Logo Design & Pixaroma Legends

SEBANT Logo

The Sebant logo on this blog blends my nickname Seb, given by Chrissy—my former Merrill Lynch boss, about two decades ago—with Ant, from my last name, Antony (pronounced Ant-on-e). The concept began as a quick Post-it sketch that I fed into ChatGPT, transforming it into a logo I liked. Its signature green shade was inspired by the emoji used by Ivo Tavris, the lead moderator of the Pixaroma Discord, who built the ComfyUI Easy Installer—the essential bridge that makes ComfyUI setup effortless.

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PIXAROMA Logo

For the past year, I’ve spent at least an hour daily on the Pixaroma server. My friend Ioan, its founder, coined Pixaroma from Pix + Aroma: Pix for pixels—the building blocks of digital art—and Aroma for scent, perhaps a nod to his background in both macro and food photography. One of his earliest logos visualized aroma drifting from the letters. See this blog post cover image.

One morning, I came across a fascinating article in Fortune Magazine explaining that Steve Jobs earned most of his wealth not from Apple but from Pixar’s IPO success.

Ioan has another Youtube channel, AltFlux, which focuses on music videos, both action-packed and ambient music. There is the Halloween playlist...

I drifted into a lucid dream linking Ioan’s music videos to the Pixar legacy—and a spark hit me: what if Pixaroma also stood for Pixar + Roma(nia), honoring Ioan's roots?

I designed a logo spelling Pixar + OMA, styled in Romanian flag colors, and even had it embroidered on a $35 Amazon T-shirt.

I proposed to Ioan: Why not include this T-shirt as an offering in his online store? Ioan liked the creativity but felt it could confuse customers, as he’d never seen his brand that way. Naturally, that made me double down—I had to get him in the shirt.

My first experiment with Nano Banana failed (it could only partially “undress” him 😅), but Ioan pointed me to another ComfyUI workflow perfect for virtual try-on. That’s when I realized the real value of open-source: communities that share, test, and iterate—together.

Special thanks to Jeet Gajjar (ASD), another Pixaroma legend, for teaching me how to make connectors look like printed circuit lines and for introducing me to the sleek Obsidian theme.

MUSIC VIDEO

On the cinematic front, Tao Prompts’ YouTube tutorial convinced me to go deeper into AI video & storytelling.

I ordered his e-books on MidJourney and Kling AI to learn about camera angles and cinematic vocabulary.

A new music video from me is definitely on the horizon...