A few demotivators… Pics snarfed from The Telegraph

“Empire Bridge” – I took the pic of the bridge from Africville Park on that recent (and gorgeous – the clouds in the shot are all fake) Thanksgiving Monday… stitched together from three shots, it still felt like it was missing something… A submission for http://starshipsstarthere.ca 3D Starship snarfed from: http://www.zoomcatch.com/wallpapers/download/44094/3200/2400

Some mash-ups from various movies… inspired by a mash-up (mixing Star Wars, Harry Potter, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, and totally designed to drive nerds crazy), I decided to contribute a few of my own…

Some Photoshop goodies, some Illustrator items, and a nice selection of design inspirations.   2000 Free Photoshop Patterns 40 Photoshop Effect tutorials 30 Photoshop Actions for Touch-ups 30+ Photoshop wallpaper tutorials 20+ Photoshop icon design tutorials Illustrator: Envelope Distort with Grids Negative space in logo design Type-based logo inspiration Poster Showcase Vector Artworks

Doing lots of video stuff lately, with Premiere and After Effects mainly, with assistance from Audition, Photoshop and a few other programs… so, here are a whole pile of tutorials and links to help speed the learning process: Combined Tutorials 100+ Video (Premiere/After Effects) tutorials Matching Cameras and Composite Effects Premiere Trimming Clips to Markers  [ Read More ]

A BIG (40!) collection of links to various disaster tutorials for Photoshop… Surreal Apocalypse Apocalyptic Wormhole Devastating Twister Apocalyptic City Underwater Apartment Ice Age City Nuclear Disaster Alien Invasion Catastrophic Tsunami City in Chaos Flooded City Dragon Attack Colliding Planets Nuclear Fallout Explosive Fire City Warzone Apocalypse Xmas Card End of the World Space Collision  [ Read More ]

Another collection of cool Illustrator Tutorials… got a couple of great tutorials on creating vector artwork from photo references! Psychedelic Design in Photoshop and Illustrator How to Turn a Photo into Vector Artwork Creating Vector Portraits Creating ‘Natural, Hand-drawn’ Vector Graphics Using the Variable Width Tool for Illustration 5 Cool Tricks and Tools for Illustrator

A nice little tutorial, combining a photo and a hand drawn sketch overlay… http://www.psdeluxe.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/mix-hand-drawing-sketch-with-photo/ A related tutorial is also on the same site: http://www.psdeluxe.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/beauty-woman-effect-in-photoshop/ aaaaand… a few tutorials on the subject of Poster/Wallpaper design: http://www.webanddesigners.com/51-photoshop-tutorials-for-creating-wallpaper-and-poster/

Have suddenly gotten a hankerin’ to do some motion comic style animation. Aside from the obvious choices of Flash, Photoshop and After Effects, there are other ways to accomplish such. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/3d__and__animation/create_an_animatic http://www.calicomonkey.com/development/episode-10-scene-anatomy.php http://beta.toonboom.com/ http://en.softonic.com/s/comic-animation-software

Working on a series of posters inspired by some old 1930s-1940s era US Public Works posters, now in the public domain. They have been used by others, notably for a series of Star Wars-themed travel posters. I figured “Lord of the Rings” needed a set too. I have several done (or near done)… here’s one  [ Read More ]