March 31st, 2011 | Animation | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Sketches and character designs by AW, for a short comic strip in Groeneveld magazine.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
Agent: Comic House | Publisher: GRNVLD
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Sequential drawings of a skater, part of of a pitch for a commercial with a sporty, urban feel.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Designs for a pitch about Free Running and other city Sports, made with ballpoint and brushpen.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Various characters by AW.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Various silhouette designs by AW, for different pitches: Mobi, Schiphol and others.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
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
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Sketches for a feature film project with working title Golden Age.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut | Concept: il Luster Productions
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Trying out a more vector-inspired design.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 26th, 2011 | Design | No Comments »
Character sketches by AW, trying out more realistic shading and texturing.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | No Comments »
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
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | 1 Comment »
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
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | No Comments »
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
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | No Comments »
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
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | No Comments »
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
March 25th, 2011 | Animation | 1 Comment »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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!
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Artist: Arjan Wilschut, colouring by Jelle Gijsberts
Client: Malmberg | Agent: Comic House
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
Montage of a Malmberg illustration, combined with a travel snapshot of Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 24th, 2011 | Overview | No Comments »
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March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | 1 Comment »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
Sixties- style science fiction B- movie poster.
Artist: Arjan Wilschut
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 24th, 2011 | Illustration | Comments Off
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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
March 23rd, 2011 | Illustration | No Comments »
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