Animation archive
Year created:
2004
Production time:
About 10 days
Description:
A short animated version of a comic by Sjoerd Buikema. This is also the first thing I created in Toon Boom Studio. This short film is dedicated to everyone with a bad hairday all over the world.
Year created:
2004
Production time:
About 4 long nights
Description:
The animated version of a real life "rendezvous" I had. This had to be done in a very short time. It was the first time I combined 2D and 3D animation and I lost a lot of sleep over this one.
Year created:
2005
Production time:
A day or two
Description:
In this short documentary, taken from a ZeroDown animation promo DVD, you can see the process behind Rendezvous. The creating, painting, planning and rendering of the final result are all shown.
Year created:
2004
Production time:
Not Applicable
Description:
This was a test for my short animation 'Rendezvous' to see how the background would look in motion. It was also used as a color/lighting test. For the final animation I tweaked the lighting and color of the scene a bit for a more saturated look.
Year created:
2005
Production time:
Long
Description:
An opening credit sequence I created in Toon Boom Studio for a romantic film by director Cohen Phillips. The hardest thing in this animation was to have to animate in a different drawing style. I learned a lot about animating human looking characters though.
Year created:
2007
Production time:
About a week
Description:
This animated logo is used at the end of the opening leader of Hardware.info TV, a Dutch weekly internet video show by HWI Group. The show is still going strong today, so be sure to check it out!
Year created:
2003
Production time:
A few weeks
Description:
This was created for a website called DVD.nl that I used to write for. They had a booth at the Dutch HCC Convention in November 2003. Along with a few HDTV demos this animation was playing on a big LCD display. It is made up out of about 50 clips from old and new movies to show the audience the plethora of reviews to be found at DVD.nl's website.
Year created:
2003
Production time:
A few days
Description:
Water effects had a special place in my heart when I created this test. It was done mainly as a showcase for a LEGO CAD program I was trying out. This turned out rather well, I still like watching it.
Year created:
2003
Production time:
A few weeks
Description:
Before abandoning this project because of technical limits at the time, I created this teaser trailer for it. It was going to be called 'One of a Kind' and the eyes of the character (Sprout) you see in the trailer are still used to this day in the ZeroDown animation logo. Maybe one day...
Year created:
2003
Production time:
About an evening
Description:
I had this idea once to do a short animation set under water. This test was done to see if I could create a nice looking underwater environment. My underpowered computer, and the technical complexity of 3D water effects were the main reasons for putting the project on hold indefinitely. This test alone took way too long to render, so I had to abandon this idea. At least it made for a nice screensaver. ;-)
Year created:
2003
Production time:
A few evenings
Description:
This logo is almost identical to the version I still use today (the eye texture got prettier over the years, but that's about it). The eyes are the same ones I built for 'Sprout', a character I wanted to use for a short animation. 'Sprout' is the weird yellow dude you can see in the 'One of a Kind' teaser on this page.
Year created:
2001
Production time:
A few evenings
Description:
About a year after the first version of my logo (see below) I had learned a lot about 3D animation. So I decided to create a more complicated version of the ZeroDown animation logo. Some elements are still used today in the logo. This was also the first time I changed the 'D' to a capital letter.
Little know fact: the sound effect you hear when the letters 'ZeroDown' beam down is actually a highly distorted sample of me sneezing into the microphone.
Year created:
2000
Production time:
A few evenings
Description:
In 2000 I decided to create all my animations under the pseudonym 'ZeroDown animation'. So I created a logo. If I remember correctly, this was created in an early version of Swift 3D. A little known fact: the low chord in the soundtrack is a sample taken from the game 'Final Fantasy VII'. Also, the main font used is called 'Bauhaus 93'. The other font is a squashed version of Comic Sans.
Year created:
2000
Production time:
About a week
Description:
This was one of my first experiments creating an animated logo. It's mainly a test to see how I could create a mood using lighting and sound. The name 'Anti-Soma' was the name of a band one of my friends drummed for at the time.
A little know fact: the sound of the light exploding was sampled from the thriller movie 'The Game' by director David Fincher. Check that one out if you haven't yet...