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We only just got this blog up and running but we had to upload a very cool thing we did last October. We went to Pictoplasma, a bi-annual character design conference in Berlin. We attended lectures by some amazing artists. Inspirational.

Derek Hodgson and I admiring each other hair styles. Derek had an opening a gallery in Berlin, part of the Pictoplasma festival. See his wonderful green creatures on the wall behind us.

Just outside the conference room were huge rolls of paper and drawing materials and soon a mass drawing session took place.

The festival ended in a performance featuring characters created some of the invited artists.

The guys that organized Pictoplasma are so thoughtful. They supplied everybody with materials for making your own character costume. Gavin made a kind of monster mask complete with a twin. Awww.

I made a fluffy tail, great for shaking my booty in style, which was perfect timing cause there was a character karaoke party afterwards. Notice the white floor (which later turned into a dance floor), it got drawn all over in lovely scribbles by hundreds of people. It was like being a kid again!

My brother Tim made me this pie cause he said I wasn’t eating properly, he came all the way up from his little village by the sea in Cornwall, down in the far south west of England which is a good six hour drive away, and he got all this good nutritious stuff and created the first Pepe Pie! - don’t worry he didn’t actually put Pepe in it!