During Sublab’s Character Accelerator, six teams of artists and designers from different creative disciplines are paired with expert mentors to advance their professional Character Designs and story projects. Over the course of several weeks, participants are provided with the necessary tools and inspiration to improve their digital storytelling skills and create a more well-rounded project plan to take with them to its next development stage
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Kenneth Asporaat (Creator/Director), Albert ‘t Hooft (Animation Director), Saverio Wielkens (Character Designer), Albertine Holterman (Operations Manager)
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When the brash Prince (11) and his rebellious sister Aisha (13) inadvertently inherit their grandparents’ superpowers, they discover they are descended from the planet Blackstar and are forced to battle Atorn Victus who wants to take revenge on the inhabitants of Blackstar who took away his superpowers.
Team members
Lina Maldeikyte (Game Artist), Alvaro Miro Fuster (Concept Artist), Thari Schop (Narrative Designer)
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Spellbenders is a team-based arena game that uses an ever expanding arsenal of collectible spell cards to let you create your own character class. Pick a customizable character from one of the six available tribes and equipt them with a deck of six spell-cards. Make friends in the Social Hub, and get ready to combine your spells with your new team members to make explosive magic combinations!
Team members
Dick Grinwis ( Creator / Illustrator / Concept Artist)
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Knight of virtue is the story of three remarkable friends: the Knight of virtue, his pen Pal penny – literally a spirit living in a glant magical fountain pen – and Maude, a girl that has spent her whole life dreaming of exciting adventures as depicted in her favorite books on knights. when by accident a magical book sets free all of its prisoners and turns Maude’s city into a half-modern, half-medieval hybrid, it’s up to these three heroes to restore order!
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Isabella Koelman (Creator / Art Director / Illustrator)
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Flavor Phantoms is a modern fairytale about nine year old Puck who lives with her dad, Chef Maro, above his popular restaurant. Following the death of Puck’s mum, the two of them live alone. Puck misses her mum very much while her dad is always working in his kitchen. She really wants to help him cook, but he thinks she’s too young. Without proper taste, he says, you have no business in the kitchen. One evening, when Puck is sharing her sorrows with Umi, her cat, the first of seven flavor phantoms comes to visit her. These colorful figures – salty, spicy, sour, fatty, umami, bitter and sweet – carry Puck awa to their own magical worlds. Here they teach her all about their unique tastes.
Team members
Isabella Koelman (Creator / Art Director / Illustrator)
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For thousands of years the Winterwolf has kept the forest in an neverending winter. Every day he made sure all was covered in snow. No sounds were heard and all animals slept. Until one day a little fox appeared who made the snow melt and woke up the whole forest! Can the Winterwolf bring back the winter in his forest like he had once known?
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Yannis Bolman (Game Studio Little Chicken)
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Embark on a magical Vampire adventure set in a alluring modern-day world, full of fantastical creatures, supernaturalism, witches and more. In this life-sim you move into Moonlight Peaks, a small village surrounded by a Fantastical Forest. As you get to know the community, you build relationships and uncover the mysteries of Moonlight Peaks.
