This year find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX.
Eran Mendel tells about his hugely popular weekly project turning Game of Thrones iconic moments into funny vector-based animated GIF – plus see all the GIFs.
A new reworking of the 1960s cartoon classic is more Banksy than Buckingham Palace.
Five years ago today, we interviewed Ustwo Games about the visual and game design of the gracefully artful and beautifully engaging Monument Valley - on its day of release and before anyone was aware it would become a worldwide hit.
Photoshop's 'magic' tool for replacing objects in a scene is coming to After Effects - along with other new features for that app, Premiere Pro and more.
Apple has launched new versions of its 27- and 21.5 inch iMacs with faster CPUs and graphics, which Apple claims makes it up to 2.4x faster than previous models.
This year's animation Oscar winner combines art styles that are as diverse as the multiple universes its heroes and villains come from. Here we take a peek inside their creation.
The best thing to come out from this year's Superbowl was an interactive music promo that merged Max Fleischer-style animation with OTT hip hop visuals.
Zoic's VFX Reel for the Netflix show will spook and delight on a cold winter's night.
This asymmetrical all-in-one looks like Dieter Rams' take on Microsoft's Surface Studio – which some will love for its retro charm and others despise.
The Miyu Gallery showcases unseen works produced in the making of some beautiful independent and artistic animation work.
Kyle Platts owned the New Year's banter stakes with his cheeky animations for Instagram and Giphy.
Studio AKA animate Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven for a new series of 'Insta Novels' from The New York Public Library.
Zoic Studios put together their most gruesome and beastly moments just in time for Halloween.
A chance to own your own memento from this cinematic milestone in VFX history.
The VFX house created the USS Callister, the Arachnajax beast and space environments for the Emmy-winning episode.
Even in its 20th incarnation, Maxon's 3D suite gains big new tools.
With a new story trailer online, it's clear 11-11: Memories Retold will be more of a Wilfred Owen poem than a Battlefield shooter.
Machine learning has allowed the likes of Nvidia to make tasks like object removal, noise reduction and up-rezing much, much easier.
The new Turing architecture and Quadro RTX cards based on it that will revolutionise how 3D artists work, says Nvidia.
