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HAT TRICK FOR THE BEAST!!!

We take our hat off to salute "The Little Boy and the Beast" for winning three times at festivals in November: The short was given the Audience Awards at Bradford as well as at the kuki 3rd International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth…

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DER GRÜFFELOADVENTSKALENDERCOUNTDOWN #17

Above: Colourconcept for the lake by Neil Ross. Below: An early sketch Manu Arenas had originally done for the film's framestory (see Mother Squirrel in the background) ended up serving as the layout for Mouse's lilypad-passage over the lake. See the German version of "The…

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DER GRÜFFELOADVENTSKALENDERCOUNTDOWN #16

Here's a fun piece of preproduction (for Gruffalo completists): Before they started working on the music for "The Gruffalo" Jakob sent composer René Aubry drawings detailing how he imagined the music would span the film.  A blithely un-musical piece of music writing, but quite close…

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