Dear admirer of good character(istics)

For all those of you who were unable to join us at last month's Pictoplasma conference, or longing to re-visit the best moments:
Here you go! From shiny claymation butts to Persian symbology, from a children's book author’s struggle to find the right word(s), to a celebration of animation at its most anarchistic...

All 2017 PictoTalks are now available for your comfortable home-edutainment!

Talking about last month: After a surprisingly short post-festival-coma we went straight back to work, and are now happily preparing the upcoming

5th Academy Masterclass Berlin
23 Sept - 01 Oct

What's the Academy, you ask? Picture an intense 8 days program of character development with drawing classes and character bible sessions, hands-on workshops on the art of sculpting toys and multiples, courses on the essentials of visual story-telling and storyboarding, panels on copyright, insider promotion tips and more.
The Academy offers a selected number of participants the unique opportunity to kick-start their careers, refine their skills and further develop their own character-driven projects during an inspiring group experience in Berlin. After that, the masterclass continues with ongoing online guidance and feed-back on your project’s development, leading to an exclusive exhibition as central part of the following Pictoplasma Festival in spring 2018.

All of the above under professional guidance by an experienced team of internationally acclaimed artists and creatives, only one of which is Nathan Jurevicius, who recently took the conference stage, and the audience on an awe-inducing journey through his many sources of inspiration and abundance of projects.

Which leads us back to the PictoTalks: we've currently made Nathan's available for free, so you can pre-meet your future Academy tutor—and marvel at his amazingly diverse range of work.

Nathan Jurevicius: Where do ideas come from?

If you want to join our Berlin character campus, keep in mind:

Deadline for applications to reach us is
July 17!

More news to follow shortly, including our call for 'CharacterSelfies—Reloaded,' the return of Pictoplasma to Mexico City and NYC, and (spoiler warning!) the long overdue comeback of our dearly missed online home for characters—and their creators...

You're welcome!

peter and lars