Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Articles

  • Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all Art & Design Lovers…

    It’s great to be from Art Community…!!!

    This day reminds me my journey with Art & How I fall in love with it doing drawings… when I was a child… & still in love with it, concepts have changed media are different…

    But still in love…!!!

    I hope, I will keep doing my work & keep enjoying the process of creating artworks – designing for people.

    (more…)
  • Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)

    I really had a brilliant experience watching this film.

    It’s real breathe of fresh air in this crowded city of movies.

    “Three people, one city faces same happy moments & trauma at same time & at end all unites as city sleeps…!!!”

    You as film viewer you experience the same feelings as film tries to convey.

    It feels It’s great to be from Mumbai itself & view your city from another angle & through lens of Kiran Rao, The director of Film Dhobi Ghat.

    (more…)
  • Akismet Works!

    After having my website online as it was designed in iWeb with static website structure &  4 to 5 pages… I was more than happy…!!!

    But after I deployed WordPress as my website’s main CMS (Content Management System), I had my Art Blog, my Art Portfolio & other defined pages belonging to my business & liking… My WordPress powered website gave me the boost in google analytics of 100 to 200% in visits & pageviews… But wordpress triggered another feature of website interaction i.e. blog comments.

    I was receiving around 100 to 150 comments monthly, sadly all were SPAM & It was frustrating…

    But then I realized that I have Akismet installed on my website with valid API key but in deactivation mode for that time being…

    So I found answer & realize that how spam free comments can be…!!! so I activated the plugin that just detects spam & delete it at first instance… no further looking needed on those issues anymore…!!!

    (more…)

    by

    ,
  • Twitter for Mac: Sluggish, Buggiest twitter ever

    For all this long time I was using Tweetie for Mac as it was Freeware i.e. It has free license to use…

    But after switching to Twitter for Mac, I am really having bad experience of Twitter for Mac from day one with 1 dot release…

    New Twitter for Mac Application is really buggy, boring & really sluggish…

    Reasons for that are as follows

    (more…)

    by

    ,
  • “How to Learn Animation?” – While Browsing a web & while doing Social Networking

    Are you familiar with this Questions?

    “How to learn Animation?”, “How to do animation correctly?”, “What tools should I use to do animation?”, “Should I learn 2D Animation or 3D Animation? What is the best?”, “What is 3D Animation?”

    If yes, then this article is for you! – As saying goes “If there is a will, there is a way”, It is true here…

    Yes, You can Learn About & how to do Animation while you are online, browsing a web & while doing social networking…

    Her are some of the links I found useful for learning Animation through the world wide web.

    Wikipedia Animation Links

    1. Movie Making Manual
    2. Film Making
    3. Animation Techniques
    4. Animation

    Podcasts

    1. The Animation Podcasts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link, RSS Feed Link
    2. Spline Casts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    3. Toon In: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    4. The Animation Conversation: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    5. Conversation on Animation: iTunes Podcast Link
    6. Vancouver Film School Animation & VFX: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    (more…)
  • 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.

    (more…)
  • 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?”

    (more…)
  • 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

    (more…)
  • 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…

    (more…)
  • 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???

Sponsors


Search