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:

Cold Hard Flash

Aaron Simpson from Coldhardflash.com has a cool post on the 3D-Machine! You can watch the trailer and see the extras that were featured on the dvd.
Just click the link.

http://coldhardflash.com/2008/05/the-making-of-3d-machine.html

Skunk is in Holland!

SKUNK FU, the series we've worked in ireland is finally broadcasted in Holland.
Everyday you can see the series on Jetix!
And yes! It's dubbed in Dutch!
Even the rap-title-song is now in a funny language!

Cockroach character designs (2)

Here more preproduction art for the Cockroach project. The characterdesigns are made by Jelle Gijsberts and Mick Harisson, and the color and location studies are Erik Verkerk's doing.

Cockroach character designs

Here are some character designs for our new film. It'll be an opera about cockroaches. The pictures were made by Jelle Gijsberts, Mick Harisson, Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk. We have also atracted writers who are developing treatments as we speak. Pretty cool, huh?

new!

Now for even more eyecomfort, we gave our site a big restyling!
Enjoy!

stamp Ahoy

sorry for not updating for a while,
we've been very busy!
So busy that we've decided not to draw our logo over and over again anymore.
To save time we made a stamp out of it!

Premiere

It was a great succes, the 3D machine premiered for 600 people.
later that week it had 2 more sold out screenings. everybody was really enthousiastic about it which made us very happy!
here's a nice photo of the premiere, more to follow soon.