Ka-Ching Cartoons Animation Studios

'The 3D-Machine'now available on Nintendo 3DS! also in Europe!!!!

2011-12-29T14:43:00.002+01:00

Great news! Nintendo of America had allready made our film 'the 3D-Machine' available on their 3DS-system, but now it also has been aquired by Nintendo of Europe!
starting today you can watch the film for free on your 3DS in amazing glasses-free 3D.
Available for everybody living in these countries:

Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, South Africa, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK

Enjoy!

Grobbebollen on DVD

2011-12-28T13:00:00.002+01:00

Today we have received the first copies of the "Grobbebollen maken lol"-dvd's!
And they are awesome, the complete season which contains 26 episodes are on this double disc set.
At this moment the dvd is only for sale in the Efteling, but will be available soon online.
We have produced and directed this series for the Efteling and Avro, with the help of Mick Harrison and Jester Coyote Animation

InPreventie, a speedy job!

2011-12-13T11:38:00.004+01:00

Here is a short film we have made for the website Inpreventie.nl .
It's a website where you can check and compare if your company is following the right rules and regulations for your employees.
This was a speedy job, we've had only one week to storyboard, design and animate this film!
We have had the pleasure to have Peer Mascini as the voice over of this film.

Project-owner TNO
Webdevelopment platform by Bitfactory.
Concept, Branding & BrandEpic By Jasper Drieshen.
Animaton by Ka-Ching Cartoons for Shop-around.

3D Siegfried Test

2011-11-11T15:41:00.002+01:00

This is a test to see what a 3D Siegfried would look like.

Ka-ching Discounts at the Supermaket

2011-10-25T13:04:00.002+02:00

One of the biggest supermarketchains here in Holland named Albert Heijn is having a new marketing promotion.
They are giving away Ka'ching discounts??!! what? yes Ka'ching Discounts!! we have nothing to do with this, so dont expect the posibillity to buy our films at this supermarket.
But we have decided to give a special Albert Heijn Discount to all customers at Ka-ching Cartoons! hurry hurry only the first 500 customers will be eligible for this promotion!!!!

Video for RLI goes international

2011-10-14T11:33:00.004+02:00

Recently we have made a video and some illustrations for RLI (Raden voor leefomgeving en Infrastructuur). The video summarizes a very complex rapport, that the RLI has presented to the Dutch government. The RLI is an council that gives advise to our government, in this case about water security and managment.
They liked the video so much that it will be translated so they can show it international on congresses.

you can watch the video here: http://www.rli.nl/video/video-tijd-voor-waterveiligheid
thanks to Marcel @ Mannenmetplannen

'The 3D-Machine'now available on Nintendo 3DS!

2011-09-19T14:33:00.005+02:00

Nintendo acquired our short film 'The 3D-Machine' for the Nintendo 3DS.
Our short is available in amazing glasses-free 3D viewing! For everyone who ownes a 3DS in North and South America. Just go with your device to the 3DS videochannel to watch our film, Have Fun!

This is what some people who had seen it on the 3DS said about it:

One of nintendo video's best. nuff said

fantastic story. fantastic animation. decent 3D. we need shorts like this more often

The 3D Machine is one of the longest videos they've put onto Nintendo Video so far, and it has a great 3D effect throughout the whole mini-film. I'd say it's definitely one of the best videos I've seen on the App

This is the longest, 3D animated short yet on Nintendo Video, clocking in at over 7 minutes. It’s pretty good actually and the 3D effect is really well done. Definitely worth checking out.

3D machine was amazing. Great 3D and story. Definitely my favorite one so far!

New businesscards!

2011-08-10T11:43:00.002+02:00

Jippie-a-jee! we have got some fantastic new animated businesscards, we have been handing them out now for a little while and everybody likes them very much.
Jellepelle made a video of it, check it out!

If you too like them, make sure to ask us for one next time you see us!

Zendium

2011-08-09T11:25:00.005+02:00

Recently we have made this commercial for Zendium Toothpaste, for Unilever.
We did all the animation, the motion tracking, and the compositing.
The drawings of the mouths were designed by Martijn Rijven.
the live action was shot by CZAR , and graded by Framelab.
The commercial agency was Being There, and this job was brought to us by our agents at Shop Around. Working with so many parties wasn't always easy, but the result came out very nice!

Protesting @ Mars der Beschaving

2011-06-28T16:07:00.006+02:00

This weekend we have been protesting against the cuts that our government announced on funding of Arts and Culture, a serious matter! Many institutes, galleries and artists will not survive this ruthless cut. Together with a few thousand others we did a long nightly March, and we protested on the Malieveld in The Hague. Next morning I was on the news.

Anniversary

2011-06-21T13:26:00.002+02:00

Hip Hip Hooraah!
today is our official Ka-ching Cartoons Birthday!
Four years ago we went to the Chamber of Commerce to sign us up as a real company, we have been busy ever since. Lets hope for many more years!

Archilos

2011-05-03T17:04:00.004+02:00

This is a short promotional film we made for Archilos. The company is run by Niels Plaisier, who happens to be our neighbour here at the Schieblock. Yes, you are right he's an actual superhero!

It was fun to work with him.

lion

2011-04-14T12:21:00.004+02:00

Fabrique asked us if we could help them out with this job.
Their client was preparing a pitch for a Dutch bank, and needed some animations.
We had to design the character and animate him, all in 2 days.
the result is pretty nice!

T-Mobile

2011-04-01T12:00:00.005+02:00

Recently we have made a very nice video for T-mobile and one of their new business-services.
We designed and animated this 4 minute video where they explain that they offer you to have one number connected to multiple phones.
you can watch the video here:

We have made this video for T-Mobile through Publicis thanks to our agents @ Shop Around

vroaam!

2011-03-22T16:33:00.003+01:00

Thursday 31st of march we will be speaking and looking at portfolios at 'Vroaam! 2011'
if you are a young animationfilmmaker, designer or photographer who is just graduated or who isabout to graduate? Then you should come to this creative careerday at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam.
Many Proffesionals (yes, we'll be there too!) are there to speak and advise you, there also will be trainings and workshops.
This event is organised by the BNO, the federation of photographers and the PANL
This year they aim at 1000 visitors and the program will be hosted by Maxim Hartman! sounds like a busy day full of fun!
www.vroaam.nl

George, with even more VROOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

2011-03-02T17:49:00.000+01:00

Paul VROOOOOMMM!!!!

2011-03-01T17:10:00.003+01:00

Cockaroacha

2011-01-12T18:06:00.006+01:00

Finally after a long time of radio(active) silence, we have been able to work on our film Kakkerlak again, we call it Cockaroacha for now.
Below you can see some new background designs made by the fantastic Jelle Gijsberts and the new characterdesigns that have been turned into full animatable turnaround flashkits by our big-chinned intern Geoffrey Armfield!

and as a bonus for the long waitingtime, two short animation walktests

more happy shirts this year!

2011-01-03T11:43:00.004+01:00

These are my little nephews with their brand new funky cool new shirts (now available in kids sizes) that they have gotten for christmas!Loukie is very happy to promote us!Tijs & Daan (and me in the middle)

Ho ho ho

2010-12-24T10:57:00.000+01:00

we wish everyone all the best for 2011!

Joost & Erik

great christmas gifts

2010-12-22T15:15:00.002+01:00

Its getting extremely cold here in Holland this year, to make sure that JellePelle and our intern geoffrey arent getting a cold we gave them this nice sweater under the christmas tree.
they look great on you guys! thanks for the hard work you did for us!

BEAMLAB

2010-10-26T21:56:00.003+02:00

Tommorow (wednesday October 27th) we will give an short presentation with Q&A at Beamlab in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. The entrance is free and starts at 20:00h ,and there will also be other presentations, like one from our agents at Shop Around . Hope to see you there!

Showreel 2010

2010-09-17T10:23:00.004+02:00

Here is our new showreel!
It contains a lot of new work from for example De Grobbebollen, George and Paul, BNN's Badgasten etc etc.
Also you can see we gave the website a facelift. Hope you like it.

3D-Machine @ KLIK Festival

2010-09-15T14:46:00.003+02:00

Haven't seen 'the 3d-Machine'? Want to watch it again? In the highest quality? At one of the best animationfestivals?
For the second time, our 3d animated short 'the 3D-Machine' will be screened at the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival. the festivals theme is 'Science' this year and our film has been added in the 'Mad scientist parade-programme' together with the Powerpuff girls , Dexters lab, the Muppets, my life as a teenage robot & the Animaniacs it looks like a great programme !
the film will be screened in anaglyph 3d, and in the highest digital cinema quality!
see it on thursday 14:15 or on sunday 15:45!

New studio!!!

2010-09-09T07:34:00.002+02:00

Last week we moved to our new studio space. And it's great!!! Much bigger and situated right next to Rotterdam Central Station. It took blood, sweat and a lot of paint, but we are very happy with the result. To the right you can see our new intern, Geoffrey Armfield. A talented and enthusiastic animation student from the Willem de Kooning Academy.
If you are in the neighborhood don't hesitate to visit us.

Our new address is:
Ka-Ching Cartoons
Schieblock
Delftsestraat 5 , Unit 511
3013 AB
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

The cool photo was made by Jelle Gijsberts.

Finished & on TV

2010-07-05T14:07:00.003+02:00

Hooraah! we Finished all 26 episodes of 'de Grobbebollen maken Lol'
starting from today until the third of september, every monday tuesday thursday and friday at 14:35, they will be broadcasted on Nederland 3 at Zappelin !

we couldn't have made this fantastic show without Mick Harrison an JesterCoyote animation and of course not without the Efteling!
we hope you will have as much fun watching, as we had while making the show!

get your plane cancelled, ' Ka-ching ' -style

2010-06-21T11:52:00.002+02:00

Last week we flew back from a great trip in Annecy.
Unfortunally our flight got cancelled, and we had to wait 24 hours to get another one.
Luckily for us the Flightcompany arranged a stay for us in the 5-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in Geneva, where we could enjoy lots of luxury, swimming pool, sauna, steamroom, good food etc.
Just like home!

Annecy!

2010-06-06T00:03:00.003+02:00

off we go!
We're going to Annecy Animation Festival again this year!
say Hi if you see us!

Storyboards are finished!

2010-05-12T18:04:00.003+02:00

Phew! Today we finished the last storyboard for 'De Grobbebollen'. (the tv show we direct for de Efteling) It was quite a job; 26 episodes of 2,5 minutes, which more than an hour! It was great to do, and wonderful to see these how these storyboards develop to the finished episodes. Our work is not finished of course. There's three episodes to be animated. And then we are still busy with post production. We expect all episodes to be totally finished by the first week of July.

Grobbebollen show at the Efteling

2010-05-04T15:30:00.003+02:00

The Grobbebollen have got their own little show in Hollands main themepark de Efteling.
In one of the towers of their magic castle they will do a show to entertain the visitors of the park.
They will be supported by guys in blue suits who will play and voice these handpuppets of Broer and Geeltje.
Check it out in de Efteling!

Grobbebollen TV-Guide

2010-04-29T15:14:00.008+02:00

If you are living in the Netherlands, you can watch brand new episodes of 'De Grobbebollen maken Lol' starting tommorow Z@ppelin will broadcast 5 new episodes and after that they will start repeating the first episodes.
here are the dates and times!

Vrijdag 30 april 11:40 : afl. 6 Start de piano
maandag 3 mei 11:40 : afl. 7 Het Grobbebollenlied
dinsdag 4 mei 11:40 : afl. 8 Meeuwenplaag
woensdag 5 mei 11:40 : afl. 9 De olifant en de muis
donderdag 6 mei 11:40 : afl. 10 Schoon genoeg
vrijdag 7 mei 11:40 : afl. 1 Vliegwater
donderdag 13 mei 11:40 : afl. 2 Een, twee, zzz
vrijdag 14 mei 11:40 : afl. 3 Slaap hard

enjoy!

Hard Boiled Chicken

2010-04-20T21:17:00.008+02:00

In 2006 Erik and I both did two internships, on at the Cartoonsaloon in Ireland and one at Animationworks a small studio in Dordrecht, here in Holland ran by Arjan Wilschut.
We really liked his style and were strongly convinced Arjan worked in some sort of a digital way, because of his strong 'vectorline-ish'-style.
But we were very wrong, this man draws everything by hand on paper, even the double (thick) outlines are drawn by hand!
We learned a lot from Arjan and we got to work a bit on his film 'Hard Boiled Chicken'
recently he started a blog with loads of nice work. Luckily we're still doing some nice work for him every now and then, watch out for his next film 'Farmer Jack'.
Here is the short 'Hard Boiled Chicken' which we got to work on back then, and which also won a whole bunch of festivals.

enjoy!

episode 003 slaap hard !

2010-03-26T17:25:00.003+01:00

here is episode 3 of 'de Grobbebollen maken lol!'

Broer is asleep but Geeltje tries to wake him up, he has something important to show him.
enjoy!

'De grobbebollen maken lol' : Episode 002

2010-03-11T12:31:00.001+01:00

And here is the second episode called 'One, two, zzz'!

'De grobbebollen maken lol' : Episode 001

2010-03-03T15:31:00.004+01:00

Have fun with the first episode of Grobbebollen cartoon show!

Grobbebollen promo

2010-03-02T11:15:00.000+01:00

Here's a promo for the 'Grobbebollen maken lol' tv-show!

De Grobbebollen maken lol.

2010-02-22T13:40:00.007+01:00

We are very proud to announce that starting today 'De Grobbebollen maken lol' is airing on Dutch television.
The show is produced by the Efteling, and is a spin-off of TiTaTovenaar.

Ka-Ching Cartoons directs and executive produces the 26x2,5 minute episodes. Animation is being done by Jester Coyote Animation, and the designs by the great Mick Harrison.

This Flash animated cartoon is about Geeltje and Broer and their silly adventures. The first 5 episodes air this week. The next 5 in May and from June all epsiodes will be finished. We are very happy with the quality of the show, it is a dream working on it!!

Don't miss the first 5 episodes:

Nederland 3, Z@ppelin, AVRO:
Monday 22 Feb. 9:53 uur
Tuesday 23 Feb. 9:53 uur
Wednesday 24 Feb. 10:21 uur
Thursday 25 Feb. 9:53 uur
Friday 26 Feb. 9:53 uur

Enjoy!!!

Proof of Life

2010-01-28T14:01:00.003+01:00

Hello,Hello,
we have been Kidnapped!!
by a very very big project, that we cannot show or tell anything about (yet),
but nothing to worry about,we're still alive!
to prove that we're alive and ok, here is a photo of me holding todays newspaper.

hopefully we're allowed to show and tell more soon!

now back to work!

Joost and Erik

Four commercials for 'Terre des Hommes'

2009-12-10T22:20:00.007+01:00

About a year ago in november, we were asked to make an commercial by Terre Des Hommes an organisation that fights against child abuse all over the world. Although we prefer to make happy and funny films, we saw a challenge in it and took on the production. With only a handfull of photos provided as material, we were asked to make a nasty and gritty looking commercial about the subject. So no funny stuff,but serious looking animated photos.
the characters are not real, they are all composed out of several photos , so are the backgrounds.

the first one turned out so well that they asked us to do another one in februari this year and a third one last november. Also because the succes of the campaign they asked us to make a compilation of the three commercials as a fourth one.

This first commercial we've made is about Yindee, a little girl who is forced to work in prostitution. the viewers are asked to help her by sending a text message by phone.
It is followed by a tagon which features what happens with her if there are not enough messages received.
after that we see what happens if enough messages are received and Terre Des Hommes helps her.

This second commercial we've made is about Siti, we follow this little girl who is treated like a package on a rough trip. the viewers are asked to help her by sending a text message by phone.
It is followed by a tagon which features what happens with her if there are not enough messages received.
after that we see what happens if enough messages are received and Terre Des Hommes helps her.

This third commercial we've made is about Nazrul, a little boy who is forced to work hard and long hours every day. the viewers are asked to help him by sending a text message by phone.
It is followed by a tagon which features what happens with him if there are not enough messages received.
after that we see what happens if enough messages are received and Terre Des Hommes helps him.

the last commercial of this series was a compilation of the previous ones. this one shows all the different kinds of child-abuse that Terre des Hommes fights against.
Child-prostitution, Child-trading and Child-labour

This job came through us via our agents @ Shop Around for Bouwmeester van Leeuwen Thanks!

Ka Shing Cart... Uh no... Restaurant!!

2009-12-10T14:53:00.005+01:00

Ka-Ching is proud to anounce we stopped making cartoons, and started making noodles! It turns out to be much more lucrative.
Our restaurant is situated here in Rotterdam. Come visit us whenever you're hungry!
http://www.kashingafhaal.nl/

Badgasten, The last one!

2009-11-13T22:16:00.003+01:00

This is our last contribution of this seasons 'de Badgasten' ,BNN's comedy-improvisationshow.
Klaas van der Eerden and Fabian Jansen are going through various filmstyles on the green screen, and they start off inside a Pyramide!
The scene will change to an Romantic film, a Musical, a Horror-film, a Nature-film, and a ChickFlick.

this was a really great show to work on, and our client BNN gave us lots and lots of creative freedom.
lets keep our fingers crossed for a second season!

de Badgasten'!
enjoy!!

NEW NEW Badgasten greenscreen video! NEW NEW

2009-10-24T11:49:00.004+02:00

YES YES, We're working very hard on the last episode right now, but this one aired last night, and could very well be our favorite of the series.
Klaas van der Eerden and Korneel Evers are going through various filmstyles on the green screen, the overal theme is Jurassic park this time!
loads of fun and dino in this one!
made for Bnn's impro-comedyshow 'de Badgasten'!
enjoy!!

BNN's Badgasten 2nd Video

2009-10-02T21:59:00.004+02:00

Here is the second video we made for BNN's improvisation comedy show 'de Badgasten'.
For the complete episode go to www.badgasten.bnn.nl
Enjoy!

Badgasten video

2009-09-13T21:43:00.008+02:00

Here's the video we were talking about in our last post.
First one of the serie this one aired last friday!
enjoy!

BADGASTEN

2009-09-11T12:39:00.006+02:00

We are working hard for de Badgasten! a new comedyshow for BNN.
It's an improvisation comedy show and very funny!(we like funny) There are various different parts in the show, and in one sketch the comedians will improvise in front of a greenscreen. We are one of the parties that are hired to make animations around the comedians. Tonight the first episode will be on tv nederland 3 at 21:20 and our animations are in the first episode. it will be on tv every friday Ned 3.
for more info or funny clips : http://www.badgasten.bnn.nl

Tekenclub online!!!

2009-09-01T15:17:00.002+02:00

Today is a historical day! Tekenclub is now online. The website was created and designed by Jelle Gijsberts and wants to show children the fun of drawing. We animated his characters and that was a lot of fun.

www.tekenclub.nl

Hey!?! You're still here?? Go go go!!!

We like funny blue creatures!

2009-08-28T15:42:00.004+02:00

today we've got visited by this blue creature!
he was pretty funny and we decided to keep him in the studio for a while!

Interview on George and Paul

2009-08-05T16:51:00.002+02:00

AV&entertainment put an article in their magazine on George and Paul. They interviewed Thomas Hietbrink from Pedri Animation, the producer. There are some nice 'making-of' pictures in the article of Elmer Kaan animating the pilot.

Robots!

2009-07-08T12:20:00.004+02:00

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We love robots! especially if they are designed by Jelle Gijsberts
we animated these and another 1000 characters for his personal project called 'Tekenclub', which is a website for children with drawinglessons on it, funded by the Fiep Westendorp foundation.
jelle asked us to all the animation for this website, its going to be a great website and will be online soon at www.tekenclub.nl

color test

2009-06-30T13:41:00.004+02:00

Mix and Match!
With the extremly nice backgrounds made by JellePelle we had to add shading on our very flat designed characters to make it work together,
also we want to adjust the characters color to the different lightning of each bg.
to see if this all would work we made a little test of the bg and the character together.

Hooray!!! 2 years!!!

2009-06-23T20:47:00.003+02:00

Waahoo!! Hooray for everybody. Ka-Ching Cartoons celebrates its 2 year existance. Get the champagne, get the caviar. It has been a great two years, let's keep it up for another 200!!

Kakkerlak location designs

2009-05-06T12:44:00.004+02:00

Yes, yes, I know that these are the exact same pictures as on Jelle's blog. But that's simply because he's the art director of our half hour animated opera Kakkerlak. The pictures look great don't they? We sure are happy. Today we finished up our application for productionfunding. Let's keep our fingers crossed!!

a little making of ´George and Paul´

2009-04-28T12:23:00.006+02:00

Together With Pedri Animation we made a pilot for George and Paul,
Before Pedri started to make the puppets and the animation we designed the characters, made turnarounds and modelsheets.

we also made some more detailed instructions for the building of the puppets

With all this Peter Mansfelt made the first prototypes, they were already awesome!
but for the actual animation we needed better versions,
bigger and with good ball and socket joints.
These were created by John Craney.
Elmer Kaan did an awesome job animating the Pilot.
Of course he used a lot of rigs and wires, this was al cleaned up and color corrected by Cinemeta Digital, below you can see some before and after sequences.

If you didn't see the pilot yet or if you want to watch the storyboards for the series,
go and visit:
http://www.georgeandpaul.com

HOLLYWOOD

2009-04-14T14:43:00.005+02:00

Phew! We've been back from Hollywood three weeks now. What a great time we had there! Learned a lot about the Hollywood filmmaking system and made some great friends and contacts! We even met the president. (We really recommend everybody who goes to America to meet up with the president at least once. He's a cool guy.) seriously we were invited to the Jay Leno show where Obama came that day!
The trip was organised by NBC Universal. The trip was the prize we won with our 3d short film the 3D-Machine. The other guys on the photos are the filmmasters from the other countries. Martijn Smits from Holland. Markus F. Adrian from germany and Dniel Guerrero from Spain.

they've made a sign on the hills, so it looks exactly like the map

we were invited to the premiere and party of 'Fast and Furious' YeaH!!!!

We were Universal studios guests for two weeks, although they kept us pretty busy, we did visited our friends at Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Cold Hard Flash, Disney Playhouse, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Walt Disney Feature Animation! busy busy busy

George and Paul

2009-03-02T21:44:00.007+01:00

Hooraah, we are very proud that we can show you the concept pilot of 'George and Paul', the animated series in stop motion that we have been working on for a while now. Together with Pedri Animation we have developed this concept and made this pilot episode. Hopefully this is the start of something great. You can find a lot of information and two complete animatics on the website www.georgeandpaul.com
Enjoy!

WATCH IT HERE!

www.georgeandpaul.com

Kakkerlak animation test

2009-02-17T15:31:00.000+01:00

Here is a first animation test for our upcoming half hour animated opera.

Character designs

2009-02-05T10:43:00.008+01:00

Here are some character designs for projects that didn't (yet) get made. Enjoy!
Artwork by Ka-Ching Cartoons and Jelle Pelle

making of anaglyph animation

2009-01-14T11:50:00.002+01:00

Upon request I made an effort and tried to narrate this video, where we show how the 3d-anaglyph technique we used for our film 'the 3D-Machine' works. Using flash and after effects and photoshop we developed a system that worked real well for our film to make a 2d animation in anaglyph-3D

seasons greetings

2008-12-24T14:33:00.001+01:00

For all of you who didnt receive a printed version of our christmas card : here it is!
We wish you all the best for the next year!
Joost and Erik

Showreel 2009

2008-12-15T10:28:00.005+01:00

It's that time of the year where you look back. And to be honest we got quite a bit emotional. Ka-Ching Cartoons has been around for 1 and a half year now, and things seem to go pretty well. To celebrate we have made a new showreel, a 3 minute compilation of all the stuff we have done. Let's hope the new year will keep on being cool!

Ka-Ching Cartoons Showreel 2009 from Ka-Ching Cartoons on Vimeo.

Alexander Petrov

2008-12-08T17:31:00.002+01:00

When we recently followed the masterclass 'from concept to storyboard' we met Robbe Vervaeke.
Robbe is a talented animator who likes to animate with oilpaint on glass. His greatest hero is Alexander Petrov, and if there ever existed a poster of Petrov, he would have it in his bedroom! So we gave him this poster of pin up Petrov!
Check Robbe's last film at www.erszebet.com

Ka-Ching mascotte

2008-12-01T12:17:00.005+01:00

We at Ka-Ching are on a quest of finding the perfect cat to be our mascotte. Turns out cats usually are not so fond of wearing fezzes!?! Who would have thought. This sweet cat is called Jerry. He's Digna's cat. Sadly we have to say Jerry did not make it to the next round... He just doesn't have the X-factor. Do you think your cat has what it takes? Send in your videos! info@ka-chingcartoons.com

Ka-Ching mascotte from Ka-Ching Cartoons on Vimeo.

Shoebox on Cartoon Brew TV

2008-11-24T12:22:00.003+01:00

Waahoo! Cartoon Brew TV has posted our 2006 graduationfilm The Shoebox online. Thank you Amid and Jerry!!!

even more stills of Kakkerlak

2008-11-10T13:17:00.006+01:00

This week during the Holland Animation Festival
we had a prestentation of our storyreel of our animated opera 'Kakkerlak'.
here are some more stills :

STASH

2008-11-04T12:23:00.004+01:00

Check it out the latest issue of STASH magazine!
It almost looks like we have our own magazine! thats right, we're featured with 'the 3D machine' as the cover project and as closing film on the Stash dvd!
so if you would like to see the 3D machine ! order the latest Stash magazine.
now with free 3d-glasses http://www.stashmedia.tv/

Kakkerlak color and style research

2008-11-03T11:50:00.004+01:00

Here's some more artwork from our animated opera: Kakkerlak. An opera about cockroaches, nuclear bombs and clean energy. We feel we are getting closer to the style we are looking for. Also we feel the story is solid so the talented Matthew Curlewis is developing the outline into a full script.
Things are going pretty, pretty good.

Protect 77

2008-10-07T10:38:00.004+02:00

Wim Tellier, a Belgian artist and photographer started a project called Protect 77.
He photographed portaits of 4500 children from all over the world who all painted a dream on a glass plate. Together this instalation covers 4800 m2 of unique art pieces, combined into six big photos. There will be huge expostions and he will start the tour on Antartica.
We made a bunch of animated dreams drawn by children for the intro of the gallery of the projects website. It takes a little while to load, but then you'll see fullscreen high quality video!
We did this job for our agents at Shop Around.
Enjoy!

SHOCKING SHORTS AWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-09-29T12:32:00.005+02:00

Hieperdepiep hoera!
We won the Shocking Shorts award last night at the dutch filmfestival!
This great contest was held by NBC Universal and we won an awesome award!
Also we won a trip to Hollywood and a 2 weeks course at the Universal studios called the Hollywood Filmmasters Programme.
Woohoo we're very happy!
www.shockingshorts.nl
www.filmfestival.nl

fez-tivals

2008-09-23T13:48:00.006+02:00

Woohoo !!
We're well presented at the upcoming festivals check your agenda to see one of our screenings near you of 'the 3D-machine'
At the Dutch Film Festival we'll be screened DIGITAL! highly reccomended to see this one!
we're in the debutcompetition and in a special animation session.
the festival is from 24th of september till october the 3rd
www.filmfestival.nl

Also at the Dutch Film Festival: the Shocking Shorts competition, by NBC.
we're proud to say that we're nominated for a price! the jury consists of Rutger Hauer, Monique vd Ven, Jean vd Velde, Doreen Boonekamp and many more impressive proffesionals.
send these people some money and go check it at www.shockingshorts.nl

five days, five themes; mixed arts at the ´Nieuwe Anita´ in Amsterdam.
and we are happy to say that our film is part of this cultural happening of film, photography, music and performances. 1st till the 5th of october!
www.commongroundfestival.nl

This is most probably the best animationfestival in Serbia ever! we wish we could visit it like last year. Unfortunally we're too busy following our masterclass.
if you feel like a good animationfestival, very nice people, see a cool 3d film and probably some nice weather, then go to Serbia from the 7th till the 11th of october.
www.balkanima.org

Leids Film Festival, should be a good one! this young festival was recommended to us by a good friend. they have a animation day on the 1st of november, and they are screening our film in competition for this great price: an iron Herring!
29th of october till the 2nd of november
www.leidsfilmfestival.nl

And of course, the biggest animation event in the Netherlands!
the Holland Animation Film Festival.
from the 5th till the 9th of november, the City of Utrecht will be the center of animation.
our film is screened in competition, and also there will be a presentation of our masterclass project that we follow.
www.haff.awn.com

enjoy! we hope to see you at one of the screenings.

Swinxs

2008-09-15T14:11:00.005+02:00

Here's a commercial we did for Swinxs via Shop Around. Fun to do. So... run to the shop and buy one!

Digital Premiere at KLIK! Festival!

2008-09-09T10:18:00.002+02:00

This weekend our '3D-machine' will première in his beautiful digital format at the KLIK! animation festival in Amsterdam. the film is screened once on friday and twice on saturday.
for more info: www.klikamsterdam.nl

Can't buy me love

2008-09-04T13:48:00.005+02:00

Hey there! We just finished the leader for the new reality show 'Can't buy me love'. It runs six days a week at 19:30 on RTL5. Design of the characters was done by Jonathan Kuijs, everything else by Ka-Ching. We did this job for Submarine. Copyright Talpa 2008.

Cockroach designs (5)

2008-08-06T13:19:00.004+02:00

Yes! Yes! Yes! More cockroach designs.
This time we're exploring designing characters and backgrounds with more straight lines and hard edges (less rounded), to find out what suits better with the opera theme.

Update!!!
The Cockroach project has been selected for the Masterclass: from concept to storyboard 2008. This masterclass is organised by the Holland Animation film Festival and is meant to help young animators with their projects and in doing so elevating the quality of animation productions in Holland and Belgium.
We'll get intence help form international professionals:
· Ruth Lingford (Groot-Brittannië) (Death and the mother, Pleasures of war)
· Konstantin Bronzit (Rusland) (Lavatory lovestory, The God)
· Piet Kroon (Nederland/Verenigde Staten) (Alladin, The Iron Giant)

Gee whiz, we're excited waahoooooo!

Cockroach designs (4)

2008-07-02T15:07:00.006+02:00

Here are some more designs for our short film; an opera about cockroaches. With these designs we are trying to look for a style that fits with opera. We do not want the film to take place on a stage, but we do want that feel.
The story is progressing nicely too. We are co-writing with Matthew Curlewis. He's great. We are getting pretty excited about it all.

Ka-Ching Cartoons celebrates 1st year

2008-06-23T15:57:00.005+02:00

Woohoo , although we've been working as Ka-ching for longer , last Saturday we could celebrate our first official year as a 'real' company!
may many more years of cartoons come!
Also our film 'the 3D Machine' plays as a short in front of 'Be Kind Rewind' at Cinerama Rotterdam untill next week!

First Annecy photos

2008-06-19T12:14:00.004+02:00

Yes, once again Annecy was awesome!!! We've met a lot of our old Cartoon Salooner friends. It was great seeing Tomm, Ross, Jordan, Abel, Mike, Patrick, Daan and Caitriona again. The festival itself was okay, not the best films... but what they hey, there was sun, paddle boats, crepes, tartiflets, a bit of sun, Richard Williams, lots a cool people, drinking, kissing, doing business and dancing. Pretty, pretty, pretty cool!
There's more photos to come!

Cockroach character designs (3)

2008-06-04T11:25:00.002+02:00

And here are even more Cockroach opera designs:

screenings!

2008-05-22T22:30:00.006+02:00

Get your tickets everyone!

Tommorow the 23rd of may we'll have a '3D Machine' screening in competition,
at the 'NFTVM VERS' . starting at 21.00 in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam.
or later during the weekend there is the 'URBAN EXPLORERS' festival in Dordrecht.
they will show 'the 3D-Machine' all weekend long for all who is at the festival.
And for the ones who can't make it you can check out the 'AMSTERDAM SHORTS' festival .
in the special Kids programme 'AMSTERDAM SHORTIES',
they will show 'the 3D Machine' and 'The Shoebox'
on may 31st at 15:00 and june 1st at 13:00 @ Kriterion3

commercial

2008-05-12T12:43:00.002+02:00

We recently animated a tv commercial for Halfords, a car and bike accessories-shop.
We worked with the designs from Richard Simonse from Shop Around
it was an old style comic book-commercial and very much fun to do.
we'll be working on at least 4 more of these!
this one will be on tv untill the end of may.
Here are some stills:

Cold Hard Flash

2008-05-12T12:40:00.008+02:00

Aaron Simpson from Coldhardflash.com has a cool post on the 3D-Machine! You can watch the trailer and see the extras that were featured on the dvd.
Just click the link.

http://coldhardflash.com/2008/05/the-making-of-3d-machine.html

Skunk is in Holland!

2008-05-01T13:09:00.002+02:00

SKUNK FU, the series we've worked in ireland is finally broadcasted in Holland.
Everyday you can see the series on Jetix!
And yes! It's dubbed in Dutch!
Even the rap-title-song is now in a funny language!

Cockroach character designs (2)

2008-04-15T11:47:00.006+02:00

Here more preproduction art for the Cockroach project. The characterdesigns are made by Jelle Gijsberts and Mick Harisson, and the color and location studies are Erik Verkerk's doing.

Cockroach character designs

2008-04-08T10:02:00.003+02:00

Here are some character designs for our new film. It'll be an opera about cockroaches. The pictures were made by Jelle Gijsberts, Mick Harisson, Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk. We have also atracted writers who are developing treatments as we speak. Pretty cool, huh?

new!

2008-04-02T21:57:00.004+02:00

Now for even more eyecomfort, we gave our site a big restyling!
Enjoy!

stamp Ahoy

2008-03-27T13:00:00.001+01:00

sorry for not updating for a while,
we've been very busy!
So busy that we've decided not to draw our logo over and over again anymore.
To save time we made a stamp out of it!

Premiere

2008-02-05T23:07:00.002+01:00

It was a great succes, the 3D machine premiered for 600 people.
later that week it had 2 more sold out screenings. everybody was really enthousiastic about it which made us very happy!
here's a nice photo of the premiere, more to follow soon.

the 3D-Machine

2008-01-22T03:03:00.000+01:00

woohoo
we are very proud to announce that our film is finished!
watch the trailer and more on the all new official 3D-machine website!
www.ka-chingcartoons.com/3dmachine

The film will premiere next week at the International filmfestival Rotterdam!
International filmfestival Rotterdam (iffr)

EYE-CANDY

2008-01-09T11:34:00.001+01:00

Yesterday our 3d glasses arrived!
they look awesome ! Big boxes stacked with glasses for our film!
Thanks to www.3d-glasses.eu for the good quality and price!

just in case......

2008-01-04T12:06:00.000+01:00

if you didn't reveived this card at your home ,
dont think we'd forgot about you!
please print this one out and consider it yours!

KINGS

2007-12-19T10:55:00.000+01:00

a little drawing I made that suits the time of the year

Cockroaches

2007-12-12T09:45:00.000+01:00

yep yep we are in development of a new film already.
it's about cockroaches or Kakkerlakken,

that's how we Dutch people like to call them.
and its going to be awesomely cool!

here are some pictures

the 3d machine

2007-11-09T09:34:00.000+01:00

Yesterday we held a pre-screening for our financial sponsor(the Rotterdam filmfund) of our upcoming short film 'the 3d-Machine'.

We showed them the whole film which is not yet completed, but in a viewable state.
And we showed an already a short sequence in finished material in 3d!
The people were really enthousiastic about the film.
And thats great to hear since we've been workin for a little while now on this project.
Below you'll see some great images of the final film to be.

Target Audience Expansion

2007-10-30T22:05:00.001+01:00

Hooraah!
today our target audience expanded!
I became uncle again, and this time my new nephew is called Daan.
I hereby promise that I will be a good uncle and so will watch a lot of cartoons with him and his older brother Tijs!

Dancing cat

2007-10-22T10:57:00.001+02:00

This cool cat is concept art for a new show for kids. Yes, it's about dancing.

Bee Gees

2007-10-12T09:20:00.000+02:00

everybody loves the Bee Gees, especially when they are sung by Jelle Gijsberts.
Jelle really makes something special out of it!
here is a real cool beegee from our film.
after jelle finished it we made it in 3D, for some eye poppin action!
jelle only has like 60 more to go and then he can rest a little.
o yeah check the main thing from our film too....our 3d-machine!!!!!

BALKANIMA

2007-10-01T10:29:00.000+02:00

Yep!
tommorow we'll take a plane to Milan and then from there we'll fly to Belgrado in Serbia.
The European Animation Filmestival BALKANIMA will be held there.
Our film 'The Shoebox' will also be screened.
so we decided to go as well and pay the Serbs a visit.

Production update

2007-09-25T09:28:00.000+02:00

Production seems to go pretty smooth on our short film: the 3d machine. Last weeks production meeting was very promising. Here's a list of the total crew:
Animator and director: Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk
Producer: Marlou Rutten
Background artist: Jelle Gijsberts
Composer: Irene Vivanco
Foley artist: Jos van Galen
Coach: Raymond van der Kaaij

Animation seems to go a lot faster than expected, about a third is already done. In two weeks Jelle will start doing backgrounds, and around that time Irene will start work on the score.

Below's a gag we were thinking of puting in the film, but it didn't make it...

weirdo beardo

2007-09-18T19:24:00.000+02:00

I took this picture of us to celebrate Eriks' beard!
He's been growing it for a while now.
And I still remember when he started off with a moustache.
Look at him now! all grown and fully bearded!

wow 3D

2007-09-13T10:49:00.000+02:00

after trying different ways to achieve the 3d look on our film we finally found the best working one.
we are very happy with the result and can't wait to finish the film!
here's a sample!

Beautiful bg's

2007-09-10T10:13:00.001+02:00

Here is two backgrounds Jelle did for our film. He calls em only sketches, I call them feckin' amazing!

Don't forget to visit his site regulary for more of his goodness!
www.jellepelle.blogspot.com