The Barbican Centre and Aurum Press launch Ray Harryhausen animation competition.

Winners to meet Ray Harryhausen and have their stop-motion animation screened at the Barbican.

Three winners will:

• Meet Ray at his London home
• Have their short animations screened at the Barbican during a special Ray

Harryhausen event, featuring some of the UK’s leading animators including Nick Park,

in spring 2012
• Receive an individual hour-long session with animation tutors at the National School of

Film and Television
• Win a year’s free Yellow membership to the Barbican, including 20% off all films
• Bag signed copies of Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy Scrapbook, The Art of Ray

Harryhausen and A Century of Modern Animation

Entry to this spectacular competition is via a storyboard, rather than a finished animation. A selection of storyboard templates can be downloaded from www.dontpaniconline.com/rayharryhausen. Entrants should go to the same page to upload their finished entries – all on the theme of monsters. Finished storyboards will sit in a viewing gallery where visitors to the site can vote for their favourites. The ten entries with the most votes, together with up to two judges’ wild cards, will make it to a shortlist judged by a distinguished panel:

• Robert Rider, Head of Cinema at the Barbican
• Helen Nabarro, Lead Animation Tutor at the National School of Film and Television • Tony Dalton, Ray’s writing partner and curator of The Ray And Diana Harryhausen

Foundation
• Jodie Mullish, Head of Marketing at Aurum Press
 

Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy Scrapbook features a wealth of previously unseen film artefacts and concept artwork, much of which was only recently discovered in a forgotten LA garage. Boasting models from unrealized projects, early scripts, storyboards, colour photos of Ray at work, as well as posters and publicity stills, it’s a visual feast for fans of one of the world’s most influential film-makers.
 

For further information please contact Liz.somers@aurumpress.co.uk or Jodie.Mullish@quarto.com or call 0207 284 7160.