FANtasia - Shared Lands

3D animated short about the beauty of remix culture

2020

Welcome to FANtasia, shared lands. Ruled by passion and creative freedom, these worlds are based on our pop culture and inhabited by derivative characters.

As kids, we grew attached to the stories we all watched, thus sharing a culture that connects us on a very emotional level. This bond is easily shared on the web, where both amateur and professional artists contribute to this culture with their own derivative works – Works that break the rules given by big companies, thus enabling total creative freedom. The relationship between producer and consumer is transformed, shifting from a passive to a more active one. The stories that were once linear and untouchable become now universes that are constantly changing and open for us to explore.

The animation is part of the semester project ELIZA&FRANKENSTEIN at UniBZ, led by professors Eva Leitolf, Giulia Cordin and German A. Duarte.

The animation was part of Pictoplasma 2020, the world’s leading festival for contemporary character design and art.

Installation

During the GOG exhibition at the Free University of Bolzano, an interactive installation was present with the video.

It consisted in a poster with a blank world, where the audience was invited to become part of this participatory culture by recombining heads and bodies of the characters seen on the animation, creating their own version of the recurring figures.