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Inspiration: Awesome Nature-Themed Art
Nature is something that inspires all artists, designers and photographers on a day-to-day basis. Wherever it is you work, rest or play, there will always be nature around you, and whether you intend to or not it’s always going to influence you in one way or another. This round-up of nature-t...
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25 Fantastic Vector Portraits
When most people think to create a portrait, Illustrator isn’t the first program that comes to mind. Photoshop, sure. Pencil and paper, definitely. Even paints or collage seem obvious. But Illustrator? The truth is, though, some truly fantastic portraits have been created in Illustrator and ot...
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After Effects vs. Nuke – AE Premium
This tutorial compares the workflow of After Effects with Nuke and is intended for After Effects users who want to familiarize themselves with the interface and want to make their first steps in Nuke. After a short introduction of myself I start a composition in both Nuke and After Effects and com...
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Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look
I think we all used to create little cartoons in school by drawing on each page of your text books and flipping through them to animate. Well, lets all save a tree. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a similar looking animation in AE using Trapcode Particular’s Aux Particles. From there ...
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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 24
Feeling underinformed? There's a fix for that! Read these great articles, watch these great movies!...
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Don’t Forget to Submit!
It’s March 15th and that means that the Desktop Wallpaper Contest sponsored by Imagineer Systems and Toolfarm is half over. Thus far we’ve only had 13 entries!… As of right now, you’d have a 1 in 14 chance of winning over $1,000 dollars worth of AE goodies, not to mentioned ...
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How to Make an Inspired, Golden Painting in Illustrator
In this tutorial we will travel back in time to recreate the painting style of one of the most outstanding symbolism artists – Gustav Klimt. His works are full of warm golden colors, simple ornaments, irregular patterns, natural symbols, and asymmetric shapes. We will work to produce this styl...
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Thinking in Commands: Part 1 of 2
Simple, maintainable code is beautiful. However, when we have a sequences of actions that need to trigger each other, our code can get messy, making it impossible to change later. The Command Pattern keeps things clean. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a minimalist AS3 Command fr...
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Concept Art: Create a Sci-Fi Interior Using Digital Painting Techniques
Artists often draw rough sketches of their artwork before they begin to add the final touches. This is also true for digital painters who will draw a rough sketch in Photoshop before they begin work. In today’s tutorial we will show you how to polish a rough sketch of a sci-fi drawing using di...
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Double Stuffed Tracking Walkthrough
We’ve seen lots of tutorials on how to do basic planar tracking, but we’re gonna take it to a hole notha level. This tutorial demonstrates how to use 2D planar tracking and 3d tracking together to create graphics that pop off a board that you can hold and walk with. Preview Want acces...
