Introduce yourself. I see that most of your work comes from Cartoon Networks. How did you guys got in touch with CN? How did your companyoriginate.

My name is Michael Bengtsson and I am CEO, Co founder and shading supervisor at Meindbender, lots of titles:-) The original partners of Meindbender met about five years ago when we were studying 3D animation at the university in Trollhättan, which lies on the west coast of Sweden. We are a small but dedicated team of artists. For us, fun projects always come before big budgets, so we are trying not to grow too fast in order to avoid having to take on projects just for the money. Every member of our team is highly specialized in their own area of expertise. We very much believe in specializing in one or two things instead of knowing a little bit about everything. We came in contact with Cartoon network when we a couple of years ago released a test movie on the net. They saw it, contacted us and from there on we have had a great co operation with them.

You have really unique style to all your animations. Do you draw your inspiration from some source, or it just took some time to establish this style?

There are many sources of inspiration. Tim Burton is one for example. We have always wanted to go our own way style wise. Especially since Pixar already has perfected the traditional CG look:-)

How big is your team? Do you have more generalists, or so you have strictstaff positions for each step in production?

Even though we are a very dynamic company that co operates with other people from around the world we have a small core of only five people. We have one generalist and everyone else is specialized on more specific parts of the pipeline.