Autodidact in animation
Karin Wiertz and Jacques Verbeek both studied at the Akademie voor Industriële Vormgeving in Eindhoven, and also at the more free-spirited Vrije Academie Psychopolis in The Hague. At both schools, they were students of filmmaker Frans Zwartjes, but as animators they were mostly self-taught. They acquired knowledge of animation techniques on their own, meaning that their working methods developed experimentally, often leading to unorthodox solutions.