Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Art of Mandar Apte – New Page & New Beginning

    Hi All,

    I have introduced the new page called “Art of Mandar Apte” as Art of Mandar Apte category already exists under Art Blog section…

    Page “Art of Mandar Apte” will syndicate the category of same name… to the world…

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  • Types of Animation Students in India

    I found myself surrounded by few of this aspiring animation brats while I am learning animation…!!!

    Type 01
    “Clay Animation? How Cute!!!” An Aspiring Animation Brat
    One day I was seating in a animation class & I came across this exclamation thought…
    “tell me about Animation!”, “Who Does Animation”, “How He does it?”, “Where it Happens?”, It reminds me of Hindi Film ‘Dil To Pagal Hai…’
    And It was the same day I came across this thought, “Animation? How Sweet? How Cute?”, I never did & never will understand what is cute in doing in animation, It is a day’s of work…!!!

    Type 02
    “Tell me About 3D…!!!”
    I was explaining the one person the process of animation & how it is done & recommending some books to him, he said, “I am more interested in 3D Animation, I don’t want to learn from books or basics of animation, I just want to learn 3D… because 3D is the future because Pixar & even Disney is doing it… & Why I should waste my time in learning 2D or that matter other types of animation.”

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  • Designed on Mac & Designing on Something Else

    Few points that I recognize that are important while experiencing design process on Mac & Something else called PC… Those are as follows

    Designed on Mac

    1. Mac has factory Calibrated display
    2. Square looks Square & Rectangle looks Rectangle & not other way around
    3. 15% black has identity on display & which is recognizable
    4. It has world class Industrial Design working for you
    5. It’s a style statement while using it
    6. No compatibility problem while working in group
    7. You know your design will look exactly as it is on every mac
    8. ‘Designed on Mac’ is kind of branding itself for your work for quality
    9. You have full control on your machine not other way round
    10. Has kind of hardware insurance as an ‘Apple Care’ program
    11. Almost clean workspace
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  • One Designer’s Problems Having MBA person as his Project Manager

    1. MBA Person thinks he own all work & credit of the same work as his own not the artist… because he thinks by giving suggestions & corrections he owns the artwork as his intellectual property…
    2. Because of the earlier point MBA person thinks he owns the salary increment & not the artist for work done by the artist.
    3. Manager thinks he should get at least 7 options for design problem & Designer thinks what the F
    4. When Designer say to MBA guy we need specialist in development but MBA person thinks otherwise & ask’s then “What’s Your Use?”
    5. Designer thinks about himself as he is designer… & he has to learn a lot about design
    6. MBA persona thinks about himself as he is BOSS… & he knows everything about design
    7. Designer is Designer but MBA person is Boss + Designer
    8. MBA person thinks Photoshop can do anything I mean almost everything… but designer says I need Illustrator or CorelDRAW
    9. One fine day MBA guy learns about GIMP & he thinks our designer should adopt GIMP than investing lot money on Photoshop
    10. MBA degree earns the respect & Designer degree has do lot of work…

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  • CGTEXPO11 – Fool’s Paradise

    I attended this years CGTEXPO1,

    Sadly I was totally upset with content, management & arrangement of the program.

    Programs had no content to look at or learn from, I felt totally waste of money & time from point of view of a student or professional who is looking for learning opportunities…

    I don’t know why this people depend on foreign professional, It gives me the feeling of show off from money & status point of view…

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  • Integrating Social & Professional Networking Badges & Google Adsense Ads in WordPress Blog using Dynamic Sidebar

    Following method will work with both Social & Professional Networking Badges i.e. Scripts you get from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Likedin & Google Adesense Ads scripts to integrate it with your wordpress website blog’s dynamic sidebar.

    Few Important things that I considered here that you are ready with
    You have sign in to & have administrative access of wordpress blog
    You have badge code that you got from Facebook or Twitter or Flickr or Linkedin.
    You are ready with Adsense’s Ad code & Your account is active.

    Steps to integrate with Dynamic Sidebar with Theme Widget Support
    First if not integrate Dynamic Sidebar within your plugin
    here is the link to do that

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  • Balgandharva, A story of the era where Gandharva use to live in Hindusthan

    Just now I came from film called Balgandharva portraying life of Artist itself…

    Every frame of the film is well designed to era of the “Balgandharva”, No frame of the film is boring or any second of the story is wasted, Right characterization of every artist is unique…

    Even 30 second roll of Actor Angad Mhaskar in character of Freedom Fighter “Kanhere” is heart touching & gives different dimension & direction to the film…

    Today I can say I saw Today’s real Marathi Film, I may saw it three times but no money wasted or felt boredom…

    It is the era of Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi, Where all female rolls were performed by male actors…

    Actor Subodh Bhave in the getup of Balgandharva is equivalent & By watching that you get the feel why that particular era was called The Gandharva era in Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi…

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  • Art Blog & Few Real Life Updates

    Sorry for vary less amount of Art Blog Posts for at least last two months…

    More than 20 Art Blog drafts are in process of publishing it live on this space… So wait for brilliant reading in future… 🙂

    In reality I was vary busy in officially running & starting my own design consultancy business… Now I have my design  studio under my name i.e. mandar apte studio

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  • Nokia E Series & Software Updates Issue

    Few months back I bought Nokia E Series phone.

    After I received some Mail App & OVI Map Update notice… I updated my device with the latest software…

    But, My all configured emails start failling to update & synchronize.

    I really had a bad time with this updates… What the use of updates if same app stops to work at all…

    I tried to remove specific email but it was of no use… Remove mailbox function enable to start…

    Now I have updated my device with new updated OS version & all my data & settings has vanishes… But I have backup of the same…

    After restoring my settings & files from Backup issue of Mail comeback…

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  • My List of Animation Books an Animator should buy

    Here is the my list of book an animation enthusiast should have & books professional swear by…

    Books listed below are all present in my own collection, it help me so to pursue animation & that’s why I am writing this post that can help you…

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