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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…

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 …

Facial expressions for the Gruffalo, dgtl. paint over by Max Lang. Watch the film on ZDF, Dec 24th 10.40 am.

Throughout the production of "The Gruffalo" we felt very lucky to be able to approach both Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the book's author and its illustrator, for their advice. Early on, Axel graciously supplied us with a series of beautiful drawings of the film's…

Top: Owl's windbeaten "treetop house", in a colourkey by Neil Ross. Below: An earlier layout for that same shot, with Owl's house still seated in a conifer and some later designs for the tree as a broadleaf, both by Manu Arenas. Bottom: Manu's eerie designs…