Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Return from Germany - Pictoplasma

So Pictoplasma was great, it gave me a boat load of confidence - especially seeing the artists behind some really amazing work as human rather than some super-animating being I could never work toward myself.

I enjoyed the screenings of animations each morning, which made me sometimes wish I had thought them up, and everyone there doing talks seemed really friendly, open and encouraging. The artists in this years pictoplasma were inspiring and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those talented people in my class appeared at another conference in the future - something I would look forward to hee hee.

By the way:

If anyone who attended pictoplasma, picked up one of the felt monsters from Joshua Ben Longo's workshop that wasn't yours, made off with it and are reading this now - we are all very disappointed in you. Some of the people spent 3 days straight building these little felt monsters and during the after party, many of them disappeared, including several from my colleagues and even my own. My colleagues and I spent at least 4 hours sewing these characters, and returned on Sunday to retreive them... Only they were gone...

I am more annoyed about other peoples'; mine wasn't particularly my favorite thing in the world but my classmates were devastated. I would also be furious if I heard that the heavily pregnant woman, who was making a felt monster for her unborn child, didn't get hers in the end. Some people can be right troglodites!!

Anyway, life goes on, college stops for no tired student...

Cheers

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