Two outlaws board a speeding train and try to rob the safe. But the money car is heavily guarded and there’s a sheriff’s posse waiting for them further up the road. Will the bandits get away?
This sequence was done as a personal project, digital storyboard drawn in Photoshop.
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A young princess who was never allowed to meet or interact with her country’s citizens, is kidnapped by bandits. She quickly manages to escape and now she has to make her way back home. But finding her way back becomes very complicated when nobody believes that this scruffy looking girl really is the missing princess...
Between 2023 and 2025 together with some of my best friends, I have been trying to develop an animated feature. Our plan was to adapt a Dutch children’s book. Unfortunately, in the end we weren’t able to secure the rights. Although this project wasn’t completed we are currently developing new ideas for an animated feature.
The development art in the slideshow below was all made by me as part of the pitch.
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In 2019 I worked for seven months as a story artist on the animated feature: Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness. We worked with a small team of only three story artists, working closely with director Benjamin Mousquet.
Chickenhare, based on the graphic novels by Chris Grine, is an exciting adventure story full of danger and action. It was a wonderful opportunity to play around in this world. The storyboard below is part of the thrilling opening sequence.
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In 2018 /2019 I worked eight months as an in-house story artist on My Little Pony: A New Generation. I had a great time working with an international team of extremely talented artists.
Storm Heist
An exciting scene from a completely different version of the movie. In this scene the main characters plan an elaborate heist to steal the magic stone during a concert of Princess Pipp. There’s only one problem, the stone is part of the stage...
This sequence was a lot of fun to do, even though I had to finish it in a bit of a rush to make the deadline for the first screening. While I was working on it, it was already clear that this wasn’t going to be in the final movie but I still got to complete it and it was a blast to see it in the edit.
Beat Boards
The beat boards below were made after we had our first screening of the movie. They were done to explore the possibility for a song when Sunny, the main character, is sad and alone after her actions led to the ponies’ magic stone losing its power. The story went through a lot of changes and this storyline is no longer in the film, the characters of Sunny, Hitch and Sprout are still in there though!
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Every morning, before I begin working, I do a page of film studies. This way I make my way through an entire movie, one page at a time. Sof far I’ve sketched out Jaws, A very long Engagement, What Lies Beneath, Terminator 2 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in their entirety. Right now I’m in the middle of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Doing film studies is the ideal warm-up, after a page of these sketches I’m all set to go. It is also the absolute best way to study the inner workings of film. It’s like taking a watch apart and closely studying the function of every moving part. Getting to the end of a film is extremely gratifying, looking at the hundreds of pages of studies, and realizing how much this film taught me. I love it.
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