Nou&Herkauw

During the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam we presented our new workshop / installation Two Sides. In this workshop you will clay a self-designed fantasy figure that represents both your good and bad side. The clay figure is scanned with a 3D scanner and becomes your own avatar. Then color this avatar on a computer with the 3D paint tool and it comes to life on a virtual dance floor on a large projection screen. Your dance moves in front of the projection screen determine which side of you predominates. Check out here more photos from Two Sides.

We have been working hard on the workshop Zoetropia for the past few months. Developed for Cinekid and international partners in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece and Belgium.

During this workshop children will make a journey through the history of special effects in a playful way. A journey through scale models, green screen set-ups and camera-, body- and face tracking scenes. In this one-hour workshop, children re-enact scenes from existing films (provided by the various partners) and learn how different special effects techniques are used in films.

After the workshop, a film montage is created in which the children see themselves in different scenes. Here is the final sketch we shot in our own studio. Still not quite the final version because we are still missing some small things. The leads are played by Renee, Vivian and Lou.

The StopTrain stops more often than it runs. At least it seems that way. It is in fact a StopMotion Animation train. With a camera in front. The train moves about 3 cm, waits 20 seconds, takes a picture, and moves another 3 cm, and so on. In this way an ever-lengthening animated film is created in which it seems as if you are sitting in the train.

The StopTrain was shown during the Cinekid Festival in Forum Groningen, from 18 to 22 October. It made about 2 rounds a day and took about 1000 photos.

On June 1, Queen Maxima opened the Children’s Biennial at the Groninger Museum. Nou&Herkauw was honoured to be invited and to develop a work for this exciting group exhibition. We showed the queen our installation KlooN and explained how it works. Noah and Maynard, the children’s ambassadors, made a few beautiful compositions on the spot. Quite an experience. Watch below the interview with Adri on the National Children’s News. The exhibition can be seen until January 9, 2022.