We've been working quietly on a short clip, narrated by Steve Coogan, to promote a new narrative project called 'The Beautiful City'. Director Matthias Hoegg created the animation, which is now showing as a cinema trailer before Michael Winterbottom's new feature 'Trishna'.

We urge you to go visit www.thebeautifulcity.co.uk where in future months there will be more episodes to view, voiced by the likes of Kathy Burke, Keith Allen and Howard Marks…!

"As law-abiding straight members descend on a jaded red-brick metropolis in search of sex and drugs and rock and roll, another world exists unseen in the shadows surrounding them. Populated by the shady, the sly and the double dark, this is the world of the citizen; this is 'The Beautiful City'. '99 John' is the eyes and the ears of 'The Beautiful City'. This diminutive unfortunate sells pills all night and every night to the punters for the clubs from a dilapidated ice cream van. But while seeing all and hearing all, being mute, he can tell no-one of what he witnesses.

A blur of fact and fiction, the tales of 'The Beautiful City' are being adapted as a series of short animations that will be available as a free download later in the year. A live action feature film is also in development, to be produced by Revolution Films (Trishna, The Trip, 24 Hour Party People)."

Here's Empire magazine spilling the beans: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33377

Director Matthias Hoegg created this beautiful and cute clip for CBeebies, to show on the run up to Christmas – twice a day from 12th December till 2nd January. It's the 6th seasonal clip we've made for the channel, and they are turning in to a fantastic series. This Christmas tale is about Bella and how she prepares for the big day, decorating the tree and preparing her oversized stocking… Oh, and asking Santa for Peace…! Take a look below, and feel the warmth..

The soon to be released animated feature film 'A Liar's Autobiography' has been a major project here at Beakus' studio in London. We have created 10 minutes of the film which is derived from the autobiography of Monty Python's Graham Chapman, and will be screening on American TV in early 2012, before getting a cinema release here in the UK.

Two directors – Matthias Hoegg and Dan Chester – helmed two teams to put the animation together in 2D and 3D, with the final footage being composited for 3D stereoscopic projection. Sadly it's all tightly under the production companies hat at the moment so we can't show you much but for a bunch of stills taken from our work-in-progress.

But we are dead excited by the imminent release. Our section is voiced, posthumously, by Graham himself and also by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. We follow Graham as he tries to negotiate heady days in Hollywood, full of excess and star inanity.

Check back for updates!

Running between programmes right through Summer on CBeebies is this ident by Matthias Hoegg. After producing some beautiful idents in Spring for CBeebies we were asked to interpret young Sam's Summertime adventures by the sea which take him on a magical boat ride in the clouds.. Working to the pre-determined soundtrack of an interview with little Sam gave us a structure upon which to visualise his watery world and add our own imagination. To see our other Summer ident, by Sarah Orenstein, click here.

Here is the third of four lovely sequences for CBeebies by Matthias Hoegg. George just loves watching chicks hatch at school in Spring.. They can get in to trouble, but are generally quite well behaved – the chicks, not George..

Here is the second of four lovely sequences for CBeebies by Matthias Hoegg. Little Ollie explains why he like Spring so much, especially the little rabbits his Auntie looks after, and their imaginative secret lives…

Matthias Hoegg's 2011 BAFTA nominated film 'Thursday' is stylistically fascinating, full of digitally-inspired patterns and geometric compositions. It tells the story of what will happen on a random Thursday in the near future, when two people finally get together on a lift to space…

Here's a music video for kids that we created at Beakus for master musician Alan Gregg. Directed by Matthias Hoegg, the story entertains a child's imagination of where a lift might take you, and who might be in it.

We're keen to expand the idea, and have been developing a kids series around it, so do get in touch if you can help get our lift off the ground!

Beakus is thrilled to hear that our amazing director Matthias Hoegg has been nominated for a BAFTA this year in the Animated Film category… His graphic film 'Thursday', set in a not-too-distant future, is competing against fellow RCA graduates David Prosser and Mikey Please. If you want to see the film's trailer, trip over to www.beakus.com/blog/thursday-trailer/, or contact us for a sneak at the full film.

Good luck Matthias!

Drops morph into various aquatic lifeforms on their way through the watercycle in this elegaic hand-drawn animation by Matthias Hoegg. The film was awarded 1st Place for Screen-based Design at the Norwegian Association for Visual Communication, 'Grafill', in 2006.