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(13 May 2019) LEADIN
Two famous actors are visiting Berlin.
Well, at least two famous dolls.
The characters Atari and Spots from the 2018 Wes Anderson stop-motion film 'Isle of Dogs' have been brought to the German capital for the Pictoplasma festival - a yearly event that celebrates the creation of characters.
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At the centre of the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin are the stars from 'Isle of Dogs', director Wes Anderson's 2018 critically acclaimed stop-motion animated movie that follows a young boy, Atari as he tries to rescue his dog Spots who has been banished to Trash Island by the mayor Kenji Kobayashi after an outbreak of influenza.
Swiss artist Félicie Haymoz is the designer behind all the characters in the movie. Her exhibition shows the workflow and the constant feedback by Anderson, known to be a perfectionist.
"I was living in Brooklyn, and he was in Paris, and the whole film crew was in London. So everybody was emailing Wes about every detail of the film," she says.
"And he would always get back to us in like five minutes which made us think that there is maybe two of him or something."
Haymoz says Anderson gave her a free hand to develop the characters, before giving detailed instructions on how they should be amended.
"I worked with directors who are more hands-on approach and who want to describe to you all the philosophy and all the essence of the character," she says.
"Wes Anderson comes more from the outside in, so he knows what he wants it to look like. And then you have to bring it to existence, you have to add the personality in there."
The Pictoplasma festival an annual festival focuses on the creation of characters.
The art form can be found everywhere, in movies, in advertising, in paintings.
The key to success, says Haymoz, is to think about the personality of the character instead of just the visuals.
"I draw sort of slowly. So I spend a lot of time with these characters. And I definitely start to like them and develop feelings for them," she says.
"And I imagine what they would be like. I can't get too attached because then the director will pick one of them and the other ones will not be in the movie."
At the main group show, Los Angeles-based artist Jeron Braxton is interacting with his character Jiggle Wolf in a video installation.
The video has been connected to a motion detection system so Jiggle Wolf imitates the movements of the person in the room.
He is a cute character, but he comes with surprises.
"Usually I like to deal with you know darker themes. In terms of like drug abuse and racism. And things of that sort,"  says Braxton.
"And I like to use characters like this one who are pretty cute and inviting and cartoony to sort of draw people in, and when they look closer at whatever he is marketing, they see that it is really really dark."
In an interactive installation, guests can change the mood and movements of the characters on the screen by walking along a walkway.
British designer Peter Millard's ghost gets increasingly angry as people approach while US designer Julian Glander's bodybuilder makes more and more frantic work out movements.
"It is really about creating images and characters, visual characters that can create an emotion for us," says Lars Denicke, founder of Pictoplasma festival.
"They play with us emotionally and create an effect. Not just as a sign that says right or left but they have an attitude."
So, what makes a character successful?
Denicke founded the festival in 1999 and says that there is one piece of advice he always gives artists.

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