Oktapodi

Oktapodi is a French animated short film made in 2007.

Action

Two Octopuses are extremely in love. All the more troubled reacts the male than the female is rabidly torn from his side: Both live in an aquarium a fish market on the Mediterranean. The male provides that an octopus butcher bought the female and placed in a chest in his moped. It crawls out of the aquarium and sucks in the last second on the scooter fixed. Stubbornly it works its way forward, and soon stuck on the window of the scooter where the driver is hoping to get rid of him by wiper operation.

Also, the female is now active, kept away from the brake and brings the driver in greatest trouble until he causes an accident. Males and females crawl towards each other and jump quickly from swimming pools to swimming pool to the sea, but the man can both catch in flight. However, he crashes with his scooter into the sea and both octopuses land on power lines. When both want to anschmachten straight again, the male is grabbed by a seagull and the female straddles the line as a catapult to now fight the seagull.

Production

Oktapodi emerged as the closing film of Julien Bocabeille, François -Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Dela Barre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi at the Gobelins, l' Ecole de l' Image. Work on the film took seven months to complete. The music for the film was directed by Kenny Wood, a graduate of UCLA, composed, and performed by Dorthy Kwon on the violin.

The computer-animated film experienced on 15 July 2007 at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 's Festival premiere.

Awards

At the Festival d' Annecy Animation Oktapodi was honored in 2008 with the Canal Family Award ( Student Film ) and received on the Hiroshima International Animation Festival the Special Jury Prize.

Oktapodi was nominated in 2009 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Tsumiki no Ie itself.

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