17. February 2023

FIFA 22 X Sheffield FC Teaser

Animation with MUSCLEBEAVER for a fast-paced teaser, celebrating the F.O.A.T., the first soccer club of all time – Sheffield FC.

Featuring awesome artwork of Bernhard Karl Hörlberger/smuts, for FIFA 22 by Electronic Arts.

View the projectʼs details here.

2. June 2022

BIONADE Mate · Alpaca Character Animation

Together with MUSCLEBEAVER, I had the chance to design and animate an alpaca character, promoting the new BIONADE Mate beverages.

For more artwork and its development, visit the project’s page, thanks!

27. April 2021

Walk-On’s Typography Animation

Typography animation I did for the latest animated spot for Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux, based in Louisiana, USA. Watch the loop in full size on its project page.

The spot features the illustrations of Sua Balac and Echo Tango oversaw the concept and production.
Watch the complete spot over here on their vimeo channel.

walk-ons typography animation

12. January 2021

Happy New Year 2021 · Fresh Breeze

2020 has been a tough year, a rollercoaster – enough said.
This is my Happy New Year animation for 2021, trying to bring a fresh breeze into the face masks and foggy glasses.

Dedicated to all spectacle wearers enduring winter right now. (I’m thinking hard about switching to contact lenses lately.)

The third installment of my Happy New Year Loops series.



27. November 2020

New Website Portfolio Online · Skater Dawg Trailer

Here it is! My new website portfolio featuring new projects with trains, soccer balls, isometric buttons. And of course this short retro pixel animation trailer.

Skater Dawg was created for the sole purpose to aggressively promote this relaunch my very own website portfolio. But since I started almost 25 years ago animating pixel characters in Deluxe Paint IV on my Amiga 500, this art thing kind of has come full circle.

Happy to hear from you, feedback and bug reports are always welcome.

25. October 2020

Skilling It!

Collaboration time. Together with Musclebeaver and MicMac Media we created some shiny neon-style hand-drawn animation. This is a compilation of some spots which kicked off the Bundesliga Season 2019/20 for the DFL.

View the project here.

8. July 2020

GAVE Animation for Goethe-Institut New York

Last Month I was able to provide an animated video for the Goethe Institute NY and its new virtual student exchange program. It enables teachers to offer their students a cultural exchange with a partner school in Germany.
Based on the designs of my fellow motion graphic designer and UI wizard Melih Bilgil.

Check out my other loops here in the work section.

gave animation goethe institut ny

8. April 2020

Portfolio Update

Enjoy browsing my site with projects never shown before or this new collections of animation loops and character designs.

There are still new projects coming up later that year and eventually a kind of retro special website–teaser–animation! Here you can see a little teaser of the teaser.

animation loop bridges for deutsche bahn - christian effenberger

28. January 2020

Happy New Year 2020

My latest happy new year animation featuring the bird of my next short, very short animation.
Also part of my happy new year series. Have a good start in 2020!

[Edit Nov 2020]
Well, yes, the „happy“ in “happy new year” only lasted until March 2020 when Corona made its global debut … but I hope next year it will last a bit longer. Fingers crossed. The next loop is in progress.

10. November 2019

A Little Turnaround

A few poses of a rough turnaround of that guy. The tragic/mean main character of a short story I’ve been working on lately. And I took him for a spin … (see below). More character designs on this project page.

character design turnaround of old man - christian effenberger

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