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50 Impressive Ruins Photographed By Professional Artists
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Ruins are the remains of what once were human constructions, some really glorious and famous in their times. Ruins are the “scars” of the past that should be treasured and admired, as they offer invaluable information about the past, about the civilizations that we rose from, about our ancestors and about all sorts of cultures […]
A Short Introduction to 3DS Max Materials
3ds max is one of the most popular CG packages out there today. It’s used in film, TV, games, and architectural visualization. One of the fundamental parts of 3ds max is the Material Editor. With the introduction of the node-based Slate material editor in 3ds max 2011, the traditional Material Editor has received a boost […]
Animating With Pure CSS and Webkit
If you’d like to see how animation on the web will evolve in the next few years, you only need to take a look at the animation techniques made possible by the Webkit HTML rendering engine. Though JavaScript is the preferred way of animating HTML elements, Webkit’s built-in animation capabilities outpace what’s currently offered by […]
50 Spectacular Out of Bounds Photoshop Manipulations
OOB (out of bounds) is the result of a photo manipulation technique, done with a software such as Photoshop or The GIMP, which creates an optical illusion of a 3D effect and, just like the name says, it presents the subject as coming out of the bounds of a photo. So the OOB images show […]
6 Places to Turn Yourself into an Adobe Fireworks Professional
For those of you who don’t know yet, Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. This software is mainly used by professional web developers and graphic artists to design, edit and optimize graphics for the web. An additional feature is that this extremely useful program can export JavaScript which enables its users to […]
50 Ultra Realistic Children Portrait Drawings
Childhood is the most innocent and dependent period in one’s life and it’s the time when we start forming ourselves as people. We take our firsts steps into this word and we learn how to appreciate art by being little artists ourselves. Those stick men we drew as kids and those twisted houses with missing […]
A Tribute to the Ultra Realistic Art Sculptures Of Evan Penny
Evan Penny was born in South Africa and now he has a Canadian citizenship, living in Toronto. He followed the college of art and specialized in sculpture. He won multiple awards and his work is now well known all over the world, as it beats the most realistic and detailed sculptures that one can imagine. […]
50 Funny Pictures Manipulated with Photoshop
What would our life be without humor? Nothing compares to illustrated humor, as you have to feel it and even imagine what the silent characters would say. And that has its source in the creative mind of the artists who learned how to combine digital art with feelings. Today we feel very optimistic and we […]
50 Ultra Realistic Female Portrait Drawings
Technology brings more and more talented artists to the surface, who create astonishing digitally manipulated images on every possible theme, illustrating everything that you could possibly imagine. But, we still have the “classics”, for whom the pencil and paper are the genuine and compulsory materials in creating works of art. And this is what we […]
Why Machinima Will Replace 3D Packages for Amateur CG Artists
Consumer 3D packages are bulky and hard to learn. CG artists spend many years training in order to become proficient at animation, modeling, and effects. What if there was a shortcut to avoid the steep learning curve of 3D packages? This is where machinima comes in. Though currently a staple of gaming communities, machinima has […]
