UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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…)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
(more…)Podcasts
- The Animation Podcasts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link, RSS Feed Link
- Spline Casts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
- Toon In: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
- The Animation Conversation: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
- Conversation on Animation: iTunes Podcast Link
- Vancouver Film School Animation & VFX: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
(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
(more…)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.
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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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…
(more…)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
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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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???
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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.
(more…)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.
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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
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