February 24th, 2011
There was a nice article by Peter-Philipp Schmitt about Jakob & the Gruffalo in Saturday’s issue of Germany’s paper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Deutschland und die Welt, page 8).
Achtung!
February 17th, 2011
„Der Grüffelo“ is finally available on DVD in Germany. The DVD is bilingual, so you have the opportunity to listen to Christian Ulmen, Heike Makatsch, Edgar Selge, Otto Sanders and all the other German voices or you pick the original English cast.
Gruffalo crumble or rather some Grüffellogrütze? It’s up to you now.
Get the DVD at Amazon or other DVD shops.
The final Grüffeloadventskalendercountdown: Merry Christmas, everyone!
December 24th, 2010
Today, Dec 24th, at 10.40 am on ZDF: “The Gruffalo / Der Grüffelo” with Heike Makatsch, Christian Ulmen, Otto Sander, Edgar Selge and Gerd Voss! Happy Holidays / Frohe Weihnachten to you, from all of us here at studio soi !
Above, another interesting comparison between storyboards and final film, this time from the dramatic first encounter between the Mouse and his imaginary friend (spoiler alert). Below, because it’s christmas, an extra helping of Neil Ross‘ fantastic colourwork for the Lake (top and middle) and the Snake Sequence (bottom).
Der Grüffeloadventskalendercountdown #23
December 23rd, 2010
Reminder: Tomorrow, Dec 24th at 10.40 on ZDF: “Der Grüffelo” with Heike Makatsch, Christian Ulmen, Otto Sander, Edgar Selge and Gerd Voss! Here’s some more of the beautiful colourwork Neil Ross has done for the project, this time from the opening sequence, which at some point during development was set at first snowfall. More from that sequence here.
in the press…
December 22nd, 2010
There was some lovely press lately to accompany our christmas countdown: The Frankfurter Allgemeine ran a long and insightful article on the life and mindset of Axel Scheffler, illustrator (amongst many other great books) of the Gruffalo. Süddeutsche Zeitung ran a very funny review of our adaptation of “The Gruffalo” today, reminding their readers to watch on Christmas Eve what the Stuttgarter Zeitung, in today’s issue, called “possibly the most beautiful thirty minutes of television this year”. Thank you! (image: F.A.Z. / Axel Scheffler)