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16 best portfolio websites for designers and artists
We feature some of the best free and paid for art and design portfolio websites out there.
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Salmon, space dogs, skeletons: The Chemical Brothers' greatest music videos
These should have won all the Grammys, ever.
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Adobe Alternatives: 21 rival apps to Creative Cloud
Check out our choice of rival apps to Creative Cloud for graphic, web and interactive designers, artists, illustrators and more.
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The Best Metal music videos of the 2010s: cult classics from music's most visual genre
Visual delights of metallic proportions.
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The Best Music videos of the 2010s – visual delights that defined a decade
A celebration of the most creative promos from the last 10 years.
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Björk: her best videos at the apex of digital art
The 12 greatest Björk promos of all time, taking us all the way from the Moon to the Moomins via VFX and animation mastery.
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How to land your first job as a live motion graphics artist
Fancy making real-time graphics for Beyoncé and Stormzy? Here's all you need to know on how to crack the live content industry.
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Best Wacom Cintiq alternatives
Don't have £1,900/$2,200 for a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24? Here are six much less expensive pen display options for drawing, sketching and painting.
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The Pantone Colour of the Year 2019 is 'Living Coral'
As predicted in the autumn, the new Pantone Colour of the Year is a 'life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone'. But not THAT shade of orange.
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Best free storyboard software (and paid-for ones too)
Make roughing and planning your animations a whole lot easier by using these storyboarding apps.
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Image Engine VFX supervisor Robin Hackl on how big-budget television is changing the industry
Image Engine VFX supervisor Robin Hackl, who's worked on Deadpool and The X-Files, discusses what the influx of new television work means for VFX.
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These animations helped explain the complexity of Russia's Olympic doping for 2018 Oscar-winning documentary Icarus
NY-based design studio ODD NY explains how it created animations to help make Russia's sophisticated plot easy to understand.
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Design Trends 2018: 28 leading designers, creative directors & illustrators tell us what’s inspiring them for the year ahead
Find out 2018’s biggest trends across graphic, data, digital and UX design, creative direction, branding, illustration, VFX and VR.
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See inside the motion design studio behind Blade Runner 2049, Ghost In The Shell and Prometheus' graphics
Territory Studio designs graphics and UIs for Hollywood's biggest sci-fi films. Here its key creatives give us an exclusive an insight into its working processes and the secrets behind its stunning work on Blade Runner 2049 and more.
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5 tips on creating stand-out social media advertising
How to make quality videos that can be used across multiple platforms, with a tight turnaround.
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Idil Sukan on painting and photographing Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson and more for Agatha Christie's Crooked House
The artist and photographer tells us about painting portraits in the back of a car, and what its like to see your work smashed during a movie. [Note: no spoilers]
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IBC 2017: The future of animation, video, AR and VR
We look back over the IBC 2017 show in Amsterdam – where groundbreaking new tech for producing motion media will brings us more realistic VR and AR, purposefully less realistic animation and a (thankfully virtual) exploding chicken.
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Patrick Clair on creating American Gods' iconic title sequence
The director – who also created titles for Westworld, The Night Manager and True Detective – discusses what makes a truly great TV title sequence.
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What I learned from my mentor, Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Phil Tippett
Game of Thrones' VFX supervisor Thomas Schelesny from Image Engine discusses working under legendary creature creator Phil Tippett on films like Starship Troopers – and where we're at with VFX in 2017.