What can evoke a smile? Some good wheeze, the smile of the person near you that will arouse your positive feelings or just the beauty of the bright spring day. Anyway, when the smile touches your lips and the pretty dimples appear on your cheeks your mood is light and you immediately become high-spirited. What can be better than a pleasant, open smile that is so radiant and sincere? Smile graciously and the world will give you its smile. Beam and shine on! Never stop basking the sunniness, savor each moment of your life, just capre diem and don’t let anything distress you. Share a bit of your happiness, light and high spirit with other people and the world around will become warm-hearted. Come up smiling and be joyful!

This collection of amazing 3D characters is especially for you. I hope that you will get a real pleasure viewing these creative works. Let’s start!

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Title: Little Cute Girl
Author: Eduardo Martin Julve
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
Portfolio here

This cute little girl is having fun and it is seen from her face that is shining. Her face expression, bright color scheme and the background of the picture are definitely great. Nice composition!

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Title: Jack Stern
Author: Patrick Beaulieu
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop
Portfolio here

This stern guy knows exactly what he wants and knows precisely how to achieve it. He is brave, self-confident and half seas over. This image is a little bit ironic in its tone and so cute. I like it!

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The beauty of a woman has been always celebrated on the splendid canvases of mature artists of all ages. These canvases bear the impress of the evanescent flavor of a woman through rigorous times that obliterate the illusion of youth and bring the oblivion instead of it. With the lapse of time the beauty fades, but it is still alive and imperishable on the canvases. Besides the rendering of the appearance these works of art capture the fleur, the sense of a woman – the things that are not seen at the first blush, to understand them you have to feel everything with the slightest strings of your soul.
This post is dedicated to the celebration of the glory of beauty in its integrity and undissembled sincerity. Before you will look through the whole collection I want to make a weighty disclaimer – this very collection is done in keeping with the best traditions of art in the style of “nudity” , the illustrations are marked with slightly erotic fleur. If you are not the enthusiast of such kind of art and your world outlook is rigid, that’s a pity, but it would be better for you not to review it – this collection would be out of tune with your views.
For those who are still here and dare to see it, I present this astonishing collection.

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Title: Send
Author: Joerg Warda
Software: Painter, Photoshop
Portfolio here

In the silence of the desolated church, in the semidarkness of the stained glass window the divine beauty of the girl is added with the weird shapes of splendid wings. In this pouring light the girl gains the illusion of the fascinating bronze sculpture – the sculpture that is cold only from the first sight, but is done from flesh and blood.

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Title: Bloodstone
Author: Lauren K.Cannon
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here

This captivating seductive image of a weird girl that is tippy-toeing in scarlet liquid blood is awesome. She is wrapped into the elusive cloth that is merging with blood and wears a scull on her head. She teeters awkwardly and it seems that she will fall the next moment. Sensitive and fascinating pallette.

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The second part of this tutorial will teach you how to create the animated menu, how to create the animation of elements appearance and animation of content changing. You will get acquainted with different ways of creating the animation what will give you an opportunity to make your Flash website unique and irresistible. So, follow the steps and you will see the wishful result. Best of luck!

In case if you’ve missed the first part of the tutorial, these links are for you: Creating a Website Design from Scratch: Part I and Part II and Create a Flash Website on the Basis of a Pre-made Design: Part 1.
You may also get the source files of this design absolutely free of charge here.

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Stage 3. Creation of the animated menu. Animation of content changing and animation of elements appearance.

Step 3.1. Import only one menu button from Photoshop into Flash and place it according to the underlayer. (As you have already know, underlayer is a bitmap design created in Photoshop and saved as one image. Later on we will use it in Flash as a reference design.)

Step 3.2. Then we create the animation for the menu buttons as we did for the link “View All” described in the first part of the tutorial. Please, see steps 2.3 – 2.16.

Step 3.3. With the help of a Selection Tool double click on the menu button to get inside of the movie clip. Then select the button.
It is shown on the screen shot, in the Properties panel that the button is selected.

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This tutorial will teach you how to create a Flash web site on the basis of a pre-made design. Step by step you will learn how to create animated buttons and links, animation of content changing, Flash menu, how to convert any design element into a Movie Clip and how to convert any layer into mask.

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This tutorial is the sequel to the first one that consists of two parts: “Creating a Website Design from Scratch” and “Creating a Website Design from Scratch: Part II“. You may also get the source files of this design absolutely free of charge here.

For you convenience we divided this tutorial into three main stages:

1. Working with .PSD files. Importation of design element from Photoshop into Flash. Preparing for creating an animation.
2. Creating sub pages (here we also will concentrate on the creation of the animated buttons or links; Motion Tween).
3. Creation of the animated menu. Animation of content changing and animation of elements appearance.

During all this time we will be using two programs simultaneously: Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash 8. So, be ready to switch between them.

Stage 1. Working with .PSD files. Import of initial materials into Flash. Preparing for creating an animation.

Step 1.1. Open a pre-made design in Photoshop. If you have read the first two parts of this tutorial and replicated all steps described there, you should have a design ready to be animated. So, open the first .PSD file.

Step 1.2. Creating an underlayer. Underlayer is a bitmap design created in Photoshop and saved as one image. Later on we will use it in Flash as a reference design.

1.2.1. Now choose Select > All (or Ctrl + A)
1.2.2. Then choose Edit > Copy Merged.
1.2.3. Create new Photoshop file (Ctrl + N) with transparent background and paste the selected elements (Ctrl + V)
The underlayer has been created.

Step 1.3. Select all. Then choose File > Save for Web and Devices.

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If you haven’t read the first part of our Photoshop Tutorial yet, we gladly unfold to you all steps of page creation from the very beginning. But in case if you have already reproduced the whole process step by step and have already created a Home page, you may skip some steps and proceed to step 9. So, take a deep breath and enjoy your journey!

1. Create a new Photoshop document with white background. Choose File => New or press “Ctrl+N”.

2. Create a rounded rectangle of proper size and color – basically any size and any color you want. The way we’re doing it is a blue rectangle (color #78c5ef).

3. Create a grey gradient with a Gradient tool and 13% opacity – now the upper part of a website background is slightly darker.

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Ok, people, it’s time for revealing some more professional secrets. This means that you are about to read a tutorial about how to create a Flash website design. Now come back to your computer as there is nothing to be afraid of – it may seem very complicated at first but we promise to guide you through the design process and make it all as simple as possible.

By the way, this is only a first part of the BIG tutorial as soon we will publish a tutorial on how to design subpages for this website and another tutorial about making a Flash website out of the design you will make. Anyways, this is truly going to be interesting and informative!

This time it is going to be a website homepage design. This particular one is going to be based on a free website template and a free illustration from Templates.com

As you see, it’s a very nice design, with bright colors and yet not overfilled with elements. One of its design features is that it’s composed as a book laced on one side.
Ready, people? We’re starting off!

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