Andreas Hykade
Directing
Biography
Andreas Hykade (born 1968 in Altötting, Bavaria) is a German animator, cartoonist, and voice actor. Before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1988 to 1990, he attended König-Karlmann-Gymnasium Altötting. He worked as an animator in London in 1991, then studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg until 1995. Since then he works as animation director, partly at "Studio Filmbilder" in Stuttgart, and as the Professor for Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Hykade's trademark style is based on very simple characters which move in smooth animation. Sometimes, like in the two music videos for Gigi D'Agostino, there's just a line over a flat color, much like the classical La Linea-character of Osvaldo Cavandoli (to which they are a loving homage). Often his characters feature single strokes as arms and legs, in this Hykade is similar to German comic artist OL [de], or the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney.
Known For
Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig is a German television series.
TOM & das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig
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Lena's Farm
"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney.
Hitler's Folly
A mousetrap snaps shut. A dusty town square awakens. A group of men debate how to kill the animal in the little box – each trying to outdo the others’ increasingly sadistic fantasies. Until a stranger suggests letting the creature loose. A voice of reason? Or the sickest manipulator of them all?
Fuse
Hykade's third and final part of The Country Trilogy. The once dead father of "We Lived in Grass" returns. "I give you the runt," he says. "But you take care of it and you kill it next year."
The Runt
"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."
Altötting
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Octopus
"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.
We Lived in Grass
A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.
Nuggets
Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING.
Some Thing
War, what is it good for?
Dealing with War
Myself tries to remember the secret of the universe.
Myself: Universe
Myself introduces a film festival
HAFF 2014 Festival Leader
An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.
Love and Theft
A CG short that tells the intimate story of a successful catch.
Loom
Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.
Ring of Fire
Myself tries to quit smoking.
Myself: Smoke
Part of Halas and Bachelor's unfinished "Know your Europeans" series by the late John Halas. The film takes an irreverent, funny and - at times downright bizarre look at German history.
Johann Sebastian Bach in Euro Deutschland
An anagrammatic exorcism of David Bowie's album title "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars." He explores the aesthetic possibilities and joys of metamorphosis through artificial intelligence using the language of rock 'n' roll—and also very much in the spirit of the master of pop metamorphosis, David Bowie himself.