The Collision Awards Releases New Trend Report on The State of Animation in 2025
May 15, 2025
From Buck: “How can you say no to working with 36 x (2560 x 1800) = 165,888,000 pixels of fun?? Teaming up with our friends at Google, we had a blast wrangling pixels for this installation. [Watch]
SCAD Motion Media student Aishwarya Sadasivan describes her animated allegory “Cayona” as “a personal dedication to the wonderful immigrants who have found their happy kingdom – America.” [Watch]
The crew at Gentleman Scholar pay tribute to the 2018 World Cup with this animated in-house project dedicated to “not just the event itself, but also to the unifying nature of this sport in general.” [Watch]
Vasil Hnatiuk, an American designer/director based in Vietnam, explores his fascination with the potential of synthetic biology in this ambitious scifi-flavored personal project. [Watch]
UK director Oscar Hudson’s quest for completely fresh ways to capture your attention continues with this left field music video called “Holy Ghost” for Scottish trio Young Fathers – shot with an ultra long range military grade thermal surveillance camera. [Watch]
Los Angeles animator Steve Smith extends the vibrant and surreal 3D style he’s used in broadcast work for Adult Swim and MTV into a full three and a half minutes of engaging whimsy for the single “Misheard” by LA trio Moaning. [Watch]
A novel and charming stop-motion project designed to raise awareness of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean – created by Studio Flox in Stuttgart, Germany for Humany Tee Clothing and NGO Jugend Rettet e.V. [Watch]
Following his excellent dissection of the relationship between existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, director/animator Andrew Khosravani takes on the fraught dynamics of psychoanalytic pioneers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. [Watch]
Somesuch director Kim Gehrig fuses the talents of French choreographer Olivier Casamayou, Trim editor Fouad Gaber, and a compact Framestore VFX crew into a riveting music promo for R&B legend Chaka Khan guaranteed to jump-start your mood. [Watch]
Inspired by their crushing daily commutes thru Los Angeles (and Elon Musk’s proposed underground Loop), CDs Brett Morris and Stephen Panicara at Ranger & Fox conjure an in-house ode to the city and its tenacious traffic. [Watch]
The Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV) set the tone for the premier of their “Yellowstone” series on June 20 with these atmospheric and angst-filled titles by CD Lisa Bolan and the Elastic crew. [Watch]
Should America experience a pandemic, President Trump’s tendencies toward nationalism may fuel the fire, argues The Atlantic writer Ed Yong. [Watch]
If you’re up for a few minutes of pure ambient abstraction then we suggest a peek at the latest work from UK director/animator Ruffmercy, a hand-rendered and constantly evolving painting for HAND, aka Berlin musician Sascha Bachmann. [Watch]
Here’s a little levity for the first Friday of your summer animated by Monster Truck Ninja and fueled by Neal Hefti’s “Batman Theme” from the original 1966 TV series. [Watch]
