Ho ho ho

we wish everyone all the best for 2011!

Joost & Erik

great christmas gifts

Its getting extremely cold here in Holland this year, to make sure that JellePelle and our intern geoffrey arent getting a cold we gave them this nice sweater under the christmas tree.
they look great on you guys! thanks for the hard work you did for us!

BEAMLAB

Tommorow (wednesday October 27th) we will give an short presentation with Q&A at Beamlab in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. The entrance is free and starts at 20:00h ,and there will also be other presentations, like one from our agents at Shop Around . Hope to see you there!

Showreel 2010

Here is our new showreel!
It contains a lot of new work from for example De Grobbebollen, George and Paul, BNN's Badgasten etc etc.
Also you can see we gave the website a facelift. Hope you like it.

3D-Machine @ KLIK Festival

Haven't seen 'the 3d-Machine'? Want to watch it again? In the highest quality? At one of the best animationfestivals?
For the second time, our 3d animated short 'the 3D-Machine' will be screened at the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival. the festivals theme is 'Science' this year and our film has been added in the 'Mad scientist parade-programme' together with the Powerpuff girls , Dexters lab, the Muppets, my life as a teenage robot & the Animaniacs it looks like a great programme !
the film will be screened in anaglyph 3d, and in the highest digital cinema quality!
see it on thursday 14:15 or on sunday 15:45!

New studio!!!

Last week we moved to our new studio space. And it's great!!! Much bigger and situated right next to Rotterdam Central Station. It took blood, sweat and a lot of paint, but we are very happy with the result. To the right you can see our new intern, Geoffrey Armfield. A talented and enthusiastic animation student from the Willem de Kooning Academy.
If you are in the neighborhood don't hesitate to visit us.

Our new address is:
Ka-Ching Cartoons
Schieblock
Delftsestraat 5 , Unit 511
3013 AB
Rotterdam
The Netherlands


The cool photo was made by Jelle Gijsberts.

Finished & on TV

Hooraah! we Finished all 26 episodes of 'de Grobbebollen maken Lol'
starting from today until the third of september, every monday tuesday thursday and friday at 14:35, they will be broadcasted on Nederland 3 at Zappelin !

we couldn't have made this fantastic show without Mick Harrison an JesterCoyote animation and of course not without the Efteling!
we hope you will have as much fun watching, as we had while making the show!

get your plane cancelled, ' Ka-ching ' -style

Last week we flew back from a great trip in Annecy.
Unfortunally our flight got cancelled, and we had to wait 24 hours to get another one.
Luckily for us the Flightcompany arranged a stay for us in the 5-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in Geneva, where we could enjoy lots of luxury, swimming pool, sauna, steamroom, good food etc.
Just like home!

Annecy!

off we go!
We're going to Annecy Animation Festival again this year!
say Hi if you see us!

Storyboards are finished!

Phew! Today we finished the last storyboard for 'De Grobbebollen'. (the tv show we direct for de Efteling) It was quite a job; 26 episodes of 2,5 minutes, which more than an hour! It was great to do, and wonderful to see these how these storyboards develop to the finished episodes. Our work is not finished of course. There's three episodes to be animated. And then we are still busy with post production. We expect all episodes to be totally finished by the first week of July.

Grobbebollen show at the Efteling

The Grobbebollen have got their own little show in Hollands main themepark de Efteling.
In one of the towers of their magic castle they will do a show to entertain the visitors of the park.
They will be supported by guys in blue suits who will play and voice these handpuppets of Broer and Geeltje.
Check it out in de Efteling!

Grobbebollen TV-Guide

If you are living in the Netherlands, you can watch brand new episodes of 'De Grobbebollen maken Lol' starting tommorow Z@ppelin will broadcast 5 new episodes and after that they will start repeating the first episodes.
here are the dates and times!

• Vrijdag 30 april 11:40 : afl. 6 Start de piano
• maandag 3 mei 11:40 : afl. 7 Het Grobbebollenlied
• dinsdag 4 mei 11:40 : afl. 8 Meeuwenplaag
• woensdag 5 mei 11:40 : afl. 9 De olifant en de muis
• donderdag 6 mei 11:40 : afl. 10 Schoon genoeg
• vrijdag 7 mei 11:40 : afl. 1 Vliegwater
• donderdag 13 mei 11:40 : afl. 2 Een, twee, zzz
• vrijdag 14 mei 11:40 : afl. 3 Slaap hard

enjoy!

Hard Boiled Chicken

In 2006 Erik and I both did two internships, on at the Cartoonsaloon in Ireland and one at Animationworks a small studio in Dordrecht, here in Holland ran by Arjan Wilschut.
We really liked his style and were strongly convinced Arjan worked in some sort of a digital way, because of his strong 'vectorline-ish'-style.
But we were very wrong, this man draws everything by hand on paper, even the double (thick) outlines are drawn by hand!
We learned a lot from Arjan and we got to work a bit on his film 'Hard Boiled Chicken'
recently he started a blog with loads of nice work. Luckily we're still doing some nice work for him every now and then, watch out for his next film 'Farmer Jack'.
Here is the short 'Hard Boiled Chicken' which we got to work on back then, and which also won a whole bunch of festivals.

enjoy!

episode 003 slaap hard !

here is episode 3 of 'de Grobbebollen maken lol!'


Broer is asleep but Geeltje tries to wake him up, he has something important to show him.
enjoy!

'De grobbebollen maken lol' : Episode 002

And here is the second episode called 'One, two, zzz'!

'De grobbebollen maken lol' : Episode 001

Have fun with the first episode of Grobbebollen cartoon show!

Grobbebollen promo

Here's a promo for the 'Grobbebollen maken lol' tv-show!

De Grobbebollen maken lol.

We are very proud to announce that starting today 'De Grobbebollen maken lol' is airing on Dutch television.
The show is produced by the Efteling, and is a spin-off of TiTaTovenaar.

Ka-Ching Cartoons directs and executive produces the 26x2,5 minute episodes. Animation is being done by Jester Coyote Animation, and the designs by the great Mick Harrison.

This Flash animated cartoon is about Geeltje and Broer and their silly adventures. The first 5 episodes air this week. The next 5 in May and from June all epsiodes will be finished. We are very happy with the quality of the show, it is a dream working on it!!

Don't miss the first 5 episodes:

Nederland 3, Z@ppelin, AVRO:
Monday 22 Feb. 9:53 uur
Tuesday 23 Feb. 9:53 uur
Wednesday 24 Feb. 10:21 uur
Thursday 25 Feb. 9:53 uur
Friday 26 Feb. 9:53 uur

Enjoy!!!

Proof of Life

Hello,Hello,
we have been Kidnapped!!
by a very very big project, that we cannot show or tell anything about (yet),
but nothing to worry about,we're still alive!
to prove that we're alive and ok, here is a photo of me holding todays newspaper.

hopefully we're allowed to show and tell more soon!

now back to work!

Joost and Erik