![AfterEffects for Designers [C. Jackson] – FYI: Book Tutorial Resources](https://virtuartcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Textbook-Image-600x450.jpg)
Here are a list of the tutorials in our text book that you may want to do for your animations projects. This book is a wonderful companion as it covers basic graphic design fundamental that are good to review and keep in…
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Creating an Illustrator Puppet Dave Werner from the Okay Samuri Youtube Channel does very good tutorial videos. He explains everything very thoroughly on how to create a puppet using Illustrator. Basically any of his tutorials are very good, so check out his…
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Scroll through the slides in this photo gallery below for how to either layer your text or chop and colorize text to make your portrait. There are examples of each type that you can see in this walk through of the two…
read moreThe Assignment: Your main project for this semester will be a very short animation. The remaining time during the semester will be dedicated to developing a short sequence comprised of the deliverables listed below: You have 14 weeks to complete the scene…
read more![Animated Self-Portraits [Intro to Animation]](https://virtuartcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Dominic-800x450.jpg)
The Assignment: Typographic Self-Portrait A dynamic typography problem to solve. • Create an animated self-portrait using the letters from your name (first, last or both) in ANIMATE. • Start with your name and animate the letters moving and forming into your self-portrait….
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The Type of the Week Assignment Students are assigned one topic for each Type of the Week projects. ALL presentations must be uploaded by 10AM MONDAY(no exceptions) —even if you aren’t presenting until Wednesday! The class has been assigned into 2 groups…
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Logo Alphabet – The Power of Brand Recognition Your assignment is to create an alphabet quiz in an animated powerpoint presentation by extracting a letter from a brand name. The goal is to have people guess what the brand is. Create a…
read moreTHE GRID One of the chief uses for a grid is to keep your design elements aligned and ordered, and your page design clean and neat. This is because grids encourage alignment, that part of their purpose. A grid system establishes a…
read moreHere are two inspirational videos of this technique with some relaxing music! Here are some beautiful examples of renderings with point. Illustration 101838266 © Cat Vec | Dreamstime.com
read more![Monday Morning Art School: Scaling Up a Painting [Carol Douglas]](https://virtuartcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Monday-1.jpg)
This is a great article by my friend and artist Carol Douglas. She has detailed information about using a grid to enlarge artwork onto a canvas. LINK [CLICK HERE]: Monday Morning Art School: Scaling up a Painting Carol has many amazing tutorials…
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