Our short film Boer Jansen/ Farmer Jack won two awards this weekend: an audience award at the Netherlands Film Festival, and a special Jury Award at the European Environmental Festival! Following the Audience Award at the Holland Animation Filmfestival in April, this is a promising start of Farmer Jack’s festival Tour! Congrats and Thanks to our hardworking crew, well done everyone!

Boer Jansen/ Farmer Jack was written and directed by Arjan Wilschut, produced by il Luster Productions, Kavaleer Productions, SOIL, RNTV and Animation Works. Watch the Farmer Jack trailer on Vimeo, or buy the Farmer Jack DVD .

The new film by Animation Works, Boer Jansen/ Farmer Jack, is available on DVD! The film only just premiered on the Holland Animation Film Festival, and won the Audience Award. Extras include our award-winning short film Hard Boiled Chicken, the TV-shorts Shadows and Penguin’s Christmas, plus designs and linetests! The cover was designed by Arjan Wilschut and Ralf de Jong. You can order a Boer Jansen DVD in the webshop of our producer, il Luster Productions. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Our new short film, Boer Jansen aka Farmer Jack, won the audience award last weekend on the Holland Animation Film Festival! Great news, and a great start of the festival tour. A big thank you to the audience, and congratulations to the whole team, especially animators Pascal Vermeersch, Viktor Venema and Digna van der Put, animo operator Nico van Biljouw, musicians Dick Wilschut and Ralf de Jong, background artists Ka-Ching Cartoons, producers il Luster and Kavaleer anf FX animator Ralf Hekkenberg! Well done everyone!

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

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