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Here are the winners of the second edition of ANN Awards

AnimationXpress Team

On 17 July, Animation Xpress concluded the second edition of Kids, Animation & More (KAM) Summit that successfully brought all the stakeholders of the animation space from all across the globe. The summit was followed by a grand award ceremony titled ANN Awards where the best talents in the world of animation were honoured and recognised for their artistry and creativity.

KAM Summit and ANN awards were presented by Nick and co-powered by Cosmos-Maya, Unreal-Engine and Discovery Kids. YOTTA served as the workstation partner and OTT service partner whereas Green Gold Animation was the summit partner. ABAI promoting Centre of Excellence (COE) were the associate partners and the event was supported by in10 Media -GUBBARE and HUION. Tokyo-based TBS’ Digicon6 Asia was the festival partner and ASIFA India was the community partner.

Animators, studios, and individuals from institutes participated across 66 categories, setting a benchmark in the animation space. Over 450 plus artists were judged by a well-qualified 10 member jury through an online mechanism. The jurors were Vidit Kundra, Shilpa Ranade, Yoshiya Ayugai, Sekhar Mukherjee, Joan Vogelesang, Indrajit Nattoji, Anil Wanvari, Vivek Ram, Jack Liang, Dhimant Vyas.

The winners will be receiving the Ann Awards trophy along with digital certificates.

This year to honour the creative genius and champion of Indian animation industry, the late Arnab Chaudhuri, AnimationXpress introduced a new recognition, ‘The Arnab Chaudhuri Director’s Award’. To select the winners, an Awards Committee was put in place that consisted of people who have been associated with Arnab and understood his philosophies. They are Vaibhav Kumaresh, Ashish Kulkarni, Pete Bishop, Orion Ross, P Jayakumar, Prakash Moorthy, Hari Varma, Anil Wanvari and Ashima Avasthi.

The winning student director under ‘The Arnab Chaudhuri Young Ace Award – Short Form content’ will be awarded with a cash prize of Rs 15,001 and the winner of ‘The Arnab Chaudhuri Young Ace Award – Long fort Form content’ will be awarded with Rs 33,001. The cash prize is a joint contribution from Ashima Avasthi, Vaibhav Studios and AnimationXpress. The winners will also receive a digital tablet from our support partner HUION. 

Here’s the list of Ann Awards nominations and winners:

PROGRAMMING

Best Preschool Show

Best Channel Packaging

Best Promo

Best 2D Animated Series

Best 3D animated series

Best Animated Film

Best Animated Short Film

Best Music Composer

Best Remotely Produced Content

DIGITAL/ OTT AWARDS

Best Animated Film

Best Animated Digital Series

Best Animated Music Video

Best Remotely Produced content

Best Animated Social Media Brand

Best Reels

TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Title Design

Best Title Song

Best Editing in an Animated TV Series

Best Editing in an Animated Film

Best Editing in an Animated Digital Series

Best Director of an Animated TV series

Technical Awards

Best Director of an Animated Film

Best Director of a Digital Series

Best Screenplay

Best Character Design

Best Character Animation

Best Voice Over Artist for a TV series – Male

Best Voice Over Artist for a Digital series – Female

Best Technical Innovation

L&M (Licensing & Merchandising) Awards

Best Animated Character Merchandise

Best Animated Series Merchandise

Best Licensed Animated Character Programme

Best Licensed Animated Series Programme

Best use of Leveraging a Character for Brand Marketing

MAM (Media, Advertising and Marketing) Awards

Best Animated Brand Film

Best Digital Campaign for an Animated Series

Best use of Animated Character in a Brand TVC

Best Experiential Marketing

Best Brand Collaboration

Best Innovative Campaign

Student Awards

Best Student 3D Film

Best Student 2D film

SPECIAL AWARDS

Best Animator – Female

Best Animator – Male

Best Indie Studio

Young Animator of the Year

Best Animated Music Video

Best Bollywood inspired animated IP

Best use of animation in a public service message nominees

Best Syndicated Content  

EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARDS

Best 3D Series Overall- TV and OTT

Most Expansive Studio of the Year
Cosmos-Maya

The Arnab Chaudhuri Director’s Award

The Arnab Chaudhuri Young ACE Award – Short Form

The Arnab Chaudhuri Young ACE Award – Long Form

The Arnab Chaudhuri Animation ACE Award

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