These are short animations made for the Dutch TV show ‘2 voor 12’, which play sometime during the show. When the animation is done playing, the contestants are asked a question about the subject of the animation, usually whom or what the animation was about.

This is a short animation which shows the story of Franciscus van Assisi, who spend some time preaching to birds and was thus dubbed Patron of Animals.

This story is about Ötzi, an ice-preserved mummy found in the Alps.

This one is about Olav Tryggvason, descendant of the king of Norway turned viking, then becoming king himself while (brutally) introducing christianity to Norway.

This short animation is about Dominique-Jean Larrey, a very humane and inventive surgeon in the army of Napoleon.

This one is about Pietro Torrigiano, a sculptor with a very short temper…

And this short animation is about William Painter, a party animal in his younger age and inventor of lots of things, but especially the crown-cork.