Creative Characters in Context – investigating the art and impact of adventurous figurative representation across genres and cultures
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PictoLondon conference coming up end of next week: from meticulously hand-crafted character worlds to
wide angled minimalist vignettes, from pitch black tales of a society in crisis to viral one liners...
Only a handful of tickets left!
Do you want to practice your animation project’s elevator-pitch?
Pictoplasma London’s rapid-fire industry speed-dating offers attendees precious one-on-one access to these great studios:
Buck, Disney, Duolingo, Jelly, Snafu Pictures, and Studio AKA.
Only at Pictoplasma!
Do you want personal feedback on your illustration portfolio?
Pictoplasma London’s rapid-fire industry speed-dating grants attendees fast-paced face-to-face time with these fine agents:
Big Active, Brilliant Artists, Handsome Frank, Jacky Winter, and Pocko.
Submit your animated shorts for next year’s official 🅿🅸🅲🆃🅾🅿🅻🅰🆂🅼🅰 🅰🅽🅸🅼🅰🆃🅸🅾🅽 🅵🅴🆂🆃🅸🆅🅰🅻 selection!
Everything welcome: from character-driven narrative shorts to human-hand-made experimental psychedelia.
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End of the month we’re back in the UK for the 3rd PictoLondon – and thrilled to announce the final speaker: Alex Norris, queer Welsh cartoonist famed for their viral webcomic series – with millions of online followers celebrating the same punchline for over 10 years: “oh no”!
End of the month Pictoplasma heads back to London – for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker: Cat Johnston, illustrator and model maker working in stop-motion, inspired by her love of folklore, weird horror films and nature.
Pictoplasma heads back to London’s Royal College of Art for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker: Anna Ginsburg, award winning filmmaker with a diverse skillset, known for inventive transitions, visually rich storytelling and a fearless perspective!
if you are - as am I - into human made fonts, may I recommend:
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End of the month Pictoplasma heads back to London’s Royal College of Art for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker: Conor Kehelly, animaton Wunderkind from Ireland, creating playful, dark, textural scattershot portraits of a society in crisis.
Announcing the 23rd PictoBerlin Conference:
🔜 Early Bird offer goes online next week, October 6, at noon (CET)!
Set your alarm, mark your calendar, and prepare to ℝ𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕥𝕠 ℙ𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒
berlin.pictoplasma.com
End of the month Picto heads back to London for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker(s): Plantopia, French creative animation duo perfecting playful camera movements and wide angled perspectives to turn minimalistic moments of life into surreal vignettes.
It's happening!
End of October Pictoplasma heads back to London for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker: director, animator, illustrator and designer AJ Jefferies — master of ridiculously adorable characters.
Limited Early Bird tickets now available!
May the Picto Early Bird Season be with you!
But which one will it be? And why not both?
🔜 Tickets for PictoLDN go online 🆃🅾🅳🅰🆈 (noon)!
🔜 Tickets for PictoBERLIN go online Oct. 6 (soon)!
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In a bold move we uploaded all pre-pandemic PictoTalk recordings from our conferences (2014-2019) to YouTube – now available for free!
Why we did it?
To onboard the next generation and celebrate the OGs of characterism, please subscribe ↙ and like ↘
youtube.com/@PictoplasmaTV
The full, real-time, growing, uncensored catalogue of 350+ PictoTalks, including regular updates and live online broadcasts of our conferences remains on tv.pictoplasma.com, behind our humble paywall