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12 articles in Digital Art
Discover how an idea becomes a finished 3D production through 18 stages, from pre-production to rendering, compositing and final delivery.
Traditional animation, 3D characters, motion design or AI video generation: discover 15 essential tools for creating movement, from the first drawing to the final shot.
Drawing, sculpting, avatars, animation or artificial intelligence generation: discover 15 essential tools for imagining, building and bringing your characters to life.
AI video is no longer just text-to-video. Sora, Veo, Runway, Kling, Luma, Pika, HeyGen, Synthesia, CapCut, and Descript cover very different needs: cinematic generation, image animation, short-form editing, talking avatars, dubbing, training, marketing, and social media.
Midjourney, GPT Image, Nano Banana,Adobe Firefly, Canva AI, Ideogram, Flux, Recraft, Stable Diffusion… AI image tools do not all serve the same goal. Some excel at aesthetics, others at editable design, typography, local control, or professional workflows.
Digital photography is not limited to capturing reality. With retouching, photomontage, collage, textures, and photo-painting, an image can become material for creation, storytelling, and visual experimentation.
There is no single best software for digital painting. The right choice depends on your practice: digital painting, sketching, illustration, comics, manga, retouching, vector art, iPad, open source, or professional workflow.
To start digital painting, you do not need to buy the most expensive equipment. The right choice mostly depends on your budget, comfort, workspace, and desire to create regularly.
Digital painting is not just an imitation of traditional painting on a screen. It is another way of searching for an image, using layers, digital brushes, textures, adjustable colors, and a new freedom to explore.
Digital art is not one single practice, but a constellation of creative gestures: digital painting, photography, vector art, pixel art, 3D, animation, generative art, AI, interactive installations, and video game worlds.
Digital art is not just drawing on a tablet or generating an image with AI. It is a vast creative workshop where painting, photography, 3D, code, animation, interaction, and new ways of sharing art all meet.
Creating an image no longer depends on a single tool.