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I was really looking forward to develop apps for iPhone & iPad (I even bought a domain www.tapipad.com), but “FINE” I’ll just skip Apple products for now. Apple played stock games by first publishing that apps are open for all, and then just taking it all back. It’s all just BIG business, so won’t lose [ READ MORE ]
3d First person type of approach for this project has been dropped and now we’ll do it completely different way. Neat feat is that it supports multiple videostreams as materials. While playing and another video is clicked the previous video pauses. So, here’s the final version: mall3d.v7 Too much überfancy (:P) actionscript to give away freely. Sorry. [ READ MORE ]
Here is a collection of Illustrator and vector tutorials of 2009. The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 – Some are really awesome stuff! The Best Free Fonts of 2009, don’t know why they are supposed to be “the best”. It’s just a collection of nice clear fonts. Same here, nothing super-duper-mega-amazing, but a very nice collection of icon [ READ MORE ]
Older versions of Photoshop (up to CS1) had this really nifty Multi-page pdf to psd function (in file->automate) which could convert easily pdf’s to images with couple of clicks. For some weird reason Adobe decided to remove it from newer versions. Twice a year I have to convert few hundred pages of pdfs to images, [ READ MORE ]
How to bend stuff and make things a bit more alive in papervision3D plus a lot of interesting stuff available for all Flash 3D enthusiasts: www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/11/bending-modifier-papervision3d/ [ READ MORE ]
Adding “worldly” feeling to a 3D scene is almost essential, especially in games. It is just a box or a sphere that surrounds camera/player. Using blurred texture will give nice effect of distant horizon or view. Check out mcasperson’s simple tutorial how to make a Skybox. Example of a sites using skybox-method: www.papervision3d.org ww.ecodazoo.com [ READ MORE ]
Here’s couple of video-tutorials on working with Maya and Papervision3D. Texture Baking and installing & enabling ColladaMaya plugin in Maya. Courtesy of pv3d.org. Collada Maya plugin is downloadable at sourceforge. [ READ MORE ]
I was just surfing the web and stumbled upon this awesome set of tutorials: 50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. [ READ MORE ]
Designing logos is one of the most creative and also frustrating parts of designer’s work. I truly enjoy designing logos as I like things clear and über simplified. Sometimes it’s hard to find inspiration as many times you are forced to start from scratch. Sometimes client has old logo that needs updating. That’s easier because [ READ MORE ]
I merrily published a website using cufón without checking it with “all major” browsers when I changed the font. My bad, yes. It wasn’t a big surprise when I noticed that something is wrong with Internet Explorer (as usual). For some reason it doesn’t show big “P”s. FireFox&Mozilla work like a water closet though. Of [ READ MORE ]
