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PERSONALS
Name Zijlstra
First name Jeroen
Birth date May 18, 1979
City of birth Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Adress Loenermark 579
Postal code and hometown 1025 TZ Amsterdam
Phone number +31 (0) 6 81902330
Email jeroen@raspberryfilm.com


Education

2001 - 2005 Animation/Media-Design, Minerva
Academy of Visual Arts and Design,
Groningen, The Netherlands
(graduated: 2005)

2000 Film and Television studies, University
of Amsterdam, (switched after first year
of study programme: 2000)

1999 - 2000 VWO (equiv. A-levels), ROC Aventus,
Apeldoorn / Deventer
(graduated: 2000)
1998 - 1999 HAVO, Apeldoorns College,
Apeldoorn (graduated: 1999)
1996 - 1998 HAVO, c.s.g. De Heemgaard,
Apeldoorn (transferred to Apeldoorns
College)
1991 - 1996 MAVO, c.s.g. De Heemgaard,
Apeldoorn (graduated: 1996)


Courses

2003 - 2005 Apple Final Cut Pro,
Apple DVD Studio Pro

2002 - 2003 Adobe Indesign, Adobe Premiere

2001 - 2002 Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator,
Macromedia Flash, Quark Express


Other software experience
Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects,
Maxon Cinema 4D


Experience
2004 - present Independent Animator/director,
Founder and owner Raspberry
Animation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands




Biography

Jeroen Zijlstra has always been intrigued by Ray Harryhausen’s filmcreatures in movies such as THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.
He began drawing, filming and animating at an early age, going on to attend Minerva Academy of Visual Arts and Design in Groningen NL (2005) in 2001, studying animation and Media Design.

In his academy years he experimented with various forms of animation such as cell animation and CG animation, just to finally go back again to his great passion, stop-motion. He prefers building real sets, props, armatures and characters and fisically ‘build up’ the animation frame by frame. Using real camera’s, lights and grip.

At that time he made his first completely digitally shot stop-motion animation, AWARENESS. This animation is inspired by his fascination for old expressionistic films from the 1920-ies German cinema and work of people like Tim Burton.

Determined to break into the business, he founded the Holland based animation studio what is now Raspberry Animation in 2004. Two years later he animated and produced several leaders and bumpers for MTV-Networks.

For his animation THE MIRACULOUS PEAR TREE he pionieered the usage of digital SLR camera’s in combination with realtime video preview. This ended up in an animation shot in 2K RAW format. Lateron scaled down to 1080p HD.





Expositions

2008 (July or Sept/Oct)
“New York Independent Film Festival” Los Angeles (USA): exhibition of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2008 (April)
Collective exhibition in Groningen (NL): a broad selection of animations. (Raspberry Animation, Paul Driessen, Michael Dudok de Wit and others).

2008 (Feb/March)
“New York Independent Film Festival” New York (USA): exhibition of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2006 (Oct/Nov)
“CHAOS in Groningen” (NL): exhibition of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2006 (Sept)
“Jonge Sla:” CBK Emmen (NL): exhibition of all stop-motion work. (exhibition from five Art Academy Minerva, 2005/2006 alumni).

2005/2006 (Nov 2005 / April 2006)
Videocontest "Invito Invites You!" (cartoon-Animation: "New Shoes")

2005 (Dec)
“CLASH art party, Oosterpoort, Groningen (NL):” exhibition of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2005 (Sept)
“Media Art Festival, Friesland (NL):” exhibition of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2005 (July)
Graduation exhibition, Minerva Academy of Visual Arts and Design screening of stop-motion animation "The Miraculous Pear Tree”

2005 (May)
“Woeste Weduwe Filmfestival,” Arnhem (NL): exhibition of stop-motion animation “AWARENESS"

2004 (Nov/Dec)
Art Projection (animation of washing machine) on the biggest sugar silo in the Netherlands (CSM Hoogkerk).



Projects

In production:
Two short stopmotion animations for kids. (educational: learning the alphabet).

2007 (Sept-Nov)
Production of commercial, Wolters-Noordhoff (publicher of Dutch schoolbooks).

2007 (May-Aug)
Production of 28 Animated menu items for informative/educational games in Oriëntalis Museum, Nijmegen (NL), (museum about religions).

2007 (1-4 Feb)
Animating live in Images for four days for Internatinal Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, in Groningen. To get people more familiar with animation.

2007 (Jan)
Concept and animation of festival leader: International Filmfestival Rotterdam, in Groningen
(Images, Groningen)

2007 (Jan)
Animationclip Essent Trading for internal communication and recruitment.

2007 (Jan)
Animation Production for the Province of Groningen: Regional elections campagne, March 2007.

2006/2007 (Dec/Jan)
Concept, production of fundraising 3D animation for Amsterdamse Bostheater, Amsterdam.
On TMF, MTV, The Box en Nickelodeon during the last week of 2006.

2006-present
Production and exhibition of informative 3D-animation (stereoscopic) about archeologist, Professor van Giffen in Drenthe (Netherlands, Museum in Diever)

2006 (Feb)
Production of Leaders and bumpers for MTV Networks:
- Stop-motion animations for "Kaf Of Koren" (eng: Rate that Video).
- 3D computer animations for "10X (artist)". (formerly “Back2Back”)


2005/2006 (16 Dec 2005 / 09 April 2006)
Production and exhibition of informative 3D-animation (stereoscopic) about archeologist, Professor van Giffen in Groningen (Netherlands, Museum in Groningen: Groninger Museum).

2005/2006 (14 Oct 2005 / 09 April 2006)
Production and exhibition of four informative shorts about Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity (Museum of the University of Groningen).

2005 (Dec)
Production en animation new year’s eve countdown clock 2005 TMF (MTV Networks).

2004 (Feb/Nov)
Videoproduction and animation of Informative DVD, Museumpark Landgoed Oranjewoud, runs on special designed video column in Museumcafe Museum Belvedere, near Heerenveen (NL).



More about the work of Jeroen Zijlstra and Raspberry Animation:
http://www.raspberryfilm.com

http://myspace.com/raspberryanimation
http://www.youtube.com/RaspberryAnimation

and the special Miraculous Pear Tree pages:
http://www.raspberryfilm.com/peartree/
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/au_miraculous_tree.jsp?t=mc