Pink Floyd Animation Competition
Harry Pearce judges a special animation competition to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
Pentagram’s Harry Pearce joined fellow creatives Terry Gilliam, Anton Corbijn, Gerald Scarfe, Sarah Smith, Nick Mason, Kyle Alba and Daisy Jacob to judge a special animation competition to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
The competition is the brainchild of longstanding Pink Floyd collaborator and Hipgnosis founder Aubrey Powell, and the judges are from the worlds of art, design, photography and film.
Entrants were invited to create an animation based on one of the ten tracks from the band’s iconic 1973 LP, which was reissued last year in a special collector’s edition box set designed by Harry and fellow Pentagram partner Jon Marshall.
There were over 900 entries from around the world, ranging from a simple line drawing stop frame piece, a well-crafted and complicated digital-based film, to an AI computer-generated artwork.
One animation was chosen for each track, with prizes awarded to the top three:
—1st place £100,000 prize goes to Rati Dabrundashvili for Brain Damage
—2nd place £50,000 prize goes to David Horne for Time
—3rd place £25,000 prize goes to Monica Fibbi for Eclipse
Watch all ten winning entries on the official Pink Floyd YouTube channel now!
