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Whisper it, but A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead could be the year's creepiest game
The story trailer for new horror game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, based on Paramount Pictures’ hit movie franchise, just could be one of the creepiest things I've seen this year. Developer Stormind Games, which created cult survival horror Remothered: Tormented Fathers, has perfectly pitched its horror-verse. Horror...
This art was made in ZBrush on an iPad
ZBrush for iPad was announced at the end of last year - we cover this news in our ZBrush explainer - but questions around how it will actually work have continued to be asked by artists keen to sculpt on a tablet. Now we have some answers. The in-development ZBrush...
5 creatives to watch from D&AD New Blood 2024
I recently had the pleasure of attending this year's D&AD New Blood Festival – celebrating the best-emerging talent in the creative industries. It's a delightful melting pot of design inspiration, shaking up the creative climate as we know it and promising an exciting new generation of creative minds. The...
RenderMan 26 review: improved XPU and AI features continue to impress
An interactive denoiser and XPU improvements further cement this impressive renderer’s position as one of the greats. That these changes largely improve render quality while reducing render times will be pleasant news to users. For. Next-level denoising. Powerful interactive rendering. Better non-photorealistic results. Against. Still viewed as a niche...
“Creativity can be spontaneous”: Designer David Airey shares a career’s worth of insights
In his book Identity Designed: The Process, David Airey offers up lessons he’s learned through his career to guide designers through navigating their own work. Graphic designer David Airey has become something of a go-to expert in the world of branding and design. He has worked with a broad range of clients on all aspects of brand identity, and has launched two design-themed websites – Logo Design Love, and Identity Designed – both of which resulted in publishing deals for books that have gone on to be released worldwide.
The new LA Kings logo is another case of Groundhog Day in sports branding
Retro logo designs are having their day in sports at the moment, particularly in the US. From the New York Jets to the Anaheim Ducks, several teams have turned back the clock, adopting new logos very closely inspired by past designs. The new LA Kings logo is the latest example,...
I love the 1970s design of Evercade's new Atari Super Pocket retro console
Priced just $59 / £49, retro game brand HyperMegaTech! has announced two new models in its budget-friendly Super Pocket line, one for Atari and one for Techno, makers of classic arcade brawler Double Dragon. The Super Pocket handhelds are some of my favourite ways to play vintage games, and...
Making Fallout in Unreal Engine 5 - merging old and new film techniques
We've covered how game engines are helping filmmakers, and how the next Spielberg could be making films in Unreal Engine, as well as taking the opportunity to stand on an LED Volume stage for ourselves, but the use of this technology is growing so fast it's worth pausing and looking at how real time 3D and traditional filmmaking techniques are merging.
Wacom Yuify - the new 'anti-AI' platform - is in open beta
We covered the Wacom Yuify following our meeting with Wacom CEO Nobutaka Ide at The VFX Festival in London. This new blockchain platform from Wacom is designed to protect and record ownership of artists' work permanently and can even set up rights and licences. Basically, if you're art is used by an AI you can trace it and monetise it, which should see more cautious use of art found online.
This perplexing optical illusion has my brain in check mate
We love a good trick of the eye here at Creative Bloq. Our pick of the best optical illusions includes everything from Super Mario confusing us on a staircase to a spinning horse. But some mind benders still just leave me stumped, and this is one of them. The checker...
Gigabyte G6X review: gaming's fingerprints are all over it
Specced mainly for games, the Gigabyte G6X is also good for other rendering work. This laptop offers some promising performance but will work best with an external screen. There are laptops designed for creatives, and there are laptops built for gamers, and they tend to be very similar. You stick a multi-core CPU and a mid-range GPU in a chunky black chassis, top it with a screen that’s a step up from the 1080p 60Hz panels of the budget models, and file it in one category or another depending on whether it has aggressive styling and RGB lights or not. In practice, this means a gaming laptop will make an excellent creative machine, as the ability to push pixels doesn’t discriminate over whether it’s beautiful minimalist pages or the latest texture-mapped polygons.
The best early Prime Day iPad deals are here
Amazon Prime Day 2024 is almost upon us, and we're hoping for big Prime Day iPad deals on a range of Apple tablets. With new M4 iPad Pros and M2 Airs now on the market, we're particularly hopeful for deals on both these and older iPad models, but you might not want to wait, because Amazon already has record deals on a range of iPads as we'll see below.
Starbucks brews up fresh design dispute over “nearly identical” logo
Coffee connoisseur Starbucks has once again entered a design dispute over a similar logo, which the company alleges copies its iconic green siren emblem. Starbuds Flowers – a marijuana retailer based in New York City – appears to take design cues from Starbucks' trademarked logo, which has prompted the global coffee chain to take legal action against the business.
SanDisk Desk Drive SSD 8TB review: pro-level drive with enormous storage
The SanDisk Desk Drive SSD 8TB is a high-quality, high-performance desk-based drive that although expensive, has such high capacity it may be the only external storage solution you need. It's a useful piece of kit for creative professionals working in real time on files stored on the drive. For. Immense...
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