During the Master of Animation (St. Joost) I was a director and illustrator for a project for Beeld en Geluid.
Backgrounds and plants were made in collaboration with: Vanesa Milen
The briefing was to create character designs from archival footage. Our work was meant to inspire attendees of Playgrounds 2026 to take on the same challenge at Beeld and Geluid's stand.
In short, the process from archival footage to character looked like this.
Choose some unedited archival footage (it originally had these beautiful colors).
Cut out a random shape.
Color pick to extend shapes and add details to form the final image.
A "making of" video was also part of the brief. This would show passers-by a possible way to take on the challenge.
MoHo rig: Maura Keulen
MoHo animation: Amir Vafaei