Fortresse Holland

The Iron Century

2024

Made while I worked at Shosho.

The visitors centre of Drydock 'Jan Blanken' in Hellevoetsluis has been given a complete overhaul, and with that an old scale model of the drydock has 'come home'. This scale model , made out of wood and copper, represents the drydock with a part of the fortified city centre as it was back in 1835. After a restauration the maquette has been given a prominent spot in the exhibition. Visitors can walk around it, and use tablets to scan codes that will trigger videos of certain locations of the maquette.


These videos give a short insight in the life and happenings in and around the shipyard during 'the Iron Century'. Eight different stories tell about the functions of different elements on the scale model, and give a human dynamic to the  technical piece.

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Using motion capture we were able to make precise animations on the finnicky scale of 1:225, and breathe life into this old, massive scale model

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Credits

Role

Direction
Animation
Compositing
Motion Capture
3D-Modelling
Research

Production and Script
Shosho

Photography
Raydrick Feliciana

Sound
Bob Kommer Studios

Voice Over
Ramon Fennet
Jelle 't Hart
Kevin Heiden
Jeroen Nadorp

 

Photography
Dominique Sonneveld - Fortresse Holland

©  Studio Robbert Klein 2024