Peter Thaler says
Away from its usual home in Berlin, the Pictoplasma Conference is about to touch down in the heart of Manhattan. On September 5 and 6 the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU will serve as the gathering place for a diverse crowd of artists, designers, animators, producers and fans who will freely exchange ideas about anything and everything related to character design.
The diverse lineup of speakers hails from around the globe, covering a wide range of media, artistic ideas and inspirational sources, with lectures by Tim Biskup (US), Akinori Oishi (JP), Friends With You (USA), Motomichi Nakamura (JP/US), Fons Schiedon (NL), David OReilly (IRL), Gangpol & Mit (FR), Aaron Stewart (US), Studio AKA (UK) and Tokyoplastic (UK).
Besides a back-to-back program of presentations, parties and panels, this year's animation screenings promise to further explore how graphical characters previously not associated with the industry are now taking the medium by storm, including work by Marc Craste, Yves Geleyn, Daniel Garcia, Passion Pictures, Rex Crowl, Wieden + Kennedy, Buck, Nathan Jurevicius and more…
Pictoplasma: 5-6 September, New York
