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My Friend Is A Cloud 12:37 PM

'On a floating island a small boy is lost in a vision of the future.'

Directed and Animated by: Anton Octavian
Music by: Brandon Visel
Sound Recording and Mixing: Joanna Montgomerie

A week in Naples (Napoli) 6:52 AM

Last night I returned from Naples in a city completely changed, in Bucharest, "a white city"... a snowy town... with the smells of holiday! Yes! Holidays! I can't say that I will have part of this...because I will have a lot of work to do in the next weeks! Yes! In the coming weeks I will work on a new project "September", a music video for The Mantra ATSMM. It will be an animation in which I will use 2 different techniques: 2D animation and rotoscope.

About Naples I can say many things... but I will say only that.... is one of the most beautiful cities that I've visited so far; a city where every place makes you to be more creative, more happy and more close to details. About The Mantra ATSMM I will say only that: 'they are a unique band, they and their music!' :)

In this photo from L to R: Maurizio Oliviero (guitar), Salvio Sibillo (drums), David "Hope" Famularo (bass) and Adriana Salomone (voice, guitar)

The best pizza that I've ever had.... Antica Pizzeria "Da Michele"

In this photo: David "Hope" Famularo

In this photo: Me and Adriana Salomone

"Gandul Poate Ucide" making of 3:25 AM

One of my best friends and one of the most promising directors that I know is Andrei Staruiala. I not say this because Andrei is my friend ! I say this because I never met anyone with his patience and his power to learn.

Andrei recently completed the music video for "Gandul Poate Ucide" - Skizzo Skillz and Grasu XXL. The video is a combination of live action and motion graphics, and in my opinion, will be very successful, at least in Romania and even in other countries.

Below you can see the making of ! It contains some of the production stages of the video and a time lapse animation made by me.

Monden.info also made a making of ...

My Friend Is A Cloud @ Anilogue 6:25 AM

'My Friend Is A Cloud' was screened in Budapest, Hungary at 'Anilogue International Animation Festival' (nov25 - dec 3, 2009) in the program 'Animated Night'.

"Sweet, sexy, thrilling and funny, the Animated night is a once in a year festive undertaking of animation lovers. Watching the Anilogue panorama programme in one is a 5-hour animation marathon good in company, and with occasional drink breaks".

"Anilogue is an annual international animation festival taking place in Budapest,

Hungary

and Vienna,

Austria

. The festival presents a whole week of animation, packed with feature premieres, sneak previews, workshops, a competition of European animated short films and numerous special programmes including a seven hours long animated show, concerts and cartoon exhibitions."

Rotoscope Test 7:08 AM

in two days... 128 drawings for... 5 seconds animation...enjoy

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."

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