Magnicifant says Merry Christmas!

I was wondering what a little magnific elephant could be looking like on Christmas (just a pun we had a lot of fun with the other day).

Lilli the Witch

There's a teaser of Lilli the Witch online, as well as a small trailer and a couple of pictures. The movie is about a girl called Lilli who wants to become a witch and Hector (the tiny dragon), who helps her in her quest.
I animated a couple of shots of Hector (one of them can be seen in the mentioned trailer - its the one corresponding to the pic above this post).

vac ant

Vac Ant always hated to vacuum-clean after the queens' orgies. That you could see a huge difference before and after cleaning made it satisfactory, though.
(another one for illustration friday)

dh available on dvd

The Dragon Hunters (Die Drachen Jäger (German)) DVD can be preordered at amazon.fr and amazon.de. Again, that was one of my favorite projects to work on... kind of sad if this means there won't be a theatrical release anywhere outside Europe.
Well I guess it happens sometimes that you work on something you identify with that gets no attention at all and other pieces that you (and everybody else working on it) think are crap get marketed well and sell big time...

some recent animation work

...long time no type. Here we go again - a little update on what I've been up to the last couple of weeks.
Right now I'm working on a Mr. Clean tv-commercial for Spain and Italy. Before that I did some viral stuff including some more animation on the cups www.tassen.tv (German dialogue) as well as this blue bear for selectblinds www.selectblinds.com or at www.youtube.com
which I think turned out ok considering the tight schedule.

leap

this is an animation from my new website: www.til5.com. It kind of fits the leap topic at illustrationfriday - have fun with your mouse (rollover&click)

Dragonhunters trailer and website

Check out the new Dragon Hunters trailer! Again, I was having a ball working on that feature in 2006/2007 - especially with Pixar-pro Kyle Balda as animation supervisor. I learned so much. And I do think it is (animationwise at least) the best full-cg-feature produced in Europe so far.
Take a look at my previous Dragonhunters post for more details.