The Collision Awards For Excellence In Animation & Motion Design Announce Inaugural Winners

16 July 2024 // News

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The Collision Awards, honouring excellence in animation and motion design across all its forms, announced its inaugural Winners today including American Museum of Natural History, American Red Cross, Bank of America, Bloomberg Media, BOL Production House, Cirque du Soleil, Digital Brew, Digital Kitchen, Dress Code, Glitch Productions, Found, Magnopus, Moonraker VFX, MTV Entertainment Studios, Panic Studios, Ringling College of Art, Roof Studio, Nathan Love, Nelvana, Nickelodeon, NOMINT, MTV Entertainment Studios, Odd Fellows, Ordinary Folk, Scholar and Studio AKA,The Artery. Winners represent talent from over 30 countries and 6 continents.

For the full list of Winners visit: collisionawards.com/winners

Reflecting the tremendous growth and importance of animation in today’s media world, industry leaders joined forces with the organizers of The Telly Awards to launch the Collision Awards at the start of the year– the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honoring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms. Launched in partnership with key industry leaders and partners including Animation Magazine, Stash, WeTransfer, VIEW Conference and Unreal Engine among others, the mission is to celebrate the creativity and technical talent in Animation and Motion Design across Marketing & Communications, Commercials, Television, Film, Experiential, Games & XR. This is the first time ever that animation across all disciplines will be honored by one set of awards.

The awards honor work by studios, production companies, brands, agencies and individuals with a varied list of categories specifically focused on the intersection of creativity and technical skills unique to this community and inclusive of everyone working in the medium of animation and motion design.

“I’m truly impressed with the caliber, quality and variety of work and entrants in our inaugural season. We set out to cement the concept of animation as a medium across a breadth of media and disciplines, and I feel like we’re on our way to achieving it,” says Randeep Katari, Collision Awards General Manager. “From the biggest films in the world to localized campaigns, our winners exemplify that animation is truly a global medium, and I’m excited to see what the future of animation brings,” he continues.

Collision Award Finalists were selected by the Collision Awards Founding Jury which includes Joe Burrascano (Founder, Nathan Love), Justin Cone (Global Head of Communications, BUCK), Sarah Cox (Executive Creative Director/Aardman), Marge Dean (Head of Skybound Animation Studio and President/Women in Animation), Ronnie del Carmen (Co-director & writer of Pixar’s Inside Out), Patricia Claire (Founder, Free Agents), Maureen Fan (Chief Executive Officer/Baobab Studios), Holly Fraser (Editor-in-Chief, WePresent), Ian Jones-Quartey (Showrunner, Director, Animator & Voice Actor), Jinko Gotoh (Producer Finding Nemo), Jay Grandin (Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director/Giant Ant), Julie Lockhart (Co-Founder and President of Production/Locksmith Animation), Andrew Millstein (Co-Head/Annapurna Animation), Mike Moloney (Founder and Executive Creative Director/Art&Graft), Gilles Monteil (Animation Expert/Ubisoft), Ramsey Naito (President/Paramount Animation and President/Nickelodeon Animation), Phil Rynda (Director of Original Animation, The Pokemon Company International) Charlie Sells (Joint MD/Creative Director at Jelly), and Fred Volhuer (Co-Founder/Atlas V Group).

During the public voting stage, animation and motion design fans cast over 20,000 votes for the Collision Audience Choice Award with winners including Claynosaurz (multiple wins including Best 3D/CG Animation in Film), BUCK’s Let’s Revolution! (Best Character Design in Games) and Indian studio Zebu Animation with their Commercial LEGO Ninjago – I Just Had the Most Outrageous Dream.

Collision Awards Winners will be celebrated with a screening and reception at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center on July 23rd, 2024.

To view the full list of Winners, please visit: collisionawards.com/winners

Inaugural Collision Awards Winner Highlights:

Marketing & Communications

Ordinary Folk, General – Promotional Video, “Nouns”
R/GA, Craft – Character Animation, “Google – Android Animation Refresh”
Cirque du Soleil, Craft – Mixed Media, “Cirque du Soleil – Thank You Las Vegas”
Oddfellows, Craft – Character Animation, “Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 4”
DEPT®, Craft-Data Visualization, “Strava – Year in Sport”
BUCK, Campaign-Social Impact, “Keti Koti: Commemorating 150 Years”

Film

Sony Pictures Animation, Craft – Character Design, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Paramount Pictures, Craft – Production Design, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Crunchyroll, Craft – Character Animation, “Suzume”
Netflix, General – Kids & Family, “Nimona”
SenzaTesta, Craft – Stop Motion, “Impossible Maladies”
Pixar Animation Studios, Craft – Production Design, “Elemental”
Walt Disney Studios, Craft – Production Design, “Self”

Television

Studio AKA, Craft – Title Sequence, “Queen Charlotte: a Bridgerton Story”
Walt Disney Animation Studios, General -Fantasy & Sci-Fi, “Iwájú”
Nickelodeon, Craft – Music, “Rugrats: Purim”
Digital Kitchen, Craft – Title Sequence, “Sugar Main Title”
Paramount/CBS Studios, Series – Comedy “Star Trek – Lower Decks”
Headspace Series – Kids & Family, “The Mindful Adventures of Unicorn Island”
Glitch Productions, Craft – Best 3D/CG Animation, “The Amazing Digital Circus: Pilot”
Nelvana, Series – Pre-School, “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go”

Commercials

Giant Ant, Craft -Best 2D Animation, “Rover: To My Hooman”
Golden Wolf, Craft – Best 2D Animation, “Weetabix: Three Little Pigs”
Tonic DNA, Craft – Character Animation, “Mr. Beaver’s Yule Log”
Hornet, Craft – Art Direction, “Year of the Rabbit”
Passion Pictures, Craft – Stop Motion, “Fuzzy Feelings
MTV Entertainment/CBS Studios, Craft – Motion Design, “Movies Live Here – Film in the Blank”
BOL Production House, General – Sports, “L’Odyssée Grandeza”
Iamstatic, Craft – Best 3D/CG Animation, Dell – Precision 3000 Series

Experiential

American Museum of Natural History, General-Museum & Galleries, “AMNH African Elephants Anatomy”
The-Artery, General – Social Impact, “Louisiana Civil Rights Museum, DreamCube™”
Walt Disney Animation Studios, General – Theme Parks, “Zootopia: Hot Pursuit”
Aggressive, Craft – Art Direction, “Murals”
Sacramento Kings, General – Sports, “Sacramento Kings 2023-24 Season Ribbons”
Found, General – Experimental, “INVISIBLE”

Games & XR

BUCK, Games – Strategy & Puzzle, “Let’s! Revolution!”
Magnopus, XR – Education & Training, “Holocaust Museum Los Angeles: Augmented Reality Education App”
Warner Bros. Discovery/Cartoon Network, Games – Kids & Family “Playing it Forward with Cartoon Network Game On!”
Oddfellows, Games – Strategy & Puzzle, “Playground”