I used to spend way too much time trying to figure out how to make a background tile seamless when I could have just googled and found the instructions online. Then almost by accident I came across some applications that let me make seamless and patterned background tiles so easily that I’ve become a little [...] → Continue Reading Make seamless background tiles
Many thanks to Vimeo and the students of the “Basics of Motion Design”-class (the class of 2009? I believe) at the Hochschule für Künste (University of the Arts) in Bremen for this wonderful video. Sit back, watch, listen and learn. A visual and audio primer that will help anyone get started with video or animation. [...] → Continue Reading Learn Motion Design Basics
How to turn digital art into hard copy? Now that’s the question I’ve been playing with.
After the digital photography, after the image manipulation with Photoshop, or the Gimp or whatever, after the drawing using an open source vector graphics editor that I was finally able to download and actually get working (It’s called Inkscape and so far I like it!). . . After doing all that I just wanted something that I can hold in my hands, and then do something with. Like hang it on the wall for example.
“Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process.” That’s how the definition of digital art starts off at Wikipedia and personally I think that’s enough said, even though the nice folks there have a whole [...] → Continue Reading Digital Art
Last Saturday I drove down to Victoria for my first Wordcamp. Today at our Comox Valley Business Women’s lunch I got teased a little bit about my ‘camping’ experience. So what was an artist doing at Wordcamp? Well, learning a little bit more about WordPress, open source software that is making it possible for so [...] → Continue Reading Website Development
I think that a lot of creative people are like me. When we get an idea we can’t resist the urge to just run with it. All of our preparation and planning, a lot of good advice that should be applied goes out the window and we’re off. Yesterday was one of those days. I [...] → Continue Reading Structure comes first. . .