Is retro art still popular? This question sent me browsing a great number of sites dedicated to retro art. I was lucky to find a lot of retro photoshop tutorials that featured really interesting items. Actually, vintage art can be a fascinating subject and it is still of a great demand today. The retro style of art from the modern perspective is a rich mixture of styles. These retro photoshop tutorials (that I’ve recently collected) show explicitly that the past is a part of present, the retro and vintage are quite modern and they form the concept of future art. It is a notorious fact that history repeats itself and each new style is the offspring of the previous one or even the mixture of several of them. That’s why we should appeal to the past to understand the present idea of art.
So, let’s look a little bit closer at the retro photoshop tutorials that are presented in this post. You can find your inspiration in them and create stunning illustrations in the retro style.
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Today you’ll encounter the list of helpful tutorials produced or visualized using LightWave 3D which is a complete modeling, rendering, and animation system. This range of training resources utilizes an easy to follow formats that bring a high degree of visual clarity to even the most complex renderings. LightWave tutorials step by step explain the process involved in 3D graphic creating, in highly detailed and easy to learn manner. So, you won’t have to spend hours searching the web yourself for the LightWave 3D lessons, these tutorials provide that essential learning base to improve your 3D skills in LightWave. Right now, please welcome extremely comprehensive LightWave tutorials form around the net.
by Rodny Mella
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by Kenji Gozum
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Would you like to get comprehensive tools for an awesome 3D production? If so, we are ready to help you with high-end 3D graphics and modeling, compiling the range of indispensable Maya 3D training tutorials. Maya is a highly extensible production platform which has great strength in providing lighting settings and texturing, rendering and compositing to help make the objects look more realistic. Playing an important role in the 3D visualization and animation industry, it is widely used for animation production, special effects, and the video game industry. This application, in fact, is always one to be considered for it is a top choice for many designers. Today you are able to learn the fundamentals of Maya and broaden your perspective of what it can be used for. Go ahead, pick up Maya 3D tutorials to design your awesome 3D graphics.
by Christopher Adajar
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by Zhang Yang
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ZBrush is a sophisticated digital sculpting and painting program that leaves technical hurdles and steep learning curves behind. This program, in fact, is different from other 3D and painting programs. ZBrush is something of a hybrid between 2D painting and 3D modeling software with good rendering capacities, and once you figure it out, you can use it to create 3D images fairly easily.
Now let us have a detailed look to the basic functions of ZBrush that are teaching you how to use ZBrush to creatively design, sculpt, model, and texture in 3D. In this post, we’ll showcase 25 astounding ZBrush tutorials from the greatest ZBrush users around. If you are new to ZBrush, this set of tutorials will especially come in handy to give you a strong foundation to use in more advanced lifelike and vivid ZBrush renders.
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by Antonio Juricic
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by Khalid Abdulla Al-Muharragi
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Currently, more and more designers are into mastering various 3D software tools to widen their skills in 3D graphic modeling and animation design. When it comes to direct examples, 3ds Max is usually one of the primary choices to consider since it is one of the commonly used applications in the 3D field. In fact, this software package is a great benchmark to help you understand the concept behind 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing, plus it’ll enable you to more quickly ramp up for production and awesome 3D performance.
To get the most out of this complex 3D animation rendering and modeling tool, you need to practice in creating different 3D models, objects, characters, and styles. Below, you’ll find the list of 3ds Max tutorials for your graphics and animation related needs. The range is composed of several modeling techniques that you may seamlessly deploy in creating 3D graphics. You are welcomed to ignite the creativity and explore your design possibilities – we’re ready to kick it off!
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by Maxim Rudakov
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by Alex Roman
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We are glad to present you our fresh Photoshop tutorial from which you’ll learn how to create the stylish retro website layout that would suit any web company. Remember that retro style will always be in fashion!
Follow the steps of this tutorial and you’ll learn the designing tips and tricks of this elegant template. This is the advanced level tutorial, so you need to review some techniques from our previous tutorials and especially from How To Create Interior Website Template. Anyways, we’ve tried to make this tutorial comprehensive for all of our readers. No more words to say! It’s high time to act!
You Need List:
Program: Photoshop 7 or later.
Difficulty: Advanced Level.
Set Time: 90 minutes.
Materials: 2 Grunge Paper Photoshop textures, vector illustration of a retro car, black beams, photo camera and radio.
This tutorial is based on the design of Free Stylish Retro Website Template that was launched by Templates.com not long ago.
Here is the Stylish Retro Layout that we are going to create:
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From this tutorial you’ll learn how to create professional and glossy website layout for the Interior Design related company. Just follow the steps of this tutorial and you’ll find out that there is nothing so complicated in designing this stunning template. What’s more, in this tutorial we use only few simple tricks you will repeat almost every step (e.g. creating textboxes). We are sure that after finishing this tutorial you’ll be able to create fabulous website layouts. So, as they say “Bon voyage!” Our exciting trip begins:
Here is what you’ll need:
Program: Photoshop 7 or later
Difficulty: Beginner Level
Set Time: 90 minutes
Materials: Vector illustration of a screen with swirls, stock image of the bed and the blue glossy ball. All files are available for Downloading.
This tutorial is based on the design of Free Interior Website Template that was launced by Templates.com not long ago.
Here is the Interior Design Layout that we are going to create:
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Christmas season is finished, but we continue making presents for you. This week Templates.com has launched the new Free Website Template dedicated to winter sports. You can check out its cool design and download it for free. But that’s not all, we have decided to make one more little present for our dear customers – Photoshop Tutorial based on this Free Website Template.
In this tutorial we’ll create the header of the mentioned above website template. Creating cool stuff like this is easier than you may think. It will take you one hour and a half to learn the procedure. This tutorial is worked out for the beginners, it gives you the detailed instructions and the professional tips.
So, let’s start!
Tutorial Details
Program: Photoshop 7
Difficulty: for Beginners
Set Time: 90 minutes
Materials: vector illustration from Templates.com + the stock image of the spot (find it at pt. 16).
Take a look at the header design we’ll be creating below:
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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 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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