Essonnes. Made up of sixteen individual weights and spread over three different optical sizes, Essonnes is designed to bring utility back to the Didot genre. It’s a common belief among designers that Didones don’t work for text. This wasn’t true in 1819 and it isn’t true today. Like its forbearers, Essonnes is a truly optical family—not just a study in adjusting contrast. The text and display weights have been designed from the ground up for their intended roles.
Like many typefaces, Essonnes started after falling in love with a piece of history. These unique situations—screens, modern printing methods, the previous 200 years of typographic innovation since the original design, my own life experiences—have led to a typeface that, while based on history, is not stuck in it. 50 Free Animation Tools And Resources For Digital Learners. 50 Animation Tools & Resources For Digital Learners by Lisa Chesser, opencolleges.edu.au A purple monster with wild curls spiraling out of control explains the economics of oil production in the Sudan to students in Los Angeles, Sydney, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Riyadh. That is education and animation working together to teach students everywhere, everything they ever wanted to know. Educators need only utilize the tools available, most of them for free. Some of the animation links catalogued here will give educators very basic tools and histories of animation while others have the animation already created and set in motion, it’s just a matter of sharing it with students.
Educators need to decide which tool is best for them. One of the easiest ways to animate, however, isn’t with your own camera and modeling clay, it’s with your links to sites that hand you everything within their own forums. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. For those who prefer to draw, there’s Make It Share It. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. The Color Scheme Designer. Anime Style Background Tutorial » mclelun.
Anime Style Background Tutorial This is a follow up to my last painting tutorial for noob like us. I have found out a few things that I like to share with peoples that have great interest in making their own anime/manga. Disclaimer: I suffer from partial colorblindness and never went to any art school. Technique and theory in this tutorial might not be correct. This is also not an in-depth step by step tutorial and it is meant for people that have some knowledge on Photoshop. The Artwork “Bus Stop” This is the finish artwork I did yesterday.
Sky Start painting the sky by using the gradient tool. Clouds Not the best clouds here, but a quick way to paint clouds. 1) Select the chalk style brush for both paintbrush and eraser.2) Start painting the clouds with this chalk brush and erase part of the clouds when needed. Trees, Bushes 1) Select the Chalk brush. NOTE: You can use custom leaf and bush brush to get a better result. Atmospheric Effect, Haze, Fog, Shadow Sunlight, Glow, Glare The character. PSG Art tutorial. Foreword I believe there is logic behind why a picture works or not. I also believe that humans are meat machines, and that one day computers will be able to emulate humans and what we do. Since logic can be formulated into rules, guidelines and theories, these can be shared. I will attempt to do so here. Note that I have just empirically deduced the theories I present here, and that I'm a highly fallible meat machine.
At some point a painting is good enough and our personal preferences and limited human cognitive and intellectual abilities will not notice or care about imperfections. As we learn more about art, we might start noticing more and more discrepancies (and become grumpy in the eyes of others). Many rules also play against each other and may cancel each other out, or become invalidated because of a stylistic approach .
The far most useful critique I can give developing artist is: Practice. Updates 2012 May02: Clarified stuff in the Terminology section. Table of contents Licence. After Effects 101--A CreativeCOW Video Tutorial by Andrew Kramer. AE Tutorial How to make a Typography video. Sculpture tutorial for Starters - Part 1 by =Feyrah on deviantART. E-Chords.com - Guitar Chords and tabs with key variations.