Bonus reason to be excited about next week’s 21st Picto Berlin: It’s happening! Again!!! Nothing beats the smell of freshly printed paper – and the annual manifestation of endless planning into 1 poster... Big Thank You to Medienboard for the ongoing support 🙌

16/21 good reasons to be excited about next weeks 21st Picto Berlin: Get your instant hits of dopamine thanks to Italian character and toy designer Silvia Casali aka PuffyPuffPuff – persistently pushing sugarcoated character appeal to off-the-chart cuteness levels!

17/21 good reasons to be excited about next weeks 21st Picto Berlin: Lisbon based Boldtron brothers – OG street-artists gone art-directors, currently meddling in AI territory – happy to be joined in the after-hours for an analog only old-school marker graffiti collab.

18/21 good reasons to be excited about next week's 21st Picto Berlin: 3D studio Fromm crafts worlds and experiences rooted in camp, kitsch and pop-culture (all 3 of our main boxes ticked √). And they invite attendees to give their trademark Polycam 3D scanning method a test-spin

19/21 good reasons to be excited about next week’s 21st Picto Berlin: Teacher, illustrator and creative director Sergio Membrillas from Valencia co-hosts a round table for freelancing illustrators to discuss the artist’s age-old question: where does the money come from?

20/21 good reasons to be excited about THIS week’s 21st Picto: British Sri Lankan artist MURUGIAH talks us through his candy coated creations that explore the complexities of his South Asian identity, joins a panel discussing pop culture’s freedom in sampling cultural influences

21/21 good reasons to be excited about THIS week’s 21st Picto Berlin: With 20 years of experience under her belt, stop motion animator and model maker Cat Johnston shares her love of folklore, nature and weird horror films – and brings a congregation of her character creations!

Pictoplasma Berlin 2025 kicks off TOMORROW, April 30 at 6pm, with the opening of the main exhibition : CHARACTER MATTERS 100 Posters (by 100 international artists) – All With a Good Cause neurotitan, Haus Schwarzenberg (free entry)

Go Picto:  Tonight at 10pm Julian Glander presents his recent major accomplishment – the indie animation feature “Boys Go to Jupiter” – as an exclusive w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Picto Berlin premiere! Join us @silent.green – tickets available directly at the venue starting from 9:30pm

Onboarding has started! We are now ✨live broadcasting✨ all Pictoplasma Berlin 2025 conference talks + the entire animation selection on home.pictoplasma.com!

Pictoplasma goes multiplex! The Psychedelic Midnight Mix – annual highlight of all character cineasts giving 🖕 to trad animation standards – is happening TONIGHT, Friday, May 2:  tickets available directly at the venue, Colosseum Filmtheater, starting from 10:00pm 👍

Where is everyone? Feeling slightly de-puffed, so bye bye for now. But see you all again next year – or somewhere in-between. Stay in Character, Peter, Lars, Booky, Amaranta, Pierre, and the Picto-gang

This June's Pictoplasma x CPH outpost event in Copenhagen is seeking Scandinavian animation entries: deadline for character driven submissions (between 30sec and 5 min) is the 21st of May. More 👉 cph-pictoplasma.com

New Essay on PictoHome: Rewind 25 years and read Takashi Murakami's foreword for the 1st Pictoplasma Publication, about post-war Japanese character culture, the polytheistic roots of Pokemon, Hello Kitty's refusal of story and ASCII art: home.pictoplasma.com/news/takashi-m…

zinkete.com/character-matt… Just dropped a new portfolio update! 🚀 Honored to have showcased Character Matters at 21st Pictoplasma Berlin and designed the mascot for 1st Pictoplasma BCN—where I also had the privilege of giving a talk on Character Design. #CharacterDesign

There's talk about a possible PictoPanAsia. atm it's talk, but if it does happen, where ideally?