When it comes to high-end 3d computer graphics and 3d modeling software package, Autodesk Maya is always one of application to be considered. Maya plays an important role in the 3d visualization and animation industry and they are top choices for many designers on large or small-scale production. If you are looking to picking up Maya to design your 3d models, this article [...]

By Peteris Kelle | Graphics // Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. Its main purpose is for film and video post-production. With Adobe After Effects it’s possible to create so great looking visual effects as in “Hollywood style” movies. Adobe After Effects is mainly used to create visual effects for commercials and movies but you can also [...]

 Tutorial: Making of Frodo by Vishal Pawar, India Hello I am Vishal Pawar and I live in the city of Mumbai (India) and at the time of writing this I am working as CG Artist for Waterford Institute India. I am a BFA graduate from L.S.Raheja School of Art Mumbai. I do both 3D and 2D, here are list of artists like Craig Mullins and Dusso (Yanick Dusseault) who always inspire me, and Peter Jackson’s [...]

Create Realistic Rain by Ashish Rastogi, India If you want to show any picture in a rainy season then you dont have to wait for a rain. Just open in Photoshop and follow these steps… What dont believe me…try and have a look…Download Source Files Open Raven.jpg or any other picture of your choice in Photoshop and create a new blank layer. Filled the blank layer with [...]

If you are born around the 80’s, chances are this video game had been your favorite pass time, or maybe it still is. It’s been 23 years since world-renowned video game Street Fighter was released by Capcom. The series silently set the standards in fighting games genre and eventually became one of the highly successful franchise that continues to this day. Not many video game franchises [...]

Changing the color of your favourite car (in a photo) is extremly easy. Here’s a simple tutorial that will guide you through changing them on the fly. Complete tutorial after jump. The blue color Subaru WRX above may not appeal to all tastes. I kindda like it but I’m sure other colors will be nice too so let’s try changing them or proposed it to Subaru. Choose Image/Adjust/Replace Color [...]

Download this sample 1. Create a pattern image Fire up a new canvas. It should be small (in terms of height x width). Image you are creating here will duplicate itself to form your pattern in the later stage. For this example, I’ll be using 8×8 pixel canvas, zoomed them up and create a small pattern like this. Pattern at 100% view Pattern at 1600% view 2. Define as pattern Let’s define it [...]

There are often millions of unique ways of arranging and designing type which can only be limited by an individual’s imagination. A visually appealing text that is both original and creative draws attention and leaves a deep impression on anyone who sees it. Thanks to the internet, anyone who is interested in the art of typography can conveniently pick up relevant skills from the numerous [...]

  showcased 22 best Photoshop text effects Photoshop tutorials here at hongkiat.com, but then we soon realized they were still plenty of good tutorials out there and the current ones aren’t enough to satisfy most designers anyway. So we went searching for more and 3 months later, we beg to show you more. This time we put together another 50 really nice text effect Photoshop tutorials, [...]

Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job. Here are some of the best [...]

It can be pretty tough call to decide whether to invest in a premium WordPress theme or simply stick with a free one. This could be caused by a common perception we are shared – premium and paid stuff are always better than the free ones. Well, not always, at least that’s what we think. We beg to differ, and in today’s post we want to show you some really nice WordPress theme that [...]

Some refers premium themes as themes that have more quality in terms of design, or maybe layouts (magazine, grid, showcase, etc) that differs them from the majority free themes. It’s also fair to label them as themes that allows you to do more customization, or even displays content in a different formats. Most premium wordpress themes are paid themes, that means you’ll only get to see a demo [...]