Career
After studying graphic design and illustration at the Art Academy in Utrecht, Driessen began animating television-commercials in the Netherlands in the 1960, although he had no training in that art at all. When George Dunning, in search for talent, found Driessen at the Cine Cartoon Centre in Hilversum, he hired him as an animator for his feature animation film Yellow Submarine (1968). Driessen"s unique style can be easily recognised by the delicate quality of his ever-moving and wiggling lines, as well as by the fluid but awkward movements of his characters.
His storytelling sometimes splits up the screen into three or even six different parts, with all actions nicely woven into each other.
In the 1980s Driessen taught animation at the University of Kassel, Germany, after January Lenica. His films 3 Misses and 2D or Not 2D were included in the Animation Show of Shows.
