Heldens
Uniekaas
Disney
Bol.com
Ahold
Randstad
ABN AMRO
Telfort
VARA
Albert Heijn
YACHT
Look O Look
Enexis
Ziggo
 

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