Illustration tutorial: Illustration tips: Ideas & inspiration
Leading artists and designers share creative tips with Lisa Hassell and Neil Bennett
Tutorials
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After Effects tutorial: Top 5 After Effects tutorials of 2011
From motion type to character animation, we take you through our reader's favourite After Effects tutorials from 2011
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a picture book
The key to producing simple but effective animation is to grasp the basic principles, as Lesley Barnes and Bruce Cameron explain
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Animation tutorial: Make your animations funnier
The Brothers McLeod – aka writer Myles and animator Greg -- reveal how you can make viewers laugh harder
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Animation tutorial: 6 animation tricks for After Effects
Angie Taylor reveals six routes to more creative animations for motion graphics, kinetic type and VFX
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Video tutorial: Get to grips with Final Cut Pro X
Apple’s latest video editor is very different from the previous version. MacVideo editor Rick Young helps you pick it up.
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Interactive tutorial: 7 tablet app design tricks
James Christian, innovation lead at fashion site Net-A-Porter, reveals what he learned from creating the first weekly fashion magazine iPad app.
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After Effects tutorial: Stabilise your footage using After Effects CS5.5
Use the new Warp Stabilizer to steady your footage
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Photoshop tutorial: Create ice-cold image effects
Create a frosted, ice-cold effect that’s straight out of a vodka ad.
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After Effects tutorial: Master the basics: After Effects, Illustrator & 3D
Learn how to create an animated 3D logo using After Effects and Illustrator
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn a photo into a 16-bit arcade game character
James May shows how to create a 16-bit arcade game character based on a photo, using Photoshop's colour palette and the Pencil tool.
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Photoshop tutorial: Fake X-ray effects
Look beyond the surface and create intriguing X-ray images, as Mark Mayers reveals how to do this simply and stylishly in Photoshop.
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Interactive tutorial: Create your first iAd for the iPad
Alex Lokhman outlines the features of Apple’s ad design tool
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Photoshop tutorial: Animate your drawings with style
Vida Vega achieves traditional matte painting techniques using blending modes in Photoshop and After Effects
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Balance complex abstract images
The essence of abstract art is movement – of your hand, your eye and each element within the piece. In this tutorial, Rob Shields takes you through the necessary steps to create a balanced abstract image.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Add depth to your art with expert shading techniques
Bristol-based artist Ben Steers will show you how he uses gradient effects and opacity masks to overcome this, as he takes you through how he created his piece, Gone Karting.
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Illustration tutorial: Yupyland character art
Here’s how illustrator Meni Tzima creates her wonderful character art using Adobe Illustrator.
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After Effects tutorial: Master the Basics: Rotobrushing in After Effects CS5
Remove a coloured background easily in Adobe After Effects CS5 by mastering the Roto Brush tool.
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Photoshop tutorial: Discover inspirational painting techniques
Create a subversive pastiche of Chinese propaganda posters using Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Remix your art
Learn how to create character-based artwork that represents a synthesis of styles