We’ve reached that time of year again – when it gets dark out quickly, and the vast majority of the globe slinks back into their living rooms early on a Monday evening.

Former Starcom General Manager Naomi Johnston has joined Melbourne animation house Jumbla to drive the studio’s expansion among top-tier advertising clients.

Does a TAFE animation course make you job ready?

The average person sees 5,000 ads every day. That’s more ads than we can hope to remember in a year.

Evidently, one way to get a job at Jumbla animation studio in Melbourne is to look a lot like Head of Production, Steve Bradshaw.

When we booked a freelancer based on a reel, CV and designer ‘look book’, without having met him, we were treated to a tall, beard-y guy with 13 years worth of dreadlocks piled atop his head.

Jumbla was among the winners at last night’s Melbourne Advertising and Design Club Stars Creative Showcase.

Visualising teenage psychosis: Headspace, a mental health intervention service uses “out there” animation to communicate their services to teenagers via social media.

"The first reaction - everyone was blown away. We've never done something like this before. The feedback from our dealer network, and audiences alike has been that its probably the best television commercial that we've ever produced for Suzuki Australia."

Jumbla’s push to cement itself as Australia’s leading short-form animation and motion graphics studio gained traction with recent recognition across four categories in the 2018 Animation and Effects Awards Festival (AEAF).

Despite the utility of written content, sometimes language can only go so far. Even under the best of circumstances, there are only so many words in the English language, an issue that becomes particularly challenging when explaining new concepts, ideas, or instructions.

So you’re an After Effects user who loves efficiency and order.

Jumbla Studios has launched six new animation and motion graphics courses at its South Melbourne headquarters in the first major overhaul of its educational division since 2016.

This week brings progress for women in design, the winning combination of dogs and animation, and a tip from Netflix on how to save money in the world of an uber-corporation.

This week’s Creative Brief features bold new moves in advertising and a scary machine-learning tool...

Animation and VFX at the Oscars, marketing misconceptions, and extension updates...all in this week’s creative news round-up.