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FaceOff
Nadine Redlich - #CharacterFaceOff Challenge

FACE-OFF:
SHOW YOUR TRUE SELF WITH A CHARACTER SELFIE—AND WIN A FULL-BLOWN CHARACTER DESIGN FELLOWSHIP!



Remember our call for character selfies in 2013? Back then—when 'selfie' was the Oxford English Dictionary’s freshly nominated word-of-the-year and the first Oscar celebrity group selfies went viral, no-one saw this as a harbinger of headshot hell. Now, just as we have become accustomed to the world wide spread of selfie sticks, blurry duck faces, and underexposed narcism, a new explosion of App filters, stickers, and face-swapping is taking things to unprecedented levels of craziness...

But what do all these multiple trillions of photos currently in circulation say about our identities?

Perfect time for us to issue a NEW CALL FOR ENTRIES that puts creativity back in focus. Pictoplasma has teamed up with Adobe Project 1324 to INVITE YOUNG, EMERGING ARTISTS AGED 18—24 (the main victims of the craze) to express their personalities in an artistically ‘characterized' self portrait.

Some of our longtime Picto-pals have already proven good character while setting the bar high:

Starting with a regular photograph like a headshot or profile picture and overlaying it with a graphical rendition of their true identity, entrants are invited to express their personality with a self-portrait that lets their inner character shine!


Geneviève Gauckler


Niels Kalk

 


Jon Burgerman


Guillaume Kashima



Any medium or tool may be used, from drawing, collage or digital painting, vector illustration, 3D graphics, masks, costume design or a mix of them all…

Five lucky winners will be awarded with a full-blown Character Design Fellowship, including travel costs and participation at the Pictoplasma Academy masterclass in Mexico City October 2017, six-months of online mentoring, and attendance at the Pictoplasma Berlin Conference May 2018—including the opportunity to exhibit in an exclusive group show.

To submit your entry, simply head on over to pictoplasma.com/face-off, grab the invitation code "MyCharacterSelfie", sign up for a Project 1324 account and show character! Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2017, but make sure to submit soon: the first 100 entries are eligible to win one of ten year-long Creative Cloud subscriptions, generously donated by Adobe!

Let your inner character shine!

peter and lars


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