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
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.
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…
News: HP’s Spectre Folio is a stylish, leather-bound take on the Surface Pro
We would have preferred a vegan leather option as well as the real thing, but this new tablet/laptop hybrid has some distinct advantages over…
Features: How the brilliant, moving Oscar-nominated film The Breadwinner was visually brought to life
As The Breadwinner has its home release, we speak to director Nora Twomey about its combination of simplified character design, subtly…
News: After Effects, Premiere Pro and Character Animator 'CC 2019' features detailed by Adobe
Adobe has taken the wrapping off new versions of AE, Premiere and other tools – though they're not shipping yet.
Features: Clara Bacou on producing 3D and AR art for Snapchat and Honor – and why she’s a creator rather than an artist
These overwhelmingly colourful, 3D-based works will brighten up your day.
News: Aardman's new trailer for 11-11: Memories Retold gives a closer look at the game’s 'animated watercolour' feel
With a new story trailer online, it's clear 11-11: Memories Retold will be more of a Wilfred Owen poem than a Battlefield shooter.
News: How AI is powering groundbreaking Photoshop and Premiere plugins
Machine learning has allowed the likes of Nvidia to make tasks like object removal, noise reduction and up-rezing much, much easier.
Features: Is this the future of VR?
VR’s getting physical with innovations powered by wind, drones and rooms with props for multiple players.
