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It is time again for some more thrilling tutorial...not complicated though, just thrilling. In this tutorial you will learn how to create car light trails by playing around with the 3D stroke effect in Adobe After Effects. You might be wondering, "why this?" Well, if you have taken a photograph at night before with particular focus on the road, you should have noticed a bit of this kind of effect in your photo...really nice effect but with the powerful tools in Adobe after effects, you can make one more artistic and captivating because you have more control over the outcome. Really brilliant. So why don't you check it out for yourself.

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Over time, we have been bringing you the best of tutorial links from around the globe. That said, I have not seen a tutorial so simple and yet so much fun. These are simple Flash animation tutorials that you will both enjoy as much as learn. Don't worry about being a beginner with Flash, their method of explaining is really simple. So why don't you take a leap to this great site and learn as much as you can.

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Adobe Photoshop Rules! We all know that. I'd gander to say that if God were to use a tool to help him visualize creation, He'd use Photoshop. Now thats not blasphemy. The fact is no other tool has consistently proven its worth when it comes to image manipulation. In the right hands, photoshop can do the most ridiculous and mindblowing things as testified by these 26 Photoshopped Robotic Animals. The only fake thing in these images are the robotic parts. Everything else is real world photos! The level of composition, seamlessness and attention to detail is awesome. 

So without wasting any more time reading my diatribe, head on over to see the full 26 Robotic Animals -}

As you can see, the power of Blender 3D keeps growing over the months and if you are a keen user you will most certainly notice the functionality of this light but really powerful tool. Once again let me repeat this: Blender 3D in contrast with some other 3D applications uses very low  system requirements but the results are the same as the other application. It has an in-built node-compositor, video editor and game engine, not to mention several other tools enabling the user to create outstanding 3D imagery and animations.

In this article by Reynante Martinez, we’ll cover everything from modeling a tin can from scratch, giving it some basic shading, adding appropriate textures, finalizing the lighting schemes for the scene to lastly compositing it for a better feel.

So basically, we’ll use Blender’s modeling tools, material indexes, powerful texture system, basic UV unwrapping, some lighting techniques, and of course the node compositor which is built-in in Blender.

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Most sane people have a fear of animating walk cycles. Many events are happening at the same time, and it can seem overwhelming. A single mistake on your first drawing can wreck the rest of the scene. However, the process can be broken down into a series of steps which can go some distance in simplifying the process.

A walk cycle can be described by four distinct poses: CONTACT, RECOIL, PASSING and HIGH-POINT.

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In this tutorial, I will guide you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene.

We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.
Things we'll be working with:
* Image - Adjustments - Curves.
* Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation.
* Dodge and Burn Tools.
* Gradient tool.

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“Storyboard” is a general term that applies to a lot of different formats and applications. Storyboarding could, generally mean any sketched-out framework for explaining a concept or idea (a complex computer game or website for example), or intricately rendered sketches that show the frames of an advertising campaign or TV commercial. But what we’re talking about here is capturing an intermediate stage between what is in a film director’s head and what will eventually appear on the big screen...

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Smashing Magazine has posted a great group interview targeted to students and young designers. When some of us entered the design industry, we had no guidance, no schools. It was incredibly frustrating and time consuming to figure everything out by ourselves. Design Kingdom was started to help all designers with useful information, resources and help they need.

I love this interview because it has several different points of view from seasoned designers with years of experience. The article covers things like, what to study, whether you should go freelance or get employed in the beginning, what other skills you should learn. All in all, a very good read. Read and get answers and directions for your career path.

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A great logo is usually the most visible mark of a great brand. A logo is not a brand though, merely a subset. And lets face it, a timeless logo is certainly not easy to design. We all need a little help with Logo design and these sets of tutorials will help everyone on the path to creating crisp and shiny logo's. 

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 Hello Blender freaks, here is another cool one. This one happens to be my best because of the simplicity in the composition not to mention the outstandingly amazing photo-realism. Please note that this is not a tutorial, it is an artwork being discussed in the yafaray forum; simple scene. It will give you a good idea of how to tweak Yafaray settings to give you a photo - realistic render.

 "From all the renderers available for Blender, YafRay/YafaRay is one of the oldest options to render projects with advanced raytracing options in Blender, and it is one of the best companions for architectural visualization artists that use Blender. In my previous articles here in the blog, you may have notice that YafaRay wasn’t showing up too much lately. Most of the news was related to GPU Render technology or LuxRender. Unfortunately GPU render is still a project for YafaRay, listed as an idea for the SoC 2010. Leaving the GPU render aside, we can still consider YafaRay as one of the best options for architectural render in Blender."

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