Manchester Animation Festival

INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2024 NOMINEES

31st October 2024

We’re delighted to announce this year’s Industry Excellence Award Nominees. The award sit alongside the festivals’ film awards and are designed to shine a spotlight on the animation heroes working day in and day out within the animation industry, filling our lives with amazing animated work.

The yearly Industry Excellence Awards, which recognise individuals working in industry in the fields of writing, storyboarding, character design and character animation, will take place during the MAF 2024 Awards Ceremony. We are delighted that software company Maxon are supporting this year’s Industry Excellence Awards. Maxon’s powerful, user-friendly suite of products for artists, animators and filmmakers includes software for 2D/3D design, 3D modeling, motion graphics, animation, filmmaking, digital sculpting, product and architectural visualisation, editing and rendering. Their tools have been used for a variety of projects including video games (The Last of Us, League of Legends), film and TV (Avatar: The Way of Water, Everything Everywhere All At Once), music videos and more.

The full list of nominees are:

Scriptwriting
Corrinne Averiss for Tweedy & Fluff (Milkshake! / Channel 5)
Alex Collier for Odo: Once Upon a Camp Leader (Sixteen South)
Natt Tapley for Bad Dinosaurs (Netflix)

Storyboarding
Robin Shaw for Mog’s Christmas (Channel 4)
Valentina Delmiglio for Bad Dinosaurs (Netflix)
Althea Aseoche for Bad Dinosaurs (Netflix)

Character Animation
Tiago Simões Nunes for The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish (Nickelodeon)
Serena Cestari for Grimsburg (Fox TV / Bento Box Entertainment)
Andy Fossey for Pip and Posy Let’s Learn: Subtraction Shop (Sky Kids)

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