The Los Angeles Animation Festival is proud to announce the following winners for 2018:
Best of the Fest – Floreana (USA) Louis Morton
Best Feature – North of Blue (USA) Joanna Priestly
Best Comedy 1st Place – Animal Behaviour (Canada) Alison Snowden & David Fine
Best Comedy 2nd Place – ‘F’ for Formula (USA) Santino Vitale
Best Comedy 3rd Place – Telling People You’re Native (USA) Joey Clift
Best Motion Graphics 1st Place – Equipoise (USA) Simo Liu
Best Motion Graphics 2nd Place – A Logo Creation (Spain) Adolfo Ruiz
Best Motion Graphics 3rd Place – The Soul of a Circle (USA) Jonathan Lacocque
Best Short from a Series 1st Place – Lullaby Theories: A Secret (USA) Jonathan Lacocque & Clara Lehmann
Best Short from a Series 2nd Place – & Black & White (Croatia) Darko Bakliza
Best Documentary 1st Place – New York City Sketchbook (USA) Willy Hartland
Best Documentary 2nd Place – Story of Aishan (China) Hong Jia Bao
Best Documentary 3rd Place – Changyou’s Journey (USA) Perry Chen
Best Character-Based 1st Place – Little Bandits (USA) Alex Avagimian
Best Character-Based 2nd Place – Billie (UK) Maki Yoshikura
Best Character-Based 3rd Place – Daisy (USA) Yu Yu
Best Experimental 1st Place – Floreana (USA) Louis Morton
Best Experimental 2nd Place -The Elephant’s Song (USA) Lynn Tomlinson
Best Experimental 3rd Place – Medium Rare (USA) Luca Cioci
Best Music Video 1st Place – Emulate-Okay Kaya (USA) Daniel Zvereff
Best Music Video 2nd Place – Celebrating Mister Rogers (USA) Melissa Crowton, Olivia Huynh & Drew Hodges
Best Music Video 3rd Place – Signal (Republic of Korea) Hwang Ji Lee
Award of Excellence (Presented by Sangaria Ramune) – Tectonic (USA) Ed Skudder
Humanitarian Award – Land of the Free (USA) USC Documentary Animation Production class: Alissa Michelle Brasington, Liam Campbell, Brian Cawley, Lakota DodgingHorse, Ken Egu, C. Leigh Goldsmith, Haley Hudkins, Hannah Kreiswirth, Kaitlyn Leewing, Sequoyah Madison, Molly Murphy, Patrice Pinardo, Chenglin Xie
Best Direction – Animal Behaviour (Canada) Alison Snowden & David Fine
Best Story – The Magical Mystery of Musigny (USA) John Meyer
Best Character Design – Happy Foot vs. Sad Foot (USA) Mike Hollingsworth
Best Art Direction – Unexpected Discoveries (USA) James Mabery
Best Design 1st Place – Diving In A Sea Of Light (USA) Micah Buzan
Best Design 2nd Place – Serph-Sparkle (Japan) Taro Otani
Best Design 3rd Place – Carlotta’s Face (Germany) Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld
Best Commercial 1st Place – Voicing CSA: The Mouse (UK) Aaron Wood
Best Commercial 2nd Place – The Story of Our Workflow (Malaysia) Alex Safavinia
Best Horror Comedy – Spider vs. the Living Dead (USA) Scott DaRos
Best Clay Animation – The Mud (USA) Brandon Lake
Best Classic Animation Style – Embraced (France) Justine Vuylsteker
Best Mixed Media Animation – The Lineman (USA) Jay Shipman
Best Traditional 2D Animation – Bad Tuna (USA) Deena Baum
Best CGI Animation – Final_Final (Canada) Matt Greenwood
Best Illustrative Animation – The Backward Astronomer (UK) Jake Nelson
Best Cut-Out Animation – Concatenate (Canada) Simone Northey
Best Children’s Animation 1st Place – Mi Abuelita (Guatemala) Giselle Pérez
Best Children’s Animation 2nd Place – Limbo (USA) Jennifer Stachovic
Best Children’s Animation 3rd Place – A Priori (France) Maïté Schmitt
Best Student Comedy – Barry (USA) Anchi Shen
Best Student Direction – Descent (USA) Hailey Katelynn Marshall
Best Student Mixed Media Animation – Relation.Ship (USA) Zoey Lin
Best Student Stop Motion Animation – All the Way Down (USA) Chun Chun Chang
