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August 6, 2010 in 3D, AutoDesk 3DSMax, Featured by Rufino

Creating A Space Ship In 3ds Max (Session 2)
( Autodesk 3dsmax 2010)

Welcome to the 2nd session of creating a space ship in 3dsmax 2010. In this session we will go over mirroring, welding and other various detailing elements including the thruster system and decals. This tutorial should be used as a guide to create and design your own space ship.

I hope you enjoy this session.

Author: Ryan W. Knope

Ryan W. Knope is a freelance 3D / 2D Artist / Consultant with 13 years experience in the 3D and 2D industry. His main artistic love lies with interior and exterior rendering although he takes on just about every type of graphics work. Recently he has directed and created most of the artwork for the game "Lacuna Expanse".

Ryan is also the architectural / interior voice for 3D Artist Magazine’s Question and Answer Panel. He lives with his wife Krista, in sunny Denver, Colorado.

June 25, 2010 in 3D, AutoDesk 3DSMax, Featured by Rufino

Creating A Space Ship In 3ds Max (Session 1)
( Autodesk 3dsmax 2010)

Here we will be begin to cover the modeling of a space ship in Autodesk 3ds Max. This is part 1 of a 2 part series. In this installment box modeling, soft selection, plugins and the use of modifiers will be covered. A general understanding of 3ds Max is needed for this tutorial. Topics covered in this tutorial can be applied to modeling a wide array of objects.

In this tutorial, I start by modeling both sides of the ship. About half way through, I stop modeling the other side of the ship, because we will mirror the other side, making it match perfectly.

Author: Ryan W. Knope

Ryan W. Knope is a freelance 3D / 2D Artist / Consultant with 13 years experience in the 3D and 2D industry. His main artistic love lies with interior and exterior rendering although he takes on just about every type of graphics work. Ryan is also the architectural / interior voice for 3D Artist Magazine’s Question and Answer Panel. He lives with his wife Krista, in sunny Denver, Colorado.

June 17, 2010 in Featured, Icon Design in Photoshop, Photoshop by Rufino

Paper Icon Pack: 15 Social Media Icons

Author:Tudor-Ionel Cucu (nickname:Crimz)

Freelance graphic designer Cucu Tudor-Ionel is a student located in Bacau, Romania and currently writing tutorials based on personal projects. At the age of 13 he started working in Photoshop doing virtual-tuning, and then creating different tutorials and websites in his non-existent free time.

See my GraphicRiver portfolio

These are free to download and you can use them in any application whether it’s personal or commercial. Please just be sure to let people know where you got the icons from. We’re offering them at 256px (PNGs) and 500px (PSDs). Download, and be sure to tell your friends to come visit the site to download their icons as well, and as a courtesy, we hope you’ll link to our site. We have a lot more great things coming!

April 12, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

Virtual tuning body kit using brush techniques (Adobe Photoshop CS 3)

In this tutorial I`ll be using Adobe Photoshop CS3 but you can use any version of Adobe Photoshop.
There is an image for every step that will be very helpful.
After you have made all the steps you`ll be able to make an original bodykit for your car using 100% brush/dodge/burn tool techniques .

April 8, 2010 in Featured, Photography by Rufino

Home Studio: DIY Light Box

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to make a DIY Light Box for capturing small stuff in a professional way. We’ll build our own studio for as low as $35! Then, we’re ready to shoot.

April 5, 2010 in 3D, AutoDesk 3DSMax, Featured by Rufino

Furniture Design Rendering
(Autodesk 3dsmax 2010 and Earlier)

Welcome to “Furniture Design Rendering”. In this tutorial we will cover the concepts of putting together a rendering that a furniture manufacturer and outlet would prefer. This tutorial is more of an overview of the entire process, rather than a complete modeling guide in 3d. Throughout the last year I have been working with a furniture company in Sweden, providing quick renderings at very cheap prices. This could be called you’re guide to breaking into that niche of the industry a little more easily.

March 22, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 3 of 3

This tutorial is a continuation of our tutorials: “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3” and “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 2 of 3“

For recap, these are the tools that are discussed in part 1 and 2: Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Elliptical Marquee Tool, Single Row Marquee Tool, Single Column Marquee Tool,Lasso Tool, Polygon Lasso Tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool, Slice Select Tool, Eyedropper Tool, Color Sampler Tool, Ruler Tool, Note Tool, Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, Red Eye Tool, Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, Color Replacement Tool, Clone Stamp Tool, Pattern Stamp Tool, History Brush Tool, Art History Brush Tool, Eraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool, Gradient Tool, Paint Bucket Tool, Blur Tool, Sharpen Tool, Smudge Tool, Dodge Tool, Burn Tool, Sponge Tool, and Pen Tool. Now, lets move forward with the list and I will discuss the Part 3, the last part of the Photoshop tutorial.

March 20, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 2 of 3

This tutorial is a continuation of one of our tutorials: “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3“.

Part 1 talks about the importance of basics in graphic designing. I point out lists of Photoshop Tools and its features. For recap, these are: Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Elliptical Marquee Tool, Single Row Marquee Tool, Single Column Marquee Tool,Lasso Tool, Polygon Lasso Tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool, Slice Select Tool, Eyedropper Tool, Color Sampler Tool, Ruler Tool, Note Tool, Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool and Patch Tool. Once again, these tools are just basics but they aren’t enough, there are still a lot of things to learn aside from this. So guys, lets move forward and I will discuss the Part 2 of it.

March 17, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3

One of the most powerful and the leading, industry standard software on image and graphics editing or creation is the Adobe Photoshop, or merely Photoshop. If you’re just starting to learn about Photoshop, you might know some of its tools and basic editing tasks like resizing and cropping but to be able to fully understand and master all of its tools takes a lot of time. That’s the reason why the main purpose of this Photoshop Tutorial is to help you learn the basics of Photoshop (starting with Photoshop tools) for you to get started with it. People tend to skip the basics or the fundamentals and start on learning the advanced Photoshop tutorials which they thought is easier. But they’re wrong. Jacob Gube once said, “If you take the time to learn the basics, you’ll run into less trouble because you understand how things work.”

March 5, 2010 in Featured, Illustrator by admin

How to make a Swirl Line in Adobe Illustrator

Making a swirl line in adobe Illustrator is very simple and easy. It won’t take too much time to finish it.

I will be happy if you would show me your result from this tutorial. You know you want to see me happy