This website uses JavaScript and Flash to display his content. Currently your browser doesn't support Javascript and or Flash Udo Prinsen (Doetinchem, The Netherlands, 1974) graduated cum laude from the animation department of the Higher School of Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands (1995 - 1999). During the practical part of his studies, an internship in Vancouver, Canada, he learned many tricks of the trade of animation. All this was preceded by one year of Film and Television Science at the University of Utrecht (1994-1995) and grammar school. Started his career as an animator at the TV department of Valkieser Solutions, creating idents and leaders for TV networks and shows. In 2000 Prinsen moved to England for The Bristol Animation Course, which was set up by Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. He spent a year in England working for Phew TV!/BBC Education. Back in The Netherlands, Prinsen teamed up with il Luster Productions and since 2001 helped create short films, concepts and animated sequences for theatre plays, documentaries and feature films such as Knetter (a.k.a. Bonkers, Lemmingfilm, dir. Martin Koolhoven ), FAN ( Memphis Film, dir. Nienke Eysink) Radeloos (Shooting Star, dir. Dave Schram). 9-2-2009 Naturalis We have just finished 3 animated sequences for the Dutch Natural History Museum Naturlais. I co directed these sequences with Michiel Snijders of il Luster Productions. 9-2-2009 VSB Poetry award Currently I am working on a film based on a poem by Bart Meuleman.This film will be presented as a nominee to the Dutch VSB Poetry award. 5-1-2009 Type Titel here. Happy New Year ! lots of projects in the pipeline, will write about it later. 2-11-2008 Sticky Feet at festivals in Italy and Portugal Great news: Sticky Feet is screening in competition at two more festivals: FIKE in Evora, Portugal. www.fikeonline.net and Castelli Animati in Genzano di Roma, Italy . www.castellianimati.it 19-8-2008 Animation to Poetry A film has been added to this site. It is another film based on poetry and will be used in an educational project involving seven short animated films and seven live action films based on poetry. The DVD with these films will be used in education for 10 - 14 year old students. 12-8-2008 Sticky Feet Sticky Feet is selected for competition at Animest, Bucharest, Rumania. 6 - 12 October 2008 www.animest.ro My Little Sister is selected for Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 6 - 12 october 2008 www.literaturwerkstatt.org 11-7-2008 FAN At the moment I am helping out Nienke Eijsink. She is creating a great documentary called FAN. Nienke went to Australia to meet her childhood idol doctor Cris Randall, or the actress behind the character, Liz Burch. The film is a coming of age story of a child growing up in a generation dominated by television. Check out her website : www.eyethink.nl 6-5-2008 Sticky Feet - Special Mention Sticky Feet receives a special mention at the Bimini festival in Batumi, Georgia 7-4-2008 Sticky Feet in Bangladesh Sticky Feet was screened at the International Childrens Film Festival in Bangladesh. www.cfs-bangladesh.com 24-3-2008 Sticky Feet Sticky Feet is selected for competition at Bimini festival in Batumi Georgia, www.bimini.lvshowing from 24 - 27 April. And will also be shown in competition at Anima Basauri in Bilbao. www.animabasauri.com 4-3-2008 more backgrounds added backgrounds today. reload and spot the gannet. 4-3-2008 Sticky Feet in Neum NAFF Sticky Feet is selected for competition at Neum Animated Film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina. www.rfaf.ba 22-1-2008 My Little Sister Wrap My Little Sister is born. Bas Suir completed te sound and now the film is off to festivals. 22-1-2008 Sticky Feet screenings Sticky Feet will screen at Animationmania 26 and 27 januari in cinemaOT301 (cinema overtoom) in Amsterdam. www.videoinferno.nl. Animation Festival Zwolle 19 and 20 April. www.animatiefestivalzwolle.nl Kristiansand International Childern s Film Festival 22 to 27 April in Kristiansand, Norway www.kicff.no 22-12-2007 Roosbeef Music Film Currently we are making a music video to the song Soul by Roosbeef. I have posted a clip and some stills to show you what it will look like. 12-12-2007 New posts Today I posted some new items. First there is now a clip in the films section which shows the work in progress on My Little Sister, a film I co direct with Nathan Filer. The film will be released early 2008. www.myspace.com/nathanfiler In the stills section you can find some drawings I created for a book on the dutch poet Slauerhof. The book will be published by Atlas and released in the spring of 2008. More drawings on Slauerhof are posted there as well. For these Gerco Hiddink has designed a web page. www.uitgeverijatlas.nl www.gercohiddink.nl/afrikaanse_elegie 3-11-2007 Sticky Feet in Leiden Sticky Feet is showing at the filmfestival in Leiden. www.leidsfilmfestival.nl 15-10-2007 Sticky Feet in Portugal Sticky Feet will be screening in competition at the festival of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. www.fest.nl 13-09-2007 Sticky Feet Sticky Feet will officialy premiere at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. The festival will take place 26 September - 4 oktober. www.filmfestival.nl 26-8-2007 Live Earth In June I directed a short for the Live Earth event. The film was initiated by project 3650 and produced by il Luster productions. In the film we use children s drawings to tell the story of a threat to Holland: a rising sea level. You can watch the film at www.project3650.orgit is called The waters are rising. 26-8-2007 Heat wave Right now I am helping out Jurjen Kraan on a film we are making vor the dutch ministery of health. Hopefully it will be very warm in Holland next year so we can see the film. It is an informal (short) film about what to do and how to stay healthy in case of a heat wave. 16-8-2007 Emmaus Promo The Emmaus promo participated in the 2007 Anima Mundi Festival In Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paolo. 27-7-2007 Background pictures I have added some background pictures to the site. You can check them out by reloading the page. 27-7-2007 New York In June I was very happy to finally spent some time in New York. I took a course Script Supervising and a course Music Video that were well worth the money. As an animator I deliver content for live action films, but never spent much time on sets or working closely with live action people. This way I have experienced both in very energetic and hectic surroundings. I believe that better understanding of the medium will help me deliver better animation in the end, so I will use that knowledge right away in upcoming projects. 27-7-2007 Type Titel here. Type text here. 23-5-2007 Bork and Snork Today I have added a film about Bork and Snork. It is a reedit of a film I created a while ago. Bork and Snork are now available for download to Mobile phones. The distribution of these MMS films is realized by MOBIconcepts, please contact them if you like to buy. More info on where to find the downloads will follow. 21-5-2007 My Little Sister We are working hard to make the film My Little Sister. Rens Geubbels is now helping me out with the animation. We are expecting to have the film for viewing in August. 1-5-2007 Thomas Lieske Thomas Lieske won the 14th edition of the Dutch VSB poetry awards. The Otter (see section films) was inspired to his poem De otter tot zichzelf and was presented at the awards ceremony. 12-4-2007 Sticky Feet The film Sticky Feet will be distributed by RNTV. www.rntv.nl They will be at MIPCOM this April and later on in Annecy, so all you buyers, come and get it ! It is a great film, made with a lot of enthousiasm and with a great soundtrack by Michel Marang. www.michelmarang.nl 12-4-2007 showreel At the films section, I added my personal showreel, a commercial showreel and the film Otter. 20-3-2007 Vodcasted films Black Thunder and Grasmaaier have been viewed by over 50 000 members of il Luster Productions Vodcast. www.illuster.nl/index_podcast.html 12-3-2007 Poetry Awards Presentation The Dutch assosiation VSB will hand out a poetry award in April. To present one of the nominees (Thomas Lieske) I created an animation to his poem. I will post the film I did on this site very soon. 08-03-2007 Emmaus Promo The Emmaus Promo will screen at Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival. www.itfs.de 9-2-2007 Sticky Feet So - my independent film Sticky Feet is ready. It has been 4 years since I first created the idea. At first making the movie did not get funded, but I kept thinking about the idea and people kept asking me if I would still make it. Many people seemed to want to see it. So I kept working on the script and storyboard and eventually the film was animated with the help of Johannes Oppewal, Willianne Timmer and Arjan van der Linden. Mean time il luster productions realised some funding to pay for the great sound of Bob Kommer Sound studio and composer Michel Marang. Now we are waiting for available funds to put the film on actual celluloid. 05-02-2007 Lyrical elastic Recently I teamed up with Nathan Filer of Lyrical Elastic to make an animated short. Nathan is a very creative and funny poetry slammer, our film will be based on one of his latest works, My Little Sister. 25-01-2007 Sticky Feet Sticky Feet is a fact. 24-01-2007 New York From 15 June to 1 July I will visit New York for a course script supervising and a course music video.