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How to easily create complex and abstract animation using Maya
By Amid Rajabi published
Amid Rajabi teaches you how to create atmospheric robotic strands with Maya’s Bifrost plugin, with help from Arnold and Nuke.

"We wanted to talk about AI and its relationship to art" – how we made 2025’s VES Student Award-winning animation Pittura
By Richard Hill published
Titouan Lassere, one of the film's co-directors, explains how it was made.

Create gnarly battle damage for vehicles using a mix of Maya and Nuke
By J.P. Monroy published
Whiskytree’s CG supervisor J.P. Monroy reveals the studio’s process for generating realistic battle scars on fighter planes.

How to use Adobe After Effects to create a lightning effect the easy way
By Rob Redman published
Rob Redman shows how to create a classic VFX effect in under 15 minutes.

How we made the cinematic game trailer for Trailmakers 2.0 in just four months
By Jonas Ussing published
Jonas Ussing and Stine Sørensen, co-owners of Space Office VFX, reveal the time-saving strategies behind the action-packed trailer to Trailmakers 2.0.

Colour grading advice: how DaVinci Resolve Studio and Fusion Studio were harnessed for Babiru
By Santiago Menghini published
Defining the experimental look of Second Tomorrow Studio's Unreal Engine-powered animated short film.

Cartoons of the 1960s – the best animated movies feature the work of Chuck Jones, who ensured characters were "not realistic, but believable"
By James Clarke published
Today's filmmakers pick the best animated movies of the 1960s, including The Jungle Book and Yellow Submarine.

Learn this clever hack to create CG smoke and fog effects on an iPad
By Glen Southern published
Desktop 3D software outstrips its mobile counterpart for particle simulation, but Nomad Sculpt on iPadOS or Android offers a clever workaround to achieve effects like fog and smoke
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