‘Baby Doom Sings Money’ was made to convince the jury of the Dutch Film Fund that the technique i had in mind was actually possible (they said not and did not grand me the money for making Deep Shit). This is my first ever After Effects work, so be merciful. I had help by Rosto and Balder Westein, who knew much more of After effects than I did, obviously.

Basically, this is a clay doll that was taken apart and all limbs and parts were photographed from all sides. The photos were coloured in Photoshop and in After Effects I put all limbs together again in layers, that could switch on or off depending on the desired perspective. Of course soon after there were many options for rigging characters, and Deep Shit was only partially made in After Effects, but hey, at the time it was a good idea. A bit laborious though…

this was a test to show students something about character design and animation in after fx

This is a test I made for my students.

Deep Shit was finished in 2011 after a period of 3 years. It’s a ten minute animation short about reality and rock & roll ambition. It plays with the notion of metaphysics, good & evil, the devil in rock & roll, jealousy, losing what you never had, drugs and the history of popular music.

In short: two rivalling bands rehearse in two rooms of the same bar. They want succes but not do the work to get there. The barman hosts the devil in his cash machine and they ask for his help. They travel to their maker to ask to be designed as a successful band rather than the bunch of losers that they are but then they dramatically fail.

For this film I wrote the script, dialogues, did the design and direction, and the music. Please check the credits because this film was made with the help of a lot of people ignoring the need of sleep and money.