We are currently looking for gifted artists who love unconventional films and who value spirit and passion over budget.
In particular we need 3d-Animators and a Technical Director, but every kind of support is welcome. Just drop us a line on
Apparently our luck is still with us! With the Wavefront Studios another notable partner joins the Lostbox team. Have a look at their impressive filmography here...
We are very happy that she agreed to animate the doctor for us... Onni recently won several awards and a lot of reputation with her last animated short »Frequency Morphogenesis«! Watch her portfolio on www.onnimation.de
Another great announcement: Brooklyn-based singer and songwriter Emanuel Ayvas and his band »The Fear« are contributing a song to Lostbox! You can listen to his songs here and order their EP afterwards here... »I wanna do nothin' but be in a rock band!«
For Trixter we developed character and environmental concepts for Erkan und Stefan's Dönertier as well as a presentation clip. Watch it here...
More support for Lostbox: Our team gets support from the Institute of Animation and Postproduction in Ludwigsburg. David Maas, Stefan Habel and Thomas Luft develop the shaders for Lostbox, using their own application aqTree.
Now it's official: From October 20th on we will have a new home in Munich and we will start the production of Lostbox within the facilities and with support of Trixter! We are both honored and grateful for being given this fantastic opportunity!
Thank god, we made it! In their conference from Oct. 15th the commitee of the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern decided to fund »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«. Now our production budget finally is complete! Thank you so much!
We are very proud to announce that concept artist and storyboarder Christian Puille will join our creative team.
In the beginning there were about 3800 scripts in 10 categories that were handed in for the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. Now the winners of 2008 announced and we came in 2nd in the category »Short Film«! You can see all the winners here!
Together with co-production partners in Bulgaria and Romania we developed a treatment for the animated short film »Rasps and Bars« and applied for Robert Bosch funding.
It's down to 10 screenplays in the category »Short Film« now! The winners will be announced on October 1st, so cross your fingers for us... Have a look here!
Michael Coldewey, CEO of Trixter, one of Germanys' biggest companies in the section of animation and post-production, agreed to support the production of »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«
We're now among the Top 25 screenplays in the category »Short Film«! The next cut for the Finals will be on September 1st... Have a look here!
Together with Mirela Barna (Bucharest) and Dobromir Dimitrov (Sofia) we were awarded in Berlin for the short film concept »Rasps and Bars«
As our contribution for some competitions we developed an animated spot as part of a viral campaign for www.detail.de. Have a look at the clip here...
The screenplay of »A lost and found box of human sensation« just reached the Quarter-Finals at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2008
During the theatre festival Treffen Bayerischer Theaterjugendclubs »Next Level Parzival« was staged and reported on in a 3 minute special on BR
We agreed to support the Stadttheater Augsburg for the production of »Next Level Parzival« . Premiere will be on May 25th.
We presented the current state of »A lost and found box of human sensation« to a wider audience within the »Eyes and Ears Junior Showcase« at the FMX, Germany's biggest conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Digital Media
Dancing Squirrel took part in the Exchange Forum »Perspectives for animated film« organized by the Filmfest Dresden and the DEFA Foundation, where we had the chance to meet young filmmakers from Romania, Germany and all over the world to discuss projects and initiate future cross-border co-productions.
We just finished a fantastic recording session with Joseph Fiennes in the BASISBerlin studios in Berlin. Mr. Fiennes gave us goose bumps with his amazing performance, we're still thunderstruck.
Martin Wallner, Anatole Taubman, Joseph Fiennes, Stefan Leuchtenberg, Nils Dünker, Claudia Gladziejewski
© by Maria Dolores Dieguez, Lailaps Pictures and Dancing Squirrel
We finished working on the character models for »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«! Have a look at the turntables here »
We feel deeply honored that actor Joseph Fiennes agreed to play the main part in »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«!
Claudia Gladziejewski, who manages the department for shortfilms and debut films at the BR agreed to co-produce »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«.
Professional film musician Lars Deutsch agreed to compose the soundtrack for »A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation«. Have a look at his portfolio here »
We are very proud to present Nils Dünker and Anatole Taubman of Lailaps Pictures as producers for »A lost and found box of human sensation«.