“Pixelmagic“ was a group project in my third semester.
The goal was to create an interactive digital advent calendar.
We chose to present the calendar in a graphic novel format and created a story called
‘The Secret Life of the Christmas Elves‘.
The user is tasked with helping the elves save the holidays. The story is guided by three main characters. We illustrated the contents of the ‚doors‘ and developed and programmed the website ourselves.

Orophinus
The head elf Ororphinus is hysterically excited about the upcoming Christmas days, he loves to draw Christmas cards or to bake cookies with Christmas motifs.
He is a perfectionist, therefore he‘s having a hard time this year, as there is always something going wrong…

Luana
The friendly hippie-elf Luana lives far away from the village, behind the mountains. She has been in retirement for quite some time now, enjoying the peace and quiet in her forest hut.
Luana is not really into the hustle around Christmas, she she doesn‘t like to get stressed out about anything. This year, Luana is lured out of hiding…

Zuri
Looks intimidatingly cool, but is actucally very sweet: Zuri.
She loves her friends and freedom. Her small amount of free time is spent on music and fashion. At the moment she doesn‘t like Christmas anymore, as Orophinus is asking too much of the young trainee elves. Let‘s see how they get him to change his ways…