I'm with murdoc...it's trying so hard to be 'magical' and 'creative', and it just comes across as more-of-the-same-ol-burton-and-dep. And alice is too old.
Problem with Toxik is they took the development team and combined them into the Maya dev team. Your potenially learning a software that as no future for improvement or bug fixes.
Guillermo del Toro tends to alternate between doing Hollywood movies and personal projects, if you haven't seen them, go rent Chronos and The Devil's Backbone. His next personal project is Pan's Labyrinth, check out the teaser here