A soldier goes to the front during World War I, whose horrors make him realise that the enemy is actually war itself. 

The testimony of this soldier stands as a methaphor for the terrible cruelty of war and the desire for peace.

A battle for peace is part of the12 minutes about peace

One of the most imaginative projects to mark the centenary of the First World War is 12 Minutes About Peace, a collection of 12 one-minute animated shorts on the theme of peace. They were made by bothemerging as well as established talents in Flemish animation.

Peace was chosen as a theme in order to encourage contemporary perspectives and also to accentuate the positive, rather than focus exclusively on the negatives of war. Nevertheless, animators were allowed to address the theme in the way they wanted and with a free choice in form and technique. Films could benarrative or abstract, with or without dialogue, and draw on the widest range of animation styles. However, each film could only be one minute in length.

   Annecy Int’l Animated Film Festival – Frankrijk (9-14 juni 2014)

    Festival du Film Merveilleux et Imaginaire – Frankrijk (26-28 juni 2014)

    Montreal World Film Festival – Canada (21 augustus – 1 september 2014)

    Fantoche International Animation Film Festival – Zwitserland (2-7 september 2014)

    Animated Film Festival Animatou – Zwitserland (3-11 oktober 2014)

    Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur – België (3-10 oktober 2014)

    Naqsh Short Film Festival – Bahrein (15-19 oktober 2014)

    Valladolid International Film Festival – Spanje (18-25 oktober 2014)

    Arras Film Festival – Frankrijk (7-16 november 2014)

    Cairo Film Festival – Egypte (9-18 november 2014) [TBC]

These series of illustrations show JJ's quest on finding his inner gonzo. 

The night dad brought us home

Art direction for "The Night".

"Feature documentary in development. Director Steffan Strandberg shares his personal childhood story. About the night his father rescued him and his brother"

We made animation sequences for the documentary "Silent Wildernis" by Mathijs Vleugels

The animations consists of a series of rich charcoal pencil drawings in order to visualize fragments of Tim's diaries and his state of mind. The idea comes original from the police man making drawings of the face of Tim. Using a process of gumming and drawing we wanted to create a pure and simple layer that fitted with Tim's mental universe. In the film the animation works like a palimpsest as they build, layer upon ghraphic layer.

www.silent-wilderness.com

Selfie

The Pukkelpop logoloop must be one of the most epic logo-animations of the universe.

pukkelpop.be

animation / illustration : Joost Jansen
graphic design: Glossy
sounddesign/ music : Spongemagnet

Poster for the documentary "I know you are there" by Thom M. Van Der Beken.

Th documentary is evolves around Quentin who is only 27 and has been in a coma for the past 10 years. His family finally needs to decide whether or not they can let him go. Will this decision unite Quentin’s family or break it further apart?

Art- direction / development for the animatted feature "ZOOks"

At the very heart of ZOOks beats the story of a self-willed young girl, braving a forbidden forest to find her missing mother. Against all she’s been taught, she relies on a feral boy, who seems to know about her mom. If this odd couple succeeds, both their families will be reunited and harmony will be restored. If they don’t, nature will be destroyed forever.

I did some art-direction and animation for the new short film "Waves 98" by Ely Dagher. 

Waves ’98 won the top prize at the Cannes film Festival, the Palm D’Or in the short film category.

Waves ’98 is as much a narrative film as it is a personal visual essay dedicated to Dagher’s hometown, Beirut.
The film is an artistic exploration of the director’s current relation with his Lebanon, his home country, projected through the story of a teenager and set in 1998. Since moving abroad to study and work, Ely Dagher has been spending more and more time outside of Lebanon, and his attachment to Beirut Started to become more and more complicated. The overall Narrative of the film is heavily based on Ely’s efforts to understand his changing relationship with the city and it’s life, juxtaposed with the narrative of a teenager’s exciting discovery of this segregated city.

In 2015 the ffbk architects FFBK architects moved to their own building in new district in Basel. So, we made a little movie to illustrate and celebrate this fact.

ffbk.ch

production: JJ studio
illustration and animation: Joost Jansen
sounddesign: Monkeyproof Media

Something wacky we did for a pitch at www.doubledayandcartwright.com.

The goal was to make an animated series around the character Johnny paycheck.

Illustrations for Maks magazine : short tempered

In I Love Hooligans we enter the world of a homosexual hooligan. Football is what he lives for. His sexual orientation is a well-kept secret. As a hooligan, his club is everything to him.

The match against the arch rival is the highlight of the year. On the day they turn to booze and drugs, looking for excitement with whatever presents itself. Like hungry lions they search out their potential prey: mounted policemen, fans of the other side, and all the rest of the wimps, faggots and pansies.

Loosening the vocal chords inside the stadium, until the ref blows his whistle and the match begins. The game, the artistry of the players, the camaraderie, the rhythm of the sounds from the stands: he becomes totally immersed. This is his world, his life. With each nasty foul, there's booing: “Queer. Faggot”. He shouts as loud as the fans, fully aware of putting on an act. It is his survival strategy.

The fans club house is a universe of passion, noise and action. Any sensual thoughts about men are life-threatening. He would be an easy target if the shit hit the fan and they found out he was gay.

All matches end and he has to go home, where no one is waiting. In this silence, this fan admits that he too longs for warmth, security and love. When the walls start closing in on him, football calls. It is only among his football mates that he doesn't feel lonely. Until the end of time.

At the end of the day, this homosexual hooligan has but one dream: “To die in the arms of my loved one.”

Awards

1. Interfilm / Short Film Festival Berlin 

Berlin. 12 - 17 Nov. 2013 

http://www.interfilm.de/en 

SECOND PLACE Documentary Competition, Special Mention.

2. Holland Animation Film Festival

19 - 23 March 2014

Shorts Competition – Dutch Animation Competition

http://www.haff.nl/nl

WINNER of the Professional Award for Dutch Animation

WINNER of the MovieZone HAFF Award

3. Roze Filmdagen

13-23 march 2014

Short Movie Competition 

http://www.rozefilmdagen.nl

WINNER Best Short Movie 

SECOND PLACE Audience Award

4. International football film festival "11mm", Berlin 2014

27. März - 1. April 2014

http://www.11-mm.de/english.php

WINNER 11mm Short Kicks Film Competition

5. Animayo 

5-10 May 201 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Competition

http://www.animayo.com 

WINNER Best Independent Short Film of the International Competition. 

6. Le Court Nous Tient

5 and 6 of April, 2014. Saint Denis France.

SECOND PLACE

7. In the Palace International Short Film Festival

In competition. 4-11 July 2014 

http://www.inthepalace.com

FINALIST, NOMINATION. 

8. Fenêtres sur Courts, European short film festival 

November 3 - 4 Dijon, France

http://www.fenetres-sur-courts.com/

WINNER European Competition 

9. BCN Sports Film Festival

www.bcnsportsfilm.org

WINNER

“Ma Mafia Africaine” is an animated documentary about street gangs in Brussels.

We made several of animated sequences against a really sharp deadline. It was a production of “Koppen”, a belgian television program which makes documentaries for the flemish TV network “ één “.

production: Koppen - één
direction: Guy de Troyer
animation and art-direction: Joost Jansen

Poster for the Award winning animated documentary I co-developed and Art-directed.

AWARDS:
WINNER - Professional Award for Dutch Animation - Holland Animation Film Festival - 2014
WINNER - MovieZone HAFF Award - Holland Animation Film Festival - 2014
WINNER - 11mm Short Kicks Film Competition - International football film festival "11mm", Berlin 2014
WINNER - Best Short Movie - Roze Filmdagen 2014
WINNER - Best Independent Short Film of the International Competition - Animayo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2014
WINNER - European Competition Fenêtres sur Courts Dijon 2014
SPECIAL MENTION - Documentary Competition - Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin 2013 
SECOND PLACE - Le Court Nous Tient, Saint Denis France 2014 
FINALIST - In the Palace International Short Film Festival 2014 

SCREENINGS:
DOK Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival 2013
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film 2014 
Melbourne International Film Festival 2014
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014 
ZagrebDox Documentary Film Festival 2014
Netherlands Film Festival 2013 
Holland Animation Film Festival 2014
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2014
Hamptons International Film Festival, 2013
Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin 2013 
Leeds International Film Festival 2013 
Mecal International Short Film & Animation Festival Barcelona 2014
Short Film Festival Bamberg Best of DOK Leipzig 2013
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2014
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2014
Roze Filmdagen 2014
Sphinx holebifilmfestival Gent 2014
Go Short Nijmegen 2014 
Monstra animation festival 2014
BE Festival New York 2014
International football film festival "11mm", Berlin 2014
Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, St Petersburg Russia 2014
Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich 2014
Cartoons on the bay Animation Festival Venice 2014
Asterisco Film Festival LGBTIQ Festival Buenos Aires Argentina 2014
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014
Animayo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2014
Docville International Documentary Film Festival Leuven 2014
HOLEBI Short Film Festival 2014
Inside Out Toronto 2014
Le Court Nous Tient, Saint Denis France 2014. 
Cinefoot Film Festival Brazil 2014 
Reel Shorts Canada 2014
New York International Short Film Festival 2014
In the Palace International Short Film Festival 2014
Amina Mundi International Animation Festival of Brazil 2014
NAFF, Neum Animated Film Festival 2014 
Festroia Film Festival 2014
Contis, International Film Festival France 2014
Tabor Film Festival - International Short Film Festival Croatia2014
Mercado international animation festival and market 2014 Association 
Cinambule 2014
Animpact Best of Best - China - Japan – KOREA 2014 
Animfest Cyprus Views of the World 2014
Umsonst & Draussen Film Festival 2014
Chacun son court Short Film Festival Strasbourg 2014
Internationale Animatie Film Festival Fantoche 2014 
Brest European Short Film Festival 2014
Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg 2014
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2014
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2014
Animatou International Animated Film Festival Geneva 2014
Queer Lisboa 2014
Zubroffka Short Film Festival Poland 2014
En Plein Public Rotterdam 2014 
Iris Prize LGBT Film Festival Cardiff 2014 
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2014 
Fenêtres sur Courts, short film festival Dijon 2014
ANIMEST international animation film festival Bucharest 2014
Ozu Film Festival Italy 2014
Selected for the OZU DOC section
London International Animation Festival 2014
Document Film Festival, Glasgow 2014
Pride Pictures Gay Lesbian Film Festival Karlsruhe 2014
The RabbitFest International Animation Festival Perugia, Italy 2014
Festival du Film des Droits de l'Homme de Strasbourg 2014
OLHO Animation Film Festival Porto Portugal 2015 
Euganea Film Festival 2014
Helsinki International Film Festival
Queer Film Festival Perlen Hannover 2014
Ventana Asterisco 2014
Korean Independent Animation Festival 2014 
Festival Du Film De Saint Paul Chateaux 2014
BH International Film Festival 2014
Brussels Pink Screens Film 2014 
Animage Festival Recife - Olinda, Brazil 2014 Main competition
KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2014
Sequence Short Film Festival Toulouse 2014 
Vilnius Short Film Festival 2014 
Festival Cinema and Human Rights Festival Cinéma et droits humains 2014
DOCartoon Pietrasanta Italy 2014 
Seville European Film Festival 2014
EU Shorts Film Festival Budapest2014
Starz Denver Film Festival 2014
Braunschweig International Film Festival 2014
QUEER-Streifen Film Festival Regensburg 2014 
Festival Tous Courts Aix en Provence France 2014
Timishort Timisoara Romania 2014
Anilogue International Animation Film Festival Budapest 2014
Bradford Animation Festival 2014
Giraff Festival of Independent Animation Calgary Canada 2014
Animateka International Animated Film Festival Ljubljana Slovenia 2014 
Aguilar de Campoo Short Film Festival Spain 2014 
Flutlicht Basel Switzerland 2015

Bringing ffbk to Life. Goodbye Zwimpfer Partner Architekten!

Zwimpfer Partner Architekten changed their name into ffbk. They asked me to highlight this evolution in an animated movie. 

Teasers and artwork made for the album "Immortalized" by Disturbed.

production: Warner Bros Records

design and animation: Joost Jansen

Series of spacescapes made for print.

skip school

illustrations for Maks magazine

Dwaler

Visual development for the cross-media project Dwaler.

Visual development / art-direction for the animated feature "Sunjata".

SANCTA’s youngest animation IP tells the story of Sunjata, the cursed crownprince of Mandé. Albeit entitled to the crown, Sunjata is pushed aside by his father’s first wife, to become a hunter instead of a king. The story’s main tension is rooted in the question when – or even whether – ‘reluctant hero’ Sunjata will correct this injustice, leave his beloved savannah and free his homeland from tyranny.

Sunjata, aka ‘the son of the lion’, is based on the eponymous epic from the oral ‘troubadour’ tradition of western Africa, where the legendary hunter-king who brought lasting peace, is well known to this day.

SPONGEMAGNET releases his gimp

Spongemagnet’s debut EP raises a few questions. To begin with, its title: is it a commendable recommendation to let your inner gimp come out of the closet? Or is it the expression of a more Judaeo-Christian approach to the matter: “hate the gimping, but love the gimp”? The titles of the tracks are also subject to debate. “Bum Damage” sounds like something one might wake up to after a night of heavy drinking and insufficient amyl nitrite consumption. “Poon Quiver” refers to the shaking motion sometimes exhibited by female genitalia when reaching climax during some form of sexual activity. I’m not quite sure who the narrator of “Gimp Bisquit” is: the “gimper” or the “gimpee”? And is the “bisquit” of the gimp or for the gimp? As for “Plutonium Catwrap”, I would prefer abstaining from any attempt at explaining what it might mean in this chemically-preserved, plastic-wrapped world (but it sounds undeniably dirty). Now I don’t know about you, but I see a definite trend appearing. Bromance gone wrong.

Youngsters and budgetcontrol

illustrations for Maks magazine
 

co-working

illustrations for the magazine Justice.

Students with burnouts

Illustrations for Maks magazine