Pieter van Dijken

Ctb flex - Any place, any time, any device

2012-02-10T05:22:00.000-08:00

The official animation is without voice over,
but I thought it would be nice to show the alternative aswell.

The wonderfull music is by Matthijs van der Veer,
the excellent voice over is by Susanne.

Special thanks to Martijn & Erich.

Nijestee

2012-01-27T06:17:00.000-08:00

Three short animation about paying the bills.
Created in association with Castel media & Nijestee.

Character walk

2012-01-11T03:54:00.001-08:00

Character walkcycle for an animation that's almost nearly done.

Work in progress

2011-12-13T10:22:00.000-08:00

Work in progress - CTB flex

Jonge Harten Instructie film

2011-11-18T04:25:00.001-08:00

As a part of the education program,
students are asked to make a review of a performance they've seen.
This is the instruction for what they should do and where to send it to.

Wonderful music by Matthijs van der Veer.
Voice-over talent Lizzy de Ridder.
Special thanks to Joke & Wendy.
jongeharten.nl

Jonge Harten 2011

2011-11-09T05:35:00.001-08:00

Jonge Harten is theatrefestival for young people.
As some have never been to a theatre, it's sometimes hard to know what is appropriate and what is not.
This animation is made for classroom use, and aims to start a discussion about theatre behaviour.

Wonderfull music by Matthijs van der Veer.
Special thanks to Joke & Wendy.
jongeharten.nl

Animating debt

2011-10-28T08:56:00.001-07:00

Still from an animation for Nijestee in association with Castel media.

Enexis 'Een plek onder de zon'

2011-10-07T03:47:00.000-07:00

Animation created in association with Castel media & Willem Peter Meeuwissen

Animating debt

2011-10-05T12:14:00.000-07:00

Sketch for a new animation about debt

Enexis - Een plek onder de zon

2011-07-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

Currently I'm working on animating a project for Enexis.
Here are some screenshots that are part of a live action film about solarpanels and what to do with them.

Open Mind / Families / Lines of Belonging pt 2

2011-07-20T04:32:00.000-07:00

Jean Christophe Billeter / Jantine Wijnja / Jan Klug / Mineke Bosch

Open Mind is a series of explorations of Art vs. Science. This particular one is about Families, what are families and how are we connected to each other.

At the Night of Art&Science we made pt 1. Now in august, during the Noorderzon festival, there will be a pt 2. In this one a biologist, a historian and two media/performance artists are creating something special.

Zorgbelang Fryslân

2011-07-05T11:40:00.000-07:00

An animation visualisation of a situation. This is part of a film about healthcare and patient doctor relations.

Production by Videvos, music by Matthijs van der Veer,& voice over by Pepijn Sonneveld.

Risicowijzer

2011-07-05T11:34:00.000-07:00

This animation is part of a film in which people are made aware of everyday risks like nuclear holocaust and not brushing your teeth.

Production by Videvos & Music by Matthijs van der Veer.

Families / Lines of Belonging

2011-06-04T16:22:00.000-07:00

Matching installation

The Night of Art and Science is running in full at the moment.
So is the documentary about the making of
' Open Mind / Families / Lines of Belonging '
The documentary will be online soon.

Straatkunstprijs 2011

2011-05-26T04:36:00.000-07:00

Nominee : Tschumi Paviljoen Groningen

Currently finishing up the last edits for the series about Streetart.
A programme produced by Piranha Film.
The last nine episodes, in which the nominees are presented,
are filmed by Marieke Verdijk.

The first episode will be aired on Oogtv.
But you can watch them later on
www.straatkunstprijs.nl

Karl sings Blue Celestial Peace

2011-05-05T22:41:00.000-07:00

The wonderful music is by De Mislukte Zigeuner BV

Karl is a character created for Klub Oklahoma,
a theater production in which the real and the virtual borders are unclear.
Klub Oklahoma has been played at the Noorderzon festival in 2010.

Open Mind Families / Lines of Belonging

2011-05-04T02:37:00.000-07:00

Worksession on top of the ORKZ

Working on the new Open Mind for Pavlov E-lab.
The theme for this year is ' Families / Lines of belonging '
and are currently visualized by Chantalla Pleiter, Floris Maathuis,
Sophie Clements and Mo Stoebe.
They have had input from Elisabetta Pallante, (theoretical physicist),
Jan Komdeur (biologie), Melinda Mills (sociologie) and Ryan Chiechi (chemist).

The final pièce de resistance will be presented at Night of Arts & Science on the 4th of June.

Dr. StBernard : Work in progress

2011-04-01T07:35:00.000-07:00

Irene Wiersma - Wat u?

2011-03-23T05:13:00.000-07:00

foto : Roelof Bos

Op speciaal verzoek, koop de wonderlijke dichtbundel :
Irene Wiersma - Wat u?

Beter bekend als zangeres van Flux

Really white smile at the Ars Electronic festival

2011-03-16T05:16:00.000-07:00

As of today Audiotransparents - Really white smile is in the race to win a Golden Nica, Award of Distinction, Honorary Mention or even nothing, at the Ars Electronic Festival in Austria.

Doctor StBernard character for a new animation

2011-03-07T04:06:00.000-08:00

Learn Azavista

2011-02-09T06:37:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Azavista, and voice over talent Nigel Williams.

Hier 3d

2011-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

Hier Mode minishort

2011-01-01T04:18:00.000-08:00

Hier Mode design

2011-01-01T03:35:00.000-08:00

NS goes Paris

2010-12-06T03:28:00.000-08:00

What people are like at a train station...

The NS, Dutch railway, is going to Paris for a presentation about franchising.
Created in association with Castel media & NS

8

2010-10-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

Mirka Duijn & Nina Spiering think the Really white smile video is worth an 8. Woehoe!
On the downside, they pinpoint the flaws I wasn't satisfied with aswell...
Darn I thought I got away with it.

3voor12 Afzien

Mrs McWiggin & the dog

2010-09-24T06:14:00.000-07:00

Time, what makes us tick?

2010-09-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

Time, what makes us tick? was a journey through various time scales in an exciting audiovisual installation at Noorderzon. This is a part of the installation, and deals with the perception of time by the four individuals who created it.

Chronobiologist Martha Merrow, a specialist in the field of the biological clock, and theoretical physician Eric Bergshoeff, specialized in the String Theory, are linked to cinematographer Nelleke Koop and animator Max Hattler.

Note : For a close experience similar to the installation at Noorderzon. You might want to view this in Full Screen.

Risicowijzer animation

2010-09-02T06:26:00.000-07:00

Loopbaanimpuls book

2010-09-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

Club Oklahoma opent de zuilen op Noorderzon

2010-08-21T13:01:00.000-07:00

Go to the Noorderzon Festival and get a blue blokje from this automaton. The world will not be the same ever again.

Klub Oklahoma

2010-08-06T00:32:00.000-07:00

1 of 4 columns for Klub Oklahoma

Open Mind - Time : What makes us tick

2010-07-15T02:15:00.000-07:00

At the Noorderzon festival, Pavlov E-lab takes you into time. What is time, how do you measure it and in which way does it effect you?

Four people have been thinking about this in the past months and are making a performance worth watching.

The creators are:
Martha Merrow: Chronobioligist, Eric Bergshoeff: specialized in string theory, Nelleke Koop: Filmmaker and Max Hattler: Animationartist.

Karl

2010-07-06T08:24:00.000-07:00

Lego biped robot

2010-06-17T02:11:00.000-07:00

Arno is a friend of mine and makes very nice Lego robots. This one's special, because it can stand on a slope with one foot without tipping over.
And according to Arno, it can also stand on a slope on one leg with tipping over...
Everything you see is created and programmed in Lego mindstorms.

O+

2010-05-31T11:28:00.000-07:00

Holland Animation Film Festival 2010

2010-05-30T22:55:00.000-07:00

Audiotransparent's Really white smile is on its way to the Holland Animation Film Festival.

de Kleinste verkiezings Quiz

2010-05-13T01:53:00.000-07:00

The election is coming!
And usually when people vote, they seem to forget their important papers.
Hence this election quiz, to remind everyone what to bring when they have to vote.
It will be aired on Oogtv this May.

Direction by Videvos, camera by Schwung visuell's Ronnie Zeemering, music and sfx by Renger Koning of Soundbase.
The quizmaster is Bas de Bruijn and the guest is the mayor of Groningen Peter Rehwinkel.
Special thanks to our lovely assistent Margriet, Sander for the dots on the i, Tebrugge for the delicious catering and My Facilities for their facilities.

Pictoplasma Festival 2010

2010-04-13T03:53:00.000-07:00

Clik picture for the big size!

And there it was Audiotransparent - Really white smile at the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin. Unfortunately after a very slow animation of 13 minutes.
Nonetheless it was at a festival wich has 99% of the best character animations in the world.
Needless to say I was very proud that the clip has been chosen by the Pictoplasma people.

Next to that, Snövit Hedstierna from Pony Sugar Art Studio interviewed me for a Swedish design magazine called Cap&Design.
I think it was about design tips&tricks, and not about the video.
I actually think she didn't see it...
But still cool to 've been Sweded.

Next stop for the Really white smile video will be the HAFF : Holland Animation Film Festival in November.

Open Mind - Resonance Choreografies

2010-03-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

Teaching a Parakeet to talk

2010-03-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

This is a research animation for a theater production in which a character is going to interact with the audience.

Audiotransparent at Pictoplasma Festival

2010-03-13T11:05:00.000-08:00

Dear Pieter van Dijken

As the upcoming Pictoplasma Berlin Festival nears, we are honored to let you know that we will be presenting your great Really White Smile one a special monitor within the Festival's central media lounge.

The final schedule and information should go online within the next 2 weeks, but a first, rough schedule is up on our site here: http://berlin.festival.pictoplasma.com/program ..

thank you again for sharing your wonderful work,

Peter, Lars and Anna (from pictoplasma)

Misdirection

2010-03-04T02:24:00.001-08:00

Misdirection is one episode in a series of public performances where art meets science.
Pavlov E-lab organizes these so called open mind sessions, the uniqueness of the sessions is that they're always in a public space.
For example there was a session at the entrance of the central train station, in a park and right next to the supermarket.
It's free & open, everyone can watch and listen to it.

Misdirection is about how we perceive the world around us, and are misled by the simplest things. Are we seeing what we're seeing or is it something else?

Performed by biologist Julian Vincent who's keen on introducing biology concepts into engineering &design.

Mo Stoebe made wonderful films/animations with white cubes of misdirection.
Arnold Veeman made a very nice haunting fairytale composition for the performance.

My part was to film this public happening and try and catch the vibe of this event.
Editing the last few bits right now before it's going into the open.

Election Festival

2010-02-18T01:43:00.000-08:00

-{ premiére }-

2010-02-09T12:50:00.000-08:00

Wierda Update

2010-02-02T11:04:00.001-08:00

Finishing up on the last few tweaks for Wierda.
The songs Be true and Next door are done, and Good time is shaping slowly.

Have a listen before the video première : Wierda

Medezeggenschap 2.0

2010-02-01T00:39:00.000-08:00

A short promo for a meeting for managers, HRM people & members of the company board.
It' about how you can prepare your company for new challenges.

Music by : Audiogijs a.k.a. Gijs van Veldhuizen

Update

2010-01-31T02:32:00.000-08:00

and is now airing on tv :
Oogtv (popupthing with live stream from the station)

Directed by Videvos & Pieter van Dijken.
Music by Matthijs van der Veer.

Boekhoudbus

2010-01-29T04:44:00.001-08:00

Proud to present, the new logo for ' de Boekhoudbus '
A door to door accounting service.
If you're not the numbers type you can call them and they'll help. Very convenient.

Visit : boekhoudbus.nl

Gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 2010

2010-01-24T05:40:00.001-08:00

There's an election coming up in Groningen.
This year there will be some new special features to get everyone to vote for their favorite politicians.
The features :
A : You can vote everywhere.
B : You can vote in very unique locations.

What better way to get this across to the general public? Do an animation!

NS a.k.a. the dutch railways

2010-01-20T14:21:00.000-08:00

The Dutch railways is also a very busy company.
They build a lot of stuff. And to keep some track of what's going on, they wanted a show reel of all their doings in four quarters across the year.
So every three months I'm animating their most keen projects. At least if the first one is approved.

Very busy

2010-01-15T09:54:00.001-08:00

3 animations, 2 films, 3 design projects
And that's all in one month..

Wierda

2010-01-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

Wierda is a band with Harm Wierda, Arno Bakker and Viktor de Boo. The three play a blend of warm fuzzy psych grooves with drums, sousaphone and analogue organ.

Equipped with three camera's, two camera people and myself went out filming them in sound check and later that day in front of an audience.
The last was more relaxing for the guys, because we were not hopping through their show filming every peculiarity.
All that's left remaining is to make a wonderful video that matches the great atmosphere they play in the songs.

Go see them if you have the chance, because I think it's really good.

Blikvoer

2009-12-04T03:22:00.000-08:00

And there is another really white smile, they just keep popping up like rabbits.

Really white smile vs Pictoplasma

2009-12-01T05:54:00.000-08:00

The Pictoplasma Festival is internationally known for indexing zillions of characters across the globe.
These characters range for amoeboid to bunnies to possibly anything that looks like it could be a personality.
Characters in motion is a great example.

And now at this moment the video for Audiotransparent is travelling all the way to Berlin for this festival. If it passes the screening it'll be shown on screen in theatre and lobby & maybe end up on a dvd. You'll never know.

Sunny on tour

2009-11-26T01:00:00.000-08:00

Bart of Audiotransparent made these wonderful ditties to promote Really white smile. Including a toothpick & brush. The singles will be sent to 35 radio stations across everywhere. (I think the yellow cloth in the picture has nothing to do with it)

Audiotransparent - Really white smile

2009-11-10T02:31:00.000-08:00

'..And now someone was crazy enough to draw up a really white smile universe.' Bart from Audiotransparent

Audiotransparent - Really White Smile

2009-10-09T02:17:00.000-07:00

For the upcoming new album of indie/postrockband Audiotransparent, I'm very much honoured to do an animation. The song deals with the beauty industry and the way it shapes people.
The animation is in fifties style. This era of animation is very funny and basic, where the world is portrayed as careless and simple. Which was not necessarily true.
Therefore it's a link with the beauty industry. Seemingly careless and simple but at the cost of personal freedom.

City One Minutes

2009-10-06T01:13:00.000-07:00

Together with twentyfour filmmakers from Groningen, we're making a twentyfour hour impression of Groningen. This in turn will be compressed to one minute each.
Fun part is none of the filmmakers is aware of what the other is doing, so the outcome might be very suprising.
Another great thing will be that Groningen will be the first city to have 24 hours of a city complete. As you'll see on the cityoneminutes site every city has some empty filmspaces.
Check out cityoneminutes.org for cities across the world.

Your brain on drugs

2009-09-16T00:23:00.001-07:00

PSA, or public service announcements are eerie. Especially 80's American ones about the use of drugs.
Rick McNamara made a 60 second audio track about 20 years of confusing anti-drug PSA's.
And me animating to it, although Rick might not be aware of this.
Far from finished, but the main idea is to start out very clean and sober and ending in total psychedelia.

Elektrik Driving

2009-09-16T00:03:00.000-07:00

Elektrik driving - Now or Ever? is an animation for a client who has an archive with footage that was too small to use for projection or TV.
Given this problem, my solution was to use this material as wore it a landscape. In which an elektrik car is driving. La ligna, an italian grouch, was the base for this simple concept.

Bunnies in Space

2009-07-11T04:04:00.000-07:00

Screenshot of an upcoming animation with the snow bunnies starring in it.
This idea came from a collaboration un nuage d'ecole on vimeo who was working on Art&Science in her classroom.

She had seen the snow bunny video and told me she had been using it in her classroom and on her school website.

We talked and came up with an idea that the kids in her classroom could fantasize about the Bunnies in Space, as she was doing an astronomy project.

the Night of Art & Science teaser

2009-06-26T04:30:00.000-07:00

This is a teaser made for the Night of Art&Science, the music is from jewelbox.nl and the film is made in assocation with Castel media and the University of Groningen.

Soil 3

2009-06-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

Almost finished...

Brito - Flow

2009-05-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

the Night of Art & Science

2009-05-06T07:34:00.000-07:00

The first animation was called off because it was slow and.. well.. not too teasing. And so you start doing a new one. It's harder, faster, bolder & stronger.

the Night of Art & Science

2009-04-22T09:47:00.000-07:00

13 th of june is a night of Art&Science in Groningen.
And to get people moving towards this night a mysterious animation had to be made to get some exitement. Here's the first of this mysterious animation.

Soil 2

2009-03-31T11:00:00.001-07:00

Soil

2009-03-11T20:56:00.000-07:00

This a graphic depiction of an experimental roadtype with multiple layers of soil.
It's part of an animation in which is shown what the water flow will be in the layers.
The animation is part of a film about the road by Evocatív for the city of Groningen.

Economics of Taxation

2009-03-09T03:12:00.000-07:00

The university of Groningen is working on a brochure for several faculties, in which they ask students to tell about what they are studying. Along with that brochure Marieke Verdijk videoproductions and me are making films about the students. Here's a still from a film about Economics of Taxation.

Flickr

2009-02-10T08:49:00.000-08:00

Completly fresh!

Animalprotection aka Dierenbescherming

2009-01-16T14:25:00.000-08:00

The Animalprotection / Dierenbescherming (similar to Peta) is introducing a new policy called : basics for department new style. Which basically comes down to more synergy within animal protection across the Netherlands.

Together with the wonderful camerwork by Videvos and the production skills of Marieke Verdijk videoproductions we've come up with a beautiful film in which this new style is clearified.

Brito

2009-01-16T13:41:00.000-08:00

First shots of a video for Brito, recorded in the basement of Vera - Groningen 20 december 2008.

Brito is a noise -slash- hardcore band, recorded a record called "This Wave is Only for the Good-Hearted, that is released as a split-label release of De Graanrepubliek and Strictly No Capital Letters.
And it's frikin' good&loud.

Keys to the Stars

2008-12-16T08:48:00.000-08:00

2009 is going to be the international year of astronomy and this means all sorts of creativeness come to mind. In this case Siebert Nix and Ellis van der Heiden have put together a special performance with the music of composer Urmas Sisask. They're going to play to animated pictures of professor doctor Peter Barthel, who makes pictures of the universe.

Keys to the Stars

Info day at the University

2008-12-10T03:00:00.000-08:00

Every fall hordes of students come to Groningen to get informed by the university which education might be the most interesting for them. Of course starting a study on a university comes with some dilemmas.

Voorlichtingsdag 2008

Frank Wilczek

2008-11-12T16:25:00.000-08:00

Having the honour of interviewing a Nobelprizewinner Frank Wilczek in physics is insightfull. is real smart man who knows how to find out how stuff works in nature.

Lecture Frank Wilczek 'Anticipating a new golden age'

Dub&Dwars

2008-11-12T11:13:00.000-08:00

Designcompetitiondesign for Simplon, the first idea for a A6 flyer.

Noorderlink 2008

2008-11-10T06:40:00.000-08:00

5 short films for the NoorderlinkAward at Noorderlinkdagen

Slagroomsoesjes

2008-10-16T12:43:00.000-07:00

As a result of not winning any award what so ever in the 60second festival or the design competition, my creativity found out how to make the local supermarket folder a bit more interesting.

Snowbunny on Vimeo

2008-09-23T13:45:00.000-07:00

Save the snowbunny, ey!
is an animation for a 60 second filmfestival.
The festival asked for a statement in the film, so i guess mine will be, enviromental issues for snowbunnies.
As the northpole is decreasing in size, snowbunnies will be forced to live elsewhere.
And so they sing stuff.

The deadline is at the end of this week, so from then on it will be exciting to watch it on a large screen in filmtheater Images.. all of the 60 second films will be show somewhere in oktober.

Sicco Mansholt

2008-09-17T10:13:00.000-07:00

Sicco Mansholt was a European Commissioner and had a big influence on dutch and european agriculture in the 50's and 60's. And to celebrate that a 100 years have past since his death, a monument/statue has been revealed.
My honuor to be part of this, and film for the University of Groningen.

100th anniversary Sicco Mansholt

Science

2008-08-29T10:54:00.000-07:00

Animations for a film of Science Center North, each has the theme disassemble reassamble flip around twist around, which is what they basically do at this activity center for kids. The animations are an intro&inbetweens for the several parts of the film, here they are, one after the other.

Fashionable

2008-08-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

Red de ijskonijn, ey!2

2008-07-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

Inside/Outside

2008-06-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

To make everyday life a little more fun, it is important to make your surroundings the way you would like them to be.

Harmonics

2008-06-23T03:15:00.000-07:00

Flyer design for a talkshow about
architecture in films.
Six filmmakers from Groningen, Hamburg & Tallin talked about their views on city architecture and how it can influence the atmosphere in film.

Pictoparanoia 2

2008-06-22T04:20:00.001-07:00

Twist 2

2008-06-22T04:00:00.000-07:00

This is the complete image of the Twist bookazine competition on how to visualize the creative industrie.

Pictoparanoia

2008-06-18T02:49:00.000-07:00

Also known as Pareidolia, ' ..hypothesized that as a survival technique, human beings are "hard-wired" from birth to identify the human face. This allows people to use only minimal details to recognize faces from a distance and in poor visibility, but can also lead them to interpret random images or patterns of light and shade as being faces.'
Recognizing faces in everyday objects is a crude hobby, there about everywhere. Here are some more from JIMWICh
or on Flickr - Pareidolia

Twist

2008-06-18T02:06:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a competition for a magazine called Twist.
The assignment is Visualize the Creative Industry, that is local industry.
Here are some details of the 'thing' which is not yet finished (when will things ever),
but the main idea is in there..

Making control

2008-06-17T03:12:00.000-07:00

Edited & filmed for a seminar about directing&control within communities.
The 5 shorts had its own approach, and atmosphere.

The darndest miracle

2008-06-17T02:54:00.000-07:00

Ted Owens, the darndest miracle you've ever seen is a performance by Jantine Wijnja, about the psychokinetic powers of Ted Owens.
While editing the performance for film for dvd, the idea of a print for the dvd started evolving, and thus this..