I´ve received so many questions regarding my avatar, that i had to come up with the project those two were used in.
The Dirty Turtles were initially created for a Touchscreen Game and afterwards reused for a Ringtone Commercial that never aired, because the current "Axel F" commercial is so popular that they decided to not take it off air.
The animation thats seen as my avatar was made by me to simply test the setup of the characters. The ringtone company liked it that much, that they decided to use it for a TV commercial. The image displayed here is not an actual frame of the animation, but more a promotional pic rendered at a higher resolution.
The background is renderd in several layers and the depth of field effect has been made afterwards in Photoshop. For the sky I´ve used a matte painting with cartoony clouds.
The whole spot was done with maya and rendered with Mental Ray using Final Gathering. For those interested, the animation can be seen on my webpage.