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: 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: 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.
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: Why you should stop entering design competitions
Many design 'competitions' are just ways for brands to get you to work for free – and we need to put a stop to them.
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.
News: New Nvidia graphics cards offer 'industry-changing' real-time raytracing on your computer for the first time
The new Turing architecture and Quadro RTX cards based on it that will revolutionise how 3D artists work, says Nvidia.
News: Siggraph 2018's hottest new tech for 3D, animation and VFX
From super-powerful graphics cards and laptops for artists and designers to some more unusual launches.
Reviews: The ThinkPad P1 is Lenovo’s MacBook Pro rival with a better screen and lots of design innovation
This mobile workstation is a cost-effective, powerful rival than can top Apple and Dell laptops in a number of ways – and it can lie flat for…
Reviews: Lenovo ThinkVision P32u monitor review
In our tests we found this 32-inch monitor to be among the most accurate we've seen, and capable of outputting 100% of Adobe RGB - and it can…
Reviews: Blackmagic Design eGPU review
This external Thunderbolt 3 box can improve performance for a short list of specific apps – but actually slows down others.
News: New Intel Xeon chips add power to small, cheap workstations
The first workstations using the chips are due in August from Dell and Lenovo.
Reviews: The Huawei P20 Pro is the best phone for artists, designers and photographers
This phone has the best camera around, capable of taking incredible photos of your life and work (and yourself) – even under awful lighting.
News: Apple's new MacBook Pro is 'up to twice as powerful as before'
The new MacBook Pro is all about performance. That's the story we heard again and again at an exclusive Apple showcase in New York - from…
