seasons greetings

For all of you who didnt receive a printed version of our christmas card : here it is!
We wish you all the best for the next year!
Joost and Erik

Showreel 2009

It's that time of the year where you look back. And to be honest we got quite a bit emotional. Ka-Ching Cartoons has been around for 1 and a half year now, and things seem to go pretty well. To celebrate we have made a new showreel, a 3 minute compilation of all the stuff we have done. Let's hope the new year will keep on being cool!


Ka-Ching Cartoons Showreel 2009 from Ka-Ching Cartoons on Vimeo.

Alexander Petrov

When we recently followed the masterclass 'from concept to storyboard' we met Robbe Vervaeke.
Robbe is a talented animator who likes to animate with oilpaint on glass. His greatest hero is Alexander Petrov, and if there ever existed a poster of Petrov, he would have it in his bedroom! So we gave him this poster of pin up Petrov!
Check Robbe's last film at www.erszebet.com

Ka-Ching mascotte

We at Ka-Ching are on a quest of finding the perfect cat to be our mascotte. Turns out cats usually are not so fond of wearing fezzes!?! Who would have thought. This sweet cat is called Jerry. He's Digna's cat. Sadly we have to say Jerry did not make it to the next round... He just doesn't have the X-factor. Do you think your cat has what it takes? Send in your videos! info@ka-chingcartoons.com


Ka-Ching mascotte from Ka-Ching Cartoons on Vimeo.

Shoebox on Cartoon Brew TV

Waahoo! Cartoon Brew TV has posted our 2006 graduationfilm The Shoebox online. Thank you Amid and Jerry!!!

even more stills of Kakkerlak

This week during the Holland Animation Festival
we had a prestentation of our storyreel of our animated opera 'Kakkerlak'.
here are some more stills :

STASH

Check it out the latest issue of STASH magazine!
It almost looks like we have our own magazine! thats right, we're featured with 'the 3D machine' as the cover project and as closing film on the Stash dvd!
so if you would like to see the 3D machine ! order the latest Stash magazine.
now with free 3d-glasseshttp://www.stashmedia.tv/

Kakkerlak color and style research

Here's some more artwork from our animated opera: Kakkerlak. An opera about cockroaches, nuclear bombs and clean energy. We feel we are getting closer to the style we are looking for. Also we feel the story is solid so the talented Matthew Curlewis is developing the outline into a full script.
Things are going pretty, pretty good.

Protect 77

Wim Tellier, a Belgian artist and photographer started a project called Protect 77.
He photographed portaits of 4500 children from all over the world who all painted a dream on a glass plate. Together this instalation covers 4800 m2 of unique art pieces, combined into six big photos. There will be huge expostions and he will start the tour on Antartica.
We made a bunch of animated dreams drawn by children for the intro of the gallery of the projects website. It takes a little while to load, but then you'll see fullscreen high quality video!
We did this job for our agents at Shop Around.
Enjoy!

SHOCKING SHORTS AWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hieperdepiep hoera!
We won the Shocking Shorts award last night at the dutch filmfestival!
This great contest was held by NBC Universal and we won an awesome award!
Also we won a trip to Hollywood and a 2 weeks course at the Universal studios called the Hollywood Filmmasters Programme.
Woohoo we're very happy!
www.shockingshorts.nl
www.filmfestival.nl

fez-tivals

Woohoo !!
We're well presented at the upcoming festivals check your agenda to see one of our screenings near you of 'the 3D-machine'
At the Dutch Film Festival we'll be screened DIGITAL! highly reccomended to see this one!
we're in the debutcompetition and in a special animation session.
the festival is from 24th of september till october the 3rd
www.filmfestival.nl

Also at the Dutch Film Festival: the Shocking Shorts competition, by NBC.
we're proud to say that we're nominated for a price! the jury consists of Rutger Hauer, Monique vd Ven, Jean vd Velde, Doreen Boonekamp and many more impressive proffesionals.
send these people some money and go check it at www.shockingshorts.nl

five days, five themes; mixed arts at the ´Nieuwe Anita´ in Amsterdam.
and we are happy to say that our film is part of this cultural happening of film, photography, music and performances. 1st till the 5th of october!
www.commongroundfestival.nl



This is most probably the best animationfestival in Serbia ever! we wish we could visit it like last year. Unfortunally we're too busy following our masterclass.
if you feel like a good animationfestival, very nice people, see a cool 3d film and probably some nice weather, then go to Serbia from the 7th till the 11th of october.
www.balkanima.org

Leids Film Festival, should be a good one! this young festival was recommended to us by a good friend. they have a animation day on the 1st of november, and they are screening our film in competition for this great price: an iron Herring!
29th of october till the 2nd of november
www.leidsfilmfestival.nl

And of course, the biggest animation event in the Netherlands!
the Holland Animation Film Festival.
from the 5th till the 9th of november, the City of Utrecht will be the center of animation.
our film is screened in competition, and also there will be a presentation of our masterclass project that we follow.
www.haff.awn.com

enjoy! we hope to see you at one of the screenings.

Swinxs

Here's a commercial we did for Swinxs via Shop Around. Fun to do. So... run to the shop and buy one!

Digital Premiere at KLIK! Festival!

This weekend our '3D-machine' will première in his beautiful digital format at the KLIK! animation festival in Amsterdam. the film is screened once on friday and twice on saturday.
for more info: www.klikamsterdam.nl

Can't buy me love

Hey there! We just finished the leader for the new reality show 'Can't buy me love'. It runs six days a week at 19:30 on RTL5. Design of the characters was done by Jonathan Kuijs, everything else by Ka-Ching. We did this job for Submarine. Copyright Talpa 2008.

Cockroach designs (5)

Yes! Yes! Yes! More cockroach designs.
This time we're exploring designing characters and backgrounds with more straight lines and hard edges (less rounded), to find out what suits better with the opera theme.

Update!!!
The Cockroach project has been selected for the Masterclass: from concept to storyboard 2008. This masterclass is organised by the Holland Animation film Festival and is meant to help young animators with their projects and in doing so elevating the quality of animation productions in Holland and Belgium.
We'll get intence help form international professionals:
· Ruth Lingford (Groot-Brittannië) (Death and the mother, Pleasures of war)
· Konstantin Bronzit (Rusland) (Lavatory lovestory, The God)
· Piet Kroon (Nederland/Verenigde Staten) (Alladin, The Iron Giant)

Gee whiz, we're excited waahoooooo!

Cockroach designs (4)

Here are some more designs for our short film; an opera about cockroaches. With these designs we are trying to look for a style that fits with opera. We do not want the film to take place on a stage, but we do want that feel.
The story is progressing nicely too. We are co-writing with Matthew Curlewis. He's great. We are getting pretty excited about it all.

Ka-Ching Cartoons celebrates 1st year

Woohoo , although we've been working as Ka-ching for longer , last Saturday we could celebrate our first official year as a 'real' company!
may many more years of cartoons come!
Also our film 'the 3D Machine' plays as a short in front of 'Be Kind Rewind' at Cinerama Rotterdam untill next week!

First Annecy photos

Yes, once again Annecy was awesome!!! We've met a lot of our old Cartoon Salooner friends. It was great seeing Tomm, Ross, Jordan, Abel, Mike, Patrick, Daan and Caitriona again. The festival itself was okay, not the best films... but what they hey, there was sun, paddle boats, crepes, tartiflets, a bit of sun, Richard Williams, lots a cool people, drinking, kissing, doing business and dancing. Pretty, pretty, pretty cool!
There's more photos to come!

Cockroach character designs (3)

And here are even more Cockroach opera designs:

screenings!

Get your tickets everyone!

Tommorow the 23rd of may we'll have a '3D Machine' screening in competition,
at the 'NFTVM VERS' . starting at 21.00 in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam.
or later during the weekend there is the 'URBAN EXPLORERS' festival in Dordrecht.
they will show 'the 3D-Machine' all weekend long for all who is at the festival.
And for the ones who can't make it you can check out the 'AMSTERDAM SHORTS' festival .
in the special Kids programme 'AMSTERDAM SHORTIES',
they will show 'the 3D Machine' and 'The Shoebox'
on may 31st at 15:00 and june 1st at 13:00 @ Kriterion3

commercial

We recently animated a tv commercial for Halfords, a car and bike accessories-shop.
We worked with the designs from Richard Simonse from Shop Around
it was an old style comic book-commercial and very much fun to do.
we'll be working on at least 4 more of these!
this one will be on tv untill the end of may.
Here are some stills: