Pixilated movies for University of Antwerp

For Mosquito, an Antwerp based communication agency, we adapted their print campaign for the University of Antwerp into two pixilated movies. Because of the small budget, we proposed to shoot the clips as straight forward as possible, without loosing the look and feel of the print campaign. That's why there is this funny guy with a helmet on his head on which we attached different printed positions of a Shakespeare and Darwin picture. Both Mosquito and the University are pleased with the result, which will be on air from early March.

We have been busy...

that's why it took us a while to post some news here :-).

For Woestijnvis, we shot the Winter-version of the 'Man bijt Hond'-leader in Ypres. This version will be screened until the Spring-version we will shoot in March.

For our Beast Wishes we created a youtube game with a new character called 'Bazas'. Every single aspect of this project was done in-house: puppet-building, animation, postproduction image and music. We are planning more funny stuff with him in 2010.

For Strass Interactive, we build a prototype of a puppet they wanted to use in an online campaign.

For director Douglas Boswell we are building an animation puppet called 'Slensje'. It's a test for one of his upcoming projects.

For our 'Master Bator' project, we made a (slightly animated) Season's Greetings card, which can be seen here.

And in the meantime we are pitching for commercials, installing a (director's) pool with young stopmotion-talent, continuing the preproduction of 'Beiaard' and the European Living Tales and we are developing a brand-new children's series...

As we said... we are busy :-)

Social Media: here we come!

Since we are developing new concepts for the use of stopmotion animation on mobile phone and internet, we thought it might be usefull to start our own fanpage on facebook. So here it is: the Beast Animation fan page. Become a fan and be the first to know what Beast Animation is working on. If you want to see what we did so far, visit our youtube channel or take look at our website. 

Beast Animation on Facebook

Another Cravendale commercial at Beast Animation

For the sixth time already, directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar were asked by Wieden & Kennedy (GB) to make a funny commercial for Cravendale Milk. And for the sixth time Patar and Aubier (and their producers La Parti) asked Beast Animation to coordinate the preparations and the shooting of the commercial. After 'The Last Glass', 'Out of Stock', 'Bad Bull', 'Toe Tapping' and 'Slurpy Milk Bar', we are happy to have them back in our studios for a new exciting adventure of Pirate, Cyclist and Cow!

Panique au Village on shortlist Oscars

Panique au Village (A Town called Panic), directed by Aubier et Patar, and co-produced by Beast Animation, is on the list of 20 films who make a chance to be nominated for the Oscar of Best Animated feature. The nominees will be announced in february, the Oscar ceremony itselve will take place on March 7th. Fingers crossed... and find some (handmade) extracts of the film on our youtube-channel.