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News, Making Ofs, Oldies.

Book design

Anita and I designed this book for our dear friend Jeanne. Art and Religion in the ...

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Lazy DOg, Chief, 3D model

Dog characters

To speed up the hand drawn animation, I create simple 3D models of each character ...

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Urban sketching with pen and watercolors. A view from my balcony.

Urban painting

A few months ago, I joined a group of Urban Sketchers who draw in The ...

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Erik Gretch guitar

Gretchen

A new guitar is kind of a milestone in one’s life. Meet Gretchen. I longed ...

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Lazy Dog - animatic

Rewrite in rhyme

I paused storyboarding Lazy Dog to rewrite parts of the script—something that happens often as ...

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Wander to Wonder

Wanderfull success

The stop-motion short film Wonder to Wander by Nina Gans has been nominated for an ...

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Middle finger emoji

Keep in touch

Keep in touch!

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Lazy Dog

Lazy Dog concept art

Erik is developing a new short film called Lazy Dog. This is going to be ...

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Press snippets that make us Smile

A highly imaginative, playful shift in theme around #MeToo. It was comedy, but it was ...

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Sitges and more

It’s amazing how many screenings The Smile is having all around the world!  One of ...

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Comin’ at ya!

September is a pretty busy month for The Smile. Maybe one of these festivals is ...

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Festival run

The Smile continues to shine at film festivals. It has been showcased in numerous countries ...

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Laughs and laurels

A quick round-up of the festivals that recently Smiled upon our little film:

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Smile Annecy!

There are film festivals, and then there’s Annecy, the world’s largest event dedicated to animation.  ...

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Humour wins

The Smile won the Audience Award for Best Animation at the Chester Animation Film Festival ...

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Tamino

Tamino is a great Belgium artist. I happened to run into his brother, Ramy, who ...

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Shortcutz

After being nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Soundtrack, Best Film and The Audience Award, our ...

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The Smile songs

I composed three songs for The Smile, and you can play them on every audio ...

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Film Poster

Got a nice present in the mail today: A fantastic film poster by Erik Vos ...

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Killing joke

Recording the voices for stop-motion animated mockumentary The Smile. Get yourselves pumped up by the ...

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Crowd approaching

Our crowd is rockin’. Just a little more to go! Did you know that you ...

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Goal!

Hooray, we have reached our goal! And it happened so quickly, thanks to all our ...

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Smile tattoo

In a flash, our crowd has pushed the crowdfund meter up to 74%. An overwhelming ...

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The Smile needs you

Please check out our crowdfund campaign and become a Smilophile! Today, February 02, 2022, our campaign ...

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Sergio

  Our animator Sergio Lara is from Spain! I happened to be in the neighbourhood… ...

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Beauty and Horror

Check out how we continue to build our stop-motion animated oddment. There will be blood ...

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Smiling actresses

We’ve been designing, printing, moulding, casting, armaturing, wigging and wardrobing puppets for our black docu-dramedy ...

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Molding and casting

Check out this clip: Never have I experienced such speed in animation. Everybody’s going full ...

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Digital puppet design

Oh boy! Smiley is going to be a big, bad boy. I created this character ...

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Heather

Animation test

Here I am doing some tests with the 3D-printed replacement mouths. It all seems to ...

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