The AEAF Awards 2025 Finalists are now listed below.
Gold, Silver, Bronze and Special Merit award winners in each category will be announced
at the AEAF Awards on 31 July at Industrial Light & Magic Studios Sydney.
Many thanks to the many teams and studios who have entered their work. Quite a few artists and teams that are new to the festival have submitted projects this year, which is exciting, and it's also good to find familiar faces coming back again. Your entries keep AEAF Awards going and growing and are appreciated tremendously.
As happens each year, we have seen effects and animation coming in of a kind that we have never seen before - virtual techniques, artificial intelligence, more resolution and more complexity - and that means studios have needed to keep adapting and changing in the background. It's an ongoing learning process but the results look beautiful Please enjoy the huge variety, talent and skill on display here.
AEAF Awards 2025 Live
Industrial Light & Magic Studios
Moore Park Sydney 31 July
We are delighted to once again be able to hold a live AEAF Awards Evening. Join us at the Animation and VFX community's favourite annual get together. Meet old colleagues and friends and make new ones at ILM's newly opened function space. Have a drink, relax and watch the best in VFX from around the world. Don't miss the annual feast of VFX and Animation.
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Finalist Projects by Category
Better Man - Wētā FX
Feature Film VFX
Nosferatu - BlueBolt
The Electric State - Digital Domain
Venom: The Last Dance - DNEG
Mickey 17 - DNEG
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Fin Design + Effects
Deadpool and Wolverine - Framestore
The Gorge - Framestore
The Phoenician Scheme - Freefolk
Alien: Romulus - Industrial Light & Magic
Twisters - Industrial Light & Magic
Wicked - Industrial Light & Magic
Apollo 13: Survival - Revenant
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 - Rising Sun Pictures
A Complete Unknown - Rising Sun Pictures
Sonic the Hedgehog - Rodeo FX
Kraven the Hunter - Rodeo FX
Red One - Rodeo FX
White Bird - Rodeo FX
Captain America: Brave New World - Wētā FX
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - Wētā FX
Better Man - Wētā FX
Alien: Romulus - Wētā FX
A Minecraft Movie - Wētā FX
Warfare - Cinesite
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Eclipse Spaceship Reveal from Fin Design + Effects
Feature Film Sequence
Captain America: Brave New World - The Dogfight - Digital Domain
A Minecraft Movie - Piglins vs The Iron Golems - Digital Domain
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Chaos Storm - Fin Design + Effects
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Crab Spaceship Reveal - Fin Design + Effects
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Eclipse Spaceship Reveal - Fin Design + Effects
Thunderbolts - Lab Battle - Framestore
How To Train Your Dragon - Test Drive - Framestore
Alien: Romulus - Xenomorphs - Industrial Light & Magic
Alien: Romulus - Corbelan - Industrial Light & Magic
Wicked: Defying Gravity - Industrial Light & Magic
Wicked: Chistery Transformation - Industrial Light & Magic
El Alegato in the streets of Mexico City - MPC Paris
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Shibuya Crossing - Rising Sun Pictures
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 - Laser Dance Sequence - Rising Sun Pictures
Thunderbolts - Desert Sequence - Rising Sun Pictures
Better Man - Regent Street Oner - Wētā FX
How To Train Your Dragon from Framestore
Feature Film Animation
200% Wolf - Flying Bark Productions
How To Train Your Dragon - Framestore
Transformers One - Industrial Light & Magic
A Minecraft Movie - Malgosha - Wētā FX
Shogun from SSVFX
TV Series
A Thousand Blows - BlueBolt
Agatha All Along - Digital Domain
Wheel of Time - S3 - Framestore
The Diplomat Season 2 - Framestore
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 - Framestore
The Perfect Couple S1 - Framestore
Interview With the Vampire: S2 - Framestore
Doctor Who S2 - Lux - Framestore
KAOS - Freefolk
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2 - Industrial Light & Magic
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Industrial Light & Magic
The Wheel of Time - Season 3 - Outpost VFX
Silo - Season 2 - Outpost VFX
House of the Dragon - Season 2 - Battle at Rook's Rest - Pixomondo
Lockerbie - A Search for Truth - REALTIME
Dune: Prophecy - Season 1 - Rodeo FX
The Rings of Power - Season 2 - Rodeo FX
House of the Dragon - Season 2 - Rodeo FX
Shogun - SSVFX
Halo - Season 2 - The Yard VFX
The Rings of Power – Season 2 - The Yard VFX
Paris Has Fallen - Vine FX
House of the Dragon: Season 2 - Wētā FX
The Last of Us - Season 2 - DNEG
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2 - DNEG
Those About To Die - ReDefine
The Penguin - ReDefine
Ripley - ReDefine
The Eternaut - ReDefine
The Last of Us: Season 2 - Wētā FX
Kangaroo Beach- S3 - Cheeky Little Media
TV Series Children
Kangaroo Beach- S3 - Cheeky Little Media
Kiri and Lou - S 4 - Ep 406 Small Goes Big - Kiri and Lou Ltd
The Strange Chores S3 Episode 3, Help Manga Charlie - Ludo Studio and Media World Pictures
Space Nova - S2 - SLR Production
Flight of the Finch - Allianz from Alt.vfx
Commercials - Animation
Kicking Horse Coffe - Kickstart Your Heart - FABLEfx
Hahn - Ultra OOH - Never Sit Still
Sprout Homegrown - Fin Design + Effects
Simonds & Dennis Family Homes - Jumbla
If You Think E-Scooters Are a Toy, Think Again - Mighty Nice
Flonase - Save Your Relationship With Nature - The Embassy
Put Your Phone On Silent -Telstra - Alt.vfx
Flight of the Finch - Allianz - Alt.vfx
The Heroes - Coca Cola - Electric Theatre Collective
The Big Christmas - Electric Theatre Collective
Brandenberg Season 2025 Launch - Collider
Acciona Turbine Made - Collider
Investments Made Yours - Alt.vfx
Be Bullish - Alt.vfx
Amazon x Hyundai – Add to Cart - JAMM Visual
British Gas - Taking Care of Things - Electric Theatre Collective
Kings Slam - Call of the Kings from Electric Theatre Collective
Commercials - VFX
A Put Your Phone On Silent Film 1. Four Legged Friend 2. Mirror Mirror - Alt.vfx
Flight of the Finch - Allianz - Alt.vfx
Anti-commencement Speech - Collider
ADF Unlike Any Other Job - Collider
The Heroes - Coca Cola - Electric Theatre Collective
Kings Slam - Call of the Kings - Electric Theatre Collective
The Big Christmas - Electric Theatre Collective
Emirates US/Dubai Campaign - Framestore
Riyadh Season - Touching Hands - Framestore
Libresse - Never Just A Period - Framestore
Kellogg's - See You in the Morning - Framestore
Keebler - The Switch - Framestore
Škoda Enyaq - Freefolk
Nature's Power Bottled - Freefolk
Fatal Fury - Glassworks VFX
Qantas - Australia In The Sky - Heckler
Saudi Tourism Authority - This Land is Calling - Rodeo FX
T. Rowe Price - Outperform the index - Rodeo FX
Disney Resorts - This & That - The Embassy
BYD - Sealion 6 - Beyond - VANDAL
Investments Made Yours - Alt.vfx
Be Bullish - Alt.vfx
Amazon x Hyundai – Add to Cart - JAMM Visual
British Gas - Taking Care of Things - Electric Theatre Collective
King Dingo - VIVID Sydney from The Electric Canvas
Live Event Installations & Projections
The Live Event Installations and Projections category attracts projects that prove that being there still counts. These productions are immersive and engaging, created on a grand scale. Resolution, image quality, animation and compositing combine to transform environments to places where viewers become participants.
Sydney Opera House - Badu Gili: Healing Spirit - VIVID Sydney - VANDAL
Sydney Opera House - Lighting of the Sails: Kiss of Light by David McDiarmid - VIVID Sydney - VANDAL
City of Sydney - New Years Eve 2024 - Calling Country - VANDAL
City of Sydney - New Years Eve 2024 - The Woman of the Water - VANDAL
BioDream - VIVID Sydney - Ample Projects
An Act Of Being - VIVID Sydney - Bangarra Dance Theatre
Tales of Water - Osaka Worle Expo 2025 - KSA Pavillion - Danny Rose Studio
Questacon - Curiosity Mosaic - Eye Candy Animation
World Expo 2030 - Light Of Riyadh - Heckler
LA Clippers Halo Activations - Spinifex Group
Vivid 2025 - Sydney Harbor Bridge Pylons - Sweet Dreams - Spinifex Group
Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Experience - Spinifex Group
UFC311 - Spinifex Group
World Expo - Australian Pavilion - Spinifex Group
VIVID Sydney - Customs House - Houser of Romance - Worlds Colide - SUPERGIANT
King Dingo - VIVID Sydney - The Electric Canvas
A Christmas Carol - St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney - The Electric Canvas
100 Flowers Falling by Lindy Lee for Enlighten Festival - The Electric Canvas
Splitgate 2 – Cinematic Announcement from Plastic Wax
Game Trailers
EVE Echoes - Sea of Embers - NetEase Games
RacingMaster - SUV Expansion Pack - NetEase Games
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Live a Life Medieva - Platige Image
The Witcher 4 - Platige Image
Splitgate 2 – Cinematic Announcement - Plastic Wax
Something to Fight For - Plastic Wax
Splitgate 2 - Official Launch - Plastic Wax
Subnautica 2 - Teaser - Plastic Wax
Code Vein 2 – Announcement - Plastic Wax
Palworld – Tides of Terraria - Half Giant
Channel 4 - Paris Paralympic Games - Electric Theatre Collective
Idents & Stings
Hoyts Mainstream - Studio Pancho
Hoyts XTS - Studio Pancho
Channel 4 - Paris Paralympic Games - Electric Theatre Collective
Audi Rings - Electric Theatre Collective
Ride To The Station from Kapow Pictures
Music Video
Balloonerism - Hornet
Ride To The Station - Kapow Pictures
Missionary - A Short Film featuring Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre - Rodeo FX
Synthetic Pleasures from Revenant
Short Film
The intensity of the Short Film format makes this category exciting. Telling dramatic stories in a limited time is the perfect challenge for VFX and animation artists, who use their skills to communicate what can’t be expressed in dialogue alone, as demonstrated in the finalist projects here.
Dullsville and the Doodleverse - Doodles - Golden Wolf
Christminator - Rodeo FX
Goldau - Roman Kälin
Beyond Endurance from Revenant
Titles TV
Your Friends & Neighbors - Method Studios
Beyond Endurance - Revenant
Antidote/Kill List - David Penn
Smartraveller - Know Before You Go from Monkeystack
Web Viral
Tik Tok - Add Song - VANDAL
Lynx x Fisher - Atmos Studios
NISMO Electric Racer\ - Electric Studios
Smartraveller - Know Before You Go - Monkeystack
Mental Fitness - Black Dog Institute from Producible
Education & Infographics
Alpha Youth Series - Prodigal Son - Jumbla
Alpha Youth Series - Holy Spirit Companion - Jumbla
Animote Tracks - Monkeystack
Mental Fitness - Black Dog Institute - Producible
M&Ms Magic Mirror - Rate My Fit @ TikTok Awards from VANDAL
Augmented Reality
M&Ms Magic Mirror - Rate My Fit @ TikTok Awards - VANDAL
JLL Magic Mirror - Bloom to Win - VANDAL
Ralph Lauren Magic Mirror - Frame Set & Match - VANDAL
British Arrows 2025 from Glassworks VFX
Event Openers
Synthetic Pleasures - Revenant
Camp Mograph Australia 2024 - Duncan Elms
British Arrows 2025 - Glassworks VFX
Node Fest Opening Titles 2024 - Never Sit Still
SK8-bit from UTS Animal Logic Academy
Student
To be announced soon ....