Das Sandmännchen (Little Sandman) is a German children's bedtime television programme since 1959.
I was invited to be part of the character animation team. We shot 24 new episodes over a period of five months.
Director and Writer: Bernhard Schmitt
DoP: Björn Ullrich
Animation: Martin Davies, Andreas Dihm, Alireza Hashempour, Karin van der Maarel, Bernhard Schmitt, Dina Velikovskaya, Constanze Werneburg, Cris Wiegandt
Modellbau: Sana Schönle, Merle Tebbe, Helene Tragesser, Cris Wiegandt
Puppet Artist: Malgorzata Borowiec-Uljanicka, Junk Brothers, Robert Scheffner, Louisa Würden
Costume: Kerstin Laackmann
BG-Designs: Cornelia Freche, Nicola Wulf
Compositing: Florian Grolig, Matthew Gyngell, Junk Brothers
VFX Supervisor: Kay Delventhal
Music + Sounddesign: Thomas Mehlhorn
Post Production: Concept AV
Production Coordinator: Moritz Feuerbach (als Moritz Reiff)
Producer: Jan Bonath
Line Producer: Thomas Schneider
Executive Producer: Jessica Giersch
Year of Production 2016 - 2017