Modeling, Texturing, Shading and Rendering the iPhone in Maya – Part 2 In part two, Shaun will move from the blocking stage and walk you through the process of detailing the iPhone's remaining parts including the outer border, camera, lock button, USB port and the speaker's detailed anti-dust mesh. At the end, you'll have a fully complete iPhone model ready for the Texturing and Rendering stage. Which you'll tackle in the upcoming third and final part! Project Overview: Hey all, as you know we recently wrapped up our iPhone 4S series for 3D Studio Max and today we're kicking off a brand new one just for the Maya users. Part 2-1: Detailing the Metal Portion 1 Part 2-2: Detailing the Metal Portion 2 Part 2-3: Detailing the Camera Part 2-4: Lock Button and USB Part 2-5: Dust Grates and Metal Pieces Part 2-6: Final Modeling Use the links below to download the videos from this part of the tutorial for offline viewing.
22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials Adobe Photoshop is the premier tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally enhancing images. Whether you’re a beginner just learning the ropes or an advanced user looking for unique techniques to add to your Photoshop arsenal, you’ll find some tutorials here that you’ll surely want to bookmark. In this article, you’ll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques. 1. Cross Processing You can learn how to apply the Cross Processing film-developing technique digitally to your images by reading through this quick and educational tutorial that leverages the powers of the Curves tool in Photoshop. 2. Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect (also known as Lomography) that will apply a dreamy and surreal effect onto your images in this tutorial that uses a Levels Adjustment layer among other Photoshop techniques. 3.
20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A Logo Before starting any project it’s essential to get the right preliminary information from your clients. This will help pave the way to a successful project, assist in bringing client’s vision into perspective and build a lasting relationship. Many of the questions below will also help in putting together an accurate quote for your client. Things such as deadlines, usage, etc. should take into account pricing. Since my primary focus in is logo design, below are 20 questions to ask your clients prior to beginning their new logo design. Also, many of these questions can be applied to other forms of design, so feel free to integrate them into your questions for various forms of print and web design. Company-related questions 1- How would you describe your services and/or products? 2- What are the long term goals of your company? 3- Why do you want a new logo? 4- Who are your main competitors? 5- How are you different from your competitors? 6- What’s the age range of your target customer base?
Top Best 50 Freeware For Design and Developing Finding freeware for design and programming can be a hard task. Here there are 50 of the best.By using these programs, your projects will have a superior quality. Some of them will save you a big amount of time.Maybe you never thought in using some of them. 2D Graphics The Gimp, is a complete tool for photo retouching, designing and creating images. DeepPaint, is an artistic painting program, similar to Corel Painter. Inkscape, a vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator. ArtRage, is a beginner's program for artistic painting. MegaPOV, Do you know POV? ScreenHunter 5 Free, is an useful screen capturer. JR Screen Ruler, although this seems a simple tool, this is hard to find. ColorCop, is a color selector. 3D Graphics Art of Illusion, despite the obvious difficulty of 3d modeling, this program is really intuitive and powerful. CBModelPro, is an organic modeling program. gCAD3D, a very hard to find tool. Texture Generators Wood Worshop, makes seamless wood textures. Video Sound or
60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites 3D printers have immensely revolutionized the art and manufacturing industry. With advancements in the 3D printer technology, it is now not very difficult to own one, even in your home or office. Moreover, you don’t have to be an AutoCAD engineer to design a 3D model for your needs, as this job is taken up by numerous 3D model websites. So, either you want to create 3D furniture, a mechanical component, or even human or animal figurines, here are 50 of the best free 3D model websites to cover up all your needs. Take a look. 10 Cheap and Affordable 3D Printers to Buy 10 Cheap and Affordable 3D Printers to Buy There was a time when 3D printers were a novelty - but not anymore. Pikbest Pikbest offers thousands of 3D models that are presented under various categories like decoration, wedding, appliances, bathroom, kitchen, furniture. GrabCAD GrabCAD Community Library offers 2.8+ million designs and models including CADs, thanks to its largest community of designers, engineers, and students. Cults
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Futuristic, Grungy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop In today’s quick tip tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a futuristic, grungy, text effect with lots of scratches and fancy neon lights. Let’s get started! Step 1 Create a new document with any desired size, in this case I made the document 1920px wide and 1080px high at a resolution of 300ppi. Next, change the background color to #272727. Step 2 To get the scratched concrete look, I used a set of scratch brushes found here. Step 3 Let's get started with the text. Step 4 Next, apply these layer styles. Step 5 Now we add the scratches on the metal. Create a new layer and call it "Metal Scratches". After you've done that, keep the layer selected and Cmd/Ctrl + Click the Text layer to place a marquee around it. Step 6 After you’ve created the metal scratches and are satisfied with the overall look, let's start with the removal of the excess scratches. Tip: Make sure you only Touch the highlights, as we still want a little of the scratches to show in those areas. Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
8 Drawing Exercises That Every Artist Should Practice | today in art Wire Drawing Exercise Example from save-janos.net – this example has been placed on a painted acrylic background With this exercise you are not going to be drawing at all. All you need is some wire and a pair of pliers with cutters. My favorite wire for this exercise is tie wire and you can get it almost any hardware store. The idea is to explore shapes and lines that you create by bending the wire. Non-dominant Hand Give your non-dominant hand a chance to shine. Draw Vertically you should be doing most of these drawing exercises vertically if you have an easel or drawing horse. Continuous Contour Line Drawing Examples from Draw and Paint Online A Continuous Contour Line Drawing is an exercise to help us focus on the line. Continuous Blind Contour Line Drawing Example from Anne Leuck Feldhaus If you enjoy the contour line exercise, then you should certainly try this one. Gesture Drawing Draw the Negative Space Value Drawing Exercise <A HREF="
Top 4 Web Operating Systems Huh? Web Operating Systems? Yeah that’s right! Now even a noob should be aware what the heck Cloud Computing means and that Web OS must be something on the Cloud… or more precisely something that resembles an OS on the Internet. It’s been years before the industry has somewhat finally arrived at a much mature from of Virtualization with several virtualization products released being used at the enterprise level. Web OS is defined as a virtual desktop somewhere on the internet which is not bound to one physical location and in effect you carry your desktop anywhere you go. Here are some of the top web Operating Systems that are making headlines especially after all the craze for Netbooks for which OS which are located on the net are ideally suited. 1) iCloud iCLoud comes loaded with anything you find on a normal desktop: most common apps like email client and browser chat client and of course online storage of up to 50GB with a sleek file browser and other utilities. Features: 2) JoliCloud
50 Life Secrets and Tips Memorize something everyday.Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around. Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Stop and observe all of the little things as completely unique events. Read “Zen and the Art of Happiness” by Chris Prentiss.This book will give you the knowledge and instruction to be happy at all times regardless of the circumstances.
15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos. In this article, we review the 15 best places to free stock photos online for designers. Note: Although these sites feature free stock photos, you should read the terms, limitations, and licensing of each work that you use; read the fine print! Dedicated free stock photo sites 1. stock.xchng stock.xchng is all free, all the time. one of the most popular paid stock photo sites – iStockphoto, sponsors them. Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers 2. A small team of in-house professional photographers supplies the photos in the site.
projects - mini-itx cluster The "Mini-Cluster"By Glen Gardner, USA - Posted on 25 February, 2004 Introduction Early supercomputers used parallel processing and distributed computing and to link processors together in a single machine. Using freely available tools, it is possible to do the same today using inexpensive PCs - a cluster. Glen Gardner liked the idea, so he built himself a massively parallel Mini-ITX cluster using 12 x 800Mhz nodes. The machine runs FreeBSD 4.8, and MPICH 1.2.5.2. The "Mini-Cluster" I built a Mini-ITX based massively parallel cluster named PROTEUS. The construction is simple and inexpensive. The controlling node has a 160 GB ATA-133 HDD, and the computational nodes use 340 MB IBM microdrives in compact flash to IDE adapters. Each motherboard is powered by a Morex DC-DC converter, and the entire cluster is powered by a rather large 12V DC switching power supply. With the exception of the metalwork, power wiring, and power/reset switching, everything is off the shelf. Power and Cooling
Sketchbook Secrets: 50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans The sketchbook is—to borrow a term from the new millenniums’ popular discourse—an artist’s BFF. It’s a diary for the visually inclined—a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, work out their visual needs, practice, maintain a visual history, and hopefully create the unpolished work that will eventually lead to amazing work for the world to see. But, sometimes, when we’re lucky, we get to see the process. Below are 50 beautiful sketchbook scans from 35 talented artists. Allen Sutton Mattias Adolfsson Laura More Amore David Fullarton Irena Zablotska Rafael Bertone Alena Lavdovskaya Beka Pkhakadze Christian Borku David Sossella f1x Grino Anna Rusakova Hanna Viktorsson Ignacio Veiga Irina Vinnik Jenkins Jenkins Jose Domingo Betancur Gomez Joshua Philippe Julia-Grigorieva Katia Petrunina Kyle Letendre L Filipe dos Santos Luishock Mamz Hu Michael Murdock Nacho-Yague Nicolas Cuestas Ooli razead Roger Haus Sabine ten Lohuis Taylor White Timothy Duong Trevor Henry Yissus Galiana Author: Shane Ward
50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning. However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful photographic techniques which can help you to achieve optimal pictures for your designs. In this post we present useful photographic techniques, tutorials and resources for various kinds of photography. Among other things, we cover high-speed photography, tilt-shift photography, black and white photography, motion blur, infrared, night, smoke photography, macro photography, HDR, panoramic photography, RAW processing and others. 1. Celebration Of High-Speed PhotographyThis post is supposed to provide you with some inspiration of what can be done with high-speed photography. 2. 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography 3. 4. 5.