This year's 48 hour Animation Jam is back as part of the 2025 Animation First Festival at the Alliance Française in NYC! MICA students will "compete" with other animation teams from the BRASSART school in Paris and the Pratt Institute in NYC to produce a short film. Each team will be given a starting point-- a still image chosen by animated feature length film director, Boris Labbé along with a segment of music. MICA teams will work together in an animation studio at MICA, starting Next Friday, January 24th through Sunday, January 26th. Audiences will be able to follow each team's progress via Twitch. At the culmination of the event, all animation segments will be sequenced together as a film which will be unveiled during the festival’s closing night program, on Sunday, January 26th in FIAF Florence Gould Hall in NYC.