Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

creates virtual visions of a world inspired by black culture, '90s animation techniques, and 3D movies – one that moves to retro beats he remixes himself. Today, however, the artist is pushing the boundaries in 3D animation and music in ways he never could have imagined back then. "The Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Reggie Perry, Jr.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Others, meanwhile, would love to shout about what they've created, but their clients frustratingly forbid it. Their bold and fearless approach has earned them collaborations with clients across a variety of industries, from tech to hospitality. Studio DBD 13.

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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

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

MARCH 16, 2023

Portland-based creative studio Super Dope has brought to life how it feels to pluck up your courage and make a romantic move in its latest animated project, In Love. It's this euphoric feeling that Super Dope has explored with In Love, the studio's latest animated short, which saw the team push themselves both creatively and technically.

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Animation Client Artist Inspiration 527

Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2023

Animal Religion collage The Chinese artist has been drawing out people's inner animals and turning them into incredible art. It's a fun dinner party game: asking each other, "If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?" We talk to her about her process and inspiration for this unique series.

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Animation Filmmaking Artist Art 506

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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The award-winning animator explains how she brought a needle-crafted cat to life using Cartoon Animator 5 and why other creatives should try it. Are you a graphic designer or illustrator to extend your skills and get into animation? I found Cartoon Animator and jumped right in." Well, it's great for that too!

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 30, 2022

An animated video that helps people understand the current global crisis is storming YouTube right now. And it's all brought to beautiful visual life by design and animation agency Thornberg & Forester. Scott: By nature, we always feel pressure to get things right for our client partners. I mean, what was the starting point?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

Studio Dumbar/DEPT® Based in Rotterdam, Studio Dumbar/DEPT® is widely recognised for its influential work in visual branding and identity, often incorporating creative coding and sound, for clients such as the Dutch Railways, Instagram, and the Van Gogh Museum. Photo: Sanda Vučković 19. NARI stands, by the way, for Not Always Right Ideas.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Get real Some clients will be perfectly happy using AI-generated images on their websites, book covers, or annual reports. If quick and cheap are their priorities, then these are not the clients you should be looking for. Seek out clients who value quality illustration and can recognise an AI-generated image when they see one.

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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. The SunFi piece is the studio's first motion work, and Torsten and his team wanted to make a big impression and repay the client's trust. "We

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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 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. In this case, the client was the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Unable to perfectly simulate the rubbish falling timing, the animators keyframed each piece manually.

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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

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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Just Creative

AUGUST 9, 2021

No truer is this mantra than when you want to impress potential clients with your portfolio. That means incorporating the latest design trends so potential clients take notice and pick you over your competitors. It showcases your capabilities and convinces clients-to-be, creative directors, or hiring managers you are the real deal.

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Creative Boom

MAY 26, 2022

While most of us think of wolves as beasts who eat young children's grandmothers, the animal has actually been pivotal to restoring a balanced and healthy ecosystem to the national park that spreads across Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

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Animation Branding Brand Client 518

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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Animation Client Marketing Marketing 448

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Mark Conlan is an artist whose journey began in Dublin as an animator. The contemplative nature of his work, his style, and what he depicts really do resonate with clients and their audiences, leading to commissions for everything from packaging to travel to pieces for global brands. Packaging artwork for Shortbread House of Edinburgh.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

And you don't have to take our word for it: big-name clients like Apple, Google, Gucci and The New York Times are already drawing on these illustrators to bring their designs to life. So get ready to meet the animators, VR artists, comic creators and award winners from Asia, who are all steadily making their global mark in 2024.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Swedish animator and director Frida Ek has recently released her new animated short, At Last. However, London-based creative director Frida Ek has visualised the euphoric sensation in her latest animation, At Last. Speaking to Creative Boom, Frida says designing and animating for herself has always brought her joy.

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Animation Client Media Marketing 393

Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Responsive and creative WordPress themes for digital agencies that wow your clients are essential for leaving a lasting impression. To make a remarkable online presence, you need the perfect theme tailored to showcase your portfolio and captivate potential clients. In few words, it is powerful, easy to use multi-purpose Theme.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

Illustrations by šaška , Animation by Maryia Dziadziulia. With a diverse community of more than 150,000 freelance designers, 99designs by Vista matches clients with creatives across brand and logo design, packaging, web design and more. Illustration by šaška , Animation by Maryia Dziadziulia.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

Feeling constantly overwhelmed or resentful about client requests Working at "silly o'clock" regularly Feeling anxious when you see client messages outside work hours Struggling to find time for personal projects Struggling to find time for proper rest Noticing a decline in the quality of your work 2.

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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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Animation Theme Client Adobe 462

Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2024

He's been freelance ever since, and in that time, he's landed work for a host of big-name clients, including the likes of Google, The Telegraph, and more recently The New York Times. Part of what makes Joseph's work so appealing to clients is his clear line work and crisp design choices. But he's also stayed true to his roots.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Stoke-on-Trent-based illustrator and animator Qianhui Yu is on a mission to highlight social problems and tell stories from new perspectives. Originally from Guilin, China, Qianhui Yu has travelled around the world and settled in the UK to pursue her career as an animation director and illustrator.

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Illustration Illustrator Inspiration Animation 505

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 Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

By introducing yurts, wagons, animals, and Mongolian artefacts within photoshoots, we emphasised Gobi as a truly authentic Mongolian brand which cares about its land, animals, heritage, and people." As Rob puts it, " It was a great way for the images to feel really authentic and give back to the community.

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Brand Branding Manufacturing Travel 468

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

His portfolio is as cohesive as you're likely to encounter in the illustration game, and his style is flexible enough to accommodate a wide range of clients from the LA Times to Nike to Spotify to the Philadelphia Art Museum. In-app animations created for Spotify. "I Other portfolio favourites also involve music.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2025

From Sesame Street to stop-motion for fintech, Made By Practice has carved out a craft-led niche in film and animation. We're a craft-driven film and animation studio," says co-founder Mike Slane. "We We're inviting clients to come in and discover the best way to communicate their idea." We love discovering new techniques.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Manchester-based creative studio Dotto and Brighton's very own Buff Motion explain how they have brought a series of inspirational typographic prints to a new audience with the help of some energetic animation. I'd been hoping to get stuck into more animation and was a big fan of Buff. A busy period of work only compounded matters.

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Print Animation Client Typography 520

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

His client base has also evolved significantly, as he was mainly working in editorial illustration when he started out. Pan explains: "I've been exploring running posture through animation, using movement to capture the energy of the marathon. Alongside commercial work, I always carve out time for personal exploration.

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Illustration Illustrator Freelance Freelance 362

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Clients include disaster relief organisation Giro555, youth health community JOGG, research foundation Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek, pregnancy and baby app 24baby and the Museum of Literature. This approach, they argue, enables them to create bespoke identities, websites, apps and print that truly reflect their clients' visions.

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Agency Client Fonts Design Services 536

Creative Bloq

MAY 16, 2024

Jonathan shares how to craft the perfect showreel, plus why it's vital to educate clients on animation.

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Animation Education Client 293

Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2024

From contemplative cats to wide-eyed bat skeletons and even Santa on an exercise bike, Ilya Kazakov's cartoony characters are helping the artist build his own community of fans and clients around the world. Directing and animating the project took six months, with sound design by Daruma Audio , and it's one of his favourite projects to date.

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