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Brilliant Examples of Portrait Photo Manipulation

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Photo manipulation is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. One of the main reasons for that is its ability to blend real photos with vibrant colors and digital painting to emphasize some beautiful details which makes this software ideal for this kind of work. Here are some incredible examples of Photo manipulated images from extremely talented Photoshop artists.

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Bestest Guerrilla Advertising

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:54:00 +0000

Few of the best guerrilla advertising samples brought to you by www.youthedesigner.com

WWF: Paper Dispenser

“save paper. save the planet”
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Resident Evil Extinction: Elevator

“Advertising of “Resident Evil Extinction” movie. Opening doors of elevator show Milla Jovovich chasing another dozen of zombies.”
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Powerhouse Gym: Cable flys

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Amnesty International: Eye tracking

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Arturo Calle Fragrances:

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Original Shundi: Shuriken Attack

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Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop: Bike Safety Cling

“Look before you leave.
20% of cycling accidents involve children.”
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Calcutta School of Music: Learn to appreciate

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Public awareness: Burden

“Your contribution can end child labour”
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts: Frame

“See the world through the eyes of Monet and 22 other masters. Monet to Picasso, June 23-September 21.”
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Clue: Blood

“Everyone’s a suspect.”
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Coca-Cola: New grip bottle

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darylstock.com: Watermark

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Dogcoach: Names promotion, Pee in the snow

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Denver Water Ad: use only what you need

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The Father Bob Maguire Foundation: Bins

“For the homeless, every day is a struggle.
Donate today and help us feed the homeless.”
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Fisch Franke: Fish

“Fresh as can be.”
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Havaianas: Flower Beds, 1

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Folliderm: Bald man

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Wymehcko: Bag Full of Beer

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Gold’s Gym: Elevator

“Being overweight makes it harder. Get in shape”
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Head and Shoulders: Chalkboard

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Superman: Elevator

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Juice Salon: Escalator

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Kingston Technology: Beach

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McCain Smooth-eez: Blender

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McDonald’s: Fresh salad billboard

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MTV Switch: Fuss

“Global Warming. What’s all the fuss about?”
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NFS (Dutch Stutter Foundation): Stutter billboard

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Natural Resources Defense Council: Bus shelter

“Water is reaching the most unexpected places. Stop Global Warming”
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Vick: Boogers

“Shoulda used Vicks.
NyQuil is #1 pharmacist recommended. Available at your local supercenter.”
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Offsetters: Stop Global Warming

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Oreo: Elevator

“Milk’s Favorite Cookie”
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P&G Pantene Pro-V Anti_Dandruff Shampoo: Dandruff is not appetizing

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Pantene Anti-Breakage Shampoo: Rapunzel

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Quit: Premature Ending

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Alteco Super Glue: Steel span wire

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Tide: Stainbroidery

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Tops Supermarket: Tops Net

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Unicef Finland: Mom

“Thank you for caring, we hope there are more people like you. Be a mom for a moment.”
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WWF: Stop

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Yuzu Sushi: Sushi To-Go

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Creative 3D Typography Awesomeness

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:42:00 +0000

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Freshest Illustrator Tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:05:00 +0000

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1. Create a Cool Vector Robot Character in Illustrator

Looking to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator? In this tutorial you’ll use various tools and techniques to create a simple vector robot character. With this robot being made of lots of basic shapes it makes for a great tutorial for beginners to get to grips with the Illustrator application.

2. How To Create A Beautiful Windmill Illustration Using Illustrator

Windmills have been around for centuries and although their construction evolved through time the idea remains the same. Let this tutorial be a tribute to those old fashioned windmills that are hardly met these days.

3. Create a Burning, Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes

In this tutorial you will learn how to create realistic vector fire, using the Gradient Mesh Tool and Screen Blending mode. Believe me, there’s nothing overly complicated.

4. How to Create a Realistic Soccer Ball in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will demonstrate how to create realistic Soccer ball in Adobe Illustrator. Creating an illustration like this may seem complicated, but you will try to keep it simple. There are many different ways to create a Soccer ball, but we will use the simplest method – tracing the reference image with the Pen Tool. The main challenge will be to achieve a realistic look of the ball by using simple gradients and just a few details.

5. How To Create a Beautiful Vector Portrait in Illustrator

I’ve always love browsing the amazing style of art known as Vexel illustration and recently I decided to finally give it a go myself. Follow this step by step tutorial for the making of my first vector art portrait of Tron Legacy’s Quorra. Learn how the portrait is carefully traced and vectorized in Adobe Illustrator to create an interesting vexel style design.

6. How to Make a Golden Compass in Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an antique golden compass. We will use simple Illustrator drawing tools such as the Ellipse Tool, Pen Tool and Line Tool. We will get the chance to use gradients and simple vector-drawing techniques throughout the tutorial. If you’re a vector illustration beginner, don’t hesitate to try this tutorial out — I promise it’ll be a great learning experience.

7. Create a Vector, Space Rocket in Illustrator CS5

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a colorful rocket from simple geometric forms and 3D effects. We’ll use filters like Blur to create smoothness and movement in some of the illustration elements. Effects like Inner Glow will also be used to accentuate the depth of the 3D forms.

8. How to Create a Cute Piggy Bank in Perspective with Adobe Illustrator

Many people have difficulty in drawing objects in perspective. Most of the time it helps if you have that particular object in front of you, but we still need our imagination.The most important aspects of perspective are size and distance. If you increase the distance between you and the object you are observing, you need to decrease the size of that object. That way you can achieve a nice depth effect in your illustrations.

9. Create a Royal Crown Using Adobe Illustrator CS5

In today’s tutorial you’ll learn how to create a crown using four stages of design: 3-D modeling, creating of elements of the crown, colors, and creating glare on the surface.

10. Create a Semi-Realistic Light Bulb in Adobe Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to draw a light bulb illustration. Most of the time, we’ll be using the Pen Tool, so this is great practice for those struggling with drawing freehand. A light bulb is a complex object that contains many small parts and details, and we will try our best to draw them all, in order to create as close to an accurate portrayal as possible.

11. Create an Adorable Puppy with Negative Space and the Paintbrush Tool

Show you how to create a quick illustration of a puppy using negative space and the ever so versatile Paintbrush Tool (B). I recently became the proud parent of a Blenheim colored Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy (named Shelley!) and couldn’t help creating a quick vector of her. One of the key characteristics of her is her lovely red and white coat and these two colors gave me an idea.

12. How to make a realistic vintage typewriter in Illustrator

Hello friends, did you guys enjoyed our programming tutorial on how to make a nice typewriter contact form?, well if you nailed that one now you’re probably wondering about the design itself, because it’s useless to have the code if you can’t apply it to a truly brilliant design. Don’t panic because now the second part of the tutorial has arrived and we’re about to show you how to make a great realistic typewriter with Adobe Illustrator.

13. Give a 3D, Vector Robot a Realistic Feel in Photoshop

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to combine different methods from Illustrator and Photoshop to enhance your 3D vector art. Through the process you will learn how to use the appearance panel, 3D extrude and 3D revolve. You will also create a custom art brush, and your own symbol. I am going to show you how to create masks using Channels and Layers, as well as creating Clipping Masks in Photoshop.

14. Create A Cube Embossed With Letters

I will show you how to create a nice cube with some embossed letters on each side. First, you’ll learn to create some simple symbols then using the 3D Extrude&Bevel effect you’ll create the rough cube shape. Next, using basic tools, effect and options you will reach the final result.

15. Draw a Magician’s Hat in Illustrator

In this tutorial, we will make a magician’s hat in Adobe Illustrator. You will use 3D effects to create a reference shape for the illustration process, the Pathfinder Panel to combine different shapes and forms, apply nice gradients, create reflections and highlights, and more.

16. How To Create a Vector Soldier Character in Illustrator

Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector soldier character. We’ll begin by building the structure of the character with basic shapes, then adjust the line weights to create definition between the elements. To bring the character to life we’ll add blocks of colour before finishing it all off with a simple shading technique.

17. How To Create a Vector Soldier Character in Illustrator

The key to this satiny ribbon is the careful placement of gradients on its component parts. And once you have the individual elements down, it’s a snap to create award ribbons, medals, or bunting.

18. Create a Shimmering Cityscape in Perspective, Using Illustrator CS5Create a Shimmering Cityscape in Perspective, Using Illustrator CS5

The Perspective tools in Illustrator CS5 make it a lot easier to draw in perfect one, two or three-point perspective. Using symbols in conjunction with the Perspective tools will make quick work of this stylized cityscape.

19. Anyone Up for a Cup of Coffee?

Following along this tutorial you’ll be learning how to use the Pathfinder Panel in Illustrator CS5 with its very useful features. Combining various forms with the Pathfinder tools, we can create nice shapes. Applying the gradients and colors to those shapes, we can achieve great results by creating a nice depth and perspective. Highlights and shadows are very helpful as well and make the artwork look very realistic.

20. Create a Vibrant Abstract Vector Design Illustrator

Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a vibrant abstract design. We’ll put Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh tool to use to create a colourful shape, then build up layers of objects to create an abstract design with lots of vibrancy, bright colours and transparency effects.

21. Create a Sparkly Female Portrait in Illustrator

In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn how to create a sparkly female portrait through playing with transparency and overlapping vector shapes. In this tutorial you’ll also learn to experiment with colors and just letting go of your creativity.

22. Create simple golden coins

In the following tutorial I will show how to create a very simple coin stack icon. First, you will need a simple circle and some 3D Extrude&Bevel effect to create the starting coin. Next, you will use multiple fills and strokes to improve the look of this first coin and Transform effect to multiply it.

23. Create an Anti-War Icon Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a hand grenade with the help of 3D modeling. This tutorial contains plenty of useful tips and description of manual techniques.

24. How to create a cute little monster in Illustrator

If you followed this tutorial to create your own little monster, please share your results and experience with us in the comments.

25. Create a Textured Pool Table in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a vector pool table. We’ll be using the Appearance panel to create textures and add effects; we’ll use the Swatches panel for creating pattern swatches; and we’ll use some 3D and scripting.

26. How to Create a Glamorous Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator

he final result will be 100% vector; therefore will retain its scalable properties. This walk through is ideal for those an intermediate to advanced knowledge of Illustrator. Illustrator CS5 was used for the tutorial although you can do the majority of the elements in the majority of vector programs. A Wacom Bamboo A5 tablet was also used, however you can achieve the same results with a mouse.

27. Quick Tip: Create a Shiny Shield with Illustrator

In this Quick Tip, you’ll learn how to harness the Appearance panel to make the basic structure of a shiny, beveled shield. Once the structure is in place, a few well-placed gradients are all it takes to achieve a sharp, polished look.

28. Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you can learn to create a fluorescent text effect. After we add the text we expand it and add multiple strokes with different blending modes and opacity percentages. Using the Offset path along with various tools and effects we will create the rest of the shapes.

29. Create a Loving Cup of Tea in Illustrator CS5

In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a quick, loving cup of tea using Adobe Illustrator CS5 using 3D effects and the Bristle Brush Tool.

30. How To Create a Cool Chrome Text Effect in Illustrator

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a super cool retro chrome text effect in Illustrator. We’ll use a range of gradients to give the impression of bright highlights, then take the text into Photoshop for some finishing touches.

31. Create A Lotus Flower With Adobe Illustrator CS5

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a Lotus Flower in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll use some basic tools (Ellipse, Direct Selection, Pencil, and more) to draw lotus petals and leaves. Next we’ll color these shapes with the Gradient Mesh Tool. Finally, arrange them to become a complete work.

32. Create A Glowing Flouresent Text Effect

33. How To Create a Stylish Skull Based Vector Illustration

The skull and crossed pistons mark is a popular adaption of the tradition skull and crossbones symbol and is commonly seen in motorcycle culture, amongst other. Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create your own underground skull & crossed pistons graphic. We’ll start with a simple sketch, then build up the detail using a range of linework and vector shapes.

34. Create a MIDI Drum Machine in Illustrator

In this fun beginner’s tutorial you’ll learn how to get sophisticated results using a few simple elements and effects. The design is based on M-Audio’s discontinued Trigger Finger Drum Pad Control Surface (see inset).

35. How To Create a Colorful Abstract Poster in Illustrator

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a colourful and vibrant abstract poster design. We’ll create a series of tessellating shapes using Illustrator’s Pathfinder tool, then begin adding colour swatches and gradients to bring the design to life. To finish the poster off, we’ll then import it into Photoshop to add some polish in the form of subtle textures.

36. Create a Padlock with Adobe Illustrator and VectorScribe

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Shape Building, Clipping Paths and Opacity Masks to make a metallic Padlock. You will also learn how to use the VectorScribe Adobe Illustrator plug-in to save time when creating vector illustrations and designs.

37. Create A Fun Scrap Book

Learn how to create a fun & playful scrapbook in Illustrator & displaying it on a background in Photoshop!

38. Quick Tip: Create a Nice Award Medal Icon

In the following tutorial you will learn to create an icon of an award medal. You will use various shapes and pathfinder techniques to make this great looking icon. This illustration can be made without the use of the Pen Tool, so it’s a great tutorial for beginners.

39. Create A Transitor Radio Icon

Learn how to create a Transistor Radio icon in Illustrator and present on a colourful background in Photoshop.

40. How To Create a Grumpy Troll Character in Illustrator

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AFTER EFFECTS JACKPOT TUTORIALS

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:04:00 +0000

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202 Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials
144 After Effects Plug-Ins
202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials
202 Sony Vegas Tutorials
202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials
Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream

Adobe TV

AdobeTV: Learn CS4

AdobeTV: Total Training CS3

AdobeTV: Learn Production Premium

AETUTS

Avenger Productions

CG Sutra

Creative Cow

Digital Media Net

300+ Free After Effects Tutorials

Expert Villiage

Ryan Vaughn Tutorial

John Carstarphen’s AfterEffects Basic Tutorials

John Carstarphen’s After Effects Advanced Techniques

GoMediaZine

Graymachine.com

Layers Magazine

MaxAfter

MoGraphBlog

Motionworks

Video Co-Pilot

Youtube Videos

Firechildc

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GoKu Productions

ErracticOblivion

ajones8126

Rivingtonfilm Tutorials

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VideoFXUniverse

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Yankees300

Apologies for no posting !!

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:48:00 +0000

I have been super busy in doing work for my clients all over the world. I apologies for Not doing posts since months but I am trying to get some free time to give wonderful posts for all of you.

All the very best.

Akash

Super Bowl trailer of Transformers 'Dark of The Moon' releases today

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:48:00 +0000

Transformers 'Dark of The Moon' Super Bowl Trailer (720p) from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.

Inspiring Animals Illustrations

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:34:00 +0000

Enjoy this wonderful gallery -

1. Panda

2. Akarwolf

3. Parrot

4. Transition of the spirit

5. Escorias-Gang

6. Bear

7. The What Bird

8. Green Tiger

9. Cat

10. Greyhound

11. Pixel Deer

12. Chameleons Don’t Need Tattoos

13. Alphabirds

14. Iguana

15. Year of the Tiger

16. Sun Crow

17. Roar

18. Wild thing

19. Painted Dog

20. Eagle

21. Lion-Sea

22. Leopard

23. Giraffe

24. Only Fantasy

25. Lion

26. The-Parrot

27. Abstractphoenix

28. Lioness

29. Turquoise turtles

30. Monkey

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Happy Republic Day Folks !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Republic Day is celebrated on January 26 every year to mark the adoption of the constitution of India in the year 1950.

Incredible Country, Incredible people.

Inspirational Gravity Defying Advertisements

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:49:00 +0000

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Special Feature

Li Wei is a Chinese photographer who creates crazy, gravity-defying images where he claims it is all done without any digital manipulation! He apparently uses mirrors, wires and scaffolding to create his works.

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Mind blowing photo manipulations again.

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:51:00 +0000

Cako_SK

morph

Latest Great Photo Manipulations

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:17:00 +0000

Most realistic paintings

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:56:00 +0000

World's first 3D font

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:22:00 +0000

The Dutch rapid-prototyping manufacturer and distributor bills Kasheeda as the world's first 3-D font.

hot news for all you typography freaks out there: The Dutch rapid-prototyping juggernaut Freedom of Creation has released an arty new font designed explicitly to be printed in 3-D. The result is a snaking, spiraling, sinewy typographic sculpture that's totally customizable and would look right at home on the mantle.

Freedom of Creation bills it as the "world's first 3D font." Here’s how to make your own sculpture: Type whatever text you want into this super-simple online interface (shown below). There, you can also specify things like color (gray or white) and size (small, medium, or large). Within weeks, you get a 3-D version in the mail printed in nylon out of Freedom of Creation's Selective Laser Sintering machines.

The font has a lovely loopiness about it -- like some sort of combination of Arabic and English cursive -- which was by design. Called Kasheeda, it was developed in tandem with Yara Khoury and Melle Hammer of the Amsterdam-based Khatt foundation Center for Arabic Typography. They envisioned the font as a sort of cultural bridge between the Middle East and the West. PerFreedom of Creation’s Web site:

The sloping Arabic letterforms become straight and strict [like Latin letterforms] and vice versa, generating a fusion of the two cultural backgrounds. This is enhanced by the fact that in 3D typewriting the result is non directional: neither from left, like Latin writing, neither from right, like Arab writing. It is just about space … and the two writings can meet in the middle.

We’ll take that over a multicultural fair any day. One drawback: Only the small-sized text comes as a single, complete piece; the larger versions require assembly. (Freedom of Creation’s Brian Garret Schuur tells us that’s because of “production limitations.”) As for pricing: The smallest print is a foot and a half long and costs about $160; the 2.25-foot medium print checks in at $320; and the biggest one, at just over 3 feet, costs a whopping $635.

Can you print “expensive”?

[Images courtesy of Freedom of Creation]

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Making of "URBAN ENVIRONMENT"

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:09:00 +0000

This pice of art was created by Craig Shields. Here he shows step by step how he created “Urban Environment” for Desktopography.

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Awesome Conceptual experiment and illustration.

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:21:00 +0000

H2O

Portrait experimentation and Editorial for Amusement Magazine

www.romain-laurent.com

CLOSE UPS
Amusement Magazine
Illustration byBonsoir Paris
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Great Examples of Typographic Humor

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:09:00 +0000

1. A play on words (pardon the pun) is always funny regarding typology.

by Peter Sebastian

For instance, cartoons or articles about the Serif, such as “Don’t Shoot, I’m the Serif” or “There’s a New Serif in Town”. (For those of you unaware, a serif is a type of font with little tails.)

via Dan Geislinger

2. Typography geek humor

via behance.net

3. Actual cartoons using only typography as the picture, is an overall, general favorite.

via I Love Typography

4. Wisecracks using typography terms:

Pa^2 Patois

5. Typography parody (copying the font of the original brand)

Source

6. Sometimes it’s the funny placement and design:

Via designer-daily.com

7. And very often it’s just the funny phrase or quote:

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Awesome Photo manipulation - Profile of the week - Alberto Seveso

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:56:00 +0000

ALBERTO SEVESO / {ILLUSTRATOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER} ITALY

Here are The awesome works of Alberto Seveso

Absolutely lovely Typography !!

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:22:00 +0000

Shiny Binary

Deviant Artists – Pm Cruz

Zudlich

Mr Graphics Guy

2 Fish

Lee25

Duk Nguyen

Marina Chaccur

Libro

Piezas

Mapa

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Cool Business Cards

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:18:00 +0000

Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:33:00 +0000

Create a Nature Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop -

Here’s a quick (around 1 hour) intermediate tutorial for creating a nature-inspired photo manipulation. The resulting image is beautiful and ethereal, and the techniques used could easily be combined to create other images with similar surreal imagery.

Create a Magical Four Piece Stardust Composition

This beginner Photoshop tutorial shows how to create a photo composition with four faces and a nebula-style background. Total completion time is around an hour, and the techniques used could easily be adapted to creating other compositions.

Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop

Here’s a photomanipulation tutorial that will show you how to create a matte painting (like those used in movies for set backgrounds that would be too expensive or difficult to create). It’s aimed at intermediate Photoshop users, and takes between five and eight hours to complete.

Create a Devastating Twister with Photo Manipulation Techniques

This photo manipulation tutorial shows how to combine a variety of images to create a tornado destroying everything in its path. It’s an intermediate-level tutorial, which should take about four hours to complete.

Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

In this intermediate tutorial, you’ll learn to use things like the Vanishing Point filter and 3D layers to create an amazing photo manipulation. It also explains how to keep text layers editable, which can be a huge time-saver if you need to make changes to the design.

Reader Photoshop Tutorial: Sisters by Marcos Torres

This tutorial from Abduzeedo shows you how to create a macabre vintage photo manipulation of some particularly creepy sisters. Instructions are clear and easy to follow, making the tutorial suitable for beginners.

Reader Tutorial: Planet X Matte Painting in Photoshop

Here’s another matte painting tutorial, this time showing a desolate sci-fi scene with a city in the distance. The tutorial is easy to follow and the end result is quite stunning.

Creating an Ecological Fairy Tale Wallpaper

Here’s a relatively simple photo manipulation tutorial for creating a fairy tale-style wallpaper with floating islands. Instructions are straightforward, though sparse in places, making it best-suited for intermediate users.

Create a Grungy Scene with Colorful Lights in Photoshop

Here’s a grungy photo manipulation tutorial that makes use of compositing, blending, and filtering techniques. The lighting effects in this tutorial could easily be applied to other photo manipulations.

Make a Divinely Dark Zen Composition in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create a photo composition with a selective coloring effect. It teaches us the Color Range command, and uses image adjustments, warping and blurring to give the finished image a sense of depth and motion.

Create an Ink-Splattering Knight Composition

This tutorial shows you how to create a grungy knight photo-manipulation by combining images and textures.

Creating Funny Big Head Characters in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create giant heads from portrait photos (kind of like the Red Queen’s head in the new Alice in Wonderland).

Giving Your Photograph an Antique Look

This tutorial from 10Steps.SG shows how to create an antique effect on any photo, including texture overlays and recoloring techniques.

Create a Surreal Vintage Futuristic Design with Photoshop

Here’s a tutorial for creating a grungy vintage-style poster, but with a futuristic twist. It teaches you to create light streaks from scratch, as well as how to use a variety of Photoshop tools.

Create a Fantasy-Horror Scene in Photoshop

If this creepy little girl rising from the pages of a book doesn’t give you the chills, I’m not sure what will. This tutorial will show you how to create her by combining a number of images and textures.

Design a Grunge Vintage Poster in Photoshop

Here’s a tutorial for creating this cool grungy vintage poster, with circle cutouts. It teaches you a variety of techniques related to using textures and adjustment layers.

Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad in Photoshop

Here’s a fantastic photo manipulation and compositing tutorial for creating a stylish and bold alcohol ad, that could be adapted to other beverages.

Digital Painting and Drawing

Photoshop excels at digital painting and drawing, especially when used with a tablet. Here are a handful of tutorials to get you started.

How to Paint a Fantasy Portrait from Scratch with Photoshop

Digital painting can be intimidating for a lot of Photoshop users, even if you’re perfectly comfortable doing photo effects and manipulations. It just seems so much more complicated, especially for those who don’t think they have any fine art abilities. But this tutorial from Psdtuts+ shows you exactly how to create a fantasy portrait painting, from scratch. The fact that it’s aimed at beginners and can be completed in about 2 hours only makes it better!

Draw a Pirate Character in Photoshop

This tutorial from Psdtuts+ shows how to draw a pirate caricature based on a hand-drawn sketch. The entire process takes five or six hours, and is best for intermediate Photoshop users.

Concept Art: Create a Sci-Fi Interior Using Digital Painting Techniques

Sci-fi concept art is a popular subject for digital painting. It’s also one that can be intimidating for a lot of users, especially when the image you want to create exists only in your own head. This tutorial is a great introduction to creating sci-fi concept art, aimed at intermediate Photoshop users.

Create a Photo Realistic USB Cable in Photoshop

Here’s a beginner tutorial for creating a realistic-looking USB cable. The tutorial should take just over an hour, and the result is fantastic. The tutorial itself is broken down into very easy to follow steps, with plenty of illustrations.

Text Effects and Icon Designs

While text and icon designs are often done in Illustrator rather than Photoshop, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of great Photoshop techniques for creating either. The dozen tutorials below prove it.

Easy Casino Style Sign in Photoshop

This tutorial from Abduzeedo shows how to create a lit-up sign like those seen on Vegas casinos. It’s a simple tutorial with very specific step-by-step instructions, suitable for beginners.

Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

Typographic portraits are a cool design style, but can seem incredibly complex and time-consuming to create. Not anymore! With this short tutorial from Abduzeedo, you can quickly create a typographic portrait from virtually any portrait photo.

Create a Wooden Social Media Icon Quickly with Photoshop

Here’s a simple tutorial for creating a wood-textured social media icon that would be right at home in a grunge or similar design. The end result is quite gorgeous, and it’s quick to create.

How to Create a Detailed Briefcase Icon in Photoshop

Here’s a simple tutorial for creating a detailed, textured briefcase icon, suitable for beginners.

Create a Harry Potter Style Text Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create 3D style text like that used for the Harry Potter movies.

Creating Retro Folded Typography Using Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create multi-colored, textured lettering with a convincing folded-paper effect.

Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect in Photoshop

Here’s a fantastic tutorial for creating retro-style textured lettering with wavy coloring evocative of the 70s.

How to Create a 3D book Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create an awesome little book icon, entirely from scratch.

Modern 3D Text Effect

This tutorial explains how to create a smooth, modern 3D text effect.

How to Create a Simple and Elegant Text Effect

The text effect shown in this tutorial is definitely simple and elegant, as well as versatile and easy to create.

How to Create a Mysterious Poster Design with 3D Text

This tutorial shows you how to create an awesome 3D text effect for posters or other artwork, that could be easily adapted to almost any word or short phrase.

Create an Awesome Funky Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create some amazing lettering with lighting and other effects.

Web Design Tutorials

Website design mockups are often created in Photoshop, especially when a lot of textures or patterns will be used. Here are a dozen tutorials to get you started.

Make a Simple and Slick Accordion Menu in Photoshop

This tutorial from Design Instruct will show you how to create a stylish and polished website menu that can be used as part of a larger design or as a mini site on its own.

How to Design an Elegant Website in Photoshop

This tutorial shows complete, step-by-step instructions for how to create a soft, stylish website design mockup in Photoshop. The end result is sophisticated and elegant, and would be perfect for a design portfolio or an ecommerce site.

Create a Professional Corporate/Business Template in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a very professional website design in Photoshop, perfect for a corporate website. The end result is polished enough for even the most conservative industries, but the color scheme gives it a bit more of a modern edge.

How to Design a Health/Nutrition or Fitness Website in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create a casual, funky health-focused website design. The overall design could also be adapted to fit other industries.

How to Create a WordPress Theme in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create a three-column WP theme that includes a headline space for featured articles and an ad-ready sidebar.

Design a Textured Outdoors Website in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create a dark, textured layout. The techniques used could easily be used for other design styles. Also linked is a second tutorial for coding the design.

Create a Gnarly Snowboarding Themed Web Design

This tutorial, from Chris Spooner, shows how to create a cool blue website design with some nice texture effects and a snowboarding theme.

Make a Stylishly Elegant Portfolio Design in Photoshop

This tutorial from Design Instruct shows how to create a sophisticated portfolio design with a number of textures and patterns.

Create a Web Application Website Design in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create a polished and professional website design for an application. The end result is suitable for a wide variety of app types, and could easily be adapted for even more.

Creating a Stylish Blog Design Layout in Photoshop

Here’s another tutorial from Chris Spooner, this time for an elegant blog layout.

How to Create a Distinguishable Textured Web Layout in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches a variety of Photoshop techniques, including how to create letterpress-style text and complex shadows, in the creation of this stylish website design.

How to Create a Clean and Professional Resume

This tutorial shows you how to design a simple, modern online resume.

Spectacular Food Photography !!!

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Thorsten (TK)

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Capt. Mouffette

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Der Kremser

Dave Tong

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VROG in Bristol

Tutorials For Maya Beginners

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:54:00 +0000

Flying Butterfly Animation – Tutorial for Beginners
This tutorial will teach you to make a simple butterfly and animate it.

Animate a Logo Forming from Particles in Maya
In this tutorial Abed Ibrahim will walk you through the process of creating an animated logo using particles in Maya, and then reverse the rendered animation in any video editing software of your choice.

Create a coin 3D model
This tutorial will show you how to create very realistic coin using only maya 3d.

Flying Arrows
This tutorial will teach you how to create flying arrows.

Creating Text In Maya
This tutorial covers how to create text in Maya.

Make A Screw-Driver
This is a basic modelling tutorial that will teach you how to make a screw-driver and render it.

Basics Of Maya Key Frame Animation
This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of the way Maya animates.

3D Street Lamp Modeling
This tutorial will teach you how to modeling 3d street lamp.

Melting Text
This tutorial will teach you explore some of the tools and options of fluid to create melting text effect like smoke.

Spiral Modeling
Learn how to model a spiral.

5 Tricks On Using Cameras In Maya
This tutorial covers 5 cool tricks you can do using cameras in Maya.

Create 3D Heart Model
Learn how to create a heart from poly cube.

Create Awesome Cloth Simulations using nDynamics in Maya
In this tutorial you will learn how to use nDynamics’ passive colliders and ncloth objects, in conjunction with fields like air and gravity, to easily simulate realistic dynamic objects such as a windy flag or a water container.

Boolean Modeling in Maya
This tutorial covers in depth, basic boolean operations, anatomy of a boolean, where to use booleans, and common boolean errors.

Basic Technique of Creating An Animation
In this tutorial you’ll learn the very basic technique of creating an animation in Maya.

Animated Arrows
This tutorial will teach you how to create animated arrows.

How Shaders Work In Maya
This tutorial teaches you how materials work, and how to create materials in Maya.

Grab and Move an Object
In this tutorial I will explain how to grab and move an object.

Finding Distances In Maya
This tutorial teaches you how to find distances in Maya.

Duplicate Special
Duplicate Special lets you duplicate objects, change the transformation attributes of the duplicated object(s), and duplicate mulitple objects at a time.

Creating Natural Light
This tutorial will teach you how to make a light rig that will generate a nice, clean, soft overall light that’s tinted green.

Creating Lightning In Maya
This tutorial covers how to create lightning effects in Maya.

Create Simple Wave
Create simple wave using Sine Deformer for flag wave if you not using soft body or for fish tail.

How to Rendering Shadow Only
This tutorial will teach you how to rendering shadow only. This is simple and fast.

Importing Audio Into Maya
This tutorial covers how to import audio into Maya.

Making Blendshapes
This is the first part of a multi-part tutorial on blend shapes.

Modelling Hammer
In this tutorial we will be modeling a hammer with help of poly and subdiv.

Model and Texture a Photo-realistic USB Cable with Maya and Mental Ray
In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photo-realistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya.

Modeling a Face
This tutorial will teach you how to model a basic face that can be used for cartoon or realistic.

Modeling A Knife
This tutorial will teach you how to model a knife quickly, using Maya.

Modeling Saw
n this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling saw.

Parent/Child in Maya
Learn how parent and child function works in Maya.

Pivot Points
This tutorial covers how to edit pivot points in Maya.

Creating Gears
This tutorial will teach you how to create gears.

Getting started with Mental Ray’s Final Gather
This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray’s Final Gather.

Two Tips For Move And Rotate Tools
This covers some tool settings that I found useful to help the modeling process.

Understanding Lights in Maya
This tutorial will explore Maya’s default light options for every and each light in the list

Using Revolve
This tutorial will teach you how to use revolve tool in Maya.

Using The Extrude Tool
This tutorial will cover in depth the extrude tool and all of its functions.

Modelling LCD Monitor
This tutorial will use allot extrude, scale, move, and split polygon object to create a LCD Monitor.

Building a Polygon Arch
This tutorial will show the method I used for making my arches in a building.

Wireframe Rendering
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to create wire-frame rendering.

How to Create a Wine Glass
Create a wineglass using the curve tool.

For Intermediate Users

Modeling a Coca-Cola Bottle
This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya.

How do Create A Flash Photography Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to create a flash photography effect in Maya.

Modeling A Head Using Nurbs
Modeling a head using Nurbs-Polygon technique by Sasan Rafiee.

3D Modeling Keroro Gunso
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling Keroro Gunso.

Realistic Ear Modeling
This tutorial is mainly aimed at those users with experience in polygon modeling.

Realistic Eye Modeling for 3D Characters
A tutorial on how to model and apply shaders to get realistic eyes, the “windows of your character’s soul”.

Build a Reusable Light Rig in Maya
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a basic lighting rig in Maya.

Caustics
Tthis tutorial will teach you how to make a picture of a glass using caustics.

Modelling in Alias – Ceiling light
Learn how to create ceiling light in Maya.

Modeling Kempston Pro Joystick
In this tutorial you will learn how to model kempston pro joystick using polygons and NURBS.

Animate a Dancing Ice Cream Bar in Cinema 4D and After Effects
In this 125 step monstrosity of a tutorial you will learn everything you need to know to make a dancing ice cream bar animation in Cinema 4D, and then composite it in After Effects.

Adding A Vase on Your Table
Table is a multiple functioned object, but without a nice flower vase looks incomplete. Follow the tutorial and see how it’s made in Maya.

Create Fire in Maya
In this tutorial we will learn how to create fire effect from scratch using Maya particle system which will help you achieving your desired look.

Create a New York Subway Entrance in Maya
Learn how to model the low-poly mesh from reference, and then move on to creating the high-poly source for the purpose of baking normal maps.

Tutorial on How to Make Car Rims
This tutorial will guide you on how to create a realistic looking chrome car rims.

Creating A Holiday Ball
This tutorial will teach you how to create a holiday ball from polygonal primitives.

Creating a Lava Lamp in Maya
This tutorial presents a step by step project for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp.

Create A Photo-realistic Nut

Maya’s Paint Geometry Tool
This tutorial covers the basics of Maya’s Paint Geometry Tool.

How to Create a Realistic Looking Dirt Layer using Maya Transfer Maps
In this tutorial you will learn a simple technique of adding dust and dirt to your 3d objects, without overdoing it, to finally give them a more lifelike and realistic feel.

How to Create an Awesome Fire Effect Using Maya Fluids
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fire animation inside Maya, and adjust the settings for your own projects.

Modelling A Poly Table Fan
This video tutorial shows step by step various quick modeling techniques including curve extrude, surfaces, poly tube, Smooth, bevel, curve revolve, extrude, and more, to create a polygonal fan table.

Creating Dynamic Mud Effect Using Soft Body
This tutorial covers how to make effect that one dynamic sphere make trail on surface while moving over it’s surface, similar like some ball moving over mud.

Making Eyelid Rig with Driven Keys and Expressions
Goal for this tutorial is to make few blend shapes for 4 position of eye and drive that blend shapes automatically as eye ball rotating.

Model a Spitfire War Plane
This tutorial shows you how to model a spit fire war plane.

Modeling A Toy Dragonfly
This tutorial covers how to model, texture, and render a toy dragonfly.

Modeling Hand
This tutorial covers how to model a human hand.

Modeling Human
Learn how to model a human.

Modeling Human: Naruto Chibi
This Maya Tutorial will explain about modeling human especially in the form of anime.

Texturing Resolution Tips

Create Cool Looking Cartoon Dog
This tutorial shows you how to create this cool looking cartoon dog – Starting with the image planes and moving onto the modeling which covers nurbs, polygons and sub divs.

Spotlight Fog
Learn how to add fog to a spotlight.

Page Turn Animation
This Tutorial would teach you, how to turn a page in Maya, using Maya’s skeleton setup.

Gaseous Effects

Ford Focus Tutorial Series
Learn how to model a ford focus WRX.

Model Airplane in Maya
In this video tutorial show how to model an airline airpalne step by step as in Maya.

Video Tutorial Portal Light in Maya
Video tutorial on how to create portal light in Maya.

Using Projection Mapping in Maya
This tutorial explains how to use simple tri planar (box) projection and planar projection to shade two walls, one with decal, all done in only one material.

Making A Battleship in Maya
This tutorial will explain how to make ship in Maya using Nurbs curves, surfaces and poly geometry.

Creating a Low Poly Dragon
This tutorial will explain how to use Maya polygons to create dragon.

Creating CG nature
This tutorial is going to show you how to make terrain, trees and grass using Maya.

Chain Gun in Maya tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to model a chain gun and control rig for firing and aiming using basic MEL scripts.

Candle Flame
Learn how to build a candle flame in Maya.

The Egg and The Fog
In this exercise you are going to learn how to crack an egg and have light beams coming out of the cracks.

For Advanced Users

Non Photo Realistic Shading in Maya
This tutorial describes how to achieve a Non photo realistic shading effect in Maya

“Blind Warrior” by Ryan Lim
This tutorial will briefly describe how Ryan Lim created his blind warrior from a painting

Modeling a foot in Maya
This tutorial will teach you how to model a realistic looking foot in Maya.

Low Poly Game Character Hair
This tutorial will go with a more interesting hairstyle.

How to Create A Simple Crowd

Making of Skull head Mobster

Sub Scattering of Particles
‘ZBrush , Blender & Maya Training: Sub Scattering of Particles – Video Tutorials’
by Jason Welsh

Dr Julian’s Texturing Tutorial
By Julian Jeremy Johnson-Mortimer.

Growing Flowers
This tutorial will show you how to create growing flowers from surface; the flowers will gradually randomly grow up and will retain their original status when they reach to growing limit.

How to Build – A Next-Gen Game Car
This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset.

Making of Sohrab
By Farzad Dalvand, Iran.

Making of the Standing Beauty
This tutorial will explain the steps taken to create the standing beauty.

Modeling Morgane
By Cousigne Adrien

Revolution
By Zhang Yang, China.

Secrets of Swimsuit Babe
Making an attractive woman is always a goal for most CG enthusiasts.

Create a Cool Looking Molecule Effect
This tutorial will focus on creating a cool molecule type object with Maya and finish the project off in After Effects.

Create a Realistic Tree in Maya
This tutorial will help you to make a realistic tree.

Create a Spectacular Crash Animation With Maya Dynamics
In this tutorial we will learn how to use Maya’s powerful animation, dynamics, and camera tools to create an explosive crash effect between two vehicles.

Creating an Old Farm
By Daniel VIJOI.

Creating Logo Effect from Matrix
Learn how to reproduce some of the logo effect of the film “Matrix” using maya particles and expressions.

Domino Effect
This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among them.

Facial Animation Rig for Delgo
By Warren Grubb.

Making of Varga In MAYA
This tutorial will summarize the workflow used for one of author’s characters with lots of images and some print-screens.

Making of “The Tunnel” in Maya
n this tutorial you will learn how to create a fantastic tunnel scene in Maya, and then add some final lighting touches in Photoshop.

Making of the Rider
By Christopher Adajar, France.

Making of the Prince
by Robert Vari, Hungary

Making of the Joker
By Mohammadtaghi Aibaghi Esfehani, Iran.

Making of the Alien Nature
By Pascal Raimbault, New Zealand.

Making of Portrait of a Troll
By Jonas Persson, Sweden.

Making of Kid
By Rakesh Sandhu.

Making of Gladiator
By Christopher Adajar, Paris.

Making of Cheese Platter
This tutorial will explain how the author did this Cheese Platter the best that I can.

Creating A Spaceship Fleet Using Particle Instance
This tutorial is going to show you how to use particle instancer to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes.

The Making of Mafia Wars 3D
This tutorial is going to explain how author made this “Mafia wars” picture.

The Fisheye Camera

Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody Tenticles
The following concept tutorial will be covering Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody tenticles to create a spiraling array particle system for futuristic gun blasts or whatever.

Street Cop Workflow
By Mashru Mishu

Making of Tiger Zoo
By Massimo Right.

Lava Shader Effects in Maya
This tutorial will explain how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya’s material editor, called Hypershade.

Destroying a Wall Using Rigid Bodies and Particles in Maya
This tutorial will explain how to use rigid bodies, forces and particles to create shatter effect in Maya.

Organic Modeling and Animation

Creating A Flame Thrower
This tutorial will show you how can you create Flame Thrower

Creating High Res Polygonal Models
This tutorial will concentrate on how to use smoothed polygonal geometry to create high res models.

How to Create A Model of Nissan 350-Z
This is a step-by-step tutorial that explain how to create 350Z’s body using polygonal modeling in Maya environment.

UV mapping Techniques and Workflow
This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day in and day out.

Making of ‘Snapshot of a Zombie’
By Jelle Van de Weghe.

Few Very Fantastic Sport Logos "MUST SEE"

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Awesome Gallary of Sport logos-- Have a look.

Lovely Logo Designs that Say More with Less

noreply@blogger.com (Akash Verma) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:54:00 +0000