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  • Animating scenery

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    Animating scenery

    Flashmeister and regular Rex Crowle explains how to produce a travelling sequence - one that combines the animated movement of a main character, or object, with a continuously scrolling background.
  • Create an image gallery

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    Create an image gallery

    In the second instalment of his three-part series, Pro Richard Guest reveals an easy way to display your work as thumbnail images, to make viewing the images in your online portfolio more enjoyable for users.
  • Interactive panoramas

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    Interactive panoramas

    By creating a fully-formed interactive panorama you and anyone else can step inside the worlds you create. Design duo Peskimo show you how to use to view your illustrations from a different perspective.
  • Freelance survival guide

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    Freelance survival guide

    A career as a designer or illustrator could mean working in a studio, as a specialist within a larger organisation or going freelance. Let's consider the practicalities of freelancing in this expert survival guide...
  • Fake global illumination

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    Fake global illumination

    Global illumination looks great, but it can push render times through the roof. Computer Arts shows you how to fake the same stylish soft lighting effects in a fraction of the time with the help of the celebrated spinning light trick.
  • Profile: Kozyndan

    Interview

    Profile: Kozyndan

    When two students met in a Californian classroom, it heralded the beginning of a marriage that would evolve into husband-and-wife illustration team Kozyndan. Adrian Sandiford discovers what it's like to achieve commercial and artistic acclaim with your other half.
  • Organic 3D effects

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    Organic 3D effects

    Adding abstract renders is increasingly used as a way of introducing extra levels of complexity to digital images. Here, DepthCORE's Justin Maller uses a simple process to achieve amazing results in Cinema 4D and Illustrator.

  • Feature

    Beyond Web 2.0

    Design is changing, and Web 2.0 is already yesterday's news. Richard Wentk finds out why, in the futuristic world of web technology, new is already the new old.
  • Q&A: Electrolychee

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    Q&A: Electrolychee

    This month, Computer Arts catches up with Manila-based Marcushiro & Bru, aka Electrolychee, to talk about innovative print campaigns, their work for big-name clients such as Nike, and the Philippino design scene.
  • Design in motion

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    Design in motion

    Thanks to an impressive wealth of talent, innovation and creativity, motion graphics is still an emerging area for designers. Nick Spence catches up with a number of leading industry practitioners to find out what it takes to make it big.
  • Ultimate realism

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    Ultimate realism

    For photorealistic 'virtual photography' work, many artists call upon final gathering. Discover how to harness this powerful technique to create a lighting set-up that mimics that of a real photo studio.
  • Get it together

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    Get it together

    If you're designing for today's interactive devices, you'll need to understand your users; needs as well as the latest technology. Sean Ashcroft shows you how to push all the right buttons.
  • Profile: Airside

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    Profile: Airside

    Three London freelancers joined forces in the late 1990s to create Airside; a fun-loving design company renowned for its work across different media and the diverse backgrounds of its members. "The whole thing about us," they tell Adrian Sandiford,"is having an idea and a story to tell"
  • Reflective surfaces

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    Reflective surfaces

    There are numerous ways to simulate chrome, but by reflecting an 'environment' into your artwork using and you can really make it shine. Award-winning designer Mark Mayers explains how.
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