something that will appear in the film

breaking the fourth wall

for your pleasure, a single frame from my upcoming shortfilm

it is just a sketch

you will not be seeing this image in the film
but a beautifull accomplishment none the less. painted by Brechtjan Verschuere

my brand new work-studio

i will be recording my new shortfilm in this beautifull chamber. Anyone curious about the recording of my oil-painted animated film, please, feel free to visit. anyone is welcome!
send me an email at robbevervaek@gmail.com if you wish to see.

the location of the studio is at ghent, in the minnemeers business center

my dossier has been approved by the flemish filmfund.
I will be directing a new shortfilm.

studies for my new shortfilm 'norman'

brechtjan verschuere

a friend of mine, hopefully the VAF will grant me the money to make the film, he will be the backgroundartist.


"zijn werk draait rond fragiliteit. brechtjan is geniaal in de 'vorm' hij kan met hele rake materialen en vormen, met objecten omgaan, en zo enorm mooie broze composities neerpennen.
brechtjan die is ergens het vreemde midden tussen een verzamelaar, een designer en een schilder"

my new filmproject is being reviewed by a commision since yesterday.
this commission will decide if i will be funded, the flemish governement (through the VAF flemisch filmhouse) will either grant me the necessairy money, or they won't

they practically decide if this project will be made, or not.

it's called 'norman', a story about obsession and angst, paranoia, beauty and horror.
nothing else is possible, but this time again, it will be made in oil-paint animation

here's a quick preview

my ambition

i'll just tell everyone my ambition.
i've learned how to paint. and i think i've got the right idea.
i'm not the best yet. i'm not sure if i ever will be. but having the right idea and
fullfilling that idea in images is more important then being the best.

what i'm missing right now is the right incentive for viewers.
i need a decent 'story' for every single work i make.
being obsessed with paint is a part of this story, already,
'horror and beauty' is another part of it.

the third part is the most difficult one.
i'm trying to paint 'intimate'
in a way that everything you see, has a very close appeal to it.
even a pair of shoes could become something you would want to caress.

i have had my visual obsession with object for a long time. it seems almost
ridiculous i haven't tried to translate this yet. butt believe it, i have never been
selfsecure enought to try. i'm finally there, at long last.

the new film will be exaclty about that experience.
my paintings will be about intimacy, i will find a way to tell this 3fold story
in every frame i paint

it seems like,
the title is gonna change. maybe for the best
i had a pretty big evening tonight. a talking-about hands on discussion about my new story. alot of interesting remarks where made.

i'm enthousiastic

storyboard

a sneak peak at the storyboard of the invisible man,
i'm supposed to present it tonight to some people who's oppinions are very important to me, my producers, my mentor of last year, and a teacher with a cunning insight in film.

you'll never be able to follow the story with this one picture. but i'm proud, and tired of these 247 drawings. however, it still needs correcting and add-ons.

ik trakteer op een foto van mijn werkplaats. het deel van mijn werkplaats in mijn kamer dan toch. ik zit hard te storyboarden, en ik dacht dat moment van werklust te delen met de digitale wereld.
voor je je vragen stelt over die bizarre prent boven mijn bureau... het torso.
dat is alexander petrov!
op het lichaam van arnold schwarzenegger. enkele vrienden uit nederland photoshopten het na de volgende uitspraak die ik in die groep lanceerde:
'als er een poster bestond van petrov, ik hing die bovenop mijn bed. ik ben fan'

de week nadien had ik die poster.

this is just a test
a taste of things to -hopefully- come

its interesting how ambitions can be realised,
but at a certain point you can work al you want,
the succes of your work lays in someone elses hands
the only way i control the faith of this project is by obsesivly working at it

while i write this new shortfilm, i need to let go of steam every now and then
consider this painting 'steam.' painted fast without any real intention of quality

these are some more tests
plain old tests, men with glasses
i like glasses, they tend do give the wearer some form of identity.
and its an easy way to start acting with something thats easily accepted
alot of people wear glasses

automatov doesn't though
hes got perfect vision,

now this, this is something special.
its a sketch for my new film,
i'll tell the story some other time.