For newcomers to the animation industry, it's important to remember that Autodesk, who make the software Maya, offer an education copy...

Now more than ever, animators need to be able to source the best (and cheapest) animation software for home use.  We're recommending ...

Recently I got an unexpected present in my Inbox - a badge of accreditation from Autodesk, the makers of Maya, as an official Autodesk Cer...

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) offers a useful option for our lecturers and tutors at Bucks, who are switching to online delivery of our ...

Now that our students are transitioning to online study, it's important to remember that Autodesk, the makers of Maya, offer free educ...

At last week's Blue GFX Expo, Blue Zoo’s Tom Box announced that Panel Forge Pro , their new storyboard and pipeline tool, is now avai...

Mental Ray is back! 3D Render by Amaru Zeas Mental Ray is Back! NVIDIA, makers of the classic ray tracer - it used to come bundled free ...

Compositing made easy Bucks welcomes visual effects compositor Nicky Brown today to teach our students the secrets of Nuke, now the VFX ...

Model your own Gul Dukat at Bucks for free! Image: Wikipedia Saturday 21 February is not just any old Open Day at Bucks. As well as ...

Handbrake. Free to download. What is Handbrake? Handbrake is a video transcoder ,  a tool for converting video from nearly any format to...

Last year Autodesk released Maya 2015, free for students and universities, and another leap forward in what has become the leading softwa...

In this short video Bucks tutor Dave Creighton explains how to import images into Adobe Premiere and then export a movie file. For anyon...

3DS LONDON is monthly conference for users of 3DStudio Max conference, which takes place at the first Wednesday of every month. It is a ...

  One question we get asked a lot at Bucks is this: " What should I use for animation - a PC or a Mac?" The good news is - yo...

Author and polymath Josh Kaufman gave an excellent talk at TED recently where he discusses the horror of trying to invest 10,000 hours in...

What should an animator's new year's resolutions be? Animation is a huge and growing business, a far cry from the cottage indus...