
Roku's Backdrops Turns Your TV into an Art Gallery
Roku's Backdrops Mode allows users to turn their TV into a digital art display, showcasing various images and artwork when not in use, enhancing the TV viewing experience.
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Roku's Backdrops Mode allows users to turn their TV into a digital art display, showcasing various images and artwork when not in use, enhancing the TV viewing experience.

The Xencelabs Pen Tablet Medium Bundle SE is on sale for $230.09 at Amazon, down from $329, offering a 30% discount and making it an ideal choice for beginners or those upgrading their digital art setup in 2026.

The XPPen Artist 12 (3rd Gen) is a highly portable, affordable drawing tablet with impressive stylus performance and a color-accurate display, making it a strong choice for hobbyists, students, and mobile artists, despite some build quality and edge latency issues.

Wacom has announced the MovinkPad 11, a versatile Android-based tablet designed as a powerful alternative to the iPad for digital artists, featuring a high-resolution display, a Pro Pen 3 stylus with 8,192 pressure levels, and bundled creative software, filling a gap in the market for a specs-rich, Android-powered creative tablet.
A digital artist has created a stunning graphics overhaul for Cyberpunk 2077, utilizing over 300 mods, 4K resolution, 170FPS, and full pathtracing, making the game look more realistic than ever, but requiring a high-end PC with an RTX 5090 to run smoothly.

The article highlights various lesser-known iPad apps that enhance creativity, including Procreate for digital art, LumaFusion for video editing, Canva for visual content creation, Affinity Designer 2 for graphic design, Concepts for sketching and planning, and Tayasui Sketches for drawing, each offering unique features and pricing options.

LG has enhanced its TVs with a virtual art gallery feature, adding over 15,000 artworks from the Artlume collection to its OLED and LCD models running webOS 6.0 or newer. This partnership with Artlume allows users to display a wide range of art, from classic masterpieces to AI-generated pieces, transforming living rooms into virtual galleries. The Artlume app enables easy browsing and personalization of art playlists, while LG's OLED TVs continue to offer exceptional picture quality for displaying these artworks.

Adobe's Firefly AI, touted for its practicality and ethical training data, has been revealed to have been trained on Midjourney images in addition to public domain material and Adobe Stock, casting doubt on its commercial safety claims and ethical standing.

The creators of the NFT-based card-trading game, Champions of Otherworldly Magic, are facing backlash for paying an AI "artist" $15K a month for 10 hours of work to generate images for the game's cards. The decision to use AI-generated images has sparked controversy, with the development team defending their choice while facing criticism from traditional artists. Some view the situation as a publicity stunt, while others see it as a clash between AI and traditional art.

Adobe Firefly introduces Structure Reference, a new feature aimed at improving consistency in using generative AI for creating variations of reference images, making AI image generation more predictable and less random. This tool allows users to apply the structure of an existing image to new generations, further enhancing the practicality of generative AI for creatives in digital art.

Artforum has named Tina Rivers Ryan as its new top editor following a period of turmoil, with the magazine's previous editor in chief being fired and resulting in resignations and boycotts. Ryan, a curator specializing in digital art, has contributed to the magazine in the past and is known for her criticism of the NFT boom. The magazine's publishers expressed excitement for Ryan's leadership and her potential to uphold the magazine's reputation for high-quality criticism and expand its digital presence.

Midjourney has introduced a new "Character Reference" feature, -cref, for its AI image generator to address the issue of consistency across images. By adding a reference image URL as a parameter, users can now generate more similar-looking facial features, body shapes, and clothing for characters across a series of images. This development could potentially extend to other subjects in AI image generators, offering a solution to the challenge of maintaining consistency in generated content.
Refik Anadol discusses his immersive art installations that are generated using artificial intelligence, blurring the lines between physical and digital spaces. Anadol's work explores the potential of AI to create mesmerizing visual experiences, pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms and challenging perceptions of reality.

Stability AI's open-source Stable Diffusion 3, still in preview, has made significant advancements in AI image generation, including improved text prompt understanding, image quality, and adherence to complex prompts. Comparisons with DALL-E 3 and Midjourney suggest that Stable Diffusion 3 may be the most capable AI image generator to date. The open-source approach of Stability AI continues to compete with paid-for models, and the AI arms race among big players shows no signs of slowing down, indicating ongoing advancements in AI image generation technology.

The art director of Nightingale, a game developed using Unreal Engine 5, explains the team's decision to prioritize a stylized 'fantasy gaslamp' aesthetic over hyperrealism, emphasizing the importance of creating a realistic world that reacts truthfully and feels believable. The game's shared-world survival crafting fantasy concept allows players to influence and change the game's Fae Realms in real time using Realm Cards. The art team's focus on realistic light and texture, along with the use of Unreal Engine 5's features like Lumen, has been crucial in achieving the game's visually stunning and immersive fantasy world. Nightingale is set to be released in early access for PC on February 20.