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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“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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With the power of the Web, and more eyes watching than ever, it’s important for a business to communicate its unique message clearly. The easiest way to recognize a company and distinguish it from others is by its logo. Below, we go through 10 common logo design mistakes that you should avoid if you want to create a successful and professional logo.

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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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Web design can be a very simple process but also a complicated one. Great web design is definitely something that requires excellence, attention to details and great usability experience. There are many mistakes we commonly make when building websites. These include no or poor search, disorganized layouts, too much flash and unecessary graphics, poor readability among others. This article breaks down 10 of the most common web design mistakes and what you can do to avoid them. Remember people, Uganda needs much better websites than what we have right now so, lets take these lessons to heart.

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The Google Code repository is an amazing resource for source code for a number of web related situations. I discovered this as I was learning jQuery. Not only do you find code, you find plugins, useful icons and miscellaneous items related to web development. It's run by Google's very own coders so you can expect top notch stuff.

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Let's first get one gripe out of the way. There's a difference between Wallpaper and a screensaver. A screen saver is the animation that plays when your computer has been idle for some time. When you move the mouse or touch the keyboard, the animation stops and your computer interface shows. Wallpaper is the still image that shows in the background of your desktop, when you minimize all windows. It's normally covered by icons and shortcuts.

I've had to correct very many people who insist on calling wallpaper as "screensavers".

Now that that's out of the way, here's a huge collection of wallpaper or background images for you computer desktop. These designs are simple, clean and minimal, yet striking. If you love clean minimalistic uncluttered spaces, you'll love them! Enjoy.

There are a lot of designers today using adobe products but have not put into consideration that there are certificates that can enhance your CV as an adobe user. There are many advantages to being certified by adobe. Demonstrate your Adobe product expertise bybecoming an Adobe Certified Expert. Use Adobe Certification as a way for getting a raise, finding a job, or promoting your vast expertise. Certification by Adobe is recognized as an industry asset — an immediate way to cut through the clutter, communicate your knowledge, or simply connect you with the people and resources you need to get ahead. 

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Imagine a scenario where you are given 3 days to produce an office interior with all elements fully in 3Dimention; I guess that would freak me out unless of-course I had another alternative to modeling everything from scratch.

But now with such a huge collection of FREE 3D MODELS from flyingarchitecture.com, we are able to beat even the closest deadlines as long as you ask for permission to use their artwork in your commercial works. Whatever the task might be, chances are that you will find a free model from this site just good enough to make your life easier.

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