Headlights Animation Studio

Teaser for our personal project that won a Special Mention at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025. A multimedia webcomic based on fragments from the diary and work of the author Mihail Sebastian, an eyewitness to the rise of fascism in Romania. The digital art project “Mihail Sebastian and the youth with a lily soul” aims to document the decline of democracy and the rise of extremism in Romanian society in the 1930s and 1940s.

Official spot for the 17’th edition of Anim’est international festival. Our own Lu Pop was a VFX supervisor, Lead compositing artist and character designer on this amazing project.

Music video made for “Oigăn + Nick Făgădar – Teologie”. The song is part of Oigăn’s second album “Antimaterie” inspired by subjects studied in school. Each track has a music video made by different artists and directors. Our theme was “theology”. The music is a mix of psychedelic folk and electronic nuances which inspired our style and direction.

Tragicomical documentary. Making the rounds in international film festivals. Won the audience award at Filmul de Piatra 2024. Combining the colourful visuals of old Romanian rural church painting with cut-out style animation, the result is a very atypical tragicomical documentary highlighting the forgotten history of the involvement of the church in the enslavement of the Roma people in Romania.

TEAM

Headlights is an artists collective working from Berlin & Bucharest, focused on animation, storytelling and illustration. Our projects range from TV and online commercials to publications, NGO projects and shortfilms. We use After Effects, TV Paint, Moho and Blender for animation. We direct, storyboard, screenwrite, art direct, illustrate and supervise other talent.

Răzvan Petre is a motion designer and animator that also likes to direct, to do character design and illustration. Loves to find the perfect style for a project. Also reads comics and sometimes does street photography.

Lu Pop has a long career of vfx supervising and compositing mixed with animation. She solves technical questions and makes things run smooth. VFX and animation go well with electronic music in her headphones.

Liviu Bărbulescu is a director that likes to tell stories from an antropological point of view, different from the mainstream, often using humour to enhance the story. He loves trains, reading history and trivia.