Erik van Schaaik vSProductions

Click here to play COSMIC SENSATIONS

An animated short film about star systems, particles and magnetic fields. A new scientific discovery presented on Dutch television.

technique: 2D animation
duration: 1 minutes
production, direction, design: Erik van Schaaik
animation: Ruben Wiltink

Click here to play PIECE OF CAKE - CHRISTMAS

An extra long christmas special for the popular series PIECE OF CAKE. A darling twin cooks a merry menu, decorates the tree and sings carrols. It just doesn't get any better!

technique: documentary
duration: 12 minutes
camera: Shaun Leyden
script, direction: Wendo Kroon
production, direction, camera, editing, music: Erik van Schaaik

THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA is an animated short film in which we, the theater audience, get an indiscreet look behind the screen of the cinema. The film suddenly jams and breaks, allowing us to see what happens behind the projection screen when everything is going horribly wrong.

Winner of the Grand Prize and Trophy at Anim’est international film festival Romania (2009). Dutch entry for the Oscars of 2009.

technique: digital animation (2D / 3D)
duration: 10 minutes, 46 seconds
avaliable on 35 mm film, BETA, DVD
direction, script, animation: Erik van Schaaik
production: il Luster Productions
music: Martin Fondse
voice talent: Michiel Romeyn, Dominic Kelly

A pre-school series that lets you choose between This of That. Ice cream or French fries? Football or basketball? Fireman or police? We will find out which is most popular.

technique: live action
duration: 14 X 2,5 minutes
production, direction, script, editing, animation, music: Erik van Schaaik
production, editing: Wendo Kroon

 

An offbeat no-budget short film about a backpacker who finds himself stuck on a railroad. Thankfully it's deserted. Or is it?

No people were paid during the making of this movie!

ST*CK! is nominated for the crime & thriller competition Shocking Shorts 2008 (13^TH STREET). 13^TH STREET broadcasted the film several times. ST*CK! is selected for competition at the Hoboken International Film Festival 2009 and Oxford International Film Festival.

technique: live action
duration: 9,45 minutes
production, direction, script, storyboards, visual effects, editing: Erik van Schaaik
production: Wendo Kroon
starring: Titus Boonstra, camera: Marco Zaayer, sound man: Ivo Voragen, music: Martin Gort

Click here to play PIECE OF CAKE

Another series of seven episodes on cooking with toddlers for KRO television. In 2002 we created a series of seventeen episodes. Two were shot on location in Paramaribo, Surinam. Deksels! was the winner of the Prix Danube 2003 in Bratislava. It finished third at the Prix Jeunesse 2004.

technique: documentary
duration: 24 X 6,5 minutes
production, camera, editing, music: Erik van Schaaik
script, direction: Wendo Kroon

Pilot for a new series for toddlers (OUTSIDE!). Childplay becomes a true adventure with music, animation and special effects. Selected for the Prix Jeunesse 2006. Winner of the Dutch Academy Award 2006.

technique: live action / digital animation
duration: 7 minutes
production, direction, script, camera, animation, music: Erik van Schaaik and Wendo Kroon

An animated short film about a man struggling against the storm. Suddenly he discovers that not everybody is affected by the wind...
Nominated best short film and best sound design at the Holland Film Meeting 2004. It got a special mention at the 55th International Filmfestspiele in Berlin and won first prize at the International Festival of animationfilms BIMINI in Latvia. At the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy VENT was prizewinning again: the FIPRESCI award. The Kyoto Kinder Film Fest awarded VENT with the Grand Prix for best short film and at Espinho Filmfestival it won for best soundtrack. In Neum, Bosnia Hercegovina, Vent wins the award for best music and, last but not least, it won the award for best animation in Taiwan. Oh yeah, it also played at Centre Pompidou, Paris!

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technique: digital animation / watercolour backgrounds
duration: 4,5 minutes
script, design, animation, direction: Erik van Schaaik
music: Martin Fondse
production: il Luster Productions funding: Dutch Film Fund

Commercial for the NEMO museum in Amsterdam.

technique: digital cut out
duration: 30 seconds
production and animation: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: Nemo

A series on scientific experiments for children. WETENSNAP was nominated for the Golden Statue at the Dutch Acaqdemy Awards 2005. It has won the Jos Withagen-Eurekaprijs 2006.

technique: documentary / drama / animation
camera, online editing, 2D and 3D animation: Erik van Schaaik
duration: 15 x 7 minutes
production: VPRO

Click here to view the leader of WETENSNAP.

A series of two minute documentaries for toddlers. Some were shot in Surinam.

technique: documentary
duration: 2 minutes per episode
production, camera, music: Erik van Schaaik
direction: Wendo Kroon & Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: KRO

A one minute animation based on a Martin Fondse composition.

technique: 3D computer animation
duration: 1 minute
production, design and animation: Erik van Schaaik

Click here to play EVANESCENT

An animation film to promote a fictional film project: That's Not All, Folks! featuring the music of Martin Fondse.

technique: stop motion animation
duration: 6 minutes
music: Martin Fondse
model building: Wendo Kroon
script, direction, art direction, animation: Erik van Schaaik

A series of animation's on water and sanitation.

technique: digital cell animation
duration: 3,5 minutes
production, art direction, script (co-writer), animation, music, foley sounds: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: Artsen Zonder Grenzen

A series of short clips for the annual science quiz, illustrating particular scientific problems.

technique: cut-out animation, digital cell animation
duration: 3 X 2 minutes, 4 X 2 minutes, 2 minutes
script, animation, music: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

Leader for the Cinekid film festival.

technique: 3D computer animation
duration: 25 seconds
production, storyboard, animation, foley sound: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: KRO

Leader for a series about storytelling for toddlers.

technique: 3D computer animation
duration: 15 seconds
production, animation, music: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: KRO

Leader and presentation for a series of international short films for kids.

technique: digital cell animation
duration: +/- 1,5 minutes
production, animation, music: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: KRO

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Gags for SPOT LIGHT, an award winning magazine for teenagers. SPOT LIGHT was awarded with, amongst others, the Prix de la Jeunesse and the Cinekid Kinderkast award. Shown on Dutch, Belgian and German television.

technique: cut-out animation / photo-manipulations
duration: 13 X 3 minutes, 26 X 1 minutes, 26 X 1 minutes
art direction, animation, voices: Erik van Schaaik
production: BosBros Film- TV Productions & VRT

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Cooking class by two animated potatoes.

technique: puppet animation
duration: 10 X 2 minutes
storyboard, model construction, animation, editing: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

A couple of short films for the Nautical Museum of Curacao.

technique: documentary / drama
duration: various
commissioned by: Maritiem Museum Curacao
script, production, direction, camera, editing: Christiaan Kuipers, Matthieu Landweer and Erik van Schaaik

Leader, created under direction of Norbert ter Hall, on a tight schedule and virtually no budget.

Leader ZEEUWS MEISJE

Fourteen episodes of an animated opera for kids.

technique: tabletop animation
duration: 14 X 7 minutes
direction, script, animation, music, lyrics, vocals: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

Click here to play exerpts of the SAUSAGEDOG TITUS series.

Click here to play a full episode with English subtitles SAUSAGEDOG TITUS, The Wedding

Click here to view the making of SAUSAGEDOG TITUS (1995).

A weekly magazine for kids. The two leading characters Ot and Bilotte present a variety of short films, some of which are made by art-students.

technique: live-action
duration: 14 X 25 minutes
direction, script, production design, model construction, music: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

A puppet show on rabbits selling french fries and mice putting a band together. Also shown at the Dutch Film Festival.

technique: hand puppets
duration: 3 X 5 minutes
direction, script, animation, model construction: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

The Little Man in the Radio: an animated little man living inside the radio of a real life family. Also shown at the Dutch Film Festival.

technique: live-action / puppet animation
duration: 3 X 6 minutes
direction, script, art direction, animation, model construction: Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

A little pirate girl in an animated world

technique: live-action / puppet animation
duration: 3,5 minutes
direction, script, animation, camera, model construction: Matthieu Landweer and Erik van Schaaik
production: VPRO

Film commissioned to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of hospital Velp

technique: live-action / documentary
duration: 22,5 minutes
production, direction, script: Matthieu Landweer and Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: Hospital Velp

A story about a little boy and his monster friend. Also shown at the Holland Animation Film Festival and the Dutch Film Festival.

technique: cut-out animation
duration: 3 X 4 minutes
direction, script, animation: Erik van Schaaik
commissioned by: VPRO

16 mm film for theatrical company De Verbeelding

Five items for VPRO's program De Toren van Pizza's

Station call for pop music program Count Down

This 20 minutes horror movie was one of many super-8 films that Erik made during the period 1981-1989. It was shown on Belgian television.