The Australian Effects & Animation Festival (AEAF) is an annual international festival of visual effects (VFX), animation, games, and immersive media. The event also included an award ceremony named AEAF Awards, which will be held to celebrate the excellence of speakers and a technology showcase.
The winners of the AEAF Awards 2025 will be announced on 31st July 2025, held at Industrial Light & Magic Studios, Sydney. The awards are given in the gold, silver, and bronze categories.
While the winners of the 2025 AEAF Awards were announced yesterday, all the fans were excited to know the complete winners who won more awards during the gala night.
But don’t worry, guy’s this blog explores a complete list of the AEAF Awards 2025 winners.
AEAF Awards 2025 Full Winners List
Feature Film VFX
- Gold: Wicked – Industrial Light & Magic
- Silver: Alien: Romulus – Industrial Light & Magic
- Silver: Alien: Romulus – Wētā FX
- Bronze: Better Man – Wētā FX
Special Merit Awards
- Mickey 17 – DNEG
- A Complete Unknown – Rising Sun Pictures
- Nosferatu – BlueBolt
- Deadpool and Wolverine – Framestore
- The Electric State – Digital Domain
- Captain America: Brave New World – Wētā FX
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Fin Design + Effects
Feature Film Sequence
- Gold: Better Man – Regent Street Oner – Wētā FX
- Silver: Alien: Romulus – Corbelan – Industrial Light & Magic
- Bronze: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Shibuya Crossing – Rising Sun Pictures
Special Merit Awards
- Wicked: Chistery Transformation – Industrial Light & Magic
- Wicked: Defying Gravity – Industrial Light & Magic
- Thunderbolts – Desert Sequence – Rising Sun Pictures
- A Minecraft Movie – Piglins vs The Iron Golems – Digital Domain
- Alien: Romulus – Xenomorphs – Industrial Light & Magic
- Captain America: Brave New World – The Dogfight – Digital Domain
Feature Film Animation
- Gold: How To Train Your Dragon – Framestore
- Silver: Transformers One – Industrial Light & Magic
- Bronze: A Minecraft Movie – Malgosha – Wētā FX
Special Merit Award
- 200% Wolf – Flying Bark Productions
TV Series
- Gold: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – Industrial Light & Magic
- Silver: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2 – Rodeo FX
- Bronze: House of the Dragon S2 – Wētā FX
Special Merit Awards
- Doctor Who S2 – Lux – Framestore
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2 – Industrial Light & Magic
- Shōgun – SSVFX
- Dune: Prophecy S1 – Rodeo FX
- The Last of Us S2 – Wētā FX
- The Last of Us S2 – DNEG
TV Series (Children)
- Gold: Kangaroo Beach S3 – Cheeky Little Media
- Silver: Space Nova S2 – SLR Production
- Bronze: Kiri and Lou S4 Ep406 – Small Goes Big – Kiri and Lou Ltd
Special Merit Award
- The Strange Chores S3 Ep3 – Help Manga Charlie – Ludo Studio & Media World Pictures
Commercials Animation
- Gold: Flight of the Finch – Allianz – Alt.vfx
- Silver: The Heroes – Coca Cola – Electric Theatre Collective
- Bronze: Brandenberg Season 2025 Launch – Collider
Special Merit Awards
- British Gas – Taking Care of Things – Electric Theatre Collective
- Sprout Homegrown – Fin Design + Effects
- The Big Christmas – Electric Theatre Collective
- Amazon x Hyundai – Add to Cart – JAMM Visual
- Be Bullish – Alt.vfx
- Kicking Horse Coffee – Kickstart Your Heart – FABLEfx
Commercials VFX
- Gold: Kings Slam – Call of the Kings – Electric Theatre Collective
- Silver: T. Rowe Price – Outperform the Index – Rodeo FX
- Bronze: Škoda Enyaq – Freefolk
Special Merit Awards
- Fatal Fury – Glassworks VFX
- Qantas – Australia In The Sky – Heckler
- Saudi Tourism Authority – This Land is Calling – Rodeo FX
- Disney Resorts – This & That – The Embassy
- Kellogg’s – See You in the Morning – Framestore
Live Event Installations & Projections
- Gold: World Expo – Australian Pavilion – Spinifex Group
- Silver: Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Experience – Spinifex Group
- Bronze: VIVID Sydney Customs House – House of Romance: Dreams Collide – SUPERGIANT
Special Merit Awards
- BioDream – VIVID Sydney – Ample Projects
- Tales of Water – Osaka Expo 2025 – KSA Pavilion – Danny Rose Studio
- World Expo 2030 – Light Of Riyadh – Heckler
- An Act Of Being – VIVID Sydney – Bangarra Dance Theatre
- LA Clippers Halo Activations – Spinifex Group
- King Dingo – VIVID Sydney – The Electric Canvas
- VIVID Sydney – Lighting of the Sails: Kiss of Light – VANDAL
- Human Beauty Landscape – T&DA
Game Trailers
- Gold: The Witcher 4 – Platige Image
- Silver: Splitgate 2 – Cinematic Announcement – Plastic Wax
- Bronze: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Live a Life Medieval – Platige Image
Idents & Stings
- Gold: Audi Rings – Electric Theatre Collective
- Silver: Hoyts XTS – Studio Pancho
- Bronze: Channel 4 – Paris Paralympic Games – Electric Theatre Collective
Music Video
- Gold: Balloonerism – Hornet
- Silver: Missionary – A Short Film feat. Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre – Rodeo FX
- Bronze: Ride to the Station – The Hard-Ons – Kapow Pictures
Short Film
- Gold: Dullsville and the Doodleverse – Golden Wolf
- Silver: Goldau – Roman Kälin
- Bronze: Christminator – Rodeo FX
Titles TV
- Gold: Your Friends & Neighbors – Method Studios
- Silver: Beyond Endurance – Revenant
- Bronze: Antidote/Kill List – David Penn
Web Viral
- Gold: Smartraveller – Know Before You Go – Monkeystack
- Silver: Tik Tok – Add Song – VANDAL
- Bronze: Lynx x Fisher – Atmos Studios
Education & Infographics
- Gold: Alpha Youth Series – Holy Spirit Companion – Jumbla
- Silver: Animote Tracks – Monkeystack
- Bronze: Mental Fitness – Black Dog Institute – Producible
Augmented Reality
- Gold: Ralph Lauren Magic Mirror – Frame Set & Match – VANDAL
Event Openers
- Gold: Synthetic Pleasures – Revenant
- Silver: Camp Mograph Australia 2024 – Duncan Elms
- Bronze: British Arrows 2025 – Glassworks VFX
Student
- Gold: SK8-bit – UTS Animal Logic Academy
- Silver: Fool’s Gold – UTS Animal Logic Academy
- Bronze: Lab Rat – Nathan Hong – University of Technology Sydney
Special Merit Awards
- Beyond the Dark – Alyssa Cuya – UTS
- REBOOT – Christine McKenzie – UTS
- Pupation – Holly Bailey-Stubbings, Tiara Hakim, Bahareh Khoshjam & Arabelle Remorozo – UTS
- Awakening – Jiaqi Wang – UTS
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