WW2 book cover - He111 over Britain again.

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:21:11 +0200

We were asked make a Battle of Britain scene for the cover of a book from ZNAK Publishers from Poland.

We already had the aircraft we needed but thought we’d take the chance to update our Heinkel 111.

Have a look at the new He111 we produced top right (Quicktime VR). I have also added the picture to the wallpapers page.

Tall Order - VOC Ships of the line.

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:19:37 +0200

We were asked to make an animatic for a 6 minute film. A battle taking place between many ships of the line.

To get a feel for these grand old ships we decided to program a simple tall ship simulator. This way none of the ships would be doing things outside reality and much of the animation would be taken care of, leaving us to focus on the hero ships.

The film would be played on a panoramic screen, just to make things a little easier. More on this project later.

Club JV - Jantjes Verjaardag.

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:48:54 +0200

Asked to make a clip for Club JV we were given an entire menu, in pink.

With a lot of information to deliver we had to come up with an interesting way of getting the details across.

Have a look and see what you think.

I have also added a wallpaper here.

A bar to be seen - 3D build & walk around.

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:58:57 +0200

We were commissioned to re-design and render out an idea for a re-build part of a historic building in amsterdam. Presently a functions area for an embassy.

The idea was to make a medium sized multi functional space

Our computers are faster than the last 3d interior we worked on, though as we went on with the job we found we were trying out things we wouldn’t have tried before.

more things

everything rendered in layers

Remote Rembrandtplein - Party with Firebeatz.

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:15:19 +0200

Shameless plug - Friday the 2nd of April club Escape hosts the up and coming night Remote. Featuring only the best house music.

We were asked to put something together at the last minute. Resulting in a simple but true to the flyer style.

We did take the opportunity to try out how few effects on the LED screen. More on that if they work out well.

Bumble Bee - in low polygon 3d.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:41:45 +0100

We made this clip to test out a new way of modelling. This character is actually only 32 polygons. Thats less than two fingers on a next generation game character.

We thought it would be interesting to see just how low a poly count could be taken while still being having control to animate a character. Even though very simple this little guy could show a range of emotions and have great screen presence.

He can be seen on you tube and we added a wallpaper of him here.

Rocky - Dynamic stone guy in cave.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:22:48 +0100

With a major update to our 3d program we thought we’d give some of the new features a run for their money.

The MoGraph module has had a major update, adding dynamics to object motions.

We thought a guy like this would be a perfect test.

The clip we made can be found on youtube.

Genscape - See the power.

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:53:25 +0100

We were commissioned to produce a new short film explaining the purpose and details of Genscape.

Amongst other things we produced a version of the planet showing all aspects of what Genscape analyses and report on.

We wanted something very bright and vibrant to catch peoples attention at trade shows, without looking childish. This took a couple of revisions to style but the end result was spot on.

Terminator 2 - T-600 gets meaner.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:59:55 +0100

Asked for another Terminator clip we returned to our model and started to try out a new style.

Being a big fans of comic books we thought we’d add a touch of over the top to the original design.

Rigging the T-600 kept us busy with all the pistons and details.

Alexander O'Neal - Concert in Amsterdam.

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:59:19 +0100

Time for some live music. Anyone with fond memories of the 80’s will be into this.

This was a clip was put together with a modest budget in mind.

Hajduk football - Poljud 3D stadium.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:11:19 +0100

We were asked to put a clip together for the Croatian football club Hajduk. The project involved first making a new ident the going on to make a sketched version of the stadium. And the strange touch of involving donuts to be exploded onto the pitch.

Have a look at the clip top right. I have also added the ident to the wallpapers page.

What the client wants, the client gets.

A high definition version of the clip can be seen here.

Apache gunship - Full metal helicopter simulations.

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:18:01 +0100

We came back to our long running helicopter project.

Now we have successfully merged our helicopter simulator with the landing system. Moving us closer to having the ultimate solution.

We coupled this with the Apache gunship we made, to test the system still worked.

More DHa wallpapers - another 4 added.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:59:48 +0100

Here are some our recent endeavors, made into wallpapers.

They are:
1. A shot of our A10 being put through its paces.
2. A test render of a little Gigeresque alien.
3. A frame from the Ironman re-creation we did.
1. A basic beauty shot of our Earth.

They can be found here..

BIO2 - Making you go further.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:52:06 +0200

We made the ident for the motor oil additive producer. We also made a version that winked but the client opted for the simpler version.

The clip can be found top right.

The website of the company can be found here..

Amsterdam Dance event - Making ADE sparkle.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:54:46 +0200

This year is the 14th ADE. We were asked to deliver a lot more DJ’s in the same amount of time as last years clip (5 times more in actual fact). Alway up for a challenge we delivered the clip you can find top right.

This clip involved motion capture, hair simulation and a requirement for some subtle secondary motions to our dancer.

We also made a wallpaper from this clip, it can be found on the wallpapers page..

Roofing - Enlightening Club experience.

Sun, 6 Sep 2009 03:26:19 +0200

Our abilities were requested to show what a 3m x 6m LED screen would look like on the roof of Club Smokeys (Amsterdam).

To give a good impression of how the screen would look (to customers) we knew we had to build a 3d version of the space. Once this was done we could check any video displayed on the screen from various angles in the club.

A short version of the video can be viewed top right.

Telindus - ICT at it’s best.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:42:39 +0200

We were commissioned to produce a two and a half minute film. Explaining services and capabilities of the company.

This job involved working with a lot of video clips and compositing digital effects on to the shots.

Terminated - Cinema advert.

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:53:38 +0200

A clip produced for a chain of cinemas. They asked for something original as they wanted to highlight the information at the end of the clip.

We didn’t know so much about the film when we made this clip, other than info from the trailer.

I remembered a T2 teaser and how cool it looked where they made a Terminator skull, so this is a little homage.

We have also added the picture (top left) to the wallpaper section.

Feline Frankenstein - A winner.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:02:33 +0200

This compact kitten was the winner of the competition!

More info can be found here..

Feline Frankenstein - A product of spare time.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:49:22 +0200

On the rare occasion we get a spare moment, we like to stay creative.

This little feline was Mike’s entry to a competition set by 3D World. The idea being to make a robot animal.

This not too fluffy little beast was the product of a dark room many hours and an Apple laptop.

He thought about animating this small steampunk kitten. Though he is a little polygon heavy coming in at around 750,000 polygons.

New Showreel - New work with a tighter rear end.

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:02:57 +0200

We have updated our demoreel adding some more recent work and removing lots of old work. The intention was to dramatically reduce the playtime (It was coming in at nearly 3 minutes). As a company reel it can be longer than a personal reel, still it had to be shorter than it was.

The new reel can be found on the home page or from the links below..
WMV version
MOV version

More wallpapering - 4 more added.

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:35:49 +0200

We have been going through recent work seeing which would make for good wallpapers.

The four chosen this time have been:
1. The satellite on the opening of the new showreel.
2. A toon version of Vincent Vega from pulp fiction, made from a T-shirt design.
3. A render of a clone trooper tired after storming the Jedi council.
1. A beauty shot of the Enterprise.

They can be found here..

Autopilot - Getting our A10 up and flying.

Thu, 7 May 2009 11:00:04 +0200

In our efforts to bring more realism to our work we recently programed a flight simulator in Cinema 4d (our primary 3d program). People these days are much more aware of how an aircraft should fly, from flight simulators / films etc.

We spent over a month perfecting the system, now we can fill in the technical info of any aircraft and it will perform within it limits of the plane. Even the control surfaces are automated according to the flight path.

The attached clip is just a basic flight test taking out our A10 Thunderbolt, it’s a little on the boring side but does show off what we’ve been doing. A more dynamic test will be done when some spare time arrives.

Remote Clip - Party advert for Escape Amsterdam.

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:06:35 +0200

This is a clip made for the night club Escape, in Amsterdam.

The clip played for 2 weeks on the 118m2 screen on the Rembrandtplein.

Nice Landing - Updating our helicopter simulations.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:27:33 +0200

Here is the almost finished example of the automated helicopter landing program we wrote recently. It works pretty well, but the clip is still missing dust and smoke effects.

Soon we’ll will be adding this to the helicopter simulator we made in 2007. They are two large chunks of code though, and we’re not sure how they’ll fit together.

Here is a quicktime VR of our UH-60 Blackhawk..

Inner City renovations - City Cinema Amsterdam.

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:52:15 +0100

The City theatre, Amsterdam, is presently in a state of re-build to restore it to it’s 1930’s glory.

This is a clip commissioned by the manufacturers of the screen, to show scale and visibility of the screen.

We love the way the building is being restored to it’s art deco beginnings. So we also wanted to show how it looked originally.

Macau - Science museum curved LED wall.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:30:34 +0100

We were commissioned to produce an example of 2 huge LED screens to be built in the national science museum in Macau.

We were given the plans of the two huge curved rooms and we built the space in 3d. We had to be careful as this was a very difficult space to build such screens.

Though only a basic render, the client could had a good impression of how the screen would look. The clip can be seen here.

Dog House Clip - Self promotion for a change.

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:01:07 +0100

We thought it about time we got in on some of the action.

Our little parody on the War of the Worlds. Opting for the Michael Trim design (from thunderbirds, stingray etc). Rather than the Spielberg version we thought we’d terrorise the centre of Amsterdam.

We built a 3d version of the famous city square, then made a robot to destroy it. All in all this was a lot of work.

A showcase of what we can do. It can be seen every evening on the Rembrandtplein.

Fit for Life - Looking good keeping fit.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:37:22 +0100

An advert for a local chain of sports clubs was requested. We started by making a 3d version of their logo, making it spin.

Once produced it was delivered to the big screen on the Rembrandtplein, as well as for local narrow casting.

A low resolution version can be found top right.

The website can be found here..

Botao - Product rendering in 3d.

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:33:53 +0100

We were asked to design and render a shoe dispenser for shoe covers in a workplace.

We made versions with and without a stand. Finishing with several renders and a spin-able 3d render. Look at the Quicktime VR to the right.

Happy New Year - Escaping 2008.

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:32:52 +0100

Club Escapes advert we made for the turn of the year. Made for the LED screen on the Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam.

There was a lot of information to fit into the short time we had for this clip. Though we are happy with how it turned out.

Always nice to do a clip with a festive feel.

Happy Xmas - Mr Bond.

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:45:10 +0100

We made a short Chrismas clip to send out as a digtal card.

He can be seen on you tube and we added a wallpaper of him here.

Zie Je Later - Escaping sunlight.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:27:54 +0100

Club Escapes finest after-party, from 4am till 10am!

With a style off of it’s own we thought we’d represent that in this advert.

See je later.

Beatbox - 2 year anniversary.

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:49:09 +0100

Club Escapes Beatbox 2 year celebration.

With changing themes and crazy entertainment, Beatbox have developed up to a rock-solid monthly evening.

The clip can be seen top right.

Amsterdam Dance Event - Paul van Dyk & a fairy.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:40:39 +0200

Commissioned for the 118m2 screen on the Rembrandtplein.

The four day long Amsterdam Dance Event is the leading electronic music conference and biggest club festival for electronic music in the world.

We thought we’d spice up the delivered information with a cheeky fairy. A lot of work but well worth it in the end.

Madonna - The afterparty.

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:55:01 +0200

Bringing together live footage and taking the style from Madonna’s new album, we made this advert.

The advert was for the party following appearance at the Heineken music hall.

Footage used courtesy of WB.

James Bond - Quantum of Heineken.

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:20:22 +0200

Heineken being a sponsor of bond franchise threw the opening party of the new film Quantum of Solace.

Held in the Escape Lounge in Amsterdam we were commissioned by Heineken International to make the best of the LED ceiling.

Explore Vision - Football banners.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:41:06 +0100

This was a first. We made a advert for Explore Vision as a banner advert, to be shown at football games.

They asked for something dynamic and what we delivered, though it was a little busy for our taste.

We produced an example shot to check how it looked on pitch, and how the borders played on one another, this test shot can be seen here.

WW2 - Battle of Britain dog fight.

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:38:50 +0100

From december till February our website was down. Everyday we were on the phone to boost our bandwidth and with every increase our bandwidth blew out again. The reason was this clip.

This clip took us about 1 month to make and featured a lot of new techniques we’d been thinking about recently.

We later discovered it on youtube where it’d had more than 65000 hits..

The high quality version can be seen here..

Design to Dine - fotografie van Marjo van Rooyen

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:09:10 +0100

To promote a book release we were asked to produce a 30 second advert.

The clip can be seen on youtube and the website of the book can be found here.

Stormtrooper - A pitch too far.

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:49:12 +0100

A add agency asked us do to a little proof clip to show their unspecified client, that we were capable of producing cell style 3d animation.

Over the next couple of days we put this clip together. Fast and rough but it got the style across. Feeling happy with what we’d produced we went to present our clip.

Our happy confidence passed quickly as it turned out the unspecified client was Amnesty International. Watch the clip here.

We also made a wallpaper that we added here..

Escape Sundazz - Idented with paint.

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:17:03 +0200

Club Escape recently completed renovations and extensions. In the clip we made for the new night we wanted to show this and came up with the idea of painting the information in a funky way.

Adding a dancer in the style of the logo finished off the clip nicely. The results speak for themselves, and can be seen here.

LED Lounge - Making a roof worth watching.

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:36:52 +0200

Above the Escape caffe is the Lounge. Boasting a 26m2 screen on it’s ceiling. We were asked to make look for it’s opening.

We designed a lot of mini clips and visual tests not knowing how they would work. The ceiling was a lot lower resolution than we’re used to, and would only bee seen at very tight angles.

In the end we had a lot of fun doing this, and though this isn’t what we normally do we were very happy with the results.

Jan van Breemen Instituut - Helping out.

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:02:31 +0200

Asked to produce a a short film listing everything the institute has to offer.

We delivered almost 2 and a half minutes of film in just over a week. Not to say we cut on the quality, finding time to animate the logo from the institute, even rigging him to motion capture.

The clip was for both internal and local broadcast. Watch the clip here.

Sport LED ident - Football getting played.

Mon, 21 May 2007 03:03:16 +0200

Asked to create and ident for the producers of the banner screens at football stadiums around Europe. In a short turn around we had this produced.

The main character made from footballs following the motions of our motion captured footballer.

We made 2 versions, the first for full screen and the second for a side screen. Watch the main clip here. The smaller clip can be seen here.

Playa Nasty - Cafe Nasty Amsterdam.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:46 +0200

Turning 20 years old Cafe Nasty wanted to advertise it’s celebratory party.

We took their logo and made it sparkle in gold. Delivering the parties details, in the style the bar is accustomed too. Watch the clip here.

We also made two wallpapers that we added here..

EVG - Explore vision group ident.

Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:51:09 +0100

We were commissioned to make an ident for EVG. A company that makes large LED screens for football stadiums, public events etc.

To reflect there vocation as LED screen producers we added an assortment of coloured bouncing leds that changed colour while leaving a trail. Watch the clip here.

We also made a wallpaper that we added here..

Starwars - Full Stop Ambush.

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:24:25 +0100

We had our first intern this year and decided to made this project, to show the process from story board to sound design.

A little Starwars parody, we hope you enjoy it. Watch the clip here, or also on youtube.

We also made a wallpaper that we added here..

Polar Bear - Extra cold.

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:04:06 +0200

The Amsterdam Ice Bar took our second character designed to appeal to a younger demographic (the first being the penguin found here).

With this clip we went for something that was loop-able for longer without being apparent of the loop.

We did the same as last time producing two versions. One with the Ice Bar logo and the other with the logo of Heineken. Watch an excerpt of the clip here.

Finding Nemo - An extension to Nemo's restaurant.

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:57:56 +0200

We were asked to assist a builder in pitching an extended renovation to a job he was working on. It was to add more seating outside the back of a restaurant.

The point of the clip would be to show the owner, the effective space gained by the possible renovation.

It had to be done quickly as the builder needed to show the owner his thoughts. Though the job was built and rendered in just a couple of days it still stands as an example of an effective tool.