I never knew if I was actually going to end up in animation, but I happened to fall in love with the craft after a long time of uncertainty. I have worked on a Disney TV series in Vancouver and now I am working part-time in an animation/ illustration studio in the heart of Zurich City. I love how we can communicate the most complex feelings and emotions through our craft in ways no other medium can. We can come up with the most fantastic places that only exist in our imagination and make them come to life. And that’s what makes me love my job every day of my life.

Since July 2020, I'm the founder and director at Pickled Frames — an animation studio with a great focus on characters. My career in animation started when I was 20, with an internship in Studio Pigeon. I worked there over the next five years as an animator, rigger, lead, supervisor, show creator, and scriptwriter. I've worked on fantastic commercial and cartoon projects, some of which are streaming on Netflix and TV! I knew that I want to run my own studio, which is decided to start Pickled Frames.

"Currently based in Brussels Joost Jansen mainly works as art-director / director. As an international freelancer, he has been applying his visual identity to a wide variety of projects, ranging from his own author's films to documentaries, advertising films and video clips, etc. His animated shorts “A battle for peace” and “I love Hooligans” have won international awards and “Drifter” his 15 minute space trip has just been released. Joost Jansen's hand-drawn organic animation style shows common ground with comics, manga, and urban culture. And in his narrative style he often places existential social themes in a progressive 2D animated framework. "