My friends over at Pictoplasma commissioned me to do the opening animation for their festival next week. It will play before all the cinema screenings and be used for general publicity, including on Berlin’s u-bahn screens for a while. Here it is:
I heard this song years ago and always wanted to use it, this version in particular. Luckily it was a perfect reflection of the themes behind pictoplasma, such as viewer identification and the impulsive psychological reaction to seeing a face. It’s also just a great song. I included character motifs from Fons, Moto, Aki and a bunch of others.
The festival is called Pictopia this year. It will be the biggest one yet, taking over the entire House of World Cultures in west Berlin. I will be doing a short-ish talk there on Friday 20th at 9:00, it will mainly be focused on thoughts about animation rather than my work. The shop will also be selling the special edition Please Say Something DVDs, which I’m putting together now.
Will it be possible to buy the PSS DVD online for those who can’t make it to pictoplasma?
Comment by Ross 03.09.09 @ 2:16 pmThis is both creepy and hypnotic at the same time. You are unstoppable!
Comment by Rohit Iyer 03.10.09 @ 6:20 amWhen separate, the animation’s imagery and concepts are pretty creepy. I’m fascinated, though, by how the careful combination of such elements turns this sequence into a strangely charming piece of animation.
Just one thing, though: What’s that Awesome smiley doing at the beginning?
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It’s just incredible.
… keep ‘em coming
Comment by rickthompson 03.18.09 @ 11:07 pmnice very nice
Comment by Anonymous 03.19.09 @ 12:13 pmGreat choice for a song! Awesome animation.
Comment by Dave 03.19.09 @ 3:53 pmThis was just so impressive. Very creative. I loved it. Great work. I’d imagine this was a lot of fun to design.
Comment by Eric Woods 03.20.09 @ 2:51 pmhilarious!
I didn’t expect to see all the characters there.
(basically ‘cuz I didn’t read what your wrote…
until the video was done)this is AWESOME!
OH BEAUTIFUL BERLIN!
have fun at the picto!
wish i was there, damn it!
{ u __ u}
wow fantastic……
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Pingback by When you’re smiling - VPower 03.24.09 @ 12:02 pmvery intriguing…maybe that’s the meaning?
Comment by Goran Blejeuavich 03.25.09 @ 12:44 amWeird and intriguing I agree…
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