A Web site prodigy
The Prodigy was one of the biggest bands of the 90s, and defined a new style. Rockstar had the job of applying that to a Web site.
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Weta: rendering Lord of the Rings
Special effects are now a central part of the moviemaking process. But as audiences demand more, effects houses are being forced to ramp up their processing power like never before.
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Preloaded gets Spooked
Spying used to involve exploding pens and seductive double agents – but Preloaded has brought spying into the digital age with its Spooks 3 site…
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Uncle Sam Poster
Flagg’s 1917 US army recruitment poster is the most famous poster ever created – and spawned a whole series of spin-offs.
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Hector Macleod – the art of Glass
Hector Macleod is a dynamo. Owner of CG and post-facility Glassworks, he helped set-up Click 3X in NY when he was 27, and reckons post-production is all in the art.
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Film still bucks the digital trend
Many professional photographers still cling to film. We ask them what it will take to convert them to digital.
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Broken Saints
It’s been billed as the greatest animation series of all time – and now it’s reached the final chapter. Broken Saints takes Flash to a higher level.
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Top 20 movie posters
From Metropolis to Memento, classic film posters are an underappreciated form of graphic design. We celebrate the best.
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The Mill
One of the biggest names in VFX talks Oscars, diplomacy, and the future effects of Doctor Who.
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Sex in Design
Birds do it, bees do it, and even designers and brand agencies do it. Yet is the overt use of sex in design and branding falling out of fashion?
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Designer peepshow
With designers seemingly using sex to sell everything from mobile homes to prosthetic limbs, maybe we should put away the porn stars and take a more mature approach.
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10 things to know about Tiger
Tiger, the latest upgrade to Mac OS X, is preparing to pounce in early 2005, and it's already shown some of its stripes.
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Shaun of the Dead
The Pavement bring the dead to life in the animated menus for the DVD of 'the romantic comedy with zombies'.
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Reality bites
Stock images used to be a last resort. Today, however, stock images are increasingly defining the visual language of designers as they become increasingly edgy.
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eBoy Growing up with Pixels
Design co-op eBoy has single-handedly made retro-style pixel art cool – and its isometric, quirky, and detailed work is starting an art wildfire.
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Blindsided by design
The Disability Discrimination Act will come into force on October 1 this year – and will have a huge impact on how we should, and could, design accessible content.
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The Chronicles of Riddick
Double Negative reveals the creative tricks behind the top visual effects it created for the sequel to Pitch Black.
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Viral Marketing
A viral marketing campaign can make or break a brand. It can increase a company's cred, but it has to be something special to have an impact.
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Cimex
Top interactive media agency Cimex looks back at its ten years in the industry and reveals the secrets behind its many award-winning elearning projects.
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MillTv's First Olympians FX
From digital environments created from 3D models and detailed matte paintings to digital crowds and 3D horses, MillTv goes for FX gold.