Entries from July 2007

actionscriptcheatsheet.com

July 30th, 2007 · No Comments

A handy site for all your actionscript goodness. http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/
Tags:Flash/Actionscript Useful

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Illustration Friday: Poem

July 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Here’s my lil contribution to the Poem theme at Illustration Friday. Done in Painter and Photoshop. Click for larger version.

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Inspiration: Francoise Nielly Painter

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Françoise Nielly’s painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force, a fascinating vital energy using Oil and knife combine to sculpt her images. http://www.francoise-nielly.com

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Tutorial: HOW TO TURN A TAG INTO A PIECE

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

haven’t seen this tutorial before, seems pretty interesting and easy to follow. How to turn a tag into a piece.
Tags:illustration Tutorials

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Useful Stuff: CodeHighlighter Plugin for Wordpress

July 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Useful little app for adding code to wordpress. CodeHighlighter Plugin
//
// Comment Here
 
function codePlugin(){
trace("test simple as code");
this._x += xd;
this._y += yd;
this._yscale -= Math.random()*5;
this._xscale -= Math.random()*5;
}
 
stop();
Tags:Flash/Actionscript Useful

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Tags: Useful · Flash/Actionscript

Inspiration: Yanick Dusseault Matte Painter/Illustrator

July 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Nice work over at http://www.dusso.com by Yanick Dusseault who’s worked on Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, War of the world and a whole bunch of other things.

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Tutorials: The Learn List

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The learn list is a super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.
http://www.thelearnlist.com/
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Random Idea: 3D Images

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

By rapidly shifting the perspective on these images, your brain interprets them and you see them in 3-D. Caution: These images can cause an epileptic fit!

http://www.voltier.com/stereo/
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Useful Stuff: Monitor Calibration Tool from Photo Friday

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Nice little tool (well its really an image, but it does the job) to help calibrate your monitor.
http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php
Also be sure to check out the photos entered in their weekly challenges.
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Actionscript: Re-Painting Pixels with Actionscript 3

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

This flash experiment by Lee Brimelow at theflashblog.com, basically takes the colour values of a bitmap and applies them to attached movieclip’s to give off a nice little effect.
Outcome: PaintingRandom
Code: Re-Painting Pixels with Actionscript 3
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Great Time Waster: kdice

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I have been playing this little game recently when probably should have been finishing off some of my work.
http://www.kdice.com/
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Bookmark: Design Federation

July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

One of the latest design portal’s to come out of OZ, Design Federation has news on whats happening in Australian design and interviews with a wide range of Artists from Chopper Reid to Jordan Clarke.
Also check out the forum if you have time, and tell them AGI sent you :)
Tags:Design/Communities

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Illustrations: byroglyphics

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Don’t know if you all have seen byroglyphics works or not, but the illustrations on the site are simply awesome. Prints of the illustrations are available from their online store.

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Tags: Illustration · Inspiration

Video: Nice WIP at AIF

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This little piece from Tim Rudder, was found in the “motion graphics project” thread that is going on over at the AIF forums. Its just a very short test render, but looks very promising.

http://www.timrudder.com/wip/aif_wip2.mov

Tags:Inspiration Motion

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Tags: Motion · Inspiration

Tutorials: Illustrator - Quick and Easy Spirographs

July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Found this tutorial today to make the process of adding items in a circular path quicker and easier by using the ctrl-d shortcut (or command-d for all you mac lovers out there) to eliminate the repetitive process of having to add items individually.
http://www.slicktutorials.com/spirograph-effect
Also another method to create more complex patterns using the ~ key can […]

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Tags: Tutorials