Neil Bennett
Neil is editor of Digital Arts – overseeing the site’s stories, interviews, features and tutorials that inspire, educate, influence and inform those in the creative industries.
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Articles by Neil Bennett
News: Apple has upgraded the iMac to make it twice as fast – and given the iMac Pro a quiet bump too
Apple has launched new versions of its 27- and 21.5 inch iMacs with faster CPUs and graphics, which Apple claims makes it up to 2.4x faster…
News: Apple's new iPad Air is a low-cost rival to the iPad Pro
While Apple says that the iPad Air isn’t for pro artists and designers, there are a few features we prefer to the iPad Pro.
Features: Best Laptop for Design and Art
We tested the most powerful and stylish models to find the best laptop for designers and artists.
Reviews: Asus ZenBook Pro 14 review: the designer-focussed laptop with a second screen built into its trackpad
We were expecting a laptop with innovative new features you won't get elsewhere, but what we got was impressive in other ways.
News: The artistic approaches that helped Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pick up this year's Animation Oscar
This year's animation Oscar winner combines art styles that are as diverse as the multiple universes its heroes and villains come from. Here…
Features: Jorge Gutiérrez on the Power Being Autistic Brings to his Creativity
The director of The Book of Life and animated shows for Nickelodeon and Netflix discusses being autistic, mixing Mexican culture with sci-fi…
Features: These rare medical illustrations detail how we’ve viewed the workings of the human body from medieval times until today
A new exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London shows how our understanding of anatomy has been represented by illustrators.
News: Adobe buys Substance Painter and Designer to bring 3D tools to Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud subscribers could get their hands on the Substance line of software applications for creating 3D textures and materials soon.
Features: Freelance Wars' has given us a year of hilarious, oh-too-true GIFs about nightmare clients and spec work – and now it's over
Alex Griendling reflects on a year of creating a fantastically popular Twitter account that combine Stars Wars clips with instantly relatable…
News: Lenovo's new PC for artists and designers is the oddest-looking desktop you can draw on
This asymmetrical all-in-one looks like Dieter Rams' take on Microsoft's Surface Studio – which some will love for its retro charm and others despise.
News: Wacom has launched a cheaper Cintiq
The new Cintiq 16 is under half the price of the same-size Cintiq Pro and uses the same pen technology – but it has a much lower-quality screen.
Features: How Anki designed and animated a loveable personality for its real robot friend, Vector
Mooly Segal, animation lead at Anki tells us about the character design of its smart-and-cheeky robot companion, which is like having a real…
Features: Inside the concept art behind Nicolas Cage's most bizarre film, Mandy
Artist Rob McCallum tells us how curses, rust and emailed photos of 80s hair metal legend David Lee Roth inspired the look of Panos…
Reviews: iPad Pro 2018 review: there's much for artists and designers to love about Apple's new iPad
The new iPad Pro is smaller, much more powerful and features a sleek new design – but it's the new Pencil that will make the most difference…
News: These artists reimagined the Apple logo for the new iPad Pro launch event
More illustrators have come forward with their versions of the Apple logo that the Mac-maker commissioned for last week's launch of the iPad…
News: A new MacBook Pro is coming next month
Hidden among the launches of Apple's new iPad Pro, Pencil, Mac mini and Macbook is an upgrade to the MacBook Pro
Features: This First Man soundtrack vinyl cover art is exquisitely composed
Illustrator Marc Aspinall takes us through his creative process to bring the feel of the golden age of space exploration to this artwork.
Features: See concept art from groundbreaking video games including The Last of Us, Journey and No Man's Sky
Discover what inspired them too, as we visit and showcase what's at the V&A Museum's first major exhibition dedicated to video game design.
News: Adobe shows us Photoshop on the iPad for the first time
Making its official debut at Adobe Max, we saw a preview of Photoshop for the iPad.
News: This is sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag's only physical painting up for auction
The Swedish digital artist's work using real-world paints comes up for auction.
