War: Kids Drawings

20 min
1 episode
For many decades, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg has kept about 700 unique children’s drawings that were created during the Siege of Leningrad (September 8, 1941 — January 27, 1944). These drawings, collected by workers in kindergartens, orphanages and schools, reflect a child’s view of wartime events, exposing their feelings and ideas. Almost every drawing has an accompanying text — a short story by a child about what they drew. Educators often recorded such stories and pasted them into albums, carefully preserving them as a document of the era.

For the 75th anniversary of WW2 Victory we decided to bring these drawings back to life — in VR animation. World’s most famous creative minds in virtual illustration have taken part in the project. The global team of VR artists — Stuart “Sutu” Campbell (Australia), Rosie Summers (UK), Vladimir VRHUMAN Ilic (Germany) and Denis Semionov (Russia) — have transformed historic war-time drawings into virtual space. Each artist has created an immersive illustration in his unique style.

General informations


Production companies :
RT Creative Lab

Crew & cast

Production designer :
Revaz Todua
Art director :
Denis Semionov
Sound designer :
Eldar Salamov
Creative Director :
Kirill Karnovich-Valua

Festivals

2021