Verena Fels & Marc Angele | GERMANY
8 min | Animated Short
You fly with no seat! That's the rule in the Turbobus. It's a hard day on the Turbobus for one young wolf pup on his turbo-journey to find real friendship.
Tobi and the Turbobus is a heartwarming animation about growing up in a wolf pack and finding the right place for yourself. This is not easy. Growing up sometimes means that you have grown out of an old friendship. Do you hold on or move on? This is a story about finding out what real friendship is worth.
VERENA FELS—Co-Director Verena Fels is an independent director and filmmaker born in Biberach an der Riss in Southern Germany and is located in Ludwigsburg, area of Stuttgart. After studying media technology at the University of Media in Stuttgart, a further study of animation and directing followed at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her first film MOBILE was screened at over 300 film festivals and won 45 prizes and 10 honorable mentions. The children's book to the film MOBILE was published by the Esslinger-Thienemann and was also design by Verena Fels.
MARC ANGELE—Co-Director Marc Angele grew up in Zürich from the age of six. After completing his apprenticeship as a structural engineering draughtsman, he started working as a Lighting Artist for Raumgleiter where he supervised various Architectural Visualisations. In 2013, he switched his line of work to VFX and started as a 3D Artist and Compositor for Cloudscape GmbH. He has been studying Animation and Visual Effects at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since October 2014.