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Screenings in the past couple of months 6:37 AM

"My Friend Is A Cloud" was screened on September 4 in Pforzheim, on 7 September in Regensburg... the day of September 9 in Munich and also on September 12 in Hamburg ... in the event "OMNIBUS - Trickfilme aus Osteuropa".

...also my short films: 'Falling Down' and 'Eat This!' were brought back to life between 12 and 18 October in Amsterdam to 'Petersburg Project Space'

Köln 1:32 PM

My Friend Is A Cloud - Excerpt II 10:16 PM

My Friend Is A Cloud @ SoundTrack_Cologne 6:58 AM

I am very happy to announce that the music composed by Brandon Visel for "My Friend Is A Cloud" was nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award for best music in a short film!

"Ten short films will be presented whose scores have been nominated for the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD for best music in a short film, which will be awarded for the first time. We looked for scores with a convincing innovative and dramaturgically conclusive use of music in relation to the images. With the Peer Raben Music Award SoundTrack_Cologne remembers one of the most important film music composers of our time. The composers and film makers will be present and will provide a commentary on their works.

The nominees are: Patrizio Deidda, D · Manuel Gerber, CH · Kenneth Klaile & Frida Andersson, FN · Karsten Laser, D · Titas Petrikis, LT · Martin Schinwald, D · Stefan Maria Schneider, D · Diana Tejera, I · Brandon Visel, USA · Stefan Wühr, D "

Jury: Hansjörg Kohli, Florian Moser, Marcus Overbeck

Saturday 21:11:2009 at 14.30 - Competition Screening PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD, Gloria Theater

I am happy to fly to Germany tomorrow and to attend the SoundTrack_Cologne Festival ! Will be four full days! :) Tomorrow I will visit the animation studio 'TrickStudio Lutterbeck' and I will meet the managing director Richard Lutterbeck.

I'll try to come with more news in the next days..!

Superheroes are so overrated 5:44 AM

“BitDefender Securirty Suite 2010” (2009) – short commercial for online promotion.

Client: BitDefender Romania

Directed by: Ovidiu Paun

Animation by: Anton Octavian

Montage by: Ovidiu Paun and Valentin-Narcis Sturzu

In the last two months... Part 3 12:33 PM

character design and backgrounds

In the last two months... Part 2 12:03 PM

still images

In the last two months... Part 1 10:55 AM

I the past two months I worked on two commercials for... mmm I will tell you later :)

Above you can see the character designs.

room (front view) background 9:25 AM

Background from 'My Friend Is A Cloud'

27th Festival Tous Courts 4:13 AM

Friday, December 4 at 14, "Falling Down" will be screened at the '27th Festival Tous Courts- Aix-en-Provence International Shortfilm Festival' in the program 'Courts en Ligne' (Shorts On Line).

The Festival Tous Courts, the international cinema festival of Aix-en-Provence and its region, has become one of the major international cinematographic events. Since its inception, the Festival Tous Courts seeks every year films that illustrate the richness and diversity of international short film productions.The Festival is already well known for discovering new talents such as : Delphine Gleize, Eric Zonca, François Ozon, Laurent Cantet, Mathieu Kassovitz, Karim Dridi, Cédric Klapisch, Vincent Ravalec, Xavier Giannoli. :)

Observator Cultural 12:12 PM

Mihai Fulger a scris in Observator Cultural (numarul 496), despre competiţii, jurii şi premii la festivalul Anim'est. In articol am gasit o mica dar coerenta descriere a filmul meu 'My Friend Is A Cloud': "un film care nu doar spune o poveste închegată, ci şi transmite spectatorului o stare. Superb desenată şi foarte emoţionantă (secvenţa cu dansul roboţilor), animaţia lui Anton Octavian vorbeşte despre inocenţă, prietenie şi puterea imaginaţiei de a transfigura realitatea."

Desi in fiecare luna sute de vizitatori imi 'citesc' blogul... putini sunt aceia ce imi pot trimite un feedback... putini sunt aceia ce pot vedea mai mult decat imagine si text!

Le multumesc celor ce reusesc...

Multumesc Mihai

Rotoscope Test 4:21 AM

Last night I played a little with the rotoscope technique ... so ... here's what I made...

also you can see on youtube

Making of Anim'est 2009 5:34 AM

I found this... today in the morning on facebook :)

a rainy day... 12:15 PM

What can I do on a rainy day? To draw!? Yes! I like that...So!...here is my old kitchen!

anim'est 4:14 AM

'Anim'est - International Animation Film Festival' has ended and I can say that this fourth edition is the biggest...

Here are some pictures of me taken from the Facebook page of the festival:

pictures by anim'est

Prize in Lithuania...:) 5:42 AM

My latest short film 'My Friend Is A Cloud' received The Award for Best Animated Film - 'Ant palangės' - Kaisiadorys Short Film Festival - Lithuania

For me this is the first international prize at a film festival ... and ... I am very happy ... I am going to celebrate right now!

Rooms - EP 1:58 PM

Rooms - EP by The Mantra ATSMM is available now in the RareNoiseRecords store and from all major digital retailers. So! if you liked the music from the two animations: "The Fog" and "Falling Down" don't hesitate to buy these unique sounds.

It is available in CD and digital audio only (FLAC, MP3 VBR high quality) format on RareNoise Records website and in various digital audio formats from all known other digital retailers.

The Mantra ATSMM (shorthand for “Above The Spotless Melt Moon”) are a young up and coming band from Naples with a splendid future.

Their music is an emotional mix of exquisite songwriting, alternative rock and psychedelia, alternating between instrumental passages of great openness and sudden guitar explosions always driven by the beautiful voice of their lead singer, Adriana Salomone.

“Rooms” (EP) is their first release by the new UK label RareNoiseRecords. The 4 tracks of the EP are an example the bands’ creative attitude. The fourth track, “A Friend With A Knife”, features Eugene Robinson of Oxbow on vocals, one of the most provocative and intense singer-songwriters of the contemporary US rockscene.

The band are now busy working with producer Luigi Nobile at Monochrome Studios (in Eboli, Italy) on their debut album, to be released in February 2010 on RareNoiseRecords.

Check out The Mantra ATSMM's MySpace Page and their Blog

I'm very very very happy to announce that ... 9:20 AM

my latest animated short film "My Friend Is A Cloud" ... is included in two competitions at the fourth edition of "Anim'est - International Animation Film Festival"...: Romanian Short Films and Balkanimation! In the same time I'm glad to be present at this festival for the third consecutive year. In these years here I met people like Bill Plympton, John Dilworth, Juan Pablo Zaramela ... and other wonderful people who work in this great industry (art)...'animation'!