Channel Frederator Blog

The 3rd Pictoplasma Conference, Berlin will be held in March 2009. They are accepting entries for the animation portion of the festival right now!

We are continuously on the search for fresh and convincing character design out there in the world of moving images! If you are responsible for high-grade characters in animation, narration, music visuals or motion graphics, please don’t hesitate to share them with us.

Go here to enter. Hurry! The deadline is January 22nd.

The city of Berlin will host exhibits and other special events related to the conference:

In March and April, this multidisciplinary event location will be transformed into a character biotope and a meeting point for an international scene of designers, artists, producers and an interested public. At the heart of the festival is an exhibition which explores the huge diversity of the character universe, where artists remix and sample, condense the surreal and uncanny, inflate all proportions and stage bizarre rituals to introduce their characters into contemporary culture.

Pictoplasma is all about character design, but these days they are throwing around the term “reduced figuration”—not to mention “biotope”. Takes me back to my art school jargon day. But no matter what you call it, Pictoplasma is always a visually and mentally stimulating event.

—Anne D. Bernstein