Apple 'selling' Severance's Lumon Terminal Pro is an ingenious branding move
Apple TV's Severance recently finished its second season, and the series has really got people talking. To capitalise on the show's popularity, Apple is including the computers that appear in the Lumon workplace in the show on its website, and their integration is seamless. It looks like it's a parody or maybe even a mistake to see 'Lumon Terminal Pro' with a 'New' sticker next to it on the Apple Store, right next to the MacBook Air (also new).
Okay I admit it, I like the look of the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour (sorry, not sorry)
Instead of shipping the new Switch 2 with a handy intro that shows users how to use it, gamers will have to pay around $10 to download a Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a short game that will show off its new features. The thing is, once the game comes out I'm sure that the internet will be quickly filled with the game's "secrets", but maybe, just maybe, the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour might be worth getting for the graphic design alone. I said maybe.
9 iconic typefaces in movies and TV – from Stranger Things to Napoleon Dynamite
Ever seen a piece of text or type and thought, I’ve seen this before? There’s probably a reason for that. Sometimes, the type choices made on screen and television end up being as iconic and memorable as the features themselves and can set the tone in terms of visual storytelling even before a single word is spoken. The right typeface can convey a stunning sense of time, place, emotion and genre.
Which shot from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was inspired by "classic Star Wars"?
Star Wars has its share of immense industrial, highly-engineered spaces and as Skeleton Crew moves towards its climax the action shifts to an immense vault, something that has been teased for many episodes. But it's the Onyx Cinder spaceship coming in and landing on At Achrann that “is classic Star Wars fare”, according to Chris McLaughlin, Visual Effects Supervisor at DNEG.
Making Among The Trolls
Among The Trolls makes startling use of Unreal Engine 5 to blend photoreal environments with fantasy folklore. Avantgarden Games' game director shares the dev's journey. "Visually, this is expressed through a contrast between realistic elements, such as vegetation, lighting, and weather conditions and details that suggest a supernatural influence," Simonotti explains.