Overall, 2021 was a fairly nice 12 months for animation. Whether you want tales of Italian adolescence, prequels about monster hunters, or emotional closers to the anime of our childhood, animation followers ate fairly good final 12 months. And with final evening’s Annie Awards, the annual celebration of the medium gave some love to 2 of 2021’s greatest hits.

For finest animated characteristic, Sony Animation and Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines took residence the glory, beating out Disney’s trio of animated movies Luca, Raya & the Last Dragon, and Encanto. The comedy about an oddball household being the final hope towards a robotic apocalypse has been a success because it launched again in April, and cleaned up within the classes it was nominated in. Not solely did administrators Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe win awards for finest director and writing, it additionally took residence finest voice performing for Abbi Jacobson as Katie Mitchell, finest modifying, finest FX, and character and manufacturing design. On Twitter, Rowe expressed his gratitude, thanking everybody for “voting on something weird and different…So touched to be honored by our beautiful community of animator artist and peers.”

Mitchells beat out Disney’s three animated movies for final 12 months—Luca, Raya & the Last Dragon, and Encanto—however Disney took residence some wins final evening. Encanto received awards for David Hardin’s character animation, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Germaine Franco’s music, and Jason Hand’s storyboarding. For Marvel, WETA studios received for character animation within the stay motion class for his or her work on Shang-Chi.

In the TV class, Netflix additionally received huge because of Arcane. Along with finest TV sequence and Ella Purnell taking finest voice actor for her efficiency as Jinx, the League of Legends sequence took finest FX, writing, character animation and design, manufacturing design, storyboarding, and path for its season finale. Jorge Gutierrez’ Maya & the Three received for finest TV for kids, and finest music.

You can verify the complete checklist of animated winners at the link here. And whilst you’re right here, tell us within the feedback beneath what have been a few of your favourite animated sequence and movies of 2021, and what you’re trying ahead to watching in 2022.

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