I’m not gonna call this work “beautiful” or the animator “skilled,” but its a good gimic to get some web love. A 17 year old artist in Germany recreated the Family Guy title sequence in primitive CG, a follow-up to his title sequence from The Simpsons.

Our Wonderful Nature, directed and animated by Tomer Eshed, is a CGI-animated tale of what actually happens during the mating habits of the water shrew. This animal documentary was created as part of an animation study at the Academy for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam , using Maya, to show the “true” events that take place in a 3-second battle between two males as they fight for the courtship of a nearby female shrew.

With additional animation by Dennis Rettkowski, Our Wonderful Nature has already made it’s mark at a few German film festivals, including Best Short Film at the FFA Short Tiger Awards, and Best Higher Production at the Animago Awards. Additional credits include David Ziegler for sound design and Stefan Maria Schneider for the music.

Interesting to note, that Our Wonderful Nature shares a similar tone to the 2006 Canadian Short film, Spiders on Drugs, created by First Church of Christ, Filmmaker.

Verena Fels and Csaba Letay have been touring a number of festivals with their short-short titled The Moment. This CGI-animated film was created at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

The German electronics retailer Saturn has launched a new campaign that centers on this 60 second spot below. Created by Scholz & Friends Berlin, the lavishly designed spot, titled Evolution, follows a fictitious evolution of electronics. Animation design and production was handled by Markenfilm.

For their Kinder Riegel chocolate spot, the Italian candy maker Ferrero chose M&C Saatchi to lead the creative. A romance was born – on screen that is – between chocolate and milk. This spot, titled Speed Dating, imagines how this marriage of chocolate and milk began. Markenfilm Berlin handled the production, and againstallodds animated and directed.

To help promote this year’s Cartoon Forum event in Germany, a group of students at the Institute of Animation created this great looking trailer. The animating team was made up of Verena Fels, Sabine Hirtes, Wolfram Kampffmayer, Jan Lachauer, Gottfried Mentor, Julia Ocker, Johannes Schiehsl, Moritz Schneider, Maryna Shchipack, Conrad Tambour and Regina Welker. The event just wrapped up last week.

Spotted at spaceinvaders.com.br.

Germany-based Deli Pictures added their animation skills to this Jeep spot, titled Ten Little Vehicles, dreamed up by KNSK.