Here are some backgrounds by Sandra Brandstätter and Sebastian Koch of our last Sunday’s premiered tv-series ‘Trudes Tier’ (‘Trude’s Flatmate’). The next episode ‘Nachts’ will be shown this Sunday as part of the children’s series ‘Die Sendung mit der Maus’ on Das Erste starting at 11:30 am.
(photography by Martin Zentner)
We are looking back upon a full week dedicated to the animated films at this year’s Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart (ITFS). Besides the festival premiere of ‘Trude’s Tier’ (‘Trude’s Flatmate’) and several screenings of ‘Trolltag’ (‘The Troll Trap’), ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ has been awarded with a Screenplay Trickstar for Best Children’s Animated Series. Klaus Morschheuser and Mathias Schreck attend the ceremony on behalf of Cartoon Network Europe. The Jury’s explanation: ‘We chose this film because of its highly original visual style, its whacky, energetic comedic timing and its heart-warming story that appeals to both kids and adults. Well done!’
Congratulations to the whole team!
Trude lives together with a big obscure beast, which has the power of an elephant, the brashness of a child, but not a clue what’s good manners… ‘Trudes Tier’ (Trude’s Flatmate), directed by Klaus Morschheuser, Johannes Weiland and Michael Bohnenstingl and designed by Sandra Brandstätter and Sebastian Koch, is our latest tv-series project for the children’s tv show ‘Die Sendung mit der Maus’. The episodes will have their tv premiere on Das Erste / KIKA on 27th of April, 4th of May and 11th of May at 11:30 am.
If you attend this years ‘Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart’ (ITFS), you can have a look at some of our films as well:
Trolltag (The Troll Trap):
25.4. 10 am and 3 pm at Mercedes Benz Museum and 2:30 pm at Metropol 1
26.4. 3 pm at Mercedes-Benz-Museum, 2 pm at Gloria 2 and 8 pm at EM1
27.4. 3 pm at Mercedes Benz Museum
Trudes Tier (Trude’s Flatmate):
27.4. 2:30 pm at Metropol 1
Engel zu Fuß (Angel afoot):
26.4. 8 pm at EM1
Bunnies:
26.4. 6 pm at EM1
One of our early commissioned works ‘Straße der Spezialisten’ (Street of Specialists) by Jakob Schuh and Saschka Unseld will be shown for the very first time on tv in the night from 24th to 25th of April at 0.15 am on SWR. It will be part of the event ‘Trickfilm-Festivalnacht im Südwesten’ on occasion of this year’s animation festival in Stuttgart.
In our latest Löwenzahn shortfilm by Monika Thenhündfeld and Matthias Bäuerle, you can find out what the archaeologists Schliemann, Carter and Thompson are looking for … and what they finally find. The film has its tv premiere this Sunday, 20th of April at 8:10 am on ZDF and will be repeated at 11:05 am on KIKA.
Right after the first day of spring, the Trolls are coming into the open again. On 23th of March our last year’s Siebenstein short film ‘Trolltag’ (The Troll Trap) will be shown on ZDF KIKA at 10:35 am. Two weeks later, on 6th of April, ZDF KIKA shows ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ (Nearest and Dearest) at 10:35 am as well.
Here are two designs our colleague Sebastian Koch made for two ‘Löwenzahn’ shorts. Both films, created by Linus Stetter and Thilo Kienle, are about luck and superstition. They had their premiere beginning of this year. Marcus Schäfer made additional designs.
On December 24th our short films ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ will be shown on ZDF at 8:20 am respectively 8:45 am. ‘Room on the Broom’ will be shown after at 10:25 am.
If you prefer the English version and have access to British television, BBC 1 shows ‘The Gruffalo’ on December 24th, ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ on December 25th and ‘Room on the Broom’ on December 26th each at 9:00 am.
We would like to say thank you to all the talented artists we had the chance to work with during the past 10 years since we founded the studio. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
In the course of the last stressfull weeks before the Christmas holidays, the ZDF shows two of our short films as part of the children’s series ‘Siebenstein’. It starts with ‘The Princess, the Prince and the green-eyed Dragon’ on December 1st. Our first short film ‘Torvald and the fir tree’ will be shown on December 12th. Both episodes start at 6 am.
After a triple nomination of ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, the writing team has been awarded at yesterday’s award ceremony of the fabulous BAFTA Children’s Award. Congratulations to the team!
Update: You can also watch the award ceremony online:
At the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, our short film ‘Nearest and Dearest’ has been awarded with the 1st prize in the category ‘Children’s Jury Prize – Animated Television’ as well as the 2nd prize in the category ‘Adult Jury Prize – Animated Television Production’. ‘Princess’ Painting’ received the Diploma of Honor of the Rosh’d International Film Festival in Tehran. The picture above shows editor Annick Hillger (right) during the award ceremony of the Japan Prize for ‘Nearest and Dearest’.
Participating in the pre-school category our shortfilm ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ by Max Stöhr, Michael Sieber and Sandra Brandstätter was awarded at this year’s Japan Prize. Along with the ceremony the film will have its premiere on Japanese television as well – synchronised in Japanese! Domo arigato Nippon!
The second season of ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ is nominated in three categories at this year’s children’s BAFTA. Along with ‘Room on the Broom’ it is nominated in ‘Animation in 2013’. Above that it will compete in the ‘BAFTA Kids’ Vote – Television in 2013′ and ‘Writer in 2013’ categories. ‘Adventure Time’ is also nominated in the ‘International in 2013′ category. For this show we worked together with Cartoon Network on the episode ”A Glitch Is A Glitch’. We are prouuude.
The 2D team will join us for the third season of ‘The Amazing World Of Gumball’ very soon. They will be followed by the rendering and compositing team later on. Many artists from last year will return, but there are also a bunch of new people coming to Ludwigsburg for the first time. While the veterans may remember people and events on this picture, the new guys can get a feeling for what the studio is like. We are eagerly awaiting your arrival. Group hug!