The Collision Awards Releases New Trend Report on The State of Animation in 2025
May 15, 2025
If Hikari Toriumi’s poignant 4th year Calarts film “Polaris” (about a young polar bear leaving home for the first time ) doesn’t make you tear up, seek help. [Watch]
Director Paulo Garcia and São Paulo animation house Zombie target your heartstrings in this animated story of the challenges faced by a child and her family while fighting cancer “showing there’s no better treatment than love.” [Watch]
First year CalArts Character Animation student Chalky Wong combines prodigious drafting skills, an organic feel for visual storytelling, plus careful attention to the emotional quotient of his characters. [Watch]
The first VR and 360 interactive Google doodle celebrates filmmaking pioneer and VFX innovator Georges Méliès. The project was co-directed by Fx Goby at Nexus Studios and Hélène Leroux at Google. [Watch]
Watch all six installments of Modern Philosophy, a sharp and super-digestible mini series produced by LA entertainment whirlwind Super Deluxe with design and direction by Studio AKA director Eamonn O’Neill. [Watch]
A pair of raucous and irreverent CG promos riffing on the eye-shaped logo of commercial Israeli television channel Reshet 13 for their upcoming launch of the Big Brother franchise. [Watch]
Ash Thorp and rising 3D phenom Zaoeyo collaborate on a tribute to Akira, the classic 1988 anime feature film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. [Watch]
Art&Graft are back with a second helping of well-crafted character silliness for UK mobile provider SMARTY thru Wieden+Kennedy, London. [Watch]
Installed in the departure hall of Terminal 2 at Changi Airport in Singapore, “A Million Times” is a minimalist and mesmerizing 2,200-pound kinetic sculpture created by Stockholm artist collective Humans since 1982. [Watch]
Celebrated documentarian Errol Morris and The Mill VFX crew work with forensic artists to recreate two young men who wonder what their lives would be like today – if they hadn’t been killed in distracted driving accidents. [Watch]
Google Creative Lab and Anyways Creative in London commission nine animators to each create a fun pop vox film based on the real-life experiences of seasoned iPhone users trying out Google’s Pixel 2 phone. [Watch]
LA studio Capacity opened the PromaxGames Summit in San Francisco this week with these ambitious sponsor titles riffing on an open world version of the host city jammed with action and fun. [Watch]
Young Russian studio Superdesigners just arrived on the Stash radar with this submission: the meticulous and austere CG promo for an exhibition of kinetic and op art at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. [Watch]
CalArts Character Animation student Chia-Hsin Lee takes the road less travelled by restricting the lead character of his short film “In an Empty Wood” to the role of narrator. [Watch]
