Joscha van Deijk

Two huge losses this week—a reminder that it’s time to INNOVATE like never before. Let’s not pander, conform, and deliver the expected. Let’s go off menu. Let’s. Go. #slystone #brianwilson

A drawing of me standing outside the crowded cafe des arts in Annecy, with the Annecy Festival logo

I'll be at the Annecy Animation Festival next week, hope to see you there!

A still of Brian Cox as Ward Abbot in The Bourne Supremacy

A still of Brian Cox as Nathan in The Long Kiss Good Night

A still of Brian Cox as William Stryker in X2

If you suffer from amnesia and run into him, you are probably a government trained assassin.

Felt that my home studio wasn’t nerdy enough yet, so I added this red guy. He’s awesome.

Anthony Minghella was the screen writer of Jim Henson's The Storyteller and the Henson Creature shop did the make-up effects for Fiennes's burnt face, the scars were made to resemble a map.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Very Long Engagement both have thrilling archive research sequences:

A girl cuddling a toy flamingo who is pooping on a toilet

Toy flamingo pooping on a toilet

Yesterday I was in a toy store and learned that there is a toy of a flamingo pooping on a toilet.

A drawing showing two men and a woman in 1940's clothing, they are at an airport in the rain. The man closest to the camera is a French police captain, the other man is a broken hearted American nightclub owner and the woman is a Norwegian beauty in love with the American but married to a Hungarian resistance fighter.

Another 'Name that movie!' quiz question. Fun fact: this movie has been the most common incorrect answer. So I finally had to draw it.

But, but . . . Rob Schneider will still be there too, right?

The cover of Thierry Martin’s self published sketch collection ‘croquis du soir #1’

A ballpoint drawing by Thierry Martin

Detail of a ballpoint drawing by Thierry Martin

Detail of a ballpoint drawing by Thierry Martin

Another great mail day! Got the wonderful self published sketchbook Croquis du Soir by @thierrymartin.bsky.social with a beautiful original sketch in it!

A drawing of a man with a goatee looking at five men through a telephoto lens.

A drawing of two men hugging on a cliff by the ocean, a big coffee canister stands a few steps away from them.

A drawing of two men in a forrest. One man is on his knees pleading for his life as the other, wearing a dark coat and hat, stands over him holding a gun.

Over on insta I've been having a little filmquiz with my followers for a few years now. Can they guess the movie I drew? I want to bring a little collection of these with me to Annecy in June, and am reworking some of the entries I'm less satisfied with. so can you name these movies...?

Thank you! I was thinking of an extra on the Iron Giant bluray where they go into a salt mine where they keep all the original art of the WB animated movies and shows, but of course all that work was done in-house.

Such awesome work! I'm curious, I think all of these are traditional, right? I'm assuming you were working remote, do you get to keep the originals or do you have to send those in to be archived?

jeez 15 jaar, time flies

And a surprisingly effective way to keep a 4 year old entertained!

je begrijpt dat ik stiekem een gratis assistent aan het trainen ben

Color pencil doodles and sketches

Color pencil doodles and sketches

Color pencil doodles and sketches

So cool to be forced to use different shapes than I would start with. And so fun to tell her ‘look what you drew!’

Color pencil doodles and sketches

Color pencil doodles and sketches

Color pencil doodles and sketches

Drawing with my 4yo daughter. We’re playing the old game where she does a quick scribble and I have to make it into something. So much fun!

Photo of the French book ‘Nez au Vent’ with a full color illustration of a hunter against the sky by Georges Beuville

Illustration by Beuville showing a hunter aiming his rifle, looking surprised when a pheasant lands on the barrels

Illustration by Beuville showing three hunters shooting

Illustration by Beuville of an old hunting rifle

Great mail day! Found another book illustrated by the amazing George’s Beuville. I love his work so much.

Pencil drawing, architectural design for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie

Pencil drawing, architectural design for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie

Pencil drawing, architectural design for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie

Concept sketches for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

I like the sketches Barley did all over his copy of the Quests of Yore guide

this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

In fact they don’t care about him crossing the fence: they need his rope to dislodge one of their vehicles that got stuck. When we cut back to Sallah you can see htem using his rope in the BG. That’s why Sallah needs to improvise a new rope for Indy to climb out! (2/)

Still from Raiders of the lost Ark: German soldiers approach Sallah as he waits outside as Indy is in the map room.

Still from Raiders of the lost Ark: The soldiers lead Sallah down the hill, away from the map room. At the bottom of the hill there are two military vehicles.

Breaking down a film into a reverse storyboard, you see details you never noticed before. For example in Raiders, when Indy is down in the map room, soldiers come and shout at Sallah. I always thought they were shouting because he was trespassing. But that’s actually not what is happening-- (1/2)

Dumb and Dumber!

Detail of film studies (reversed storyboards) from Raiders of the Lost Ark. (1)

Detail of film studies (reversed storyboards) from Raiders of the Lost Ark. (2)

Detail of film studies (reversed storyboards) from Raiders of the Lost Ark. (3)

Detail of film studies (reversed storyboards) from Raiders of the Lost Ark. (4)

Some details from my daily film studies, currently making my way through Raiders of the Lost Ark. #storyboard #filmstudies

Yesterday I learned that there's a sport called Buhurt which basically is people in medieval armor beating each other to mush with swords, sticks and hammers.

Hey Bluesky, how's it going! I’m Joscha, a storyboard artist from Amsterdam. I specialize in feature animation but have also worked in live-action and TV animation.

I'll be sharing my work here and talk about film and visual storytelling.