Jampix

Facial expressions Grand Santa (Arthur Christmas)

2011-11-15T23:32:00.002Z

I worked for a short period on Arthur Christmas as a storyboard artist at Aardman, this is a expression sheet I did on Grand Santa. When I started there the characters where under development and the director hadn't made any final decisions on the look.
Grand Santa was my favorite character as he is this seniel, crazy old man who likes nothing more then then arguing with Athurs older brother. This is my rough version.

Elephant sketches

2011-11-09T20:31:00.006Z

These elephant sketches where done with byro... enjoy :)

Bear sketches

2011-10-25T18:36:00.005+01:00

Its been a while... I hope you can enjoy them :)

Photoshop doodle

2011-06-17T00:17:00.002+01:00

Character designs

2009-12-04T13:01:00.004Z

Those are some designs I did at Uli Meyer studios for a German girly show called "Miss Bellyfoo" which I co-directed with Uli Meyer. If you want to see the teaser go to www.ulimeyer.com

More kids

2009-01-06T14:26:00.002Z

Tristan's alien

2009-01-03T17:49:00.003Z

This drawing is my son Tristan's (4 1/2 years old) artwork, I absolutely love it and therefore want to share it with you.
At the same time I want to wish you all a happy and creative 2009!

Sketches

2008-11-28T19:41:00.003Z

Ginger

2008-11-10T14:52:00.003Z

Something new...at last!

2008-10-23T14:15:00.002+01:00

I've been busy these last months and to be honest forgot about blogging for quite a while.This is a character I'm designing on a new show, it was a 1e attempt so it will not be used... so I can post it.
I hope you like it.

Pigs

2007-10-17T00:35:00.000+01:00

Couple of weeks ago I took my son to the Newham City farm and at the same time I drew some pigs...

Little boy

2007-09-17T21:29:00.001+01:00

Skinny man

2007-08-22T18:42:00.000+01:00

More old stuff

2007-08-12T15:55:00.000+01:00

This are some old designs of "Amelia", she's the counterpart of the hero Max, on my show "Max in a Million"...

She's the apprentice of the Evil Lord and up to no good...

I haven't included the final & approved design of her, will do so later...

Enjoy! :)

Fat Man

2007-08-07T18:35:00.000+01:00

Haven't post anything for a while... so here you go, enjoy! :)

Annecy 2007

2007-06-23T15:36:00.000+01:00

After a week of working, drinking and eating the Annecy film festival has finished, I had a great time, met a lot of people and got lots of interest in my project "Max in a Million".

First of all I want to say a big thank you to Uli Meyer who offered me a space on his Monster Mania stand
For people who have never been to Annecy it's a very beautiful place.

Annecy is also known for it's great food especially their "moules frites" and "escargots" demonstrated by Boris Hiestand and Uli Meyer

I've had the pleasure to meet Harald Siepermann who's work and blog I've been admiring for quite some years... it was great fun hanging out and exchanging some animation thoughts...
Me and the missus ready of another night on town
We all had a great time going out on the bend, but please hats of for our Champions couple extraordinaire Mr. Boris Hiestand and Mr. Elliot Cowan
I had the pleasure to meet Bibo Bergeron the creator/director of his new feature "Monster in Paris". He bestowed me with the honor of drawing my caricature... Merci monsieur Bibo!

The end / Fin

Annecy

2007-06-02T00:12:00.000+01:00

The Annecy animation film festival will be happening this year from 11-06 till 16-06-07.

This year I will be joining Uli Meyer where he will have a stand promoting his CG feature film "Monster Mania".

Uli has been so kind to preserve a space on his stand where I can promote my animated TV show " Max in a Million". So I'm truly gratefull to Uli for giving me the opportunity to do so.

During the past years I have been developing my own TV show.

Recently I've finished my bible and I've written a treatment for a pilot episode , which was then transformed in a script by Paul Mc Keown and Christian de Vita.

The work you see is the card that I put together for the Annecy festival.

So if you're planning to attend the festival come and visit us! :)

When I'm back I will be posting some pics from the festival.

See you there! :)

Warm up sketch

2007-05-18T22:32:00.000+01:00

A couple of months ago I boarded for Aardman on Planet Sketch, series 2, most of the sketches I boarded out where Ninja Handy man ones.

They actually do not really look like the Ninja Handy man but that's the way I preferred drawing him and because it's a CG show it didn't really matter... These are a few warm up ones I did before I started boarding.

Alien

2007-04-12T23:46:00.000+01:00

This is an old design of an alien- bounty hunter, he's one of the many "possible" characters on my show. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had designing him. :)

JP

My Little Petshop

2007-03-16T21:00:00.000Z

A while ago I was asked to re-design some characters from My Little Petshop.
They wanted the characters less cute and slightly more older... at the end they stack more to what it originally was and therefore these designs where rejected.

But... I enjoyed doing them so therefore...

Enjoy :)

My project

2007-03-12T22:00:00.000Z

These are some old finished designs of the main character of my own project.
I finished one with the pen tool and the other is a scanned drawing, both are colored in photoshop.

Doodles

2007-02-28T20:49:00.000Z

I haven't posted for a while, so here you have some doodles to enjoy...or not :)

Brat

2006-12-26T00:21:00.000Z

Some pencil sketches of one of my designs which might be used on my own project.
She's a spoilt brat with her up to no good hoods...

All rights reserved to Jean Paul Vermeulen

More of my own stuff

2006-12-16T15:49:00.000Z

I'm sorry for not having posted anything for a while...I've been quite busy.
Anyway these are some designs I did for my own project. I hope you like them.
All rights reserved to Jean Paul Vermeulen.

My own stuff

2006-10-27T00:42:00.000+01:00

Hooray!! I finally can post again...just when I gave up hope...

These are some old designs of the main character on my own project.
Enjoy...:)

BETA BLOGGER = TROUBLE

2006-10-21T11:30:00.000+01:00

My fellow bloggers, I've recently have updated my blog account to beta blogger, because they advertised how much better it was... But since then I can't post my stuff anymore which really annoyes me alot.

I've written to blogger help and they promised me to help me out asap, but that's 10 days ago.

So as soon the problem is solved I will start posting again.

In the mean time DO NOT change to beta blogger!!

Cheers, Jean Paul.

Cruella Deville meets Grace Jones

2006-10-04T01:44:00.000+01:00

This was a warm up sketch before starting designing some characters on my own project

This sketch was done in marker pen.

Francois the waiter

2006-09-22T01:45:00.000+01:00

In my native country I once knew a guy who's name was Francois looked like a builder and was a waiter...

This is a pencil sketch finished off with marker pen

Good ol' boy

2006-09-20T00:45:00.000+01:00

Same pics, one colored in photoshop the other not.

Friday after work...

2006-09-17T00:46:00.000+01:00

Just for fun

2006-09-13T22:06:00.000+01:00

Lifedrawing

2006-09-10T22:13:00.000+01:00

This bunch are 2 minute sketches done with black marker

Doodle... :-)

2006-09-10T00:46:00.000+01:00

Just to post something.

old stuff

2006-09-06T21:32:00.000+01:00

Sketchbook doodles

2006-08-28T13:35:00.000+01:00

During the last night on my visit to Japan I spend the night sleeping in Tokyo station we where surounded by homeless people... didn't sleep at all, doodled in my sketch book instead...

Airhog

2006-08-19T15:27:00.000+01:00

These are the final stills of a commercial I animated a while ago.It was a combination of 2D and life action. In this scene a car drives towards the horizon as the hog slippes into the screen and winkes towards the audience.
This Airhog commercial as the Coockie Crisp one was produced at the studio of the uber talented Uli Meyer.

Pole vaulting Coockie Crisp wolf

2006-08-16T22:55:00.000+01:00

These stills are from a Coockie Crisp commercial I animated a couple of years ago. The CCwolf is running towards the screen holding a pole vault, katapulting himself into the screen. The pole was CG so therefore is missing from the stills. I hope you enjoy the images. :-)

Singing hippo

2006-08-13T23:50:00.000+01:00

These are some old sketches I did way back.

Jack Black cats

2006-08-12T01:04:00.000+01:00

A while ago I was asked to do some cartoony sketches of Jack Black as a cat... At the end the project fell trough ...