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Dell Canvas review: the cheap Wacom Cintiq alternative
Digital illustrator Sam Gilbey tests Dell's inexpensive version of the Wacom Cintiq – and finds a flawed drawing experience.
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Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 and 32 review: hands-on with the huge screens you can draw on
Digital painter Sam tested both of the enormous Wacom Cintiq Pro tablet displays – and also with the Cintiq Pro Engine – and loved drawing on them.
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Wacom's cheaper, 24-inch Cintiq Pro is here – plus its first desktop PC
There's much for designers and artists to be excited about here – though the 32-inch model is delayed until later in the year.
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Celebrate the end of World Cup 2018 with these Brilliant Art, Design and Animation Projects
These diverse, inspiring football-related projects range from a well-designed wallchart to animated tapestry, and from illustrated fan chants to an unofficial England anthem based on our current favourite kids animated show.
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What Apple and Adobe just announced for designers at WWDC
Coming this autumn is a more pro-looking dark mode for MacOS, help with your mess of a desktop - and some new apps for pro designers.
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Best free storyboard software (and paid-for ones too)
Make roughing and planning your animations a whole lot easier by using these storyboarding apps.
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Image Engine VFX supervisor Robin Hackl on how big-budget television is changing the industry
Image Engine VFX supervisor Robin Hackl, who's worked on Deadpool and The X-Files, discusses what the influx of new television work means for VFX.
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Best cheap Wacom Cintiq alternative drawing tablets
Don't have £1,900/$2,000 for a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24? Here are six much less expensive pen display options for drawing, sketching and painting.
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These animations helped explain the complexity of Russia's Olympic doping for 2018 Oscar-winning documentary Icarus
NY-based design studio ODD NY explains how it created animations to help make Russia's sophisticated plot easy to understand.
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Adobe CC buying guide: pricing, new features, discounts & free trials
Adobe released Creative Cloud (CC) in October 2011, in a move towards becoming more of a software-as-a-service provider (though you can use CC products offline as well). If you’re considering a shift to the cloud as well, but aren’t totally sure where (or how) to start, or if it’s worth it, here’s what you need to know.
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Design Trends 2018: 28 leading designers, creative directors & illustrators tell us what’s inspiring them for the year ahead
Find out 2018’s biggest trends across graphic, data, digital and UX design, creative direction, branding, illustration, VFX and VR.
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Apple Final Cut Pro 10.4 review
The latest version of Final Cut Pro X has some new features of great appeal to editors, even if you're not editing next-generation formats like 8K and 360 video for VR.
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See inside the motion design studio behind Blade Runner 2049, Ghost In The Shell and Prometheus' graphics
Territory Studio designs graphics and UIs for Hollywood's biggest sci-fi films. Here its key creatives give us an exclusive an insight into its working processes and the secrets behind its stunning work on Blade Runner 2049 and more.
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5 tips on creating stand-out social media advertising
How to make quality videos that can be used across multiple platforms, with a tight turnaround.
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Idil Sukan on painting and photographing Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson and more for Agatha Christie's Crooked House
The artist and photographer tells us about painting portraits in the back of a car, and what its like to see your work smashed during a movie. [Note: no spoilers]
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The Pantone Colour of the Year 2018 is a Prince-esque purple
The shade that Pantone says will be big next year is Ultra Vlolet (not ultraviolet).
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15 best portfolio websites for designers and artists
Following recent updates of Cargo and Wix, we feature 15 of the best art and design portfolio websites.
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Adobe releases Creative Cloud 2018 with new Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD, Dimension, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Lightroom & more
You can now download Adobe CC 2018. We take a look at the new features in updates to Photoshop, XD, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Character Animator and Dimension.
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Hands on with Microsoft's Surface Book 2, the Surface Pro's super-powerful big brother
The Microsoft Surface Book 2 could be the most powerful tablet/laptop hybrid you can draw on. We went hands-on in both the UK and US to find out.
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IBC 2017: The future of animation, video, AR and VR
We look back over the IBC 2017 show in Amsterdam – where groundbreaking new tech for producing motion media will brings us more realistic VR and AR, purposefully less realistic animation and a (thankfully virtual) exploding chicken.
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The British Library offers over a million free vintage images for download
These centuries-old copyright-free images include everything from from book illustrations to photos – and cover subjects from flowers to cycling and children's books to maps.
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Wacom's next Cintiq will have a huge 32-inch screen
Coming in January, the new Cintiq Pro will offer the largest screen-you-can-draw-on we've ever seen.
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Microsoft Surface Studio – the artist's hands-on review
Artist Sam Gilbey tries out Microsoft's iMac rival to see what it's like to paint and draw on.
