Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Art And Design

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields. In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

  • Few Important Tips to Designers & Flash Animators

    (I assume that you are well versed with design terms & design applications)

     Three Important Tips to Adobe Flash Animator while preparing 2D animations for E-Learning Courseware OR for Web

    1st Tip

    Use Movie Clips to place object on stage, use movie clips to place text, vector objects or image on stage when you want to animate it

    2nd Tip

    (Importance of Tip #01)

    Don’t create Tween in Library If you are using Flash older version than Adobe Flash CS5 because that create problems while using Action Script

    3rd Tip

    (Importance of Tip #01 & Tip #02)

    When you place & animate movie clips on stage, contains of those movie clips can be replaced without affecting animation e.g. If your movie clips has animation on stage & it contains vector graphic with color red, the same red color can be changed to blue or you can replace even whole vector graphic to anything without affecting animation as this animation not creating any tween in library.

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  • What if Sachin Tendulkar was working as a designer in IT Company

    As I remember somebody told me, “We want designers like to be all-rounder like Sachin Tendulkar & working in their company…!!!”.

    This was the exact thoughts of the officer working for IT company who use think whole company is running because of their efforts…

    Then I started visualizing a day in life of Sachin Tendulkar working as a Designer in IT company.

    “The all-rounder Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar Starts running from bowlling end running like Waqar Younis to ball toward wickets where Sachin Tendulkar he himself is batting, he hits the same ball for Six, the same Sachin Tendulkar run towards fielding position to catch the same ball like Johnty Rhodes & same Sachin Tendulkar celebrates the success of catching himself…!!!”.

    End of this all, “Is Sachin Tendulkar really ready to work for IT company like this?”

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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!!!

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