Image credits: Left - Aurelie Charmeu, Right - Taqiyah Iman Binte Junaidi
Image credits: Left - Aurelie Charmeu, Right - Taqiyah Iman Binte Junaidi

The GIF Challenge is an annual collaboration between Puttnam School of Film & Animation (LASALLE College of the Arts) and Singapore Book Council. For its second edition, participants may choose to accept EITHER the GIF Challenge OR Comic Cover Challenge.

Participants had two days (20th & 21st March) to create either an Animated GIF or a Comic Cover Illustration based on a selection of short texts kindly provided by authors from the Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC) 2021.

More than 100 entries were received. The winners were determined by an esteemed panel of judges. Prizes such as cameras and art books were generously sponsored by NIKON, APD Singapore and LASALLE College of the Arts.


We are delighted to announce the results from the Challenge below: 

1st Place

Avery Reyes - Dust of Eden (GIF) 

Inspired by the poem May 1942, taken from the book, Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai. 
Used with permission from Albert Whitman & Company. Published 2014. 

Click on the thumbnail on the left to view the GIF.

2nd Place 

See Wen Hui - The Search for Adarna (GIF)

Inspired by an extract from the book, The Search for Adarna by K.M. Levis. 
Published by Anvil Publishing, 2019. 

Click on the thumbnail on the left to view the GIF. 

3rd Place 

Sarah Kaan - Llama Impossible (GIF)

Inspired by an extract from the book, League of Llamas: Llama Impossible by Aleesah Darlison.
Published by Puffin Books Australia, 2020. 

Click on the thumbnail on the left to view the GIF.

4th Place 

Fanny Odza - Dust of Eden (GIF)

Inspired by the poem May 1942, taken from the book, Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai. 
Used with permission from Albert Whitman & Company. Published 2014. 

Click on the thumbnail on the left to view the GIF.

5th Place 

Chayanid Siripaiboolpong - The House on Silat Road (Comic Cover) 

Inspired by an extract from The House on Silat Road by Si Hoe S.S. and Sim Ee Waun.
Published by Pepper Dog Press, 2018 

Click on the thumbnail on the left to view the full-sized image.