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The BFX Competition is returning this summer, bringing eight teams of students and recent graduates together to work for seven weeks to create short animated films for four UK charities. Sponsors of the BFX Competition, Moore Kingston Smith in conjunction with their...

The BFX Festival is one of the largest visual effects, animation and games festivals in the UK, bringing together professionals and students from across the world to share insights into how the best films, commercials, television shows and games are made. Now in its...

A range of professional masterclasses – for a range of skill levels – are available as a part of the BFX Festival, taking place next week in Bournemouth. A number of industry leaders will be delivering hands-on sessions to share knowledge and inspire creativity in...

Screenings of two of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters will take place at the BFX Festival, with the chance to ask experts who worked on the films more about their visual effects and animation. The BFX Festival is the UK’s largest visual effects, computer game and...

BFX, Bournemouth’s annual visual effects, animation and games festival, returns this October, with a confirmed line-up of speakers ready to lift the lid on how the best films and games of 2019 were made. The Festival attracts students and professionals from across the...

The BFX team recently headed to London to present the pre-production work of this year’s competition teams at the offices of Kingston Smith, competition sponsor. This year’s BFX competitors have been working hard to create storyboards, animatics and character designs...

Animation Career Review, which was set up in 2011 to provide an online resource for aspiring animators and digital artists, has ranked BU its top UK animation school, followed by the Royal College of Art in London and Teesside University in Middlesbrough. The...

The Creative Vision Award (CVA), supported by Kingston Smith, has seen four charities announced as winners, receiving more than £150,000 worth of bespoke animation design work on a brand film of their choice. The animations will be produced at Bournemouth University...