The Game Anim Awards 2021

UPDATE: The nominees and winners of this year’s best video game animation. Winners are in bold. You can view all the twitter poll results here.

BEST PLAYER CHARACTER ANIMATION

  • Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart)
  • Rivet (Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart)
  • Samus (Metroid Dread)
  • Takayuki (Lost Judgement)

BEST NONPLAYER CHARACTER ANIMATION

  • Emmi (Metroid Dread)
  • Phrike (Returnal)
  • Hollis Forsythe (Psychonauts 2)
  • Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

BEST CINEMATIC CUTSCENES

  • Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
  • Resident Evil Village

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

  • Guilty Gear Strive
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
  • The Matrix Awakens

BEST INDIE GAME ANIMATION

  • Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Solar Ash
  • The Artful Escape
  • The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR CONSOLE

  • It Takes Two
  • Lost Judgement
  • Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR PC

  • FFIV: Endwalker
  • Psychonauts 2
  • Resident Evil: Village
  • Scarlet Nexus

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR MOBILE

  • Fantasian
  • Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier
  • NBA 2K22 Arcade Edition
  • Pokémon Unite

BEST GAME ANIMATION FOR VR/AR

  • Lone Echo 2
  • Hitman 3
  • Resident Evil 4 VR
  • Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual

BEST GAME ANIMATION OF 2020

  • Guilty Gear Strive
  • It Takes Two
  • Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

ORIGINAL POST: It’s time once more to round out the year with the 4th annual GAME ANIM Awards, where the game-playing public nominates then votes on their favourite video game animation of the last calendar year.

Follow the link below to get to Part 1, the nomination questionnaire, with an option to enter for the prize draw for a chance to win a choice of either Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time on PS4 or Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla on XBOX (US stores only).

These awards are for fun and no actual awards will be sent to studios etc. Part 1 will be the nomination phase and will run for one week between Monday December 6th and Sunday December 19th.

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 before the end of the year.