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Animating Viz

Highlights from Animated Yorkshire's event at Barnsley Digital Media Centre with Alex Collier

Tenacity and Talent - How to Survive and Thrive in Animation

Kath Shackleton reports on Animated Yorkshire's event

When it's this good, change is good

New 4D cinema graphics for Never Mind the Buzzcocks title sequence.

The Great Estate (Agent)

Freya Hotson takes stock of her week, and finds its method a little wanting

Jobless but Charitable

Freya's feeling the pressure of the job market, and kindly enquiries

Use Hairbrush Not Airbrush

Two adverts were pulled in the UK last week, on the basis of being photoshopped to unrealistic proportions. Poor Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington, who work for L’Oreal and Maybelline respectively, whose lovely visages have been deemed “misleading”.

I Dream of Routine

Freya's socialising with fellow artistes as she sets upon the rocky road to freelance...

The Swimming Pool

Freya's graduated and gettin' on, killing time with caricatures

End of an Era

It's been almost exactly a month since the hand-in of the graduate film. This seems as good a time as any to begin chronicling the madcap exploits of an animation graduate of 2011, plunging head first into the recession...