Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
Latest articles by Joe Foley

This artist's 3D scenes feel like stepping inside a pencil sketch
By Joe Foley Published
2D drawings become 3D in the free software Blender.

Apple TV's Neuromancer poster raises questions about its adaptation of an 'unfilmable' novel
By Joe Foley Published
It follows the book covers' long tradition of retro-futuristic design, but is Apple going to change the tech?

Those notorious tai chi walking ads show AI is helping scammers, not only in the way we thought
By Joe Foley Published
Photorealism isn't the only way to fool people.

From Super Mario 64 to infamous Conker’s Quest, the E3 festival archives are a nostalgic treasure trove for fans of classic gaming
By Joe Foley Published
The Video Game History Foundation has uncovered unseen images from the biggest event of the '90s and '00s.

How Avatar: The Last Airbender made water, earth and air appear to bend
By Joe Foley Published
See how those incredible complex visual effects were created.

Pixar fans wanted one thing from Incredibles 3, but they're not going to get it
By Joe Foley Published
Will it be "just the same movie again"?

Free Prime Video gaming upgrade could make Amazon the winner of the RAM crisis
By Joe Foley Published
Amazon's Luna is a great deal for (some) gamers.

Toy Story 5 made $1 billion – Pixar is laying off artists anyway
By Joe Foley Published
Future Pixar movies will need to have lower budgets.

The Kylie Jenner optical illusion 'advert' says what everyone's really thinking about Meta's AI glasses
By Joe Foley Published
The guerrilla subvertising is more sophisticated than the real advert.

Unity 7's most surprising advance isn't a feature upgrade
By Joe Foley Published
It promises to eliminate the biggest problem with updating to a new game engine.

See how to animate faces in real time in Unreal Engine 5 using a free sample character
By Joe Foley Published
A new tutorial demonstrates the latest shape authoring tools and deformers in Unreal Engine 5.8.

The Weather Channel’s '80s design revival is a barometer of what people want in 2026
By Joe Foley Published
100% chance of nostalgia.

Disney's Ozzy Fox is going viral thanks to 'AI slop' accusations
By Joe Foley Published
And it's not even AI.

The World Cup's most controversial moment has been turned into a free font
By Joe Foley Published
Malvinas Sans is here.

This opera company's bold rebrand aims to prove Timothée Chalamet wrong
By Joe Foley Published
Welsh National Opera's new logo creates intentional dissonance.

This Unreal Engine 5 game turns the grace of ballet into brutal action
By Joe Foley Published
Tsarevna is billed as the world's first ballet-inspired hack-and-slash.

Why the iconic Argentina World Cup logo was so controversial
By Joe Foley Published
Conspiracy theories led a dictatorship to try to scrap the design.

Forget EA Sports FC 27, here's how to make your own football game for free in Godot Engine
By Joe Foley Published
Create a retro arcade-style game with this free beginner-friendly tutorial course.

From racist Bugs Bunny to Masha and the Bear, these are the 8 most controversial cartoons in history
By Joe Foley Published
Animations have been blamed for subversion, militarisation... and spiders.

The Backrooms copyright controversy risks tainting the movie's breakthrough success
By Joe Foley Last updated
Community creators fear the online folk legend is being erased.

The new CyberPunk 2077 game is more analogue than you might think
By Joe Foley Published
You might want to get on board.

The Odyssey was inspired by retro stop-motion animation – but that could be its downfall
By Joe Foley Published
Can Christopher Nolan's epic live up to the myth movies of the past?

3D artists are so blown away by Blender's latest update, it's hard to believe it's free software
By Joe Foley Published
New Geometry Nodes feel like magic.
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