Reading along with Miffy

I have worked on the small movie Reading along with Miffy together with Director John Croezen. It is a movie of 15 minutes, which will be released worldwide for broadcast.

We had to make the animation with the original drawings of the creator of Miffy, Dick Bruna.
We used Flash and Anime Studio Pro and used a cut-out technique, to stay true to the original illustrations. All the animation was later composited with After Effects.
The premiere of the movie was in Mozambique. The movie is part of a project to help collect money for third world countries. With the money they will built new libraries.

The movie is based on the book "Reading along with Miffy" Miffy is created by Dutch illustrator Dick Bruna. Miffy is very popular in Holland. The style is similar to Hello Kitty, but Miffy was created in 1955 long before Hello Kitty. It is no wonder that Miffy is very popular in Japan.