Welcome

Welcome at my weblog. I'm Elly Bouman and I graduated in August 2008 as animator at St Joost Academy of Arts and Design, Netherlands. During my study I got fascinated with stopmotion animation with clay and natural materials on multi-plane and cut-out animation. A frequently returning theme in my work is the border of fantasy and reality. People live in all kinds of worlds and I am really curious to these worlds. You will find here a global view of my work since I started at the Art Academy and after. I hope you will enjoy it!

Myself...

The view from my place in Rotterdam

Illustrations

being little (ink on paper)


a dolls journey (ink on paper)

Just some stuff

ink on cloth, 160x47 cm


ink and pastels on paper, 70x50 cm


photographs


test on multiplane


pencil on paper


oil pastel on paper

Dobber Festival

I was ask to make something for Dobber a festival organised by Nox Ludi. The festival took place at June 18th en 19th at the Vroesenpark in Rotterdam. The theme was playing and sleeping in the night. In 2-3 weeks time I made a installation of 3x3x3 meters with different mobiles hanging on a wheel. The whole installation was hanging above the water in a party tent so the audience in the boats can float underneath it. To give you some idea I have made pictures of the mobiles separately hanging in my atelier.

dragon, 170x110 cm, toilet rolls, cardboard, paper, acrylic paint, modelling clay, keys, fishing line and bamboo


butterflies, 45x55 cm, butterfly poetry pictures and iron wire


cocoons, cotton and sewing tread


bird, 110x100x80 cm, paper, cardboard, acrylic paint, tape, balloons, wallpaper paste, iron wire, keys, fishing line and bamboo


eggs, 20x17 cm, paper, hair dreads, wallpaper paste, keys, lights and fishing line


boats, 40x110 cm, walnuts, cloth, keys, sate sticks, wood glue, iron wire and fishing line

Animation and illustration tests

I did made some small illustration and animation tests on multiplane, here you find some snap shots.

Eva in Sauna (a "sauna-card", as a present) / Christmas cart


Fish / Fishing birds

Reis door de Stad (Journey through the City)

In 2009 I joint a animation project with the Djembeeband Convoi Exceptional and 10 other animators. The animation takes you at a journey through the city. Each animator made a 30 seconds animation (drawing) about city-life, following each others first or last frame. The animation sequence was started in the middle, because it works much quicker that way. I was the first animator that started with the animation sequence and when I was finished I gave my first and last frame to next animators.

The animators in order of appearance:
Dirk Verschure, Jasper Bos, Gerben Agterberg, Daan Faudet, Daniel Oliveira Prins, Elly Bouman, Eva Winkel, Emma Hazenak, Jesse Boom, Linde Faas, Jasper Kuipers.

The première was March 6th 2010, at the MuseumNight in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. With live preformance of the Djembeeband Convoi Exceptional, the film was projected on the walls of Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maritiem Museum, Kunsthal, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAI) & Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
For more information check this website: http://www.reisdoordestad.nl

My animation part is about a little girl who want to cross a road. When she push the button, she not only triggered the traffic light, but also what's lurking in the dark-side of the crossover. It's comes to her and tempting her to following it. Lucky for her the lights turn green, just in time.

Diorama (My graduation project)

In August 2008 I graduated as animator from Art Academy AKV/St.Joost, Breda, The Netherlands. In the end of June 2009 I finally finalised my graduation film "Diorama".
You can see the whole progress of my graduation film on an other weblog (dutch): http://afstudeerprojectelly.blogspot.com
The music and sounddesign is done by Herman Witkam.

What really great news is that HollandFilm has selected "Diorama" for there DVD: Selected Dutch Shorts 2009!

Diorama

Showreel

Showreel February 2009

B van de Bij (B of the Bee)

I was ask by an Institution: Stichting Culturele Droomwevers, to make an animation for one of there songs. I thoose to make an animation about the Bee.

Original lyrics (Dutch): B van Bij
Kinderen: Hiep hiep hoera! Hiep hiep hoera! Hiep hiep hoera!
In mei houdt de Bij zijn trouwpartij
In een bakkerij dichtbij het IJ.
In mei houdt de Bij zijn trouwpartij
Kinderen: In mei houdt de Bij zijn trouwpartij
In een bakkerij dichtbij het IJ.
Kinderen: In een bakkerij dichtbij het IJ
Zijn vrouw is een paard met een rode onderbroek
Hij geeft haar een zoen
en een grote pannenkoek met prei en aarbei
Dat maakt haar blij.
Kinderen: Hiep hiep hoera! Hiep hiep hoera! Hiep hiep hoera

Translation: B of Bee
Children: Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!
In May the bee is going to marry
In a Bakery close to the IJ (is a water in Amsterdam)
In May the bee is going to marry
Children: In May the bee is going to marry
In a Bakery close to the IJ
Children: In a Bakery close to the IJ
His wife is a horse with red pants
He gives her a kiss
And a big pancake with leek and strawberry
That makes her happy
Children: Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!

Project Norwich - Breda

This is a project between an Norwich School for Art & Design (UK) and St. Joost Art Academy (Netherlands). We had 4 weeks to make animations through internet. After the 4 weeks we finally meet each other in Norwich, UK. There the project will we shown in an exhibition during the Arora Animation Festival.
The project called Encounters: www.animationlab.info
My project blog: tin-ka.blogspot.com

Filmposter


Final Animation

Internship

I'm having a internship at a publisher from half June till end of August 2007. They make schoolbooks for the primary school.
On this moment they are working on a method for history. My task is to make 2 movingstoryboards (films) as introduction.

A small shot I used for both films

Showreel 2005-2007

Showreel of animations I have made in the period 2005-2007 at St. Joost Art Academy. I edited it on the song Frosti made by Bjork, really beautyful music. But unfortunately the audio content is owned or licensed by WMG and not allowded to put on youtube. So I just picked something of the youtube soundlibrary and swapped audio.

Wolfje

An cut-out animation made on multiplane (multiple plates of glass) with as background: macaroni and natural materials.

Een gedicht door Geerd de Kockere:
Jij was al groot en ik was nog klein,
toen speelden we wolfje en jij wilde hem zijn,
ik liep, ik liep, ik liep naar de top,
maar jij was daar eerst en at mij toen op.

A poem by Geerd de Kockere:
You where already tall and I was small,
we where playing wolf and you want to be him,
I ran, I ran, I ran to the top,
but you where there first and ate me.

The kite

A third years school project, working in a group: make a film with life-action and animation.
They split the class in 4 groups, I worked with Lisa Hochstenbach en Nicole Volbeda and Derek Brand.

Story: A boy finds a kite, but at the end of the rope is the owner of the kite, a girl.

Hopeless II

This animation is made for a theory subject. We got a script of a scene and had to make a moving-storyboard or small film. The script was quite hopeless so I ask Dominique Bongers to make together Hopeless II. It´s a 2d and 3d clay animation that we made within 3 hours, we goal was to made a really hopeless animation. The sound are just our voices and we made it on purpose very difficult to understand. But for now to made it more pleasant to watch, I edited some sound out of it.

workshop storyboarding of Hisko Hulsing

We had a workshop about storyboarding of a Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing.
It was very interesting an I've learned a lot.
Here you find a compilation of my storyboard.

Girl and a ball

We also get lessons in Maya, definitely not one of me favourite programs.
It´s my worst animation and I though that you don´t want to miss it.
The story is about a interaction between a girl and a ball.

Body: Past and Present

In the second year I did a minor fine arts, it was more a experimental period.

Hopeless I

A second years school project, working in a group: make a small puppet animation.
They split the class in 5 groups, I worked with Dominique Bongers and Bianca Ansems.
We kept-up a weblog (dutch) for the work process: www.bloggers.nl/hopeloosverliefd

Story: A women who is so deperate seeking that she considers burglar as perfect man.

The final editing, without sound.


We have made tests to practice animating with puppets. Here you see one of them.

Illustration - Join a walk

We had to make illustratios according: subject, time and place.
I choose: The path between the City of Damnation to the Celestial Empire, timeless and everywhere.
You can find all the illustrations at join-a-walk.blogspot.com

Mouse and the bottle

A second year schooltask: make a small animation about an interaction between a character and a object.
It's about a mouse who have found a bottle of alcohol.

Herinnering (A memory)

A first year schooltask: make a small animation concerning Berlin.
I have dropped the subject Berlin and made a animation with paparboard about a girl who runs around.

Hairy

A first year schooltask: make a small film about an antagonism.
That became a film about lots of hair and getting bold.

Illustration - Join a dive

We had to make illustratios according to a place.
I choose: The world underwater.
You can find all the illustrations at join-a-dive.blogspot.com

The birdman

A man who isn't a man, the dog just sees it when the birds flying away.