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RTS recognition for º£½ÇÖ±²¥ animators

Animators who made a film while studying at º£½ÇÖ±²¥ are in the running for a national award.

BA (Hons) Computer Character Animation graduates Lars Ellingbo, Lief Einar Eide and Ben Klimmek are behind Old Habits Die Hard, which has been nominated for a national accolade in the Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Awards. The animated film, about an elderly woman in an electric wheelchair challenging a young motorcyclist at set of traffic lights, has already earned them a Regional RTS Student Television Award for Animation.

The RTS Student Television Awards are judged in four categories – Animation, Entertainment, Factual and Fiction. The team behind Old Habits Die Hard will be in London for the announcement of national winners of RTS Student Television Awards on Friday 7 May.

Their film was showcased among other work by students from the University’s School of Computing in the ExpoTees 2009 exhibition.

Since graduating from º£½ÇÖ±²¥ they have gone on to set up The Wishing Well animation studios, based in the University’s Institute of Digital Innovation in the Phoenix Building.

A great achievement Lars, 24, who is originally from Oslo, Norway, said: 'It’s a really great achievement for our film to be nominated for the national award, as winning the regional award has already helped to raise awareness of our work.'

He came to º£½ÇÖ±²¥ to study animation after spending two years at the Noroff Institute in Norway.

Lars said: 'It was the success of the international Animex Festival, held at º£½ÇÖ±²¥, which helped my decision to come here to study. The facilities and support available here at the IDI are very good and the opportunities here are great.'

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