Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Open Source Applications for Artists in Simple Language Free Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup

    Following are the applications that are open source that means free tools available to an artist to built his studio without any monetary investment

    In short, “Open Source Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup…!!!”

    Yes! You have to buy your computer hardware first. You can buy Macintosh, HP & Dell based or Assembled PC based on Windows or Any Linux System. If You already have Computer hardware setup then just go to next step to download the software…

    There is possible learning curve before using this tools but I will list some tutorials sites so that you can learn fast as possible… but there is assurance that following tools will work for you…

    A good news is all open source applications like Inkscape, GIMP supports 64bit processing so you can download relevent version of application as required…

    What I would suggest is subscribing to relevant site’s RSS feeds or News Letters will allow you to Update your self with new technologies & get to know updated versions as they arrive…

    So listing down the tools that you can download & use without any hassles…

    3D Content Creation Tool for Animation, Modeling & Dynamics
    Blender 3D
    A really good 3D Application that will allow you to create, animate & add dynamics to your art works.

    As stated on their website “model – shade – animate – render – composite – interactive 3d, Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.”

    You can subscribe to Blender Nation’s News Healines’ RSS Feed here & Blender Foundation Announcement RSS feed here

    You can visit Blender Underground’s website to download video tutorials here

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  • Designer’s Life in IT Company

    Hey all designers & artist, I am putting down points that one artist or designer will encounter in his life while working in an IT Company.

    This are the points that I heard through my friends & their experiences dealing with this IT junkies…

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  • Few Updates about my website

    Really thinking of updating my website with new features. I am going to update my Art Portfolio page with showcasing more of my work & Design studies,

    Design Services page with form that will allow people to hire me through it to design for them & Contact page with contact & feedback form so anybody can contact me with ease.

    Any suggestions???

  • My Traveling Experience through Mumbai – Pune Expressway & Remembering Pixar’s Movie Cars

    Last week I travelled to Theur near Hadapsar & Pune (India) just to visit & have blessings of Shree Chintamani. One of the Ashtavinayak Temple.

    Today When I started to wrote down my experience of traveling through Mumbai Pune Expressway & bypassing Old Mumbai Pune Highway, It is just in resemblance to What Pixar Movie Cars stood for…!!!

    Mumbai Pune Expressway is just opposite to What Slow moving traffic you will find on Mumbai Local roads or even on Pune roads.

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  • Art of Mandar Apte – Showcase of my Professional & Personal Works in blog format

    For last two day I was thinking about sharing my Artworks in blog format.

    Main motive behind this showcase would be to have detailed info about artwork how it was designed, what thought process was behind particular Artwork & what Computer Applications used etc.

    Yes! As you all know I have my frontpage of this Website As my “Art Portfolio” but this category of would be additions to communicate more with people about art design & tell how I designed the artworks i.e design workflow.

    Category Name I chosen for this is “Art of Mandar Apte”, Do look forward to it & watch this category for more published artworks over time.

  • My List of Drawing, Sketching And Painting Books an Artist should have

    Here is My List of Drawing, Sketching & Painting Book that I found Helpful, Informative & that guided me in Learning Drawing, Sketching & Painting.

    American Artist like Andrew Loomis, George Bridgeman & their books are more or all about basic forms behind building & drawing Human figures.

    But Indian Artist like S. D. Phadnis & his books is all about telling a story through drawings. I bought his book 20 years back & I am Still using it (I even bought new edition of his same book for my reference). As stated on his website “S D Phadnis, the creator of caption-less cartoons”

    American Artists
    Andrew Loomis

    1. Fun with a Pencil
    2. Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth
    3. Creative Illustration
    4. Successful Drawing (Three Dimensional Drawings)
    5. Drawing the Head and Hands
    6. The Eye of the Painter
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  • How to remove dash, hyphen from half word or stop word cutting in illustrator, indesign, photoshop

    Here is small Tutorial about how to remove dash, hyphen from half word or How to stop word cutting in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop & Adobe inDesign.

    Answer is as simple as single step: ( I am using Mac OSX but it shouldn’t be different on Windows)

    You have to navigate to your Text’s “Paragraph Palette” in your respective application.

    In Adobe Photoshop: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe Illustrator: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe inDesign: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

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  • Shree Ganesh Chaturhty (Ganeshotsav 2010)

    Today is Auspicious Day Ganesh Chaturthy (Ganeshotsav) of Year 2010.

    Here is Lord Shankar, Parvati & Ganesh Painting by Late Indian Painter Mr. Raghuveer Mulgaonkar.

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  • Launch of my website on auspicious day of Shri Krishna Janmashtami

    Today is the day of my new website launch same day of Shri Krishna Janmashtami. Today is the day of birth of Lord (Bhagawan) Shri Krishna. Really thinking of building on this platform to reach more audience with showcase of my artworks through this website.

    As I can remember The Lord Shri Krishna was an Artist too…!!!

    “जय श्री कृष्ण”

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  • My Time spent after watching Pixar’s Toy Story 3!!!

    Two days before I saw Pixar’s Toy Story 3.

    I really felt what my Toys felt after I put them in corner in box for this long years…!!!

    This film conveys brilliant emotions of Toys (Should I say Plastic Toys) & Humans, interconnected with each other.

    I can’t believe I am watching animated film, I felt so real & connected to message it conveys.

    & Yes to the Film’s written story script, I remembered I also give away some of my toys to my niece… & I kept my toy cars to myself, I don’t no why!!!