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Vintage x Kingston Animation Prize winners revealed
Misa Asa, Selin Charlton, Jasmine Tokaya and Hannah Thomsen have won the £1,000 Kingston Animation Prize 2024 for their 30-second promotional animation for Holly Gramazio’s take on the traditional romantic comedy, The Husbands (due April 2024).
The Kingston Animation Prize is run annually in partnership between Kingston University’s Illustration Animation BA course and Vintage.
Judges included Gramazio; award-winning illustrator and game developer Marlowe Dobbe; and Vintage’s own brand director Ruth Waldram and creative director Suzanne Dean.
The winning team said: “We enjoyed representing The Husbands in our own way and making the book come to life through animation. Many thanks to Holly and Vintage for giving us this opportunity, and in case you’re wondering, yes, we did spend over an hour sculpting bodybuilder-husband.”
The judges praised the clay stop-motion animation, with Gramazio applauding the “bold colours, the simplicity, the clarity” and its connection to the book cover while also being "its own strange and wonderful thing”.
The second prize, worth £750, went to Erica Di Gregorio, Ellie Horn, Grendel Podmore and Maya Horner for their magazine and collage-inspired animation, with Johanna Rast, Lola Skeet, Tom Willcox, Katherine E Talbot and Gabriel Uprichard awarded the £500 third prize for their creative work with light and shadow.
Gramazio said of the competition: "I can’t tell you how much I loved seeing the Kingston students interpret The Husbands and put their own spin on the story and characters. The animations were filled with personality and fun, and they really captured distinct details of the book in a way that perhaps only animation can – from transforming furniture to morphing faces to buzzing lights to spinning wheels or rolling dice."
