These will be the 5 Biggest Trends in Visual Effects in 2017
What’s hot in VFX in 2017: subtlety, an unlikely Oscar winner, and CG characters you’ll finally not notice they’re digital.
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Visual Trends 2017: These are this year's must-know colour, design, branding and photography trends
Discover 2017’s most important trends across in the creative discipline you work in – and in other areas that you should look to for inspiration – in our in-depth guide.
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The most fun stories of 2016: Offbeat animations, irreverant illustrations & goofy GIFs
Have an amused chuckle at our favourite unconventional and offbeat art projects from the past year.
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The Best Christmas Projects of 2016 from Designers, Animators and Studios
Every Christmas, creative agencies produce some outstanding festive projects - both for clients and to their own briefs to show off. Here's our pick of the best.
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Best creative tech 2016: these are the most exciting new tools for designers and artists
From VR painting to an app that turns your iPad into a Cintiq, these are the tech developments that we’ve loved most in 2016.
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Best VFX stories 2016: what's been really big in visual effects
As Christmas nears and the end of the year is fast approaching, we look back on our most popular visual effects features as chosen by you from 2016.
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Andrey Kasay's illustrations are not afraid to be bold, bizarre & open to interpretation
Russian animator and illustrator Andrey Kasay has the gift of creating beautiful absurdity.
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This animated version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting succeeds in being even more weird
Studio Smack has created an animation based on Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, embodying themes of excess and indulgence in a horrifying – yet fantastic - way.
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This stop-frame animation mashes Stranger Things with the Nativity story
Christian Aid has released a Christmas appeal stop-frame animation, interlacing themes from the Netflix series Stranger Things with the Nativity story.
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How MPC created Buster the Boxer for the John Lewis Chrismas ad
Creating six CG animals jumping on a trampoline is more difficult than you may think. VFX giant MPC explain how they did it for this year’s John Lewis Christmas ad.
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The Mill’s CG animals for Opel Motorsport are cheeky & ridiculous
This campaign ad for Opel Motorsport, created by Scholz & Friends, The Mill and Mill+, should make you laugh.
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Hornet’s wonderful, poetic conference title film celebrates creatives coming together
Hornet director Eran Hilleli’s celebrates diversity through an assortment of fantastical characters who join together in one powerful force to mark the opening of the conference.
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How to move to a better studio
Three creative studios that have recently relocated to cooler premises tell us what it takes to set up a new space that satisfies both staff and clients.
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Fluid Simulation for All: Adding Impact to Motion Graphics
Looking to add realism and emotion to your scenes? Ben Black, motion graphics designer at Mainframe studio, shares his techniques on making his work stand out.
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Best Cinema 4D video tutorials: 7 video tutorial websites for Cinema 4D
These are the best websites to find video tutorials for Cinema 4D. Whether you're a first-time user or an expert, we've got you covered.
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Bent Image Lab create humorous Day of the Dead stop-motion animations
Bent Image Lab & Grey Canada team up to create amusing Day of the Dead stop motion animations for an el Jimador tequila digital campaign.
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Method Studios' VFX for Voyage of Time doco are beautiful yet accurate
Creating artistic visual effects with scientific merit for Voyage of Time, a documentary based on the origin of time, was a monumental task for Method Studios. Creative supervisor Dan Glass explains.
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11 inspiring quotes from leading designers at Offset Sheffield
Wise words from the likes of Ian Anderson, Florence Blanchard, Tado, Ben Bos, Steve Simpson, Aaron Duffy, MPC and Moving Brands.
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How Trunk made this epic puppet video shot on real film
Animation house Trunk spent days creating this film inspired by American folk art - involving puppets and an exceptional amount of cardboard - for Shirley Collins’ new album.
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Learn VFX & animation from artists who've worked on Jungle Book, Gravity & Suicide Squad
Escape offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees all taught by industry professionals hand-picked from successful studios. Alumni of the courses have been the creative workforce on many Oscar and Bafta nominated films.