Robots!

We love robots! especially if they are designed by Jelle Gijsberts
we animated these and another 1000 characters for his personal project called 'Tekenclub', which is a website for children with drawinglessons on it, funded by the Fiep Westendorp foundation.
jelle asked us to all the animation for this website, its going to be a great website and will be online soon at www.tekenclub.nl

color test

Mix and Match!
With the extremly nice backgrounds made by JellePelle we had to add shading on our very flat designed characters to make it work together,
also we want to adjust the characters color to the different lightning of each bg.
to see if this all would work we made a little test of the bg and the character together.

Hooray!!! 2 years!!!

Waahoo!! Hooray for everybody. Ka-Ching Cartoons celebrates its 2 year existance. Get the champagne, get the caviar. It has been a great two years, let's keep it up for another 200!!

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