Sep 30, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
Sep 27, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
Aug 28, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
Aug 12, 2019 | BFX Festival
A BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts graduate returned to BU to share his expertise and advice with current students. Arran Baker graduated from the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) in 2015 and now works as a Character Animator at Jellyfish Pictures. His...
Jun 20, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
May 17, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
May 15, 2019 | BFX Festival
Tom Reed, Head of Rigging at the Moving Picture Company (MPC) in London, visited the university to meet and advise students studying visual effects. After graduating BU’s BA Computer Visualisation degree in 2003, Tom worked on top-grossing films including The Lion...
Mar 15, 2019 | Competition
Judges have selected the eight student teams who will compete in the 2019 BFX Competition. The competitors will be challenged to create a brand film for the four selected charities who stand to benefit from this festival collaboration. This year’s teams are; Clean Up...
Jan 16, 2019 | BFX Festival
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...
