news

It has been over a year since my last news post. I would like to break the silence by letting you know a new design for this website is coming and maybe more.

The animations are back online! Same old, same old, still. Check them on the page with the yellow cat, the study . More animations are on my youtube. I love youtube, there are so many people sharing great videomaterial out there.

Currently i am looking for work. It's been some time since I worked for a creative company, due to my project and all. But that won't stop me from applying. I am open to suggestions, if anyone has any.

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The dragon has shed her old skin. I hereby introduce to you the new Wizardapprentice.com.

Remember what the old site looked like and remember the e-mail dragon? Ah the good old times... So why does'nt the link to the comic-page work!!? Stay tuned, more content is on it's way.

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Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! May the snow be ever soft and wooly. I am suprised to see I only posted two messages in the year 2008. The past year past by quietly to me, and now I find a new year has begun. I will not make any promises, but i'm itching to make great things happen in 2009. I 'll leave you with these snowsoldiers for now, talk to you again soon.

Oh, and if you have'nt seen my latest e-comicani© yet, go check. And by all means, let me know what you think!

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Hello everyone, it's been a while. How's life? I have worked long and hard, and finished the first ever e-comicani© !! Read it and weap! Nah, it's not that dramatic, give it a try. Really though, i'm not sure rather you should read it or watch it...

The e-comicani© is a result of the research i did to combine animation and comics in one medium. Only one page for now. A link can be found here.

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HowL! What!? it's 2008 already? Most of the time flies faster then ligthspeed, it seems. It may not look like it, but im keeping up. Hope you're all doing well. Make this brant new year count your while!

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Long time no update. Hoy everyone, i've got news, rumour has it the person writing this just G R A T U A T E D!! I still can't believe it.

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Check out the yellowcat on your left or follow this link, yellow cat. I replaced the 'cat and mouse' animation with something new. I made this animation about a year ago, though i'm sorry to say that some soundfiles got missing. In the perfect version flies are buzzing all over the place. But i felt i could not withhold Cowboy&Flies from you any longer. So enjoy!

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Having said it twice, my website has been under the contruction sign for long enough, so here's an other update (upgrade? ...not really, not yet). But while i was gone this is some that I did: I wrote a story called: Binky the Cat en de OngeluksSteen.

And I gave a seminar in Characterdesign of which i can give you a link. The website can be found right here: link

I'm afraid both links i gave here are in dutch, but if you happen to speak the language, happy reading to you.

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Are'nt we all? If all go's well, the next update will be a real one. This soup is in need for some serious stirring! Until next times!

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Heya peoples! For those of you who were expecting the improvents that i was babbleling about a month ago, still working on them. This weekend i will try to get the guestbook back online. And the linkpage will hopefully have some clickies following after that. If you were wondering what i was doing these past few months, i'll have you know i was working... :o These insanely great people at cccp/6pack gave me a wonderful trainee post, for their website and newspaper i have made some illustrations, a comic and an animation. Check it out: www.6pack.tv

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Aug.06-'06

Yeeey, major improvements have been made . lost in words... uhmm
check the links and my contact page, the sun and the moon.

My website is alive, thanks to my main man! Leave a message:) We are not alone.

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Sunny pencil drawing
(photographed during a exceptionally bright day, which is rare in Holland)

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I came accross a very interresting new assignment, to work on 3to4 little animations about recent and upcomming news-topics, and i made a radical move, jumped right aboard. I think i can really learn something out of this one, working in a colourful new group on a very tight schedule. There are 4 deadlines + i will have to catch up on whats happening in the world. Lately that has been non of my concern. You might say i have been living in my own little fantasy world working on the trailer-film. Not that i was looking for a way out or anything, in fact i did'nt expect to be on an other project so soon. This means the upcoming months are going to be real busy , and i will have to postpone the deadline for the Making of a Movie Trailer project maybe even to the end of may, but that does'nt mean i will cease working on the trailer, i'm having way to much fun making it, it will only take me more time to finish it. See you when the sun is warming up.

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Happy newyear everyone! A little late maybe, or is it early? It has been a while since i've updated the website, but i've been real buzy, though not on any comic pages, don't expect those any time soon. On the other hand if you feel like coming here more often there is a new link up to my schoolpage. I'm keeping up a diary on my latest schoolproject: Making of a Movie Trailer

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Hello there. I've updated my website again. On the school page you'll find I made a better system to browse trough the drawings and sketches, you can now hop from one picture to the other without going back to the school page. And if you do want to go back to the schoolpage, just click the beating-cat-head. Nifty, no? ;)

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I have updated the school and profile section. On the school section you can now find some of the paintings i did in the past. I'm not painting that much anymore, photoshop is so much easier. Although i prefer the old fasion way, it eats alot of time, space, paint and paper. And the control z button in photoshop is such a fast and easy way to start over and over again. Finishing a not so good work because your running out of paper is 'nt necessary anymore. You can just point and click and there it is, a brand new sheet. But one might wonder if that is a good thing. As a matter a fact, i still have to do a painting assignment for school, i'm working on that now, and it's driving me nuts. I m so used to working on a 800 by 600 pixel screen that my A2 paper is hard to fill. And I found out trowing paintbuckets at my work isnt helping to finish it any faster. But there has to be a way, if guys like Michealangelo and Rembrandt can do it, so can I! Hahaa! Strange to think that these artists are still known in this age, even though there work is so very old.
I wonder if the digital generation will leave there marks on this world for future men to know. Just in case, i think i'm gonna bury some of my sketchbooks in a tin box out in the yard.

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Next week school starts again, after a long rainy vacation. It was like nature skipped summer this year in Holland, and went straight to autumn. Well, for me it was a chance to stay inside and do allot of drawing in stead of having fun under the sun. I discovered i love heavy metal music, and right now that is a great inspiration. My work is always very much based on the music that i listen to. I think that go's for a lot of artists like me. A few years ago I decided to take this fact into practice. I made a comic on the Radiohead album Kid A. It was my final project on high school, and it was a great one. Because beforhand i knew that every page had to concern one song, in the order as it was done on the album. I interpeted the lirics and music, and translated them into images, and there you go. A comic. That s why i love bands like Radiohead, Daft Punk and ofcourse the Gorillaz. They are bands that take the visualistation of there music just a serious as there music. Its a new way of presenting music, for the visualisation doesnt have to be an expensive videoclip any more, nor a movie or an album cover. Images are combined with music on an other level. But im wondering off, as i said, iI made that comic a few years ago, and after that i did a few short ones, but i never got to making a 'Real' comic. Because i could'nt come up with a storyline. Right now, ive gotten to a level where i'd say, f*ck the story, but ofcourse im not going to do that. I'll just start with the comic, and we'll see from there.

"The frog in the well does not know the ocean, but knows the sky 's the limit"