The Collision Awards Releases New Trend Report on The State of Animation in 2025
May 15, 2025
The stream of top-shelf CG motion projects coming out of VDAS (Visual Design & Art School) in Seoul continues with this Zen-influenced student work for a premium electric kettle by Japanese brand Balmuda directed and animated by Yujin Song. [Watch]
Join us on Saturday, June 14 at the Roulette Theatre in Brooklyn as Motion Plus Design brings together some of the world’s leading motion design artists. Can’t make it in person? Replay tickets are available. [Watch]
With their second installment in the Love Death + Robots series dropping last week and a recent flurry of outstanding commercial work, it’s safe to say the crew at BUCK are on a roll with no signs of stopping for breath. [Watch]
Barcelona art director and designer Santi Zoraidez (whose work you can sample here), leans into the fun side of CG in this bouncy film for Danish e-bike brand MATE and their latest model, the family-focused MATE GO+. [Watch]
In this new work for Chinese personal care appliance brand Laifen, Shenzhen-based motion designer/director Chiu Ho answers the question: Just how much style and drama can you pack into a video for an electric toothbrush? [Watch]
The wonderfully quirky Amazon series Octopus! compliments its fresh take on nature documentaries with charming stop-motion sequences by director/animator Hayley Morris produced thru NERD Productions in London with NYC studio Mighty Oak. [Watch]
Detroit creative content agency Hook elevates what could have been a very dry how-to explainer for Google Labs’ new Whisk image generation tool into a music-driven flurry of motion laying out the platform’s features and benefits. [Watch]
Beijing CG specialists CCLAB just dropped us their latest opus for Huawei, a carefully rendered spot that elegantly reveals both style and technical details of the brand’s Mate XT Ultimate Design tri-fold smartphone. [Watch]
In 2020 directing collective (and CG iconoclasts) Meat Dept slipped the freakishly fun “Very Noise” video for French musician Igorrr into the media ecosystem. In this latest collaboration, they merge 3D with AI for a truly anarchic clip. [Watch]
RSA Films director Marie Schuller and The Mill VFX crew have a blast demonstrating the visual fun possible with social-first AI video platform Pika in this unhinged spot produced thru New York studio/agency Ceiling Train. [Watch]
The 25th edition of the OFFF Festival wrapped Saturday in Barcelona with this meditative film from Territory Studio, its cinematic vistas underscored with audio by Echoic and a poem by Spanish writer/filmmaker Jade de Robles. [Watch]
Mining the infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death for more fun than you thought possible, the BUCK crew merge retro ascii design with traditional 2D animation in this wholly unique anthem film for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. [Watch]
Billing her new podcast as “narrative nonfiction exploring the creative industry through storytelling”, director Sarah Beth Morgan promises the five biweekly Ghost Frame episodes are not just for animators. [Watch]
The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX (aka the Stash Permanent Collection) keeps growing with the 31 new and outstanding video projects included in Stash 171. [Watch]
