Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2024

Animation studio Yatta has brought Liverpool illustrator Luke McConkey's work to life in Slam Dunk, a new animated short that blends 2D and 3D techniques. We bounced the project back and forth, jumping from 3D animation to 2D cel, eventually landing on an endless loop of slam dunkin' fun." That would be awesome."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2025

The London motion directors at Kitchen have unveiled a gorgeously dazzling and psychedelic animation for The Great Frog Vintage Market. This kaleidoscope of 1970s references was cooked up by Kitchen, the animation team comprised of Rachinta Platts and George Coffey at the London production studio Jelly. Mushroom world with WIP sketch.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

3D artist Jose Andrés García explains how he used Character Creator and iClone to bring the Spanish heroes of American independence back to animated life. Jose's work involved transforming static historical figures into animated life. The workflow and the ease of creating animations and characters greatly surprised me.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The UK-based illustrator and animator shares how he developed his unique style, embraced the art of letting go and offers some top advice for emerging artists. Con McHugh has built a reputation for his distinctive analogue-inspired, looping animations characterised by hand-drawn imperfections and a rhythm that feels almost musical.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2024

Animation studio Tentacle Media has decided to remind us of the wonderful human touch of creativity with the launch of its first physical product. Tentacle Media , a UK-based animation studio, has launched a handheld animation device called the Mini-Mutoscope. They're also a unique challenge to create animations for.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2024

Animation studio Tentacle Media has decided to remind us of the wonderful human touch of creativity with the launch of its first physical product. Tentacle Media , a UK-based animation studio, has launched a handheld animation device called the Mini-Mutoscope. They're also a unique challenge to create animations for.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 4, 2024

Illustrator and animator Dale Crosby-Close is on a mission to bring back the weirdness that dominated online videos at the start of the Noughties. And for illustrator, animator, and "general human being" Dale Crosby-Close, who was a teenager when clips like these first came out, it's a vibe he's trying to recreate in his own work.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2024

Barcelona-based studio Niceshit encourages readers to look beyond book covers and discover stories in new ways with a fun series of beautifully animated reels. To combat this trend, animation studio Niceshit has whipped up some glorious reels to encourage people to look past covers and focus instead on the stories themselves.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 4, 2024

Illustrator and animator Dale Crosby-Close is on a mission to bring back the weirdness that dominated online videos at the start of the Noughties. And for illustrator, animator, and "general human being" Dale Crosby-Close, who was a teenager when clips like these first came out, it's a vibe he's trying to recreate in his own work.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

To spotlight the issue of biodiversity loss, Shihui crafted caramel figures of extinct animals using traditional Chinese sugar painting. This ancient Chinese folk art traditionally depicts animals of the zodiac or scenes from myths and legends.

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Creative Boom

JULY 30, 2024

Animals can't speak up for themselves. It continues to this day within animation, from Looney Tunes to Tom and Jerry through Shaun the Sheep. To put life into the campaign, RSPB teamed up with a purpose-driven strategy and creative agency GOOD and Emmy and BAFTA-winning animation studio Blue Zoo. but what if they could?

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We're big fans of stop-motion at Creative Boom; it's the perfect antidote to the sameyness of CG animation and perfect for Christmas time. The couple's 19-year-old son Jackson stepped into the role of animation director, managing a team of animators while ensuring emotional authenticity in every frame.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The identity's centrepiece is the hero video, a meticulously crafted animation that showcases vines and flowers blooming over sculptural rocks and typography. All elements in the animation were built using Houdini, a 3D software known for its procedural design capabilities. The hero film also actively shaped the overall brand identity.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We talk to the up-and-coming claymation animator Alistair Nicholls about his hands-on process, the smell of plasticine, 1970s camera lenses and handmade film noir. Based in Norwich, Alistair studied animation, but his stop-motion skills are largely self-taught. No method of creativity is as tactile as claymation.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 15, 2024

Mexican animator Mark Diaz explains. Want to take your skills as an artist, illustrator or designer and transform them into 3D models and animation without having to spend years learning difficult software? Populate the city with walkers : Use the crowd generation tools to add animated characters along the paths.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Independent creative studio Mutant™ has created an animated new identity for Belgium's largest film festival, Film Fest Gent , and it contains a genius subtle nod to the nature of motion pictures. First established in 1974, Film Fest Gent is an all-encompassing, ten-day celebration of cinematography.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 18, 2024

Crafted by animation studio ROOF, this inspiring 3D spot captures a mother-son bond, a journey of vision loss, and a new dawn promised by the new drug therapy Vabysmo. Award-winning animation studio ROOF recently teamed up with Grey Health to create a touching 3D-animated short film for Vabysmo, and it's a real winner.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

From from Pikachu to Totoro anime characters are great fun to draw and can inspire.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The aesthetic was laid down by British illustrator and animator Con McHugh, who works in a rougher, wobblier, and more honest style but is still bold and graphic. Instead, it features vector outlines of houses with solar panels and little sparks running along cables to batteries or pylons that represent the grid.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2024

Sydney-based animation studio Never Sit Still has turned self-promotion on its head with an anti-showreel that takes a fresh approach to showcasing the company's services. When it comes to the animation industry, showreels are like business cards. This was the challenge faced by Never Sit Still. Their solution?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 22, 2024

Manchester-based creative company Flow has created a striking animation for The Trussell Trust, which aims to help students and teachers alike understand the challenges facing young people in poverty. Genuine and relatable stories are at the heart of Flow's latest animation for The Trussell Trust.

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Creative Bloq

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Get in the festive mood with our favourite animated Christmas feature films and shorts, made using new 3D tools including in Unreal Engine 5.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 5, 2024

New York-based graphic and motion designer Esther Rou Jiao looks at how removing negative emotions isn't the miracle cure-all you may imagine it to be in her award-winning animation Overdose. This is the premise behind Overdose , a trippy, sci-fi animation made by multidisciplinary creative Esther Rou Jiao.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For her final year project, she used her character design and illustration skills to create Woodland Worries, a 2D animation about a young witch making a potion. To hold the viewer's attention and keep the story light-hearted, I wanted to include some fun parts in my animation.

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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 26, 2025

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

Since most of the marketing and promotion happen online, it made sense to design a suite of animated brand visuals that could evolve over time, creating a renewable sense of intrigue. He says: "We wanted a brand that felt bespoke and dynamic to reflect the independent offering of Islington Square."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

With offices in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and soon Paris, Agent Pekka represents a hand-picked group of artists working across various disciplines, from 3D and animation to illustration and typography. His stop-motion animations turn familiar forms into something new, balancing humour and craftsmanship. Karlotta Freier 2.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It has also ventured into music, comics, and TV, such as the Emmy-winning Arcane, an animated steampunk series for Netflix. This includes a range of patterns that can be used throughout brand assets such as graphics, frames, masks, dividers, and animated textures, instantly bringing a recognisably Riot vibe to any layout.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

James Wignall has curated a new reel to encapsulate his recent animation work and created a fresh visual identity to boot. Mutant Hands – AKA animator and art director James Wignall – burst onto the creative scene back in 2005, one of a new wave of creatives at the vanguard of the noughties motion graphics revolution.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

DNEG, the world-renowned visual effects and animation studio with seven Academy Awards to its name, has revealed a brand refresh in collaboration with DesignStudio. DesignStudio ensured that motion was at the core of the refresh, from dynamic visual elements to an animated brand vision that seeks to capture the company's innovative nature. "We

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2024

With its new, more distinct logotype, richer colour palette, and suite of iconography, the RSPCA hopes to rally support for tackling the growing global challenges in animal welfare. The change aligns with the charity's new strategy, devised to respond to the growing challenges faced worldwide in animal welfare.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Best of all, this is a flexible degree that can be tailored to your interestsfor example, in app development, animation, visual identity and branding, illustration, photography, typography and publishing, or graphic design in general. Since its Netflix debut in 2018, Hilda has garnered global acclaim, winning both a BAFTA and an Emmy.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Behind the scenes of Humane World for Animals' beautiful hybrid stop-motion film.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In-app animations created for Spotify. "I Taking inspiration from the New Age movement of the early 1970s, he worked with a team to draw and animate a series of badges used within the app and promotional pieces for social media. I ended up storyboarding, illustrating and animating the entire video in a little under two months.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For those who take the time and effort to consider the ingredients of many children's sweets, then you'd be horrified (but probably not too surprised) to discover there's a ton of sugar, E-numbers, animal gelatine, palm oil.even talcum powder in some cases. If only there was a guilt-free solution for sweet-toothed kids.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The best animated movies of the 50s chosen by today's professionals.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Using stop-motion animation, the dolls come alive within the vibrant rooms of the house. For more examples, see our writeups of award-winning campaign ad 47 and kids animation Tweedy & Fluff.) Each doll was styled to reflect the bold personalities and fashion of the cast.

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