🚀 SHAIKE FILM FESTIVAL: OFFICIAL SELECTION (TOP 10)EVERCLOSE – Mind Attic most ambitious project to date – has been selected in the Top 10 for Best Animation at SHAIKE Film Festival, held in La Ciotat, where cinema itself began.This is the first time EVERCLOSE steps in front of an audience. And I couldn't ask for a more meaningful place to do it.Now the wait – Top 3 announced September 23rd. Fingers crossed, but the level of work in this community is unreal, so whatever happens, being in that room already means something.To La Ciotat, October 2nd.

One year ago today, I created my FilmFreeway account to submit my first animated short to a festival.That was the day I called myself a Writer and a Director. The day I found the audacity to tell my story the way I wanted it told.So — what happened since?
From September to September:
◆ 1 animated short (5 min)
◆ 2 micro-series pilots (1–2 min)
◆ 64 ads of various lengths, from 15-second UGC to full spots
◆ And the piece that pulled all of it together: EVERCLOSE — a 24-minute adult action drama coming out very soonWhich resulted in 11 film festival selections and 1 win for Best Action. Roughly 3,000 shots created. 100 characters designed. Every one of them lived through and acted out on the page.This year was the most challenging of my career. And the most rewarding. And it's just the beginning.Traditional filmmakers average around 300 shots a year. At the pace AI tools have unlocked, I'm putting in reps that used to take a decade — every single year.
And experience is really about one thing: developing taste and intuition. Knowing what a good shot looks like before you've even framed it. That's muscle memory. And muscle memory is built through volume.The directors who shaped my imagination — James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson, Hayao Miyazaki, George Miller, Pete Docter, Brad Bird, John Lasseter, Chad Stahelski, Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush, Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord, Jérôme Combe — spent 30, 40 years building that. Their work set the bar for me long before I made anything of my own.At the pace this new generation is moving, catching up to that level of instinct in a handful of years isn't a fantasy. It's math.Here's to year two.

Era of Giants — WINNER, Best Action Film at AI London Film Festival.
What a day.Incredible to see the work land — to know it resonated with people who watch a lot of films.The timing couldn't be better. Exactly the morale boost I needed before diving into the next action-heavy piece.Gutted I missed the event itself. But endlessly grateful for the selection and the win.
Thank you to the judges, the festival, and everyone who watched.

Small rebrand for Mind Attic.The original logo came together before I knew what this thing would actually become. Now it's shaping into something I couldn't have imagined back then — so the brand had to catch up.What do you think?

Journey of the script.Looking back, tearing the first version apart feels like the best decision I made.
Rewriting was its own kind of fun — living through every version, every dead end, every "wait, what if."Now it's a completely different story. And at least on paper, it finally resonates.Now the exciting part. Actually making it.Enough procrastinating. Time to get those shots in.

Finally 4K.Now I can actually look at my kitties on the big screen. Brush strokes hold. Texture stays consistent. And the extra resolution gives real flexibility on zoom.This was just my first test. Honestly, 1080p is still plenty for most of what I do. But wide shots are a different story — that's where 4K earns its place.Can't wait to push it on cityscapes. Crowded environments. Multi-character scenes where every detail counts.Dreamina Seedance 2.0 at 3840×2160. The detail you can pull out of these tools now is wild.

Creativity should be easy. The difficulty comes when your vision for the creative output is much bigger than your current skill level. But the creative act itself should be simple—sit down, create, and let the ideas flow without unnecessary complications.

From crazy idea to music video in 2 weeks.Doing creative work professionally sometimes makes us forget the real purpose of creativity. Why we got into it in the first place.Creativity is expression. Whatever's bottled up. Our perception, our cravings, our past, the futures we imagine.And this is the best time to be creative.The tools we have now mean a song that's been percolating in my head for some time can finally leave my system. And then — a wild thought — I can make a music video for it. Build the band. Build the world around it.Zero experience in music video production. Made one anyway.So instead of searching for songs other people wrote that almost say what I feel, I started building an album of my own. Something I can come back to years from now and remember exactly what that part of my life felt like.And maybe someone listening finds a piece of themselves in there too.
Watching it now, I already see what I'd improve. But I have to let it go. All of it goes into the next baby.There's also a small Everclose teaser sprinkled into the video. The final script is in peer review and ready for animation. Almost there.Velgrave - I Wanna FeelPress play.

2 Weeks ago, I tore Everclose apart. 🐈Now the pieces are starting to find each other.
90% of the story is connected. There's one gap left — the kind that keeps you up at night until it clicks.In the meantime, I'm visualising every scene. Writing songs the world will need. Testing each new AI tool against the script. Complex action grounded in mortal arts, real precision, high resolution — finally within reach.It feels like assembling a jigsaw puzzle by placing pieces in random spots, trusting they'll make sense once the rest arrive.Some of them already have.More soon.