Pictoplasma

Get ready for a 3 hour ride through the animated worlds of over 40 outstanding studios, animators and designers, featuring the very best contemporary character design in motion, music visuals and animation. Including jewels by Asterokid, Saiman Chow, Marc Craste, Fluorescent Hill, McBess, Satoru Ohno, David OReilly, Fons Schiedon, Takafumi Tsuchiya, tokyoplastic, Joel Trussell, Nagi Noda, W+K Tokyo Lab, Lucas Zanotto and many more…
180 min DVD, 64 page book

ORDER YOUR > CHARACTERS IN MOTION 3

The Pictoplasma Festival is touring with an inspiring evening program of selected screenings, live artist lectures and presentations of the very best contemporary character design and art. Kicking off with events in Germany, we will be in Hamburg (2. October) and Munich (12. October), heading on to New York City (13. November), back to Düsseldorf (3. December) and more…

WE’RE ON THE ROAD > PICTOPLASMA ON TOUR

Pen to Paper showcases the key players of what is being labelled ‘DIY art’, ‘fractured figuration’ or ‘new psychedelic folk’, including Allison Schulnik, Ian Stevenson, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, John Casey, Luke Ramsey, Eric Shaw, Seth Scriver, Joey Haley, Mark DeLong, Mehdi Hercberg alias Shoboshobo, Andrew James Jones, Thomas Bernard, Lane Hagood, Stéphane Prigent alias Kerozen and many more.

GET YOUR HANDS ON > PEN TO PAPER

To celebrate the release of our “Pen to Paper” publication, Pictoplasma proudly presents a series of exhibitions in London, Paris and Berlin, featuring original work by the key players of what is being labelled “DIY art” “fractured figuration” or “new psychedelic folk”, with art by Shoboshobo (FR), Allyson Mellberg Taylor (US), Andrew James Jones (UK), Fia Cielen (BE), Yu Matsuoka (JP/FR) and many more….

VISIT > PEN TO PAPER EXHIBITION

All you’ll ever need to know about character design and art on 328 colourful pages. Published on the occasion of the Pictopia exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in spring 2009, the catalog assembles texts and works by international artists, designers and theorists, all investigating the aesthetic principle of reduction and abstraction in the design of anthropomorphic characters.

PREPARE FOR > PICTOPIA

Never been to a Pictoplasma Conference? Here’s another reason why you should: As the 2nd release in our ongoing series of edits from the very best artist presentations we now offer a 7 minute snippet of AJ Fosik’s lecture at the 3rd Pictoplasma Conference.
More Talks by artists such as Risa Sato, David OReilly, James Jarvis and Tim Biskup will gradually be added to the Pictoplasma Talks site here:

VIEW > PICTOPLASMA TALKS

Pictoplasma’s first monograph Book and DVD. Enjoy Gangpol & Mit’s unparalleled symbiosis of sonic and visuals on your very own home entertainment system! The book presents the visual worlds as original movie posters, while the 14 new tracks offer sceneries straight from doomsday. Melodies crush and rebuild in various styles, mixing sources dug out deep from a huge digital sandbox.

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Want to know what’s up at Pictoplasma? Where is the next gathering? What’s the deadline for submissions? Is there a new encyclopaedia in the pipeline? When are the character archives going to go online again? And how come nobody told you earlier? Subscribe to our Newsletter and you’ll be the first to hear about upcoming festivals, exhibitions and publicatons.

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With more than 10 years of experience, Pictoplasma has collaborated with some of the greatest talent worldwide, initiated and produced incomparable installations, put together truly engaging urban games and curated unique exhibitions. Have a look at some of our recent projects and find out if Pictoplasma is the one to help with all your character needs.

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