Storyboard Workshop

Have I got something for all you people out there interested in the simple art of storyboarding: During the special edition of the fantastic Klik Animation Festival there will be a workshop on storyboarding, presented by Mister Daan Jippes and myself!

The Klik special edition (special in that it is only lasting one day this year, so I guess it's a limited edition as well) is on Saturday November 5th at Kriterion in Amsterdam. We will give a short presentation on the role of storyboarding over at the American studios, after which I will pitch a short storyboard. After my presentation Daan will review my work, live on stage. He will do this as he draws over my panels, to show how they could have been improved. This will be a confronting but (hopefully) fun experience. 

We hope this workshop will give you valuable insight in the story process, and the diferences between the American and the Dutch approach. Daan's juicy stories about the different studios he worked at are, of course, always a blast!

Ticets are €8,50 (or €30,00 for a daypass), the workshop starts at 11am and will last 90 minutes. I hope to see you all there!

This picture should give you some idea of what the workshop will feel like, it was taken during my intenrship with Daan and shows me pitching a board, as Daan offer suggestions on how to improve it. (Of course the actual workshop will be at least five times more glamorous than this picture!)

Fresh!

Hi there! No, this is not some mistake or digital error. After almost three years of blogging I have decided to start all over again.

The past months there have been almost no updates here, because I was all tangled up in my graduation project at the HKU. It really hurt my pride because I have always tried to update regularly, but there just wasnt anything to show you.

It wasn’t for nothing, though. I am now a Bachelor of Animation and a Master of Design! When I started this blog it was a student art blog, and I was finding out about blogging as I went along. Now I am no longer a student and I feel that there are some changes I want to make to this blog. I have decided to remove all previous posts and make a clean start. (And of course I will take the right to repost some of my old art every now and then.)

There will probably be more changes here the coming months, but for now I just wanted to start on a clean sheet of paper: and get back to posting! When I started Aapstra I had no experience with blogging but I really love it. I really want to thank all you visitors for sticking with me the past months, I intend to show you lots of drawings, doodles and storyboards! (And if you ever wonder what all that old stuff looked like there is always my Flickr gallery where quite a lot of it can still be found.)