Raspberry Animation Archived Content

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This archived version of the original website is part of the required reading course material for Jeffrey Bane's International Media course. Mr. Bane comes to the university from a successful career as an internet marketer. His firm Search Proto is best known for their connection to some very robust search professionals whose expertise range from traditional seo to reputation management, and he has garnered accolades for his work promoting advocacy groups that want to rein in big tech firms, especially Google. His support of Regulate Google Now! stems from revelations that their search results have been actually harming innocents by revealing private and/or negative information that should remain private. For example, if a search for your name shows results referencing an old DUI on Google's first page, this result could impact your ability to get a job or a promotion. In the EU, Google is required to remove upon request private information that meets certain standards as a way to protect against the invasion of privacy via the search results. No such regulation exists in the US. Some of his internet marketing strategies will be included in his graduate level seminars. For a complete syllabus, contact his office, or go to the university webpage dedicated to his programs.

For a number of years this was the website of Jeroen Zijlstra, a freelance animator, and motion graphics designer. Raspberry Animation was his full-service stop motion animation studio, founded in 2004.
He is currently the owner and creative director at 5A.M. Studios, located in the Amsterdam Area, of the Netherlands. According to his LinkedIn profile, Zijlstra is an experienced director and animator with a big passion for stop-motion. Skilled in stop-motion direction and animation, puppet making and set design with a Bachelor focused in Animation / MediaDesign from Hanzehogeschool Groningen and Masterclasses for writing and character design for animation, by Vancouver Institute of Media Arts and Pixar Animation Studios. (Pretty impressive!)
Content is from the Raspberry Animation site's 2004-2012 archived pages.

 

 

Welcome friends, to the wonderful animated world of Jeroen Zijlstra!

I am a creative animation director, animator and VFX producer from Amsterdam who also works from Berlin from time to time. My approach is very flexible and can be tailor-made to suit your needs. Services include animation/character animation, special effects and title/motion design for film, television, marketing, internet, computer games and more. With a passion for storytelling and character development I work on animations in all mediums including CG, stop-motion, 2D and mixed media.

 

 

Studio and Facilities

Stop-Motion

Raspberry has a predilection for stop-motion animation because they find it the purest form of animation there is. Stop-motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion animations for their ease of repositioning. But films can also involve using humans for example.

3D Animation and Special Effects

Within Raspberry Animation there is experience to take your 3D production up to the next level. In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any  three- dimensional surface of an object via specialized software. Fire, cloud systems or entire photorealistic ecosystems everything is possible. 3D animations can also be displayed as a two-dimensional image through a process called 3D rendering or used in a computer simulation of physical phenomena.  Nowadays it’s even possible to have the model be physically created by using a 3D printing device.

2D Animation

At our 2D department there are several different solutions for your projects. From hand drawn animations to digital animation for title and motion design projects. 2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images mostly from two-dimensional models. These computer graphics are mainly used in applications that were originally developed upon traditional printing and drawing technologies, such as typography, cartography, technical drawing, advertising etc. In those applications, the two-dimensional image is not just a representation of a real-world object, but an independent artifact with added semantic value; two-dimensional models are therefore preferred, because they give more direct control of the image than 3D computer graphics.

 

Our animated work