Nina Frenkel recently had the opportunity to create illustration and animation for ELF the Musical, which just opened on Broadway for the holiday season.

Nina’s job was to illustrate a children's book that was projected on the stage while Santa Claus reads it in miniature form from the set on the stage's bottom corner.

Featuring 11 of Nina’s illustrations, the picture book shows the progression of the protagonist, Buddy the Elf, as he goes through his journey from an over-sized Elf in the North Pole, to a New Yorker who finds a new family and then starts his own.