Kakkerlak location designs

Yes, yes, I know that these are the exact same pictures as on Jelle's blog. But that's simply because he's the art director of our half hour animated opera Kakkerlak. The pictures look great don't they? We sure are happy. Today we finished up our application for productionfunding. Let's keep our fingers crossed!!

a little making of ´George and Paul´

Together With Pedri Animation we made a pilot for George and Paul,
Before Pedri started to make the puppets and the animation we designed the characters, made turnarounds and modelsheets.


we also made some more detailed instructions for the building of the puppets


With all this Peter Mansfelt made the first prototypes, they were already awesome!
but for the actual animation we needed better versions,
bigger and with good ball and socket joints.
These were created by John Craney.
Elmer Kaan did an awesome job animating the Pilot.
Of course he used a lot of rigs and wires, this was al cleaned up and color corrected by Cinemeta Digital, below you can see some before and after sequences.

If you didn't see the pilot yet or if you want to watch the storyboards for the series,
go and visit:
http://www.georgeandpaul.com

HOLLYWOOD

Phew! We've been back from Hollywood three weeks now. What a great time we had there! Learned a lot about the Hollywood filmmaking system and made some great friends and contacts! We even met the president. (We really recommend everybody who goes to America to meet up with the president at least once. He's a cool guy.) seriously we were invited to the Jay Leno show where Obama came that day!
The trip was organised by NBC Universal. The trip was the prize we won with our 3d short film the 3D-Machine. The other guys on the photos are the filmmasters from the other countries. Martijn Smits from Holland. Markus F. Adrian from germany and Dniel Guerrero from Spain.

they've made a sign on the hills, so it looks exactly like the map

we were invited to the premiere and party of 'Fast and Furious' YeaH!!!!

We were Universal studios guests for two weeks, although they kept us pretty busy, we did visited our friends at Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Cold Hard Flash, Disney Playhouse, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Walt Disney Feature Animation! busy busy busy

George and Paul

Hooraah, we are very proud that we can show you the concept pilot of 'George and Paul', the animated series in stop motion that we have been working on for a while now. Together with Pedri Animation we have developed this concept and made this pilot episode. Hopefully this is the start of something great. You can find a lot of information and two complete animatics on the website www.georgeandpaul.com
Enjoy!

WATCH IT HERE!

www.georgeandpaul.com

Kakkerlak animation test

Here is a first animation test for our upcoming half hour animated opera.

Character designs

Here are some character designs for projects that didn't (yet) get made. Enjoy!
Artwork by Ka-Ching Cartoons and Jelle Pelle

making of anaglyph animation

Upon request I made an effort and tried to narrate this video, where we show how the 3d-anaglyph technique we used for our film 'the 3D-Machine' works. Using flash and after effects and photoshop we developed a system that worked real well for our film to make a 2d animation in anaglyph-3D

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 :