Blije Hoek (Dutch Cartoon)
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:55 pm
Hello people,
I did not really introduce myself here until now. I dropped some messages but that was basically it. Until today, because I decided to share some more information about myself. My name is Baphomet d'Jahbulon, I am from the best city in the world: Groningen, which is the only big city in the North of the Netherlands. I used to live on the the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, but I decided to go back to the Netherlands in 2008.
I am a creative "what ever you like to call it", that has worked all over the world in many different companies on many different kind of projects. I also had my fair share of running my own companies, alone but also together with business partners. My education was also based on a future of becoming a creative person by profession. I also learned many thing in my fathers company before I started living my own life.
At this moment I am 35 years of age, the most recent projects I was involved in in the last couple of years were pretty much internet / webdesign related projects. From running webshops that were selling shirts that I designed and fabricated myself to creating complete merchandise product lines for famous sports people and artists. I basically pretty much did it all. Developing apps, designing products, designing shop interiors, working at a printing company, working at advertising agencies as designer but also as senior creative art director, designing football / soccer kits for Professional football / soccer teams, designing clothing lines, etc., etc., and so on, and so on. In my spare time I also became involved in the music industry thanks to my brother from another mother Mr Robin GrownTear ( http://soundcloud.com/robingrowntear ) as an artist producing my own music: http://soundcloud.com/themabop
I also was one of the founders of one of the biggest conspiracies / occult internet forums in the Netherlands: http://www.quofataferunt.com/
Next to that I have a portfolio that can be found here: http://www.jeug.nl/
I have created some games, some ARG's and well as I already said, I did so many things that I hardly can keep count of everything anymore!
Well, anyways, to get to the point, at this moment, I am working hard on my biggest dream. As a child at school I used to dream of becoming an animator and creating cartoons and animated 2D series / movies. I also was creating comics during my school career for the newspaper of the school. So I somehow always kept dreaming of creating it one day. Well the last couple of years I really decided to start putting effort and time into my idea. And well slowly on between all my other activities I managed to work out a concept.
The concept is Dutch and it is about a Coffee Shop in a Dutch Town and everything that is happening in there and around town. It is partly based on reality so it could be called an cartoon with some real life and some sitcom references to it when it comes to picking a genre for the cartoon I am creating at this moment. I know some very famous Dutch stand up comedians personally and I have managed to contact some of them to do some voicing for the characters So from there on i started creating my own 3D city / town where the cartoon is taking place. i did this in Maxon's Dinema 4D R15, and started importing the scenes into Toon Boom's Harmony which gave me some really shitty problems. So after that and some time again I finally ended up with Anime Studio Pro 9.5 to start working on the characters and so on, and so on!
And the last couple of weeks I started working in Anime Studio Pro whenever I had time to do some work. Well anyways, below you can watch some of the teasers / test video's that I made and shared on my YouTube channel:
I will keep you all noticed on how the progress goes, by dropping in some new posts in this topic whenever I have time.
I did not really introduce myself here until now. I dropped some messages but that was basically it. Until today, because I decided to share some more information about myself. My name is Baphomet d'Jahbulon, I am from the best city in the world: Groningen, which is the only big city in the North of the Netherlands. I used to live on the the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, but I decided to go back to the Netherlands in 2008.
I am a creative "what ever you like to call it", that has worked all over the world in many different companies on many different kind of projects. I also had my fair share of running my own companies, alone but also together with business partners. My education was also based on a future of becoming a creative person by profession. I also learned many thing in my fathers company before I started living my own life.
At this moment I am 35 years of age, the most recent projects I was involved in in the last couple of years were pretty much internet / webdesign related projects. From running webshops that were selling shirts that I designed and fabricated myself to creating complete merchandise product lines for famous sports people and artists. I basically pretty much did it all. Developing apps, designing products, designing shop interiors, working at a printing company, working at advertising agencies as designer but also as senior creative art director, designing football / soccer kits for Professional football / soccer teams, designing clothing lines, etc., etc., and so on, and so on. In my spare time I also became involved in the music industry thanks to my brother from another mother Mr Robin GrownTear ( http://soundcloud.com/robingrowntear ) as an artist producing my own music: http://soundcloud.com/themabop
I also was one of the founders of one of the biggest conspiracies / occult internet forums in the Netherlands: http://www.quofataferunt.com/
Next to that I have a portfolio that can be found here: http://www.jeug.nl/
I have created some games, some ARG's and well as I already said, I did so many things that I hardly can keep count of everything anymore!
Well, anyways, to get to the point, at this moment, I am working hard on my biggest dream. As a child at school I used to dream of becoming an animator and creating cartoons and animated 2D series / movies. I also was creating comics during my school career for the newspaper of the school. So I somehow always kept dreaming of creating it one day. Well the last couple of years I really decided to start putting effort and time into my idea. And well slowly on between all my other activities I managed to work out a concept.
The concept is Dutch and it is about a Coffee Shop in a Dutch Town and everything that is happening in there and around town. It is partly based on reality so it could be called an cartoon with some real life and some sitcom references to it when it comes to picking a genre for the cartoon I am creating at this moment. I know some very famous Dutch stand up comedians personally and I have managed to contact some of them to do some voicing for the characters So from there on i started creating my own 3D city / town where the cartoon is taking place. i did this in Maxon's Dinema 4D R15, and started importing the scenes into Toon Boom's Harmony which gave me some really shitty problems. So after that and some time again I finally ended up with Anime Studio Pro 9.5 to start working on the characters and so on, and so on!
And the last couple of weeks I started working in Anime Studio Pro whenever I had time to do some work. Well anyways, below you can watch some of the teasers / test video's that I made and shared on my YouTube channel:
I will keep you all noticed on how the progress goes, by dropping in some new posts in this topic whenever I have time.
