Sharp, NHK push 8K TVs ahead of 2020 Olympics
If you aren't ready for 4K TVs yet, you could wait a few more years for the next big thing: 8K.
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Albert the Squirrel seeks The Missing Scarf online
Narrated by George Takei, optimistic award-winning animation The Missing Scarf has been released to the wilds of the web.
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Best music videos 2014: Feast your eyes (and ears) on the UK Music Video Awards finalists
The UK Music Video Awards has unveiled its shortlist and we can reveal the finalists in our favourite creative categories.
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Visual trends: October 2014
Discover what should be inspiring you this month from the wider creative world. In the second in a new monthly series of features, Laura Snoad identifies the hottest and most pervasive creative trends. She brings together the best new work, projects and exhibitions from around the UK and beyond – across art, design, photography, music, film and more.
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Video trends: 4K is here – HDR video, VR and 3D audio is coming
What the new tech announced at this month's IBC conference in Amsterdam means for the future of video post-production.
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Glitch: inside one of this year's key photography trends
As an exhibition of Glitch images opens in London, curator Paul Foster from Getty Images explores why we're drawn to the digitally imperfect.
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Colour-depth not resolution is what will make 4K a success or failure
Just increasing the resolution to 3840 by 2160 pixels won't be enough to make consumers replace existing TVs with 4K models: Improvements such as higher framerates and better color reproduction will be equally important, according to two industry experts.
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BBC confirms BBC Store to sell TV shows & boxsets in 2015, & to launch 'Buzzfeed-style' BBC Earth site
The iTunes Store-style BBC Store will sell programmes when they come off iPlayer. BBC Earth will launch 'within weeks'.
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IBC 2014: Adobe updates After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC, Prelude, Speedgrade and more
Adobe has used IBC 2014 to give a sneak peak at future versions of its video editing, VFX and animation tools: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Prelude, SpeedGrade, Audition and Story Plus.
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Sin City: A Dame To Kill For concept art – the artist tell us how he created it in Photoshop
How Francesco Corvino used effects and lighting to build concept shots from greenscreen footage to recreated Frank Miller's stylised look for the film.
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Watch Floria Sigismondi's kaleidoscopic Samsung Curved TV spot
This ad for Samsung's Curved UHD TV is a visual treat with a Droste-effect infinite staircase from the Sigur Ros and David Bowie music video director.
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September 2014 creative trends: 5 things you must see
As part of her guide to this month's creative trends, arts lover and culture expert Laura Snoad has created a list of the five things you must see this month.
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Alienware's Area-51 gaming desktop reborn as a powerful Haswell-E-packing triangle
The first thing you notice about Alienware's new Area-51 refresh is that it's a triangle. Yeah, you heard me right – Alienware is bringing its Area-51 desktop line back from the dead, and the thing is shaped like a triangle. Pythagoras would be proud.
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Intel's 8-core Core i7 processors will make lower cost workstations more powerful
Intel took the wraps off its most powerful Core i7 CPUs – code-named Haswell-E and supporting hyperthreading, DDR4 memory and Intel's all-new X99 chipset.
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Visual trends: September 2014
Discover what should be inspiring you this month from the wider creative world. In this first in a new monthly series of features, Laura Snoad identifies the hottest and most pervasive creative trends. She brings together the best new work, projects and exhibitions from around the UK and beyond – across art, design, photography, music, film and more.
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Do you have the X-Factor too? Mix Off app puts fans in the frame
MPC Creative, CHI&Partners and director Sammy Rawal let TV viewers star in their own music video ident
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Watch Ringside Creative's Saul Bass-inspired spot for Ford Trucks
Cutters Studios and Ringside Creative mix design, animation and live-action footage for this chunky spot,
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Doctor Who titles 2014: exclusive interview with the animator behind this year's title sequence
We interview the animator whose home-made Doctor Who intro lead to him working on the title sequence for the new series starring Peter Capaldi.
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Milk VFX creates diabolical villains and dinosaurs for Doctor Who
Milk takes on almost 120 VFX shots for Deep Breath episode to give Peter Capaldi a dangerous debut as Doctor Who
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The Simpsons remixed to promote 522-episode screening marathon
Watch Laundry's The Simpsons remix for a 12-day 24/7 screening of the animated show.