Happy Feet Two opens in the U.S today

Happy Feet Two hits theaters in the U.S. today. I hope it does well so that Dr D Studios and George Miller will be able to make more movies... it was a great team, the Studio treated us well and I enjoyed myself quite a bit.

 

Happy Feet 2

Wow, time flies... here's a short recap what I've been up to lately:

Right now I'm working at Dr.D Studios on Happy Feet 2, which will be released November 18. Check out those pics and the second trailer.
Before that I traveled Australia with my girlfriend, doing some remote jobs on the way: helped animating the Australian FIFA World Cup bid and the Baby Peas Superbowl commercial.

Mail for Santa

Ever wondered why you didn't get the presents you ordered from Santa Claus? (watch it in HD on youtube)
This is another one for illustration friday... on a pretty tight schedule, so it turned out to be more of an animatic than an actual animation. I hope you still like it - maybe I can smooth it out for next year... and even add a German version.

Btw, procrastination is a good friend of mine, too (isn't it sometimes weird, that things we really care about don't get done, because we want to deal with them properly when we have time and not rush them right now). But I just read a book (GTD by David Allen) and hope the suggestions will help getting more stuff done like this little short film.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody!

beneath (illustration friday)

I was going for a mole-disco when I realized Christy B. had done something similar. That is why poor little penguin got pushed beneath a falling piano...

(Don't worry, he'll be ok - flattened out, he'll waddle to the side and pop to normal size just like every good cartoon character would) ...another one for Illustration Friday.

Das zweite Wunder von Loch Ness

On German tv next Tuesday (Sep 28). It's about that little, a bit ugly but lovely killer-dwarf protecting the secret of Loch Ness. Animating on that one was a lot of fun - a friend started a studio on the farm of his parents: lots of green, horse-riding, boat trips,...
(© for the pic: Chris Hirschhaeuser - Sat1)

proverb (illustration friday)

History repeats itself... but it takes all sorts to make a world (or a sentence).
Btw, textorizer is pretty cool!

Roadtrippin' Australia

...still traveling Australia. Some random pics and words can be seen on kangaroochaos.blogspot.com