Author: stijncalis
The film revolves around the adventures of a real-life fox terrier called Titina, who gained celebrity status in the 1920s when she accompanied her master, the Italian aeronautic…
Last week I had some after-hours R&D-fun with the Rokoko motion capture suit & Blender. Models from Mixamo and Quixel, rendered in Eevee, compositing in Fusion.
Coppelia is a unique international production and collaboration with Dutch National Ballet. It is directed by Jeff Tudor, initiator of the project in co-direction with the Belgian duo…
Discover LUCA | School of Arts from home: https://cohackreality.be/virtualtour/luca-campusgent/ Together with two students and my colleagues at LUCA | School of Arts campus Gent, we’ve created this virtual…
Il Pleut Des Voeux tells the story of Henri, a homeless man. Roaming the streets of Ghent, he plays his accordion day after day. And every evening, he…
In the early Middle Ages, a contingent of knights embarks on a dangerous journey to spread Christianity and baptize the pagan inhabitants of an isolated village hidden deep…
JVDW (Jelle Vandewiele) gathered all the Techno tracks he made over the last 2 years and is self-releasing them for FREE! The album “Techno Train” covers different area’s…
For Piet Sonck’s feature film debut, which was post-produced by VC Studios, I helped out on the compositing and opening titles.
TV spot for Rabobank’s 2019 campaign ‘Growing a better world together’ Client: RabobankAgency: Bowling BrandsDirection: Iris AlexandreProduction: Beast AnimationDOP: Steven FrederickxVFX: VC Studios For this spot, all rigs…
Comedian Iwein Segers has made a short film about some of the most remarkable stories in the history of Flemish nationalism. “Operatie Kazuifel”, in which Jelle De Beule…
On October 17 2019, our son Russell was born. We created a birth card and decided to go for a cute dragon. I wrote a little text, based…
It’s always a pleasure to work on a show that I loved even before getting involved. Callboys 2 is one of those. My main involvement were heavenly mattepaints…
Woestijnvis approached Holofarm with a rather peculiar question. “Can you create a virtual environment in which an avatar is ‘playing‘ with himself?”. We responded that we haven’t done…
Ollie! What a lovely tv show for kids that’s being created at Lunanime. I’m helping them out with pipeline development, so we don’t get lost in the forest!…
A Virtual Tour in Bruges, guided by Lewis De Keyser, a student at Howest. Join our trip: https://roundme.com/tour/453452/view/1561093
After the creation of the motion comic Immuno-T, a story in motion, prof. Tessa Kerra approached Holofarm to think about new ways to give a stronger in-depth look…
In his latest music video, Lil Kleine’s paying tribute to the mother of his upcoming little kid. Director Wilson made sure you will melt. And he entrusted VC Studios to…
A signal from space detected: the official trailer for the biggest and boldest animation festival has landed: ANNECY! Beast Animation takes you on a stop-motion space adventure. Buckle…
While working on a virtual house experience in VR, a client asked if they can add a virtual family: father, late for work and running hastily through the…
A traumatized father and his obedient son go hunting every day in order to survive and take care of the mortally ill mother. Daily pushed to their limits,…
Puratos created a virtual world and everyone is invited. Your guide will be George. He’ll gladly show you everything Puraslim has to offer. Ready for the discovery? Go…
VC Studios was contacted by The Breakfast Club to help them out on the tv-spot for VTM’s Rode Neuzen Dag. I did the supervision of the 3D-replacements of…
Have you heard of David Lebeer and his famous cocktail creations? He is now officially known as Belgium’s best bartender. Hailing from Ghent, he won the Diageo World…
“VOSSEN, expeditie in het land van Reynaert” was an original experience around art, culture and heritage. The Reynaert story was brought to life in 5 locations through art,…
Immuno-T is the first motion comic to explain how different strategies of immunotherapy work, to patients and their family and friends. Immuno-T was developed by UZ Gent and…
Poppr and Holofarm joined forces to create a virtual house in which you learn the benefits of Niko Home Control. As a technical lead, I had to translate the…
The Calendar Clock Face is an unusual painting from 1500 by an unknown painter in the collection of the M – Museum Leuven. This dial was executed around 1510 to…
Coppers, named both for police officers as well as the creator’s surname, and also known as Rough Justice in English-speaking countries, is a Belgian television crime drama. The…
Universiteit Gent, departement Geografie / Geologie developed SoleWay, a Software as a Service that offers simple indoor navigation and wayfinding capabilities mainly through textual instructions. I was part of…
The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel….
Post-produced at Grid VFX, I could take my role as compositor and spend a couple of weeks on this fun project!
I did the compositing and grading of this animated music video by the talented Jan Baelus.
Mega Mindy and Team Rox travel to Malta where they get tricked by an evil Aquaman. He wants to have the golden helmet that can cause apocalyptic storms…
From 2011 till 2015 I was contracted as VFX-artist & TD at Grid VFX. I’m often looking back at this period, which always brings me feelings of gratitude…
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the…
Film Title designs for cinema and tv:– Admiral– Deadline 14/10 (S1/S2)– Rough Justice– Wiplala– Safety First– K3 Dierenhotel– Bevergem (endtitle design)– Spitsbroers– Condemned 2
Two brothers, Alan and Dennis, are both football fanatics and have been playing football for their entire lives. But when one of them gets the chance to go…
Rock ‘n’ roll roughneck Freddy De Vadder is on the run, so he’s lying low in a quaint West Flanders backwater. For this series, post-produced by Grid VFX,…
No Credit, Game Over! is a city game about debts, and how to replay them. Young people go on discovery in their hometown and get to learn the…
TD / Pipeline development (Shotgun, Fusion, Maya, Deadline), compositing and title designs on ‘Michiel de Ruyter’ at Grid VFX.
For this CG-animation show, I helped writing a light-weight pipeline in Python. We bridged Shotgun, Fusion and Deadline to make the compositing more efficient.
For this movie, post-produced by Grid VFX, I created all screen content that was used live on-set (websites, chat rooms, world maps, …) and did the set-supervision for…
This fun family movie was a blast since I got to work on both the technical as creative aspects at Grid VFX: pipeline development, compositing and creation of…
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway…
For this co-production between Belgium and France I did the setup and maintenance of Shotgun to streamline the production-flow and digital asset management.
Kristel has an appointment at a beauty farm, while Josje and Karen want to help in an animal hotel. But, because of a misunderstanding Kristel, Karen and Josje…
Post-production handled at Grid VFX. I helped out with the pipeline development to create an automated transition between editorial / VFX and the setup of the project management…
Sanne goes to the ship Rotterdam, to hunt ghosts. I helped out on the compositing at Grid VFX.
I helped out in the compositing team at Grid VFX and took care of the setup of the project management with Shotgun Software.
Creation of the intro titles of the series. Watch the intro at https://stijncalis.com/art/film-title-design/
Together with the rest of the VFX-crew at Grid VFX, I took care of various FX like matte-paintings of heaven and nose-extensions.
Pipeline development (setup Tactic + compositing pipeline) for BBC’s ‘What’s The Big Idea’ at Grid Animation.
Louis made his fortune selling candy, but no one buys them anymore. He steals grandpa’s love serum to put in his candy which can turn people into devoted…
Captain John C. Star, Doctor Anna Medusa and Sergeant Pulpo Kalamares are minuscule marine creatures with giant Napoleon complexes. Their mission is to warm up the planet, melt…
TV-show based on the theater at amusement park ‘de Efteling’. The first tv series I worked on during my internship at Grid VFX.