Genetica Viewer:A Doorway to World of Textures

Genetica Viewer is your doorway to a world of textures that have been created with Genetica. 

• Genetica Viewer is a free application for rendering seamless textures that are saved in the Genetica texture format (GTX).
• Advantages over traditional bitmapped textures, including embedded effect maps and resolution independence
• Genetica Viewer includes hundreds of quality seamless textures.

Here are screenshots of my Genetica Viewer.

Well I can say that for  every 3D Artist Genetica viewer is great bonus tool. A world of rich texture library open for FREE!!
Download Link
There are other products from the parent company Spiral Graphics you will interested into.

Canyon strata Scene Making

Tutorial on Canyon Scene

Hi folks

I managed to create a very simple and brief making of this canyon scene. It is kind of a tutorial, but not exactly step by step though I have given all the values and parameters I have used.

click on the image to download the tutorial. I have also provided the link to scene files in the tutorial.

Fusion 7 for Free

Black magic revolutionizes the VFX industry, by bringing the popular Vfx tool fusion 7 for Free.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion

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This is for Kids - Happy Childrens Day

SYCRA for all Digital Painting Artist

I was wandering around the deep world of web, this is time around digital painting area. I landed on to a excellente( portuguese word for excellent) web portal where I was really fed with all resources your require as a digital painting artist and a traditional too. The immense collection of resources and video can really change your work style and approach. I feel this is a much watch out space for talented crowd. I really thank Sycra Yasin  for  sharing all your knowledge through web.
Guys don't go DUMB without having this awesome feed. there are

Figure Drawing Tools 

Photoshop Brushes 

Sycra's Paper Texture

 Sycra's Face Proportions Guides

Sycra's Colour to Value Reference

 Sycra's Guide to The Fundamentals

Sycra's Anatomy of the Upper Leg (front) GIF

 'Painter' Style Color Wheel for Adobe Photoshop

 Online Art Communities

 Online Art Instruction 

Art Tutorials 

Reference Images Colour Scheme Designers

 Colour Test, DPI Print Guide,Free Fonts and much more.

Just go and grab NOW -> http://www.sycra.net/

Design Meeting inside Photoshop

My daily email check up usually gives me promos, forwards, personal message and more of other unwanted junks. And not to miss, some industry updates via some web feeds. And today’s such interesting catch was about a PLUGIN for PHOTOSHOP. “Live Share PS” – A true freeware that enables you to have collaborative design process. The new intuitive way of collaboration makes broadcast your Photoshop document live to people.

 LiveShare, a recently introduced browser tool for collaboration enables you to make meeting of any members. You could make instant changes to the design and it would reflect to other members live. Moving from screen grabbing, LiveShare PS lets you grab your P.S document and share it with a url. Moreover mobile mirroring option takes this collaborative process to the mini devices. Just away from a tap, you can preview your Photoshop document in any mobile device.

The plugin is developed by invision, with the help of Adobe Photoshop team. The sad face of the release is that currently it’s available only to Photoshop CC 2012, on OS X. We hope to see this collaboration to extend over all other OS and all Photoshop CC versions.

This amazing plugin is already storming the design industry, where collaborative design is the key in most of design studios.

go to LiveShare PS

Getting started in UX Design? Here's a Best place to start!

Hi Folks
Intrigued by the process of UX design? Want to learn the basics? May be here is one of the best places to start.

Tools like Balsamiq make it easier than ever to participate in the design of user interfaces, and that’s a great thing.

The problem, as you may have already discovered, is that creating products that are easy to use is actually quite hard!

Information architecture, interaction design, and copywriting are just a few of the elements involved.

There’s a lot of art and science behind creating a lovable user interface.

This site is designed to teach you the basics with an easy process to follow, and pointers for where to learn more.

The process we illustrate has three layers: Discovery, Strategy and Design.

Click below to start..

Download few Balsamiq(Prototyping tool) Tutorials from Dropbox

Get started to NXT-GEN website prototyping

Hi folks

Found this interesting article across my usual web routine. This article covers  on how to go about next generation prototyping from photoshop static design to very interactive ones. Illustrated with examples of facebook home page design and as such.

Grabbed here few links to tools to create interactive prototyping.

http://facebook.github.io/origami/  - created by facebook design team

http://cycling74.com/products/max/

http://vvvv.org/

http://framerjs.com/

http://flowhub.io/

http://noflojs.org/

 I hope this article be enjoyed very well.

Link to article

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2014/07/how-to-get-started-with-next-generation-website-prototyping/

Model. Animate. Render. Online.

Hi Folks This is really interesting and indeed am very excited to find a new world of opportunity for all computer 3D CGI artist. This is indeed a fruit of all new technology tree growing in this era.Thanks to cloud computing, all new codes, languages and the power of browsers.                         Exocortex has released (its been almost a year I guess) an online 3D application. Ya its runs in your browser just like max or maya..even better in near future I guess. So here it goes, learning 3D or doing some amazing 3D creation is just getting easier,simpler and anywhere. You can called it CLARA.IO

LOGIN and START here.

IT WORKS..IT MAKE WONDERS. START NOW

Vector Awesomeness for PS and AI

Access the world's largest* collection of vector assets
for free!

Hi there..
I just found a awesome free plugin that collects all free usable vector shapes.The plugin works with PS and A.I Cc and CS 6. Just awesome that I couldn't resist using that in any of my design works. (Click on the image)

Free Screen Capture

Hi folks..
Just found a awesome web based screen recorder. It easy, it cool and its FREE!


GO RECORD YOUR SCREEN

Internet Global & India Statistics

Hi folks..
Just came across these statistics, while I was searching for few data regarding current trends in User Interface technology.

I have compiled these statistics to a pdf.

Download it here

B.Sc Animation Admission open for Sept. 2014

The B.Sc. Animation Program from Manipal University - Bangalore Campus, is now being transferred to “School of Communication - Manipal, Udipi”. Effectively the admissions for 2014 is open till end of August 2014 & the Batch commences from Sep 2014. Contact 9972001478 / Balaji.ac@manipal.edu for admission information.

Torn Out Poster Tutorial

Hi Guys I'm posting a tutorial( in image) on how to make a torn out poster.
I used photoshop.

Bullet Re-Loaded

Hi folks
One of my previous newsletter BULLETS went for hold for various reasons including pain and laziness of an one man effort, busy family planning (shouldn't be that saying that though) , my official duties.
Lets forget the past. Now am back with re publishing it again.
This time had it done with few changes,
 MADE IT SIMPLE ( to a one man job),       JUST 1 PAGE          BUT EVERY FRIDAY

Hope this should work for me and for you folks..
So here by i publish the first version of  RE-LOADED BULLETS!

Bullet Links
motionartist.tv
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Found my ways to start with Android App Development

Beginning Android App Development?

After few days of search and research, I clubbed all the steps of the ladder to start climbing on android app development. The links that I post may not be the best ones. I still have to wander through the all the resources,tutorials and guidelines. On the process I shall try my best to update my progress on the learning.
So please find the links below, to start venturing into the Android App development. The blood of smartphones, then now and forever.

Resource Links

1) Building your first App - Training from Android 

2) E books and Codes - WROX

3) How to Build App Tutorials - Creativebloq

4) App development eBook ( you might badly need this) - DropBox

5) App Engine - Android Cloud Platform

6) Learn to Develop - CodeProject.com

Best of Luck folks...