Pictoplasma Animation Festival Berlin 2011

Three, count em three days after I get here, I find an animation festival that's about to start! Pictoplasma Festival Berlin 2011.
Pictoplasma.com
Unfortunately the tickets are sold out but there's about 30 galleries in the central area called Mitte that are participating. On display is work from individual and group artists. Some really great work here too:

The registration area behind one of the abandoned buildings, cool!

And the first gallery venue is in a bombed out building next to the registration:)

The artists (Crim Collective Mechanicalism) painted the walls of the basement of this place.

Mysterious staircase heading to unknown realms in this building...

The snowman mascots for the Fest meeting the people.

Raymond Lemstra. Liar Liar...

Its about 2 meters tall and cut out of black paper.

Raymond Lemstra, reminiscent of Moebius.

Matt Jones aka Lunartik. Strange little tea cup toys that various artists paint and design. On the right, Monster Brew!

My fav, oxidized bronze!

Raymond Lemstra

Jeremy Dower. Very trippy series of digital paintings like this.

Jeremy Dower. This one blow me away, the colours were very saturated and the light very well rendered.

Jeremy Dower

Mcbess. Amazing stylized characters. Riffing on the R Crumb era.

The Bee Kingdom. Turns out this glass work was by artists from Alberta.

The Bee Kingdom. It is glass!

This is the awesome Black Heart Gang from South Africa.

I found the amazing animated video from the above print online a couple of years ago and it was done by 3 people, one of whom I met today! Very cool girl named Ree. They had a very nice printed book of the story of this animation but it was 40 Euro's so had to put it down :(
The video is here for those that missed it:
theblackheartgang.com/the-household/the-tale-of-how/

Mcbess. This one will set you back 1100 Euro!

Mcbess

A LOT more photo's of everything here:
www.flickr.com/photos/pictoplasmar

Andy