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Google. Photo Effect. Drawing Lessons. In 1988, an extraordinary thing happened in the world of animation. The film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit? "( Directed by Robert Zemekis, animation directed by Richard Williams) was released. The film gleefully celebrated the kind of imaginative slapstick cartoon violence that was the staple of the most popular short cartoon classics that were made during the period from around 1940 till the decline in the year that the film takes place,1947. Cartoon lover's eyes popped like Tex Avery wolves all over the world for this caliber of animation hadn't been seen since...well, 1947. The film was a major hit, and a powerful shot in the arm for the until then sluggish animation business. For me personally, well...it saved my life, and my faith in the power of the animated film. It was also in 1988 that I became associated with the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art in Dover, New Jersey. What follows are the notes for my class. So, are we ready to start drawing?

Click on page 1 below! Camera Raw - Emboss Text Effect. One of my dear friends, Bert Monroy, has a wonderful podcast on Revision3 called Pixel Perfect. Some of you may remember that I've appeared as a guest on Bert's show in the past, where I've spoken about using Illustrator and symbols, 3D, animation, and the awesome Live Paint feature. Recently, Bert did an episode on how to create a license plate in Photoshop. As always, the techniques that Bert teaches on his show are great.

But I couldn't help myself in thinking that creating a license plate in Illustrator would not only be possible, it would end up looking better, and it would be scalable to boot. The challenge though is quite apparent -- license plates feature text that is embossed into the metal -- and Illustrator, with all of the wonderful effects it offers, doesn't have an emboss effect. In reality, Illustrator DOES have an emboss "effect" via the 3D effect. So I spent a few minutes with Illustrator with this challenge, and came up with the following: Not bad, eh?

What was that? 1. Tutorial Magazine / photoshop. Another {DIY} Bracelet. I don’t know what has gotten into me but I’m on a major bracelet kit. Maybe it’s because bracelet stacking is all the craze now and I can’t get enough! Some of the bracelets I have worked on before can be found here, here, and here. I have made a few variations to some of these as well but I recently made something a little different than usual and it was something I wanted to try for quite awhile.

About a year and a half ago I took an amazing trip to Hong Kong and while I was there I purchased this bracelet and have always wanted to try to replicate it. I get complimented on it all the time but it wasn’t until last week when a friend of mine noticed it and said she wanted one just like it so I took that as a challenge to finally make it.

Here is what the bracelet looks like: It is made of of small rings…simple enough right? The first thing I did was measure the length of the bracelet by using the one I have as a guide. I continued adding jump rings until I came close to the end. Related. Vector Illustrations – A Modern Form of Digital Painting. The development of digital technologies caused changes in many spheres of human life. The entire industries developed, and new forms of business, communication, and, of course, art emerged. Vector illustrations represent one of the modern forms of digital art, which is now widely spread around the globe. Leo Blanchette, Catalina Estrada, Petra Stefankova, and J. Otto Seibold are only some of the representatives of modern artists, who chose vector illustration technique and gained worldwide fame.

At the very basic level, vector illustration is a technique, where an image is nothing but a graphical representation of some complex mathematical formula, which predefines the size, color, position of every point, line, curve, or shape and thus builds a visual image on a computer display. VECTOR MOVIE POSTERS by Grzegorz Domaradzki In the Forest Where You Sleep by Marius Bauer T-Shirt Designs by Andreas Krapf Recent Works – 2010 by Cristiano Siqueira Vector by Cristiano Siqueira Illus by Feesh Meelo. Textures. Free grunge frames pack. Useful for various projects like creating old style posters, western designs, bottle labels, backgrounds, collages … etc. Included 6 different variations in high resolution (3000x4000px) More Grunge Backgrounds available at Web-Backgrounds.net Resolution: 1350×1800 File Format: PSD File Size: 7,66 MB Number of Items in Set: 6 Author: Free PSD Files.

Create a Mobile Phone Music Player Interface. In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a mobile phone music player interface. We'll build the interface using pixel perfect alignment, quality vector shape building techniques, as well as gradient and lighting control. Step 1 Hit Command + N to create a new document. Enter 640 in the width box and 960 in the height box, then click on the Advanced button. Next, you'll need a grid every 5px. Step 2 Pick the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 640 by 30px shape. Step 3 Pick the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 640 by 200px shape. Select this new shape and make two copies in front (Command + C > Command + F > Command + F). Step 4 Reselect the large rectangle created in the previous step and make two new copies in front (Command + C > Command + F > Command + F). Step 5 Reselect the large rectangle created in the third step and make two new copies in front (Command + C > Command + F > Command + F).

Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Re-enable the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Step 10 Step 11. Crafttuts+ Game Development Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Gamedevtuts+ Mac & OS X Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Mactuts+ 3D, Maya, Blender and more tutorials from beginner to advanced | Cgtuts+ A WordPress Website dedicated to WordPress training, tutorials, and WordPress videos | Wptuts+ In-depth tutorials and articles on web design | Webdesigntuts+ Mobiletuts+ | iPhone, Android, Windows and BlackBerry mobile development tutorials. Photography and post-processing tutorials from beginner to advanced | Phototuts+ Aetuts+ | Adobe After Effects tutorials from beginner to advanced. Audio and production tutorials, from beginner to advanced | Audiotuts+ Web development tutorials, from beginner to advanced | Nettuts+ Tuts+ Premium | The best way to learn creative and technical skills.

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