The Collision Awards Releases New Trend Report on The State of Animation in 2025
May 15, 2025
Damon Lindelof, aka A-list screenwriter and multi-Emmy-winning creator/showrunner of HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen, details the origin of his love of comic books with animated help from director Ivan Dixon and the crew at Studio Showoff in Melbourne. [Watch]
Directors Henrique Bueno and Two Lost Kids at Brazilian prodco The Youth whip together multiple facets of Japanese pop culture into a frothy concoction for the national launch of Wasabi flavored Doritos. [Watch]
São Paulo’s Zombie Studio continues their commitment to helping wildlife and environmental causes with their latest work for WWF – an animated appeal to help save pangolins, the mammal most threatened by wildlife trafficking. [Watch]
Blinkink director Alex Grigg says he’s “always wondered what goes on inside a kid’s mind when they taste something delicious for the first time.” He got the chance to explore just that in this spot for Nestle’s NaturNes line of baby food. [Watch]
Passion directors MegaComputeur, best known for their sharp comedic work, steer a more serious course here creating a marine metaphor for the disorientation and fear that Alzheimer’s can cause patients and their families. [Watch]
Directors Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins tap into all the pent up schadenfreude you feel for internet trolls in this breakout music video for Makeup & Vanity Set (aka Nashville electronic producer Matthew Pusti). [Watch]
The Stash Permanent Collection continues to expand with STASH 143 adding another 31 outstanding motion projects plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews. Check the two-minute preview to see the new inductees. [Watch]
The Adult Swim Smalls series of short films continue to generate smiles with off-kilter motion experiments like this low-key comic treat from director/animator Michael Marczewski in London. [Watch]
Instead of cutting together the usual demo reel, French motion house Studio River introduced themselves as sponsors of the most recent Motion Plus Design event in Paris with this refreshing mock manifesto. [Watch]
Slovenian digital artist Twistedpoly (aka Nejc Polovsak) teams with LA composer and sound designer White Noise Lab for his latest personal CG project, a taut and vivid expedition into the surreal called “Flow”. [Watch]
A high point in director Cyrille Smaha’s ongoing series of brand films for French fashion house Chanel, episode 27 further expands the mystique of company founder Coco Chanel with a dizzying flurry of celebrity and collage. [Watch]
The 2020 Brazilian League of Legends Championship finals opened with director Jan Xavier and the crew at São Paulo animation studio Histeria! turning their hometown into a giant LoL match crammed with street art, VFX, and typography. [Watch]
Glasgow design and motion studio Playdead stepped into the limelight at the 2020 Scottish Design Awards last week, winning the Grand Prix as well as designing this opening sequence for the event’s awards night. [Watch]
The VFX crew at Untold in London, who brought you this fire-sneezing dragon and this very calm bull, pack the digital muscle onto the latest comedy epic for European DIY chain Hornbach, directed by Tom Kuntz thru Heimat Berlin. [Watch]
