Matei Monoranu is a Porto based Romanian Animator and Director. For the past 10 years he’s been animating and designing characters on various projects, from short ads to feature length films.  He’s now part of the international cooperative Cola Animation.

His snappy, vibrant and humorous work is mostly 2D frame-by frame and cutout animations.

Some projects he worked on are - In The Beginning (d.Ala Nunu), Marona’s Fantastic Tale (d.Anca Damian), Serpentear (d. Macedo Canata), and Despre ce naiba să scriu? (director).

Currently he is developing his new animated series Cornucopia, a coming of age show about 3 young fruits playing neighbourhood games in an Eastern European town.

He likes collecting pocket calendars, he has 2 cats and he loves mashed potatoes.