Capture the essence of a character through concept art. I'll be taking you through the various steps of character creation, from the initial silhouettes through to a final polished design. I will focus on a particular genre of character but feel free to create any character you wish, as the methods can still be applied.

 

Another week and another big course from Sonic Academy. This time we welcome back Armada's South African psy-trance heavyweight Protoculture for a massive How To Make course in Progressive Trance.

Chris catches up with Snatch Records, This Ain’t Bristol, Dirtybird Records, Insomniac Records producer Sacha Robotti.

Groove3 Cubase 9 Know-How: New Features screenshot Cubase guru Dave Askew presents an awesome series all about the new features found in Cubase 9. Explore all the new features as well as see them in action!

 

(For beginners to intermediate.) This tutorial is about how to create a very bold vector illustration from your own pencil sketches. You will see how you can transform your own drawing into a dynamic digital composition illustration that can be applied to various medias. Using the tips and tricks in this video, you can learn how to master this technique and bring your illustrations to life.

 

Color is a powerful signal in video; it can subtly project emotion, mood, time of day, and location. Learn to manipulate these visual elements in a variety of shots, from interior spaces to outside landscapes, with color grading. Filmmaker, colorist, and experienced editor Simon Walker shows how to simulate a light source and different types of light, and choose an evocative color for your footage to tell the story of a particular location. Plus, learn techniques to change the time of day, the type of room, and the overall mood of a location.

 

You must be more than the guy pressing the button and familiar with manual settings.
Find out your “author’s voice” or your “author’s eye”.  The singularity that makes you recognizable as a photographer, as an author.

 

As we all know many of us used photoshop as our main webdesign tool to design websites. and even after the design psd files we used photoshop to slice our website to write the code for our website to make it look exactly as it's is in the psd design. But if you are a web designer you know how painful it is to write thousand line of code in the CSS to make website look exactly as it is.

 

While most people starting out with Photoshop tend to utilize Opacity slider and leave Flow untouched, knowing the difference between the two will allow you to select the one that will perform best for a given brush application.

 

In this three part series, John Thacker shows his complete process of creating a fantasy environment with a single character. This tutorial starts with a very simple sketch and explores the steps and choices to refine the design through quick line art, layout of values for balanced, eye catching abstract appeal, and how to keep things simple and understandable during the refinement passes. Also explored are thoughts on decisions regarding shape language, how to choose colors based on both mood and technical reasoning, and balancing of detail for readability.

 

Learn how to sketch a sports car in side view together with industrial designer Marouane Bembli! In this short and fun course, Marouane will walk you through how to make a professional car sketch and all you need is a pen and a piece of paper.

 

If you want to design a logo, this class is for you! Everyone needs a logo. A logo defines you as professional and tells people what you do and how you do it.

Learn the Maschine STUDIO, OS 2.4, from Native Instruments, with these 3 DVDs and over 4.5 hours of lessons on every feature on the software and the hardware. We cover the Display, the Transport controls, all buttons, and knobs, Volume, Tempo and more. You'll learn how to do it on the Hardware and the software with our step by step approach. We'll teach you each section in the software from the Browser where we can load any Project, Group, Kits, Instruments, samples, to the Arranger Section where we can setup the sections to our song movie score, background music, etc.

 

This class was made to help you purchase and use the right lenses for your own personal photography. What decisions go into choosing the right focal length for your image? How does compression and distortion work and on what is it most apparent? What lenses are a must-have in your bag that will help you tell your own story correctly?

Platinum producer / engineer Kenny Gioia returns with his most in-depth video series yet. Follow along with Kenny as he mixes a complete song from beginning to end, leaving NOTHING out. At over 8 hours long, you'll hear and see Kenny's every move, including the mistakes, thought processes, and ultimately all his secrets for getting a pro mix!

 

In this Spring MVC for Java Developers training course, expert author Kevin Bowersox will teach you how to develop web applications using the Spring MVC framework. This course is designed for users that are already familiar with Java.

Designing a Vector Illustration for Advertisements in Illustrator
Duration: 5hr 40m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 4.4 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

 

It’s essential to keep in mind every part of the process, so we’ll keep things like shadows and highlights on separate layers. We’ll start by applying the shadows of the motorbike using a combination of the eyedropper tool, pen tool and custom brushes.

 

In these Illustrator tutorials we'll highlight some steps in a process that will teach you how to create a low poly portrait in Adobe Illustrator.