The GAME ANIM Awards 2020

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UPDATE: The nominees and winners of this year’s best video game animation are in and I’m thinking my twitter followers have a bit of a bias towards Sony! Winners are in bold.

You can view all the twitter poll results here.

BEST PLAYER CHARACTER ANIMATION

  • Miles (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)
  • Cloud (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
  • Ellie (The Last of Us: Part II)
  • Jin (Ghost of Tsushima)

BEST NONPLAYER CHARACTER ANIMATION

  • Russel (Half-Life Alyx)
  • Dina (The Last of Us: Part II)
  • Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
  • Khotun Khan (Ghost of Tsushima)

BEST CINEMATIC CUTSCENES

  • The Last of Us Part II
  • Marvel’s Avengers
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

  • JALI Multilingual Lipsync
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • The Last of Us Part II
  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales

BEST INDIE GAME ANIMATION

  • Hades
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • The Pathless
  • The Last Campfire

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR CONSOLE

  • Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
  • The Last of Us Part II
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR PC

  • Spiritfarer
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Half-Life Alyx
  • Doom Eternal

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR MOBILE

  • Genshin Impact
  • The Pathless
  • Naruto: Slugfest
  • Shadow Fight Arena

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR VR/AR

  • Half-Life Alyx
  • Star Wars: Squadrons
  • Paper Beast
  • Dreams

BEST GAME ANIMATION OF 2020

  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • Half-Life Alyx
  • The Last of Us Part II

INITIAL POST: It’s been a shitty year by all counts, and we’re about to go into what feels like the final boss round with Covid-19 before vaccines can be distributed enough to regain some sense of normality. So it’s time to round out the year with something more uplifting – the 3rd annual GAME ANIM Awards, where the game-playing public nominates their favourite video game animation from this calendar year, before voting on twitter to decide the ultimate winners.

As ever, this is for fun and no actual awards will be sent to studios etc. Follow the link below to get to the Part 1, the nomination questionaire, with an option to enter for the prize draw for a copy of Ghost of Tsushima on PSN (US store only).

GAME ANIM Awards 2020 Nominations

Part 1 will be the nomination phase and will run for one week between Sunday December 6th and Sunday December 13th, while Part 2 will come towards the end of December on twitter (@GameAnim) and will form multiple-choice questions based on these responses, with the results announced in early 2021.