United Airlines Ad

Animation by AW for a United Airlines commercial, designed and directed by Michael Dudok de Wit.

AW animated the boy on the bike, the graduation, walk in the park, handshakes, the globe and the walk in the terminal.

 

Designed, animated and directed by Michael Dudok de Wit

 

Additional animation by Arjan Wilschut

Client: United Airlines | Produced by ACME Filmworks

 

Designs for Schiphol Airport

Slideshow of character designs for an animated instruction film, about safety procedures at Schiphol Airport. Next time you fly from there, have a look at the big screens above the gates to see the result. Enjoy, and have a safe trip!

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Art director Martijn Winkler

Client: Schiphol Airport | Agent: Comic House

Rabobank web avatars

AW designed these Avatars for the Rabobank website. Friendly, helpful characters, each with their own specialty. Left to right: mortgages, starting business, sport clubs, mobile banking, private banking. Click to enlarge and see more sketches and techniques.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Art Director: Martijn Winkler

Client: Rabobank | Agent: Comic House

Monkey Business

Sketches and character designs by AW, for a short comic strip in Groeneveld magazine.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Agent: Comic House  | Publisher: GRNVLD

Skater Animation

Sequential drawings of a skater, part of of a pitch for a commercial with a sporty, urban feel.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

City Sports

City Sports

Designs for a pitch about Free Running and other city Sports, made with ballpoint and brushpen.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Coachr Storyboard

Storyboard slides by AW for a short ad, promoting the Coachr: a running device for mobile phones. The Coachr is a concept by Harmen de Jong, now in development.

 

Storyboard by Arjan Wilschut

Director: Ferdinand van Dam | Client: FlinQ TV

Frutti di Mare Game designs

Pencil/ marker sketches by AW, as part of a pitch for an underwater racing game Frutti Di Mare, by Jochem van der Spek.

 

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Concept: Jochem van der Spek

Character Designs

Various characters by AW.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Silhouette Designs

Various silhouette designs by AW, for different pitches: Mobi, Schiphol and others.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Farmer Jack Designs

Slideshow with designs for our new film Farmer Jack/ Boer Jansen. The simple, almost geometrical shapes are relatively easy to animate, and fit the poster-style of our film, about a good-natured farmer, who is slowly dragged into the money-making machine of modern farming.

 

Designs by Arjan Wilschut & Animation Works

Written and directed by Arjan Wilschut

Produced by il Luster Productions

Feep! Silhouette designs

Hommage to Fiep Westendorp. Not only is she the best illustrator in Dutch history, she also has the coolest name ever. Pronounce: feep!

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Inspired by the work of Fiep Westendorp

Malmberg @ Tekenclub!

Poses of the Malmberg characters, for tekenclub.nl, a website where kids can learn to draw!

 

Tekenclub was initiated and designed by Jelle Gijsberts for the Fiep Westendorp foundation. The site was built by BNB multimedia, with music by Dick Wilschut.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Lady Luna

Lady Luna

Character designs for a sci-fi film concept by AW, about an intergalactic battle between the twin sisters Sola and Luna. Story outline and concept art available on request.

 

Artrist: Arjan Wilschut | ©  2010 Animation Works

 

Santa Story Slideshow

After Penguin’s Christmas AW developed another Christmas idea: the Santa Story. The designs have a contemporary feel, but they are rendered with a classical illustration look, creating a colourful mix of characters from all eras and places: a mythological Nordic King, an ancient pharaoh, life-size toy soldiers and of course, a penguin …

 

Designs by Jelle Gijsberts

Story and concept by Arjan Wilschut

© Animation Works

Calvé Designs

Four character designs for a Calvé web campaign, promoting 4 new BBQ sauces: Hollandaise, Moroccan shaslik, Jamaican fish sauce and Argentinian steak sauce. AW also provided Flash animations and banners.

 

Designs: Arjan Wilschut, Jelle Gijsberts

Client: Calvé | Agent: Comic House

Golden Age

Golden Age

Sketches for a feature film project with working title Golden Age.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Concept: il Luster Productions

Pharao design

Trying out a more vector-inspired design.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

 

Warrior Women

Character sketches by AW, trying out more realistic shading and texturing.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Aegon: Accident

Animation for the Aegon website speeljetoekomst.nu

 

Each scene shows possible futures for which one should be insured. These digital animations were made with Toonboom, and can be used and re-used as jigsaw pieces to create dozens of little movies. For instance: this male character can be replaced by a female, using the same animation.

 

Animation by Arjan Wilschut

Design by Michael Sewnarain | Directed by Hans Buying

Client: Aegon | Agent: Comic House

 

Albert Heijn Smurfs!

Commercial for the Albert Heijn ‘Smurfs’ campaign 2008. Nice to do a traditional cartoon like this, and work with such great talents: directed by Hans Buying, storyboard by Daan Jippes, layouts/ backgrounds by Wouter Tulp!

 

Animation Works had a fair share in the work: Pascal Vermeersch, Digna van der Put and Arjan Wilschut animated some scenes, Nico van Biljouw did colour, camera and composit in Animo.

 

Watch the full Albert Heijn Smurfs ad on YouTube

Minoes Titles

Animated title sequence for the children’s film Minoes.

In typical Dutch Fiep Westendorp style, Miss Minoes takes us through the opening credits in a playful manner. Minoes won several awards, including a Gouden Kalf.

 

Designed and directed by Vincent Bal

Animation by Arjan Wilschut | Agent: Comic House

Client: Burny Bos | Warner Bros NL

Father and daughter

A compilation of scenes from Father and Daughter, animated by AW.

Michael Dudok de Wit’s beautiful short film moved and mesmerized audiences worldwide, and won over 40 awards, including the Oscar for Best Animated Short.

 

Animation in this clip by Arjan Wilschut

Written, designed and directed by Michael Dudok de Wit

Produced by Claire Jennings and Willem Thijssen

Cloudrunner Ltd | Channel4 | VPRO | NFF

Hard Boiled Chicken (2006)

A rooster detective and a dame in despair have to solve the Case of the Missing Egg ..!

Hard Boiled Chicken toured film festivals worldwide and won 7 international awards including the Ijzeren Haring, and the HAFF Moviesquad Junior award. The film also toured arthouse cinemas as a short before the documentary Our Daily Bread.

 

Length 4’50″ | 35 mm and DVD | no dialogue | 2D

Written and directed by Arjan Wilschut

Produced by illuster Productions

S4C Wales | Dutch Film Fund

 

 

Penguin’s Christmas (2004)

A Penguin on the South Pole tries to get his letter to Santa on the North Pole.

A short TV cartoon produced by Animation Works for S4C Wales television. The film won 2nd prizes at Anima Mundi and Interfilm Berlin, and sold multiple licences at MIPcom. It was also included in the Christmas episode of channelfrederator.com, with over a 100,000 views!

 

Length 3’30″ | 35 mm and DVD | Black/White | 2D

 

Written and directed by Arjan Wilschut

Client: S4C | Produced by Animation Works

Meander’s adventure

One of 12 cover illustrations for Ontdekkingsreizen/ Explorers, three teaching methods published by Malmberg. This is Meander, the heroine of the Geography series. She travels the world with her pet falcon and ends up in all kinds of exotic adventures!

 

← Click to enlarge

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijsberts

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Explore!

One of 10 promotional illustrations for Malmberg in 2010, featuring Naut, Meander and Brandaan. This picture is not only representative for the whole series, it also shows an important part of the artistic vision of AW: lively and likeable characters, adventure and discovery, dramatic lighting and strange new worlds.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Skating

One of 10 promotional illustrations for Malmberg in 2010, showing Naut, Meander and Brandaan in new adventures. This one has a nice grungy quality, almost as if the picture was taken with a mobile phone.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

 

Malmberg in Tokyo

Montage of a Malmberg illustration, combined with a travel snapshot of Shinjuku, Tokyo.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Overview: Showreel AW

This showreel shows a selection of our work in animation, illustration and design.

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Comic Strip

Two panels of a two-page comic strip : De Apen de Tuinman/ The Monkeys and the Gardener. It’s a fable set in India, written by Bob Evers writer Frank Jonker. The comic strip was commissioned and published by Caroline van der Lee of Groeneveld magazine. It also appeared in the June 2011 issue of P@per comics magazine.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Writer: Frank Jonker

Agent: Comic House | Publisher: GRNVLD

Malmberg Holiday Book

One of seven pencilled illustrations for a Holiday book by Malmberg. The heroes Naut, Meander and Brandaan are slightly younger here, because the of the book’s target audience: ages 6/7

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut  | Publisher: Malmberg

The Eagle and the King

Illustration for De Adelaar en de Koning/ The Eagle and the King, a fantasy adventure book by Arjan Wilschut. The book was published in 2005, won an award (Het Hoogste Woord) in 2006, and was reprinted in 2008. It is available in bookshops, the library, and on bol.com

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Publisher: Callenbach

Book of Aderyn

Banner for the website hetboekvanaderyn.nl

Het boek van Aderyn is a concept for a trilogy of fantasy/ adventure stories for young adults, written and designed by Arjan Wilschut. The first book, De Adelaar en de Koning/ The Eagle and the King, was published in 2005, and reprinted in 2008. Part 2 will be published in 2011.

In 2007, AW received a grant from the Dutch Film Fund to write a film treatment of the story.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Publisher: Callenbach

Golden City

This piece is inspired by beautiful Tuscany. That time of day when the late afternoon light turns the old cities to gold, and the hills are covered in deep green shadows …

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

Children’s Bible Illustration Slideshow

Illustration by Arjan Wilschut for a Children’s Bible by Willem de Vink.  You can also watch two slideshow trailers with more spreads from stories like  Creation and the Flood, Moses, Joseph the King of Dreams, and Jonah.

 

Watch Trailer 1 – Old Testament on YouTube

Watch Trailer 2 – New Testament on YouTube

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Art direction Willem de Vink

Colouring: Timo Visser, Arjan Wilschut

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

 

Malmberg Illustration Slideshow

A slideshow of 12 cover illustrations by Arjan Wilschut for three new teaching methods: Brandaan: History, Meander: Geography and Naut: Physics. The aim was to show the adventure in the three subjects, rather than the dry theory, and design three fitting characters. Shy and introvert Brandaan, mysterious and melancholy Meander, and cool, Bond-like Naut.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijsberts

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

 

AstroNaut

Cover illustration of Naut, the hero of the Malmberg teaching method for Physics, on a space adventure.

This book is used for Group 6, ages 9/10

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijberts

Shuttle and satellite design by Viktor Venema

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Sola Sci-Fi poster

Sixties- style science fiction B- movie poster.

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Thieme: Franconville

Character designs and illustrations for a new schoolbook Franconville, published by Thieme. The characters had to look like they could live in France, but also needed universal appeal. Note the subtle manga-flavoured details like the girl’s hair, and the pink/ purple colours.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Thieme | Agent: Comic House

Pagemarker for Malmberg

Pagemarker for Malmberg

The heroes of the new Malmberg teaching methods History, Geography and Physics on an adventure in the snow. The idea was that they had just climbed a mountain, and shared a happy moment of victory. The picture was printed on a pagemarker and also on a ruler, for kids to use in school.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Children’s Bible

Cover illustration by AW, for a Children’s Bible. Initiated, written, and supervised  by Willem de Vink.

Arjan Wilschut and Timo Visser made over 250 illustrations for this mega-project in the past three years. The book will be available in the fall of 2011.

 

Watch trailer 1 on YouTube

Watch trailer 2 on YouTube

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Art director Willem de Vink

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

Joseph King of Dreams

Illustration of Joseph, the King of Dreams. This shows his triumphant mood after his release from prison. It is one of  the first of 250 illustrations AW made for a Children’s Bible by Willem de Vink.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

Greek Mythology

Three-headed dog, Artemis goddess of hunting, a Faun, Zeus, Hades and Ajax. This iconic, painted style was developed by Arjan Wilschut and used for certain themes in a Children’s Bible, which were otherwise difficult to illustrate, such as: dreams, symbols or scary images.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

Brandaan in Egypt

Cover illustration for Brandaan in Egypt. Brandaan (Brendan) is the main character in Malmberg’s teaching method for History. This book is meant for Group 7, ages 10/11

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijsberts

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Children’s Bible: the 10 plagues

Spread for a Children’s Bible, showing the ten plagues in Egypt. The vivid reds enhances the dramatic and deadly atmosphere. This iconic, painted style was developed by Arjan Wilschut and used for certain themes in a Children’s Bible, which were otherwise difficult to illustrate. In this case, ten of these enormous and terrible events.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Stichting Wereldtaal | Publisher: Jongbloed

Jungle Adventure

Cover illustration for Naut (Physics teaching method), on an Indy-style adventure in a mangrove jungle.

This book is used for Group 8, ages 11/12.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijsberts

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Naut and water

One of 150 pencilled illustrations for  Ontdekkingsreizen/ Explorers, three new teaching methods published by Malmberg.

Naut is often visually linked to water because of his name, and the cool blue/green colours on the covers. Meander’s theme is wind, because she travels around the globe. Brandaan’s theme is earth, because he’s always digging in history.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. One of 150 pencilled illustrations for  Ontdekkingsreizen/ Explorers, three new teaching methods published by Malmberg.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House

Fun in the photo booth

Young versions of the Malmberg characters, having fun in a photo booth. A great opportunity to draw crazy expressions. These pictures were also printed on rulers, for kids to use in school.

 

Artist: Arjan Wilschut

Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House