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Collision Awards For Excellence in Animation & Motion Design \u2013 Call for Entries Now Open<\/h2>\n

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For the second year, animation industry leaders have joined forces with the organizers of The Telly Awards to hold The Collision Awards \u2013 the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honouring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms. Following a successful inaugural year, they continue to celebrate the unique and incomparable creativity and technical talent in Animation and Motion Design across Digital Communication, Commercials, Television, Film, Experiential, Games & XR. This year, new opportunities for recognition include the Best in Style category, which will be awarded to excellent work in various artistic styles, such as stop-motion, anime and puppetry. Whether an indie game, an explainer video or short form film, all animated work has a place here. With winners set to be announced in July 2025, the call for entries is now open at https:\/\/collisionawards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Key industry partners include\u00a0Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, Animation Nights New York, Epic Games, Motion Plus Design, SIGGRAPH ACM London, Skwigly, Stash, VIEW Conference\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0WeTransfer<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m most excited for the people behind the animation and motion design industry to finally have a world-class awards show designed specifically for them \u2013 and most importantly, to have those awards created and managed by the team who built The Telly Awards into a household name. Scale and gravitas matter and The Collision Awards already feel like they have both,\u201d says Stephen Price, Executive Editor of Stash Magazine, a founding Collision Awards partner.<\/p>\n

Leading animators and executives across television, marketing, advertising, games and film will review and judge thousands of expected entries. This year\u2019s jurors include\u00a0Rikke Asbjoern<\/b>\u00a0(Writer, Director and Executive Producer\/We Lost Our Human\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Pinky Malinky<\/i>),\u00a0Justin Cone<\/b>\u00a0(Global Head of Communications\/BUCK),\u00a0Sarah Cox\u00a0<\/b>(Executive Creative Director\/Aardman),\u00a0Marge Dean<\/b>\u00a0(Head of Skybound Animation Studio and President\/Women in Animation),\u00a0Ronnie del Carmen<\/b>\u00a0(Co-director & writer of Pixar\u2019s\u00a0Inside Out<\/i>),<\/i>\u00a0Suresh Eriyat<\/b>\u00a0(Founder and Creative Director\/Studio Eeksaurus Productions),\u00a0Maureen Fan<\/b>\u00a0(Chief Executive Officer\/Baobab Studios),\u00a0Jinko Gotoh\u00a0<\/b>(Producer\/Finding Nemo<\/i>),\u00a0Jorge Gutierrez\u00a0<\/b>(El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Maya and the Three)<\/i>,\u00a0Patrick Harpin\u00a0<\/b>(Creator and Executive Producer\/My Dad the Bounty Hunter<\/i>),\u00a0Michael Knapp<\/b>\u00a0(Production Designer\/Blue Sky Studios and Hornet),\u00a0Andrew Millstein\u00a0<\/b>(Co-Head\/Annapurna Animation),\u00a0Gilles Monteil\u00a0<\/b>(Animation Expert\/Ubisoft),\u00a0Ramsey Naito<\/b>\u00a0(President\/Paramount Animation and President\/Nickelodeon Animation),\u00a0Miles Perkins<\/b>\u00a0(Business Development\/Epic Games),\u00a0Troy Quane<\/b>\u00a0(Director\/Nimona<\/i>),\u00a0Claire Renton<\/b>\u00a0(Animation Director\/Ludo Studio), and\u00a0Phil Rynda<\/b>\u00a0(Director of Original Animation\/The Pokemon Company International) among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really want to contribute to the recognition and reward of talent and quality work in our field,\u201d says Sarah Cox, Executive Creative Director and a member of the Board of Directors at renowned studio, Aardman.<\/p>\n

The Collision Awards is supported by the executives behind the annual Telly Awards, an award \u201chonoring excellence in video and television across all screens,\u201d since 1979. With over 13,000 annual entries, The Telly Awards has seen the vast amount of remarkable work being done by talented people working specifically in animation across industries and realized there was a critical need and opening for this kind of recognition.<\/p>\n

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. Last year\u2019s winners included Pixar Animation Studios,\u00a0The Daily Show,<\/i>\u00a0Bloomberg Media, Sony Pictures Animation, Crunchyroll, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Netflix and Buck.<\/p>\n

Winners of The 2nd Annual Collision Awards will be announced in July, 2025. Call for entries are now open. The early entry deadline is 30th May\u00a02025<\/strong>. Complete details on the submission process are available at\u00a0https:\/\/collisionawards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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