(most recent items are listed at the top)
news
thu mar 18 2005
major minor site redesign, long overdue. Pages are now bookmarkable (no more frames).
wed aug 13 2003
Added a page with a little information on Useless...
wed jun 11 2003
We just found it in the TV guides, Zephyr will air on friday the 20th of june 2003, Nederland 3, BNN, 22.50h! Get those video recorders rolling...
fri may 16 2003
Zephyr's first frontpage
Publish, the renowned dutch DTP magazine, has published an interview with naam on Zephyr. Four pages of somewhat deeper insights into the various 3D aspects of the production. And Zephyr made it's first front page. Get it while it's hot! (and available :)
sun may 11 2003
"Maybe" on air
The videoclip we made for Camiel has been aired today for the first time. If you want to see it in PAL res, and are in the Netherlands, you can request in on The Box, clip number 312 :).
newsflash
fri may 02 2003
Zephyr 5th in Animago awards
Zephyr, the 20 minute dutch science fiction movie Happy Ship did the animations for, has won 5th place overall, out of a 1140, in the Animago awards 2003! That means the first statuette is a fact! :) Zephyr also won first place in student-compositing and professional-animation Science Fiction categories. We'll be offering some more insights into the project soon, meanwhile, if you want to get a taster of the project, a short teaser promo clip can be downloaded here (8.0Mb Quicktime, right-click to download), and the Animago trailer, featuring a lot of the SFX shots of the film, can be found here (17.5Mb, Quicktime, right-click to download). mon apr 28 2003
Margreet was so kind to give our site a major checkup and update, THANKS! There's still a few minor gaps to fill, and we're still in the process of getting it all online, but that's something to be realised soon enough.
sun nov 03 2002
Long time no news, eh? Happy Ship is just finishing up the last frames of their share in the special FX of a project touted as 'the first science fiction movie of the Netherlands': Zephyr. A 23 minute full-blown science fiction movie by Dennis Kleijn and Synco Scholvink. Happy Ship took care of all the 3D animation and rendering. For a quick preview, go to www.zephyr-film.com and check the promo movie. We'll be providing some extra information on this site ASAP. mon apr 15 2002
Added a page for VMapTools to the lab. Hope it is of use to anyone...
tue feb 05 2002
I uploaded the ChanLum shader as a free download to the lab. It also seems that no-one has discovered the secret Puppeteer page yet. How sweet :)
wed jan 09 2002
Added the lab. section to the site (see above) because I had some pleasent results experimenting with a shader.
newsflash
the Joust featured on mxstream
People in the Netherlands probably know what mxstream is: KPN's version of ADSL. They currently feature the Joust on their homepage (www.mxstream.nl) so if you have a fast internet connection, there's really no excuse NOT to look at the Joust anymore - it comes screaming onto your monitor via this site. We made a deal with them to keep them updated on our Kosmotroniks progress this year, so you can expect more about our latest project from their homepage as well...
wed jan 02 2002
Apart from whishing all of you a very happy 2002, this is also an excellent date to put this site online! Not everything we want to show is available yet, but we hope you'll be having fun withwhat IS here nevertheless. Also, if you have any thoughts, comments or suggestions about the site, please let us know.
sat dec 14 2001
Started a major site revision. We have received so many complaints about our previous site, notes saying 'under construction' posted everywhere, that I decided NEVER to begin designing a site with all the buttons in place, but none of the content taken care of again. Hence the somewhat basic text-only links above :)
earlier 2001
Demoreel
Happy Ship has a demo-reel! It's a wonder in itself, as we were always much too busy to even think of one (same with our website :). But some companies asked us for a quick and dirty overview of our work, so we started gathering, decided to simply string the bits together, ended up even adding a tune to it (thank you Arling & Cameron!) and ended up with an actual demo reel! Some copyright issues need to be resolved before we offer it online, but that shouldn't take too long.
No Subtitles
Happy Ship provided video-mix material for an experimental multimedia production called No Subtitles, by the Combustion Chamber Ensemble in co-operation with LowRes Media.
Kosmotroniks
(men doing absolutely fine with their ludicrous metal contraptions)We started preparations for our next short film. It's going to be somewhat of a musical piece, introducing the world of Kosmotroniks. We plan to finish it somewhere mid-2002, but of course can't make any promises yet. As we decided to totally redesign the 'human' characters of the Kosmotroniks universe, there's still a lot to be done. Arling & Cameron
Happy Ship did the stage-show animations for the popular duo Arling & Cameron. Their virtual alter-ego's were modelled by MeniThings, LA., but we took care of develloping their on-screen character and their animation. In total, did about 10 minutes of character animation for their latest tour, as well as an endlesslooping ('original' content about 3 minutes) piece used in their art-expo-CD-presentation at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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