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By Emma Whitfield
January 27, 2025
2025 Collision Awards

COLLISION AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN ANIMATION AND MOTION DESIGN ANNOUNCES SEASON 2

Call for Entries are Now Open!

2nd Annual Collision Awards Call for Entries Announced
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The Collision Awards, First Ever Honor Recognizing Animation and Motion Design In All Its Forms, Returns For Year Two

Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, Animation Nights New York, Epic Games, Motion Plus Design, SIGGRAPH ACM London, Skwigly, Stash, VIEW Conference and WeTransfer among global partners reunite for the second year of the awards show from the group behind The Telly Awards.

Call for entries now open. Early submissions deadline is March 14th, 2025.

January 28, 2025 – For the second year, animation industry leaders have joined forces with the organizers of The Telly Awards to hold The Collision Awards – the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honoring 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.

Key industry partners include Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, Animation Nights New York, Epic Games, Motion Plus Design, SIGGRAPH ACM London, Skwigly, Stash, VIEW Conference and WeTransfer.

“I’m most excited for the people behind the animation and motion design industry to finally have a world-class awards show designed specifically for them – 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,” says Stephen Price, Executive Editor of Stash Magazine, a founding Collision Awards partner.

Leading animators and executives across television, marketing, advertising, games and film will review and judge thousands of expected entries. This year’s jurors include Rikke Asbjoern (Writer, Director and Executive Producer/We Lost Our Human and Pinky Malinky), Justin Cone (Global Head of Communications/BUCK), Sarah Cox (Executive Creative Director/Aardman), Marge Dean (Head of Skybound Animation Studio and President/Women in Animation), Ronnie del Carmen (Co-director & writer of Pixar’s Inside Out), Suresh Eriyat (Founder and Creative Director/Studio Eeksaurus Productions), Maureen Fan (Chief Executive Officer/Baobab Studios), Jinko Gotoh (Producer/Finding Nemo), Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Maya and the Three), Patrick Harpin (Creator and Executive Producer/My Dad the Bounty Hunter), Michael Knapp (Production Designer/Blue Sky Studios and Hornet), Andrew Millstein (Co-Head/Annapurna Animation), Gilles Monteil (Animation Expert/Ubisoft), Ramsey Naito (President/Paramount Animation and President/Nickelodeon Animation), Miles Perkins (Business Development/Epic Games), Troy Quane (Director/Nimona), Claire Renton (Animation Director/Ludo Studio), and Phil Rynda (Director of Original Animation/The Pokemon Company International) among others.

“I really want to contribute to the recognition and reward of talent and quality work in our field,” says Sarah Cox, Executive Creative Director and a member of the Board of Directors at renowned studio, Aardman.

The Collision Awards is supported by the executives behind the annual Telly Awards, an award “honoring excellence in video and television across all screens,” 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.

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’s winners included Pixar Animation Studios, The Daily Show, Bloomberg Media, Sony Pictures Animation, Crunchyroll, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Netflix and Buck.

Winners of The 2nd Annual Collision Awards will be announced in July, 2025. Call for entries are now open. The early entry deadline is March 14th. Complete details on the submission process are available at https://collisionawards.com.

About the Collision Awards

The Collision Awards is the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honoring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms. Launching in partnership with various industry leaders, our mission is to establish a holistic platform that celebrates the unique and incomparable creativity and technical talent in Animation and Motion Design across Digital Communications, Commercials, Television, Film, Experiential, Games & XR. We recognize how an entire industry and community can benefit when the best work and talent is credibly recognized by its community and beyond. Follow @collisionawards for more details

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