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Creating a Sentry Gun: Part 6 - Animation

We can now start animating the sentry gun. This part of the sentry gun series will show you how to animate the shooting, recoil, and deploy animations.

300: Story Behind the Album Art

A brief explanation of the backstory and making of the album art of 300, an album by On Acid, a psychedelic/punk-rock band.

My Comic Creation Process - The Basics

Comics are a popular and fun way to tell a story. In this blog post series, I will go over the steps in making a comic. Let's start with the basics

Beginner's Guide to Figma: Part 2

This is the second part of my Beginner's Guide to Figma. Here, we will learn about Auto Layout, Using Plugins, and Creating Styles.

Animating 2D Emojis in Unity: Part 2: Crying Face

Continuing our Animated 2D Emojis in Unity series, today, we will learn how to animate a crying face emoji.

Creating a Visual Brand Guideline

A Brand Guideline is a document that shows how a designer can use company assets to create designs. Let's go through some key sections of this document.

Animating 2D Face Emojis in Unity: Part 1 - Laugh

2D animated emojis are all the rage these days. Today we will go through the process of creating a simple laughing 2D Face Emoji animation from scratch.

Automated Write-on Effect over Shape’s Position in After Effects

Using expressions in After Effects, here is how you can create an automatically generated write-on effect for any shape.

Colour Psychology: What Colours and Colour Combinations Mean to Us

How does a designer decide what colours to use on a specific project? It's common to think that this is just "colour sense", but the answer is actually found in Psychology and how we perceive colour combinations.

Creating a Sentry Gun: Part 5 - Tips and Tricks

This part of the Creating a Sentry Gun series will give general tips and tricks for setting up the sentry model so that we can finally move on to animating in the next part.

Selection Tools in Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool and Focus Area Selection

Concluding our Selections in Photoshop series of articles, this blog post will cover the Quick Selection Tool and Focus Area Selection.

Beginner's Guide to Figma: Part 1

Figma is likely to be one of the best tools in any designer’s arsenal and it is one of my all-time favorites. So, here's a beginners guide on how to get started with Figma.

Creating WordArt Style Text in Illustrator

Do you remember the fancy WordArt styles of Microsoft Word? Here is how you can create similar text effects in Adobe Illustrator.

Selection Tools in Photoshop: Magic Wand Tool and Color Range

Continuing our Selections in Photoshop series of articles, this blog post will cover the Magic Wand Tool and the Select Color Range option.

Hand Icons with Blender

This blog post will show you how to create 3D icons of stylized hands in different poses using Blender.

Creating a Sentry Gun: Part 4 - Finalizing the Rig

This part of the Creating a Sentry Gun series will focus on finalizing the rigging procedure for the sentry so we can move on to animating it properly later on.

My Vector Illustration Process

In this blog, I will go over my process of creating an illustration from the ideation stage to the final product!

Selection Tools in Photoshop: Lasso Tool

Continuing our Selections in Photoshop series of articles, this blog post will cover the basic usage of an important selection tool called the Lasso Tool.

Procreate Shortcuts and Tips for Beginners

Procreate has many handy quick shortcuts that make using the app a breeze for designing and quick sketching.

Basic Selection Tools and Selection Manipulation in Photoshop

In this blog post, we will learn some basics of using the Shape Marquee Tool and also how to manipulate selections in general.

You Don't Need to Find a Passion

Everyone wants to do what they love, but finding a passion, pursuing it, and building a sustainable career out of it is not an easy task for many.

Creating a Sentry Gun: Part 3 - Advanced Rigging

Continuing from the previous part about basic rigging, this part of the Creating a Sentry Gun series will show some advanced rigging processes using constraints and controllers.

Spinning Shuriken Animation Using Simple After Effects Expressions

Expressions are great for automated looping animations. This blog post will show you how to create an automatic spinning shuriken using Expression in After Effects.

Image Rescaling Algorithms Explained

Image editing software scale images using rescaling algorithms. Let's go over a few to see which one is the best one to use.

Troubleshooting CSS Flexboxes for Beginners

Flexboxes are easy to use but difficult to master. Let's look at some common problems one might face when using flexboxes and how to solve them.