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The Literary Platform

Inventing the Book Properly

The International Douglas Adams Animation Competition

The Literary Platform hosts an international competition inviting creatives to produce an animation that illustrates a rare and prophetic audio recording of Douglas Adams talking in 1993 about the Evolution of the Book.

Judging Panel:
Stephen Fry, Bob Stein (SocialBook, Inc), Ranjit Dhaliwal (The Guardian)
and Merlin Nation / Chris Angelkov (Atyp).

About the Competition
- The Brief
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- Prizes
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About Douglas Adams
About Towel Day
About The Literary Platform
Deadline: 15th April 2012
Winner announced: 25th May 2012

Can you animate the prophetic thoughts of Douglas Adams?

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A stop motion animation explaining the devolpment of the book.

Getting The Book Invented

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Description A stop motion animation explaining the devolpment of the book. Achievements

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A stop motion animation explaining the devolpment of the book.

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Getting The Book Invented

Alber(the fellow) and Liisa(the girl) would be happy to meet you.

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JohannaAnimator animated

an animation

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A Little invention

A mixed media piece focusing on the development of the bound book according to Douglas Adams.

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Sick as a book

Combining the Wit and Humor of Douglas Adams with Kinetic Typography and Character Animation.

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DA: Invention of the book

Viewmaster disk on the technical advances of literature.

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Voyager Expanded Books

Static Frame Animation by Jake Rowlinson

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Getting the Book Invented

A 100% accurate, educational animated short, designed to explain the trials of book invention.

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A History of the Book

Getting the book invented properly by Douglas Adams

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Evolution of the book

All visual elements drawn in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.

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Literary Animation

Didgetal cut out animation showing the processes behind the invention of the book

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Getting the book Invented

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Rock Based Hardware

Animated by Gavin Edwards.

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Getting the Book Invented

Flash animation

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Getting the book invented

Getting the Book Invented Properly written and performed by Douglas Adams. Animated by Mike Belgrave.

Inventing the Book

A short animation to Douglas Adams's 1993 recording for Voyager Expanded Books on the invention of the book

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Getting The Book Invented

Douglas Adams Animation: Getting the Book Invented Properly by Jaime Nelson

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Voyager Expanded Books

Compilation of animation styles depicting the invention of the book.

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Visual Communication

Playing with words

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Getting the Book invented

From scrolls to books!

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The Turning Point

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