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: Studio McGuire on bringing beautiful moving artworks to the fine-dining table
Davy and Kristen McGuire’s hallucinatory projection-mapped worlds helped bring Howl’s Moving Castle to the stage – but their latest project…
News: There’s now a small Wacom Intuos Pro again for designers and artists on the move
Wacom has reintroduced a smaller version of its Intuos Pro graphics tablet for designers and artists on smaller budgets - or who want…
Reviews: Apple iPad mini review
Like a pocket Moleskine, 2019’s iPad mini isn’t ideally sized for drawing – but it might be your perfect travelling companion.
News: Game of Thrones GIFs: how Eran Mendel is creating hilarious weekly GIFs based on each episode's most shocking moment
Eran Mendel tells about his hugely popular weekly project turning Game of Thrones iconic moments into funny vector-based animated GIF – plus…
Reviews: Apple iMac 2019 review
Best-of-breed performance and great design makes for a near-perfect all-in-one that's well worth the high price tag. But in 2019, should we…
Features: Tina Touli on livestreaming her design practice for students and brands like Adobe
The designer also tells us about the power of experimentation, and gives advice on how to be a better on camera.
News: On its 5th birthday, look back at how ustwo created Monument Valley
Five years ago today, we interviewed Ustwo Games about the visual and game design of the gracefully artful and beautifully engaging Monument…
News: Adobe releases Content-Aware Fill for video
Photoshop's 'magic' tool for replacing objects in a scene is coming to After Effects - along with other new features for that app, Premiere…
News: Illustrators including Marion Deuchars have redesigned the Baby on Board badge
Marion, Ellie Thomas and Erin Aniker have created their own versions of the usually plain-and-informative badge for a Mother's Day campaign.
Reviews: Apple Mac Mini review
The Mac mini has much to recommend it for graphic and UX designers who won’t mind its lack of 3D power.
Features: What 500 years of medical illustration has taught us about art and anatomy
The history of medical illustration in Western Europe tells two intertwined stories of ever-improving technique and understanding.
News: Nvidia’s Gaugan tech turns simple colour blocks into realistic landscapes
The company says the tech can turn anyone into an accomplished artist (though that’s not true, obviously).
News: Designing a near-future Kowloon Walled City for Alita: Battle Angel
Production designer Caylah Eddleblute tells us about the architecture, colour, texture and lighting of Alita's Iron City.
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.