Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations again to our winners🎉 !! Let us know your favorite image/movie 😁 Until next time!

We also had some really unique media from Regina Salzer, Ezry Santiago-McRae, and another image from Jesse Sandberg!

2nd place 🥈: Ryan Lamb for "Under the Surface" youtu.be/4AAqFJvUxbU?...

Last but not least, this year we decided to introduce a "Scientific media category" which allows participants to explore various editing/rendering tools. Please congratulate our winners:

1st place 🥇: Jesse Sandberg for "A postcard from Wyoming"

3rd place 🥉: Jesse Sandberg for "Sugar and Fat for the brain" youtu.be/dr8YujmwWcI?...

2nd place 🥈: Connor Pitman for "Looking Glass" youtu.be/dT-x54ZXd-s?...

Moving on to the winners for Best #VMD Movie of 2025🎉:
1st place 🥇: Jesse Sandberg for "Can you find the binding lipid?" youtu.be/9yo2ePhhUX8?...

We also had fantastic image entries from Connor Pitman, Lindsey Riggs, Ryan Lamb, and a second image from Jesse Sandberg!

And of course, Best entry by a beginner goes to Asim Dave for "Structure in sync" 🥇

3rd place 🥉: Jesse Sandberg for "Ghostly gathering"

2nd place 🥈: Jahmal Ennis for "Positive Infinity"

Without further ado, let’s congratulate our winners for Best #VMD Image of 2025🎉:

1st place 🥇: Ezry Santiago-McRae for "In a Bind"

First, we are truly appreciative of our panel of judges! Thank you to Colin Kinz-Thompson, Ilya Levantol, Ed Lyman, @susyk.bsky.social, @sykhalid.bsky.social, Alex Sodt, @markusdeserno.bsky.social, Emad Tajkhorshid, @jerome-henin.bsky.social, and Matthew Hansen! We couldn’t have done it without you!