Hisko Hulsing served as director of the Amazon Original series Undone, Amazon Prime Video’s first animated series for adults co-created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg and from Amazon Studios and Michael Eisner’s Tornante. From Amsterdam, Hulsing led a team of artists in creating a wide range of oil paintings that made up the backgrounds of each frame of the series. Each episode includes 150-200 hand-painted canvases.
Hulsing majored in painting and animation at the art academy of Rotterdam in 1995. His films Seventeen and Junkyard were invited to numerous festivals, such as Annecy, Palm Springs Film Festival and the London Film Festival and won many awards, including the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Audience Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Both Seventeen and
Hisko Hulsing served as director of the Amazon Original series Undone, Amazon Prime Video’s first animated series for adults co-created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg and from Amazon Studios and Michael Eisner’s Tornante. From Amsterdam, Hulsing led a team of artists in creating a wide range of oil paintings that made up the backgrounds of each frame of the series. Each episode includes 150-200 hand-painted canvases.
Hulsing majored in painting and animation at the art academy of Rotterdam in 1995. His films Seventeen and Junkyard were invited to numerous festivals, such as Annecy, Palm Springs Film Festival and the London Film Festival and won many awards, including the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Audience Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Both Seventeen and Junkyard were the official Dutch entry for the Oscars.
In addition to writing, directing, painting and animating for his animated films, Hulsing composes the orchestral soundtracks for his own films.
Hulsing made illustrations and storyboards for over 100 advertising- and production companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Czar. He directed and animated television leaders for MTV and Dutch broadcasting companies, created comics published in Eisner and Zone 530, and made illustrations for several Dutch newspapers like NRC Handelsblad, Volkskrant and Parool.
In 2013 he made over 100 oil paintings on canvas to serve as backgrounds for the hybrid live-action/animation documentary The Last Hijack that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. In that same year, he made many paintings for a Richard Linklater / Warner Bros. project in Los Angeles.
In 2014 Hulsing and his team of animators made large animated sequences for Cobain: Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has been theatrically released by Universal Pictures worldwide. HBO broadcasted Cobain: Montage of Heck in May 2015. The film was critically hailed all over the world and received seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
