Hey Jan - Collage Animation for Museum Experience
Incorporating much-needed skaters into the Ghent Altarpiece for the kid-friendly museum "De Wereld van Kina"
In 2020, Gent puts the spotlight on one of its finest: Jan Van Eyck. The kid-oriented museum “De Wereld van Kina” does this with “Hey Jan - The little empire of Jan Van Eyck”. An exhibition - nay, a playground! - that clashes the world of Jan Van Eyck with the world of skate culture. At its centre a monumental experience: a true-to-size collage animation of the Gent Altarpiece.
They approached us to to create the centrepiece: a life-size animated version of the Gent Altarpiece. They provided us with a ton of fun facts to go wild with. We converted these in 3 minutes worth of gags. So behind every graffiti-spraying skater, rapping angel or rain of blood there’s a surprisingly historically accurate backstory.
Why was the Gent Altarpiece so important?
As the defining monument of the “new realism” of Northern Renaissance art, the Gent Altarpiece (Cathedral of Saint Bavo, Ghent, Belgium) was regarded as both the foundation of a distinguished tradition, and an exemplary achievement to challenge all later artists.
Citation:Jones, Susan. “The Gent Altarpiece.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/... (October 2002)
Our services
Scenario, script, storyboarding, styleframes, design, animation, compositing, rendering
Deliverables
1x 120” 2D animation video for museum experience
