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VOTD: Oktapodi

Posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Oktapodi

The Pitch: While the design might not be as fine tuned, this computer animated short film by Julien Bocabeille is certainly on level with the last few Pixar shorts. To escape the clutches of a skilled cook, two octopuses engage in a burlesque race. Yet despite they successfully escape their fatal destiny, their struggle to stay together does not seem to get to an end. Watch the short in higher resolution here. Julien Bocabeille now works at Dreamworks Animation. Thanks to /Film reader Daniel L for the tip.

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Comments

Christopher Edwards

That is my favourite type of animation, and the video was very funny and entertaining

Em

aw, how cute! haha, Thanks for postin this up. i liked different location they set this up in

shora

I was hyped about this short before Siggraph and it totally deserved the win this year
As of now, I think this movie is gonna be on the short list for the short animation Oscar. I hope at lease it gets a nomination...

ps. I have no affiliation with this film/the guys who created it... just really respect the work they have done

Tommy Tricker

pretzels

orange cinema

peter that was wild! the town totally reminded me of the one from 'il postino'.

spooky

That was awesome. Hope there's a sequel comming...

andy

very funny and cute.great animation

Reggie

soo cute! :)

Seraph

love it! :)

ben wheatley

excellent

Skitzle

amazing short.

cronos

That was awesome!!!!

Andrew

that was awesome!!!!!

diesel

yeah nice to see a non-pixar short that is (almost) on par with pixars. but it is no 'the birds'...

Ian Kazimer

This is excellent. The octopi are animated very well, and the human actually has more a Blur Studio feel to him. The whole thing is rock solid.

I'd love to see more animations like this on /film. Thanks for posting it.

Captain Awesome

I loved the snappy animation. Everything except for the human character looked great. I hope Mr. Bocabeille gets utilized well at Dreamworks.

Also, Peter have you ever seen the Team Fortress 2 shorts Valve created for the classes found in the game? Amazing animation and character design. Especially coming from a videogame company. I would love to see a full length short showcasing all of those characters, and a toyline, and an artbook.

:)

Darrell

Good stuff. Good directing.

tobor68

SWEET. nice work.

hope he doesn't get too dreamworked over.

Raerth

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=burlesque

Raerth

I don't think that word means what you think it means ;)

LP

Wow, it has the feel and executing of a Pixar short, but it really needs an ending suitable for one.

PFG

Sorry, that was much better than a Pixar ending.

Mikey

I saw this at the SIGGRAPH animation festival a few weeks back and bought all three DVDs. This one was by far my favorite.

Jaspreet Singh

good stuff

Dana

Just a note---Julien Bocabeille is only one of the six guys who made the film together as a team at Gobelins. The others are: Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabare, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and Emud Mokhberi (No, I'm not one of them--just a friend of one, and acquaintance of the others; I got their full names from their official website). Just trying to make sure they all get credit.

aidanknight

there are some really visually stunning moments. great short.

lujs

I WANT MORE DAMN IT

bb6640

Excellent!

Bariz

Its a very nice short film and I would love to see more of this. The locations ( Mykonos and Santorini ) look great

Powanono

Nice animation, great work! vive l'école des gobelins !

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