Octapods
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Octapods |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 3 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Julien Bocabeille François-Xavier Chanioux Olivier Delabarre Thierry Marchand Quentin Marmier Emud Mokhberi |
| script | Julien Bocabeille François-Xavier Chanioux Olivier Delabarre Thierry Marchand Quentin Marmier Emud Mokhberi |
| production |
Marie-France Zumofen for Gobelins, l'École de l'Image |
| music | Kenny Wood |
Oktapodi is a French computer animation short film released in 2007.
action
Two octopuses are extremely in love with each other. The male reacts all the more disturbed when the female is brutally torn from his side: Both live in an aquarium of a fish shop on the Mediterranean. The male sees that an octopus butcher has bought the female and put it in a chest on his moped. It crawls out of the aquarium and attaches itself to the scooter at the last second. It stubbornly works its way forward and soon sticks to the window of the scooter, where the driver hopes to get rid of it by operating the windscreen wipers.
The female is now also active, fiddling with the brakes and causing the driver great difficulties until he causes an accident. Males and females crawl towards each other and soon jump from swimming pool to swimming pool towards the sea, but the male can catch both of them in flight. However, he falls into the sea with his scooter and both octopuses land on power lines. When both are about to get on again, the male is grabbed by a seagull and the female stretches the line like a catapult to fight the seagull.
production
Oktapodi was made as a graduation film by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi at the Gobelins, l'École de l'Image . It took seven months to work on the film. The music for the film was composed by Kenny Wood, a UCLA graduate , and played on the violin by Dorthy Kwon .
The computer-animated film had its festival premiere on July 15, 2007 at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
Awards
Oktapodi received the Canal + Family Award (Student Film) at the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 2008 and the Special Jury Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival .
Oktapodi was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 2009, but could not prevail against Tsumiki no Ie .
Web links
- Oktapodi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oktapodi on bcdb.com
- Website for the film