Kingston Animation Prize 2017 2nd Prize: Life and Fate

’The drawing was brilliant. The thought that had gone into how figures were highlighted paid off fantastically. The film was sympathetic to the text, themes and characters. It was moving… a hard thing to pull off in such a short passage of film. Genius.’ The Kingston Animation Prize is an annual competition sponsored by Vintage and run with final year students on the Kingston University animation course. The students are invited to script and create short animated films based on a book selected by Vintage. In recent years, internationally acclaimed authors such as Salman Rushdie, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jonas Karlsson have been involved. Working as illustrators, animators, producers and scriptwriters, the students are divided into teams and given artistic licence to create their animations in any way they choose. For 2017, the project was the Vintage Classics Russians series, six of the greatest works of Russian literature published for the centenary of the Russian Revolution.