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  • Top 7 Websites to Download Free 3D Models for Blender
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    Top 7 Websites to Download Free 3D Models for Blender

    Looking for free 3D models for Blender? Discover 7 websites with a wide range of downloadable models to enhance your designs. Among the design programs for character animation, Blender is one of the best known on the market. There are several pages where you can find free 3D models for this software. Here are some options that will be very helpful. BlendSwap BlendSwap is a platform where artists share their 3D models for free. You can find a wide variety of models, from characters to scenery.

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  • 5 Essential Animation Books
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    5 Essential Animation Books

    Boost your animation skills in 2024 with these must-read books. A curated list blending art, technique, and industry wisdom for animators. If you are an amateur or a professional animator, I'm sure you would benefit from some reading in general, and so maybe if you started with something familiar you might not fall asleep immediately! Let's learn how to read together! In all seriousness, I'm an animator myself so I speak from experience! These animation books will keep you at the edge of your seat the whole time (with the same bad posture you develop whilst animating for hours on end).

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  • Essential Animation Shortcuts for Adobe Animate and Photoshop
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    Essential Animation Shortcuts for Adobe Animate and Photoshop

    Designer Pablo Cuello shares the most popular shortcuts for animating with these two programs You don't need complicated tools to create impressive animations. By learning just a few tricks, you'll be able to simplify your design process and make frame-by-frame animations. In this blog post, designer and animator Pablo Cuello (@pablocuello) shares Adobe Animate and Adobe Photoshop’s most popular shortcuts, so you can save time when creating your next mesmerizing animation.

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  • Cinema 4D Tutorial: cloning methods in MoGraph
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    Cinema 4D Tutorial: cloning methods in MoGraph

    Learn the best way to clone models using the Cinema 4D MoGraph module The MoGraph module is one of the most important tools that users of the Cinema 4D animation software have for animating objects and creating special effects. With MoGraph you can make models explode, control them using other objects, deform them or create infinite movements. Zigor Samaniego (@zigor), illustrator, modeler, and designer specialized in Photoshop, Cinema 4D and After Effects has a vast experience in this field. In this tutorial, he explains the different cloning modes and tools found within this module of Cinema 4D.

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  • Unfolding history: the fascinating world of Pop Up Books
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    Unfolding history: the fascinating world of Pop Up Books

    Today we will dive into a fascinating journey through the unfolding pages that have captivated generations: movable books, also known as pop up books. Can you believe that this marvellous form of expression has its roots in the fascinating world of astronomy? From their humble beginnings in medieval times to the technological innovations of today, we will discover how these books have evolved, surprised and enchanted readers of all ages. Join me on this journey through the history of movable books that have left their mark on a three-dimensional universe unfolding before our eyes!

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  • After Effects Tutorial: how to export to gif
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    After Effects Tutorial: how to export to gif

    Learn the keys to turn our animations into gifs step by step with Moncho Massé Moncho Massé (@moncho_masse), Illustrator and freelance animator teaches you how to turn your animation into a gif so you can share it with everyone through social networks. Thanks to this tutorial you will be able to show everyone your work through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. As it is not possible to export directly to gif in After Effects, Moncho Massé offers us the easiest way to do it: export first from After Effects in QuickTime format and then pass it to Photoshop to export it to gif format. Here are the steps to follow in this video:

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  • What Is Low Poly? Learn About Polygon Art for Video Games and More
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    What Is Low Poly? Learn About Polygon Art for Video Games and More

    Learn about low poly: a computer graphics art used in video game design and other creative fields Low poly art is one of the most attractive contemporary styles used in video game design, animation, and illustration. You can create cool and simple-looking objects using blocky polygons. This modeling technique has been used to create low-res 3D models, thanks to the simplicity in which you can create basic objects and the fact that the rendering process is in turn reduced. What is low poly exactly? What does the term mean and what are its main features? Art director and low poly 3D modeling expert Daniel Gutiérrez (@danielgutierrez) explains more.

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  • Free Library of Resources to Help Take Your Creature Design to the Next Level
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    Free Library of Resources to Help Take Your Creature Design to the Next Level

    Download a free collection of assets created by me, Andrew Entwistle, in Zbrush to help you design a unique character and push your imagination to the next level. So, what is my idea of an insane character/creature? I've asked myself this question many times, my style has developed dramatically since I did my first piece of creature art after moving out of the vehicle environment. Taking inspiration from other talented character artists and iconic movies such as Aliens/Prometheus, Akira, BattleLA and Ghost in the Shell. I've invested time, energy and much thought into defining my style, which I describe as gritty, dark, of high fidelity with a cinematic feel. I now understand how to bring a creature to life and I can give you the structure and platform to do this and create something that will give you a strong sense of pride.

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  • 4 Pixel Art Animation Recommendations for Video Game Design
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    4 Pixel Art Animation Recommendations for Video Game Design

    Looking for inspiration in the world of animation? Add this list of pixel artists to your reference library Pixel art is a form of digital art that involves editing images at a pixel level (the minimum digital dimension of color) and using them to design video games with an old-school aesthetic. It is achieved by creating characters and 2D graphics using state-of-the-art software such as Pyxel Edit. If you are a designer, illustrator, or animator, or you want to learn the pixel art technique to animate video games, check out the following four animators as recommended by Daniel Benítez (@dabntz). Daniel is a 2D and 3D art director specializing in pixel art and the co-founder of Fourattic, an independent video game studio founded in 2014 in Seville.

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  • 12 Online Courses to Master 3D Modeling With Maya in 2022
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    12 Online Courses to Master 3D Modeling With Maya in 2022

    Give free rein to your imagination and transform your ideas into 3D images and animations with these courses on Autodesk Maya 3D animation grabs the viewer’s eye and instantly transports them into another world. Perhaps that’s why the skills to conceptualize, model, rig, and animate 3D graphical elements are in high demand in film, gaming, advertising, and other design industries. Thanks to software like Autodesk Maya, bringing characters and worlds to vivid life can be done in a variety of styles. From realistic to voxel art, Maya is a truly essential tool for animators. In these twelve top Maya courses, industry professionals share their expertise from the very basics of using the software, to character modeling, animating a rig, and setting up scenes and cameras to get the perfect shot.

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