Vintage applauds ‘explosion of ideas’ as Kingston Animation Prize winners revealed

The winners of the Kingston Animation Prize 2022 have been revealed, with Vintage praising this year’s “brilliant and diverse, beautifully illustrated and presented” entries.

Run annually in partnership between Kingston University’s undergraduate animation course and Vintage, all the prize entries can be viewed on the Vintage YouTube channel.

This year students on Kingston University’s BA Illustration Animation course were tasked with creating a 30-second promotional animation for Gabrielle Zevin’s eagerly awaited novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, which is being published in July 2022.  

The judges included Zevin, Bafta-nominated writer, game developer and narrative designer Chella Ramanan, Vintage’s brand director Natasha Collie, creative director Suzanne Dean and senior designer Matt Broughton.  

Huihsuan Chou, Hanna Jang, Chen Ma and Yelim Ma made up the winning team, taking home £1,000. They said: “We really enjoyed the making of the animation and exploring this incredible book... We hope the audience can feel the memories and emotions linked to the book as we did.”

Second prize, worth £500, went to Sasha Alfille, Marta Casagrande, Anna Glasman, Honor Kingsnorth and Molly Weeden with Francies Keung, Hyo Kim, Sunyoung Lee, Coco Shi and Maureen Weng awarded the £350 third prize. 

Theresa Longvastøl, Amelia Redcliffe and Dharyl Usina were Highly Commended with £250 for their Gameboy-inspired animation. 

Dean said she was “really impressed with the standard and variety of the animations” this year, which displayed “such brilliant and diverse solutions, beautifully illustrated and presented”.

Collie added: “At Vintage, we believe in reading boldly to think differently, so it was brilliant to see such an explosion of surprising, moving and daring ideas sparked by the novel.”