{Ulrike \& Gert Fischer, Carla Maggi, Paulo~Cereda, samcarter}
{Behind the scenes of the Great TikZlings Christmas Extravaganza}
{The Great TikZlings Christmas Extravaganza is a yearly video series
that utilises \LaTeX\ to produce animated films. They usually consist of
several short video sequences which feature various characters from the
TikZlings ecosystem accompanied by music. An overview of previous videos
can be found at \tbsurl{https://github.com/TikZlings}.

In this talk, we will offer a look behind the scenes of the Extravaganza
and explain the process of how we turn rough sketches of scenes first
into \PDF{}s with \LaTeX\ and subsequently convert those into videos and
combine them with music.}