Top 20 visual-effects pop promos
Pop videos are now valued in many cases as a higher art form than the music track they are helping to promote. Digit reveals the increasing role of VFX in their creation.
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King Arthur
Cinema’s latest take on the story of King Arthur transports us back to the world of ancient Britain courtesy of some super cool visual-effects by Cinesite. Visual effects supervisor Matt Johnson reveals all.
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#5 The Coca-Cola bottle
From 1915, it has influenced designs for cars, planes, furniture, fashion and graphic arts. The contour-shaped Coca-Cola bottle really is the real thing.
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Easy Tiger
Apple's Mac OS is due a revamp in the New Year. Codenamed Tiger, it promises many intriguing new features - but will it deliver?
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Search and destroy your PC freedom
New, faster, smarter Search tools are on their way, but many will pop-up with a sting in their tail.
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Good Technology
Celebrating a decade in the digital-media industry this year, Good Technology takes time out to talk to Digit about its successes and how the industry has changed from the early days of Internet.
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Brainstorming
Thinking creatively is a skill that needs to be mastered if you’re to excel in meeting a design brief. Digit spoke to top UK creative talent to discover how they brew up a brainstorm.
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Passion for Kia car
Passion Pictures' Pete Candeland teams with illustrator Pete Fowler of Super Furry Animals fame for an animated Kia car commercial.
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Sending out a digital SOS
Some amateur photographers – armed with digital cameras – have become this century’s train-spotters. No wonder they’re suffering from Digital Distress Syndrome.
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Rolling back the years
When the Macworld Expo celebrated the Mac's 20th birthday this summer, a group of ex-employees assembled to discuss the impact of Apple's computer.
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Macworld Best of Show awards
By the end of the Mac Expo, the focus has turned back to the new products on show, with the Macworld magazine Best of Show awards.
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The ultimate kit
With so many products vying for your cash and your time, here's a comprehensive list of all the stuff you need - from spam filters to speakers.
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Hold your workhorses
If you're thinking of getting a new PC, it might be worth hanging on - there are a few new technologies just around the corner.
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Enter the reel world
Digit speaks to first-time and experienced independent filmmakers to find out how to get your feature films on the big screen.
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DVDs prepare for battle
With two competing blue laser DVD formats promising mases of storage on a single disc, Digit checked out which is likely to win the format wars.
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Who wants to be the disk king?
Pushing the limits of computer hard drives is silly when all we need is a lot more memory.
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Dieselfx thrills with Driv3r action film
Dieselfx helped Ridley Scott Associates bring some game action to life in a Hollywood-style action-film promotional short for Atari’s Driv3r.
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Profile: Peter Molyneux
The Godfather of the British Gaming Industry speaks exclusively to Digit.
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True types
With an unchecked explosion in computer fonts, are we at risk of losing all sense of the true art of typography? Digit asked leading type designers to spell out how best to use type in today’s hypervisual age.
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Mac's entertainment
Apple may have given the Macworld Expo a miss this month, but there was still plenty going on - especially if you're interested in digital entertainment.