In 2025, we released more students, presented more diplomas, and invited more guests. And thanks to Zotov Center for inviting us, we’re all in. Beautiful photos from this evening can be viewed here. It was a pleasure to see experts from the top Russian CG studios, Akademia, Carboncore, CGF, Mew, Moove, Film Direction, SITNIKOV.pro, Dobro, Jarko, Graphon, Frame Bakery, Unit Five VFX, REVERSI, Trehmer. Colleagues, your comments were also important for guidance teachers and, of course, for students. I would also like to thank the teachers and CGI handlers and the Visual Effects of the ICU School of Design, which assisted student teams in their work on the finals. Now it’s time to open the top list of the brightest, most technical and memorizing videos of this season!

«without light on the eye» is an animating film, a performance. It’s a story about a girl whose body is already asleep, but the soul is still awake. A profound story of reasoning over life and time with a scenic visual.

Authors: Catherine Popova, Victoria Capitonova, Valentine Engel, Pavel Tukmachev, Miloslav Meškov Reference to the original presentation: https://hsedesign.ru/books/book/2f07253410054b85bb4f1c856d85efbc

An animation short of the Ryazan miracle. After the death of the First Secretary, KPSS must make and make a film about its sins in order to be brought before the highest court. The project exposes the Ryazanian meat scandal, one of the little-known but illustrative episodes of late-night history, where political ambitions and systematic falsifications have converged.

Author: Nikita Bazzaev Reference to original presentation: https://hsedesign.ru/project/2c7ef82c481045c8b22279c523361c

A touching love story: a modest office worker secretly loves his colleague, but instead of confessing, he embodies his feelings in fantasies, where he becomes objects of their common working space. However, the drilling office routine constantly destroys his romantic impulses, forcing him to resort to increasingly desperate ways of expressing his emotions.

Authors: Elena Derjabina, Anna Parhomchuk, Daria Sinkina, Paulina Vaničkina, Yekaterina Kiseleva Reference to the original presentation: https://hsedesign.ru/project/6bb89ff60d7147f081e45371d88be69c

«State of decay» is the atmospheric animation tyzer of Catherine Rogozhkina. The main hero is the last surviving soldier who, after a battle with a mysterious creature, gradually loses his mind. The dynamic visual row and the author’s style transmits the dive in the madness of the character and the impending horror from the darkness.

Author: Catherine Rogozhina Reference to original presentation: https://hsedesign.ru/project 9003627004f314165958abf76ed00cf01

After the ship crashed, everything was frozen. The cold, the hunger, the absolute void, where every move can be the last. The woman and her child were left alone among the icy silences. No one’s in a hurry to help. The last hope is to go outside and seek food there.

Authors: Maria Ftodossieva, Olga Kondrakova, Kirill Imchenecki, Yekaterina Giganova, Polina Kolomicec, Alexander Kulintsev and Elizabeth Koleganov Reference to the original presentation: https://hsedesign.ru/books/book/d12ab1785ff14c04979ebd764cb566f2