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Pictoplasma is an organisation dedicated to the art of character design, and are notable for bringing it into the mainstream. Since 1999, they have encouraged the international character design scene by publishing collections of characters, organising character design conferences and by maintaining the Pictoplasma Archives, an extensive inventory, collection and showcase of contemporary character design.
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves.
Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy company founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the Kenner brand produced several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures like the original series of Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Batman as well as die cast models. The company was closed and merged by its corporate parent Hasbro in 2000.
Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the artistic, visual world which is unique to a particular theatrical or cinematic production. The most basic designs are produced to denote status, provide protection or modesty, or provide visual interest to a character. Costumes may be for a theater, cinema, musical performance, cosplay, parties, or other events. Costume design should not be confused with costume coordination which merely involves altering existing clothing, although both create stage clothes.
Gary Baseman is an American artist, cartoonist, and animator who investigates history, heritage, and the human condition. Through iconography and visual narratives that celebrate “the beauty of the bittersweetness of life,” his work brings together the worlds of popular culture and fine art.
Mark Gravas is an Australian animator, director and producer. He is the creator/director of Yakkity Yak (2002/2003), an Australian/Canadian co-production. Mark co-owns Sydney based media production company Kapow Pictures with his partner Sandra Walters.
123Klan is a French graffiti crew, founded in 1992 by husband and wife Scien and Klor. Since 1994 the crew have also worked in graphic design, inspired by the work of Neville Brody, and started to apply it to their graffiti. They describe their art as 'when street knowledge meets technology and graffiti melds with graphic design'. Dean, Sper, Skam, Meric, and Reso 1 are the other crew members.
Bears3 are a series of short animated films created by Matt Everitt and Matt Clark. The films feature 3 teddy bears animated to dialogue taken from The Ricky Gervais Show an Xfm radio show featuring Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington. Additional original dialogue was recorded by the trio for the episode Y-Fronts and the films went on to feature on both Ricky's and Xfm's website.
Mr Bingo is an illustrator, artist and speaker, living and working in London, UK.
Daniel Garcia is an American music video and commercial director.
David Kamp is a composer, sound designer and sound artist living and working in Berlin. He studied Electronic Composition at ICEM Folkwang University of the Arts and has worked with visual artists, animation directors, companies and cultural institutions on award-winning animated films, adverts, installations and exhibitions. He gave talks, lectures and workshops at universities and conferences including Pictoplasma, Playgrounds and Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach.
Nathan Jurevicius is a Canadian/Australian illustrator, director, toy designer, author, and fine artist whose diverse range of work has appeared in numerous publications, advertising campaigns, festivals, and galleries around the world.
Boris Hoppek is a German contemporary artist based in Barcelona. His artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art. His work has been used in advertising campaigns as well.
Haman Alimardani is an Iranian-born German fashion designer, graphic designer, and disc jockey. Hamansutra is his fashion label. He lives and works in New York City and Munich.
Joel Trussell is a director, executive producer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He most recently was an executive producer for the adult, animated, dark comedy Captain Fall for Netflix Animation. Before that he was an executive producer at Disney Television Animation for the Disney XD show Pickle and Peanut which he helped develop alongside the creator Noah Z. Jones.
Nicolas Petrou is a Cypriot-American fashion designer and couturier based in New York City.
Hideki Seo is a Japanese-born fashion designer and artist based in Paris.
Jeremy Dower is an Australia-born musician and visual artist. He is best known for contributing the soundtrack to the pixel art tribute to the iconic opening reel of The Simpsons in 2014. The video was created with fellow Aussie animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon. Dower had contributed the arcade-like remake of the theme song to the video.
Fantasista Utamaro is a Japanese artist, art director, and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1979. He graduated from Tama Art University with a degree in textile studies. He is considered to be one of the leading artists working in the Japanese pop art movement.
Kévin Gemin, known online as Kékéflipnote or simply Kéké, is a French artist and animator. He is best known for his work created using the Flipnote Studio line of software for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS handheld game consoles.
Rafael Parra Toro, also known as Parratoro, is a visual artist born in Venezuela. Specializing in kinetic art and augmented reality using the artistic technique known as moiré, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Italy and the United States.
