Interactive animation 'The Lost Book' up for Bafta

Published on Saturday 24 October 2009 11:16

AN INTERACTIVE animation created to promote the city's 2009 reading campaign has been nominated for a Bafta Scotland Award.

The online The Lost Book was created by Edinburgh-based digital animation studio Binary Fable, and is part of the Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature Trust's 2009 reading campaign, The Lost World Read.

It has been nominated in the Interactive category of the awards, making it the first Bafta

Scotland nomination for Binary Fable and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, whose musicians performed the accompanying soundtrack for The Lost Book.

Rather than a re-telling of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale The Lost World, the team at Binary Fable asked people to send in their own ideas for a story about intrepid reporter Aileen Adler and her dog Watson, as they investigate the mysterious case of a stolen book.

Animator and director of Binary Fable, Helen Jackson, said: "We're absolutely delighted and it is a huge pat on the back for us. We think The Lost Book project was pretty special, so it is great that the judging panel thought so too."

The awards ceremony, which celebrates the best in Scottish TV, film and multimedia, will take place on Sunday, 8 November.