Martijn Kersten
2D Animation & compositing
Personal work
Animation showreel 2025
The cursed knee - current project
Keep an eye foundation - animation talent award
After my graduating my master in animation in september 2025 , My classmates and I got the opportunity to pitch a new project in november.
My pitch for " the cursed knee" was chosen as the winner that day
The cursed knee is a project that comes from a very personal story, it is a film to honour my father, a man who has been fighting for the past six years. After getting a massivetumor removed from his knee. The film will serve as representation
for not just my father but for anyone who is put on waiting lists, and people who are being sent from doctor to doctor
without ever finding the answers that they need
Light within - 2025
(pre)Production - feb 2025 / august 2025
Master graduation film
Light within is my first entry into the animation world, a story about my personal past with bullying. and how my healthy and happy relationship now has helped me heal
Light within has begun its film festival run, getting selected so far for twente film festival and all inclusive shorts.
A short film with a shorter trailer shown below
Visual diary 2023- 2025
While saving up to do a master in animation I kept a visual diary, to make sure I kept up with being creative. these are all illustrations made with watercolour pencil.
Ik zocht me (Looking for me) - 2023
Bachelor graduation
A graphic novel made for my bachelors degree in illustration and animation. Looking for me was my challenge to myself to tell a story completely without animal or human characters.
In the period of making this graphic novel I was at quite a low point mentally. This book was the first time I used art to tell a personal story.
