De Griezelbus (original Dutch title) is a scary adventure film for children about a boy who writes a fantasy horror story that becomes reality. The main-on-end credits were created by Balder Westein, founder of animation studio ThreeDoubleYou.

Westein: "A lot of this is real drawings. Some things were done in Flash. You can blow those elements up and still maintain smooth lines. Everything was composed in After Effects. The camera then pans over the landschape. " 

"I discussed the project and the camera movements with the director, Pieter Kuijpers. "We thought it would be nice to basically follow the same path as the film. The story starts in the dunes, close to the sea with those typical trees. The bus gets closer and closer to the house of the main character and then continues to the theme park. It's a normal theme park, but you sense that something is not quite right, such as the dodgem cars that move all by themselves. The sequence contains a lot of visual jokes, because that's what I like."

"I animated on Danny Elfman's soundtrack for Sleepy Hollow, because I think that Elfman is just the best film score composer in the world. Music producers Paleis van Boem then made their version of it. The sequence was influenced by Tim Burton and Anton Pieck*. I love the Efteling. The Gruesome School Trip sequence has that same ghost house feeling."

* [Pieck is a Dutch illustrator. Efteling is the theme park he designed].

Westein founded ThreeDoubleYou - a one-man animation company in 2001. ThreeDoubleYou means "Westein's Wacky World". He directs commercials, title sequences, short animated films and animation series. As a self-taught animator, Westein learned the art of prop-making and stop-motion animation by studying the work of other directors.

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Full credits

Director (film)
Pieter Kuijpers   

Title design and animation
Balder Westein (ThreeDoubleYou)

Music
Paleis van Boem

Production company
Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions

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8 Oct 09 • by: joshua

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so, i want to get more information of titel seqence.

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