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.
Directed
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Nuggets (2014) — Director
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Ring of Fire (2000) — Director
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Love and Theft (2010) — Director
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We Lived in Grass (1995) — Director
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The Runt (2006) — Director
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Altötting (2021) — Director
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Dealing with War (2022) — Director
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HAFF 2014 Festival Leader (2014) — Director
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Myself: Smoke (2015) — Director
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Myself: Universe (2015) — Director
- Dr. Dr. Themefart (2025) — Director
