Directing
Andreas Hykade
Born 1968-01-01 · Altötting, Bavaria, Germany
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.
Acting credits
1.0"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
2021
7.0A 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
2018
4.2"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
2016
Behind the camera
1.0"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
2021
1.0"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
2021
1.0"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
2021
NRMyself tries to remember the secret of the universe.
Myself: Universe
2015
6.2An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.
Love and Theft
2010
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.
Dr. Dr. Themefart
2025
5.2Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.
Ring of Fire
2000
5.2Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.
Ring of Fire
2000
7.3Hykade'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
2006
7.2A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.
Nuggets
2014
7.2A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.
Nuggets
2014
NRMyself tries to quit smoking.
Myself: Smoke
2015
5.0"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
1995
5.0"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
1995
NRWar, what is it good for?
Dealing with War
2022
NRWar, what is it good for?
Dealing with War
2022
NRMyself introduces a film festival
HAFF 2014 Festival Leader
2014