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Why You Should Be Using an App Launcher (and How to Make It Do More Than Launch Apps)
Productivity geeks! Do you use an app launcher? Here’s an excellent overview of more awesome ways you can use them:
Do you still launch applications by pressing the Windows key and searching for your app? That’s a serviceable way to get your apps up and running, but it’s pretty limited. If you’ve never used an app…
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Excellent brand style guide examples!
WOW! Art directors, leads, and outsourcing managers take note — this is a list of website style guides, pattern libraries and design manuals for inspiration and education. Salesforce, Atlassian, MailChimp, and more besides. These are great examples for how to design meaningful, easy-to-understand style guides for artists. Wonderful stuff. 🙂
Curated links to various style guides, pattern libraries and design manuals for inspiration. Handpicked by Saijo George.
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Turn files into pdf documents automatically with HotFolder
Handy tool! Automatically convert files in a folder to PDF. Behold HotFolder:
HotFolder is a free program that you can use to monitor folders on your system to turn files into pdf documents automatically.
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Build an Animated SVG Loading Icon in 5 Minutes
How to build an animated SVG loading icon in 5 minutes! Fun, simple non game art tutorial. 🙂
With the rise in popularity of SVG’s, now is the perfect time to create new assets that can be used responsively across …
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Letters of Note: The Skills of Leonardo da Vinci
This is Leonardo da Vinci’s resume as a war engineer, sent to Ludovico Sforza for consideration. His painting skills are mentioned almost as an afterthought. This is remarkable and a terrific short read!
“Letters of Note: The Skills of Leonardo da Vinci”
Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.
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Science Time – Gears And Lever Systems
Fascinating gears and lever systems as animated gifs. Great ref for animating doors and looping techy bits for games!
The most viral images on the internet, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing.
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PBR In Practice
Excellent introduction to Physically Based Rendering and what it means for artists. If you’re a game artist that doesn’t yet know what that is, or if you are still unsure of precisely what it means for how to make art now, this is *required* reading. Stay sharp and keep your competitive edge!
Tutorial: Physically Based Rendering, And You Can Too! By Joe “EarthQuake” Wilson This tutorial will cover the basics of art content creation, some of the reasoning behind various PBR standards (wi…
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Gamasutra: Junxue Li’s Blog – Walkthrough of making a Match-3 game map
Another solid art production breakdown from Junxue Li.
“Art directing a match-3 map: A walkthrough”
We’re making map art for a Match-3 game recently(working as art vendor). Thanks to the excessive kindness of our client, we are allowed to post some unreleased contents here, to share the walkthrough…
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Sync App: All Your Desktop Folders, On The Go
BitTorrent Sync is one of the very best tools I use for syncing all my data to all my devices, as well as syncing files with all my outsourcing partners across the globe. It’s utterly replaced Dropbox for me. This is a simple, easy-to-understand guide showing its ease of use and power. I strongly recommend it if you share files with anyone, collaborate remotely, or simply want to sync your data between multiple devices. It’s also free. Check it out!
“Sync App: All Your Desktop Folders, On The Go”
When I’m at work and on my laptop, there’s a very specific folder structure that I’m used to: Each project has it’s own folder (with different sub folders), while each product has it’s own separate…
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