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  • Create your own fanzine

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    Create your own fanzine

    Cut-and-paste, photocopiers, punk rock, drug culture, passion, independence and the DIY ethic; all the ingredients you need for a classic fanzine design. Go get your hands dirty.
  • Distorted type effects

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    Distorted type effects

    Organic digital effects are hugely popular at the moment, so it's a good time to dig out Illustrator's Distort tools and use them to add an unusual dimension to your work. Martin Fewell reveals how..
  • Watercolour effects

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    Watercolour effects

    When you want to create a tactile and fluid effect in your digital art, your best bet is to reach for the real thing. Derek Lea gets out his watercolour paints and reveals how original old-style becomes digitally colour-perfect.
  • Add depth to charts

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    Add depth to charts

    Infographics needn't be boring, so why not try taking them to another level by importing a mundane Illustrator chart into and making it inspiring. Mark Mayers is on hand to explain how it's done.
  • Animate your type

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    Animate your type

    and share many common features, which makes for a fluid workflow. JJ Johnstone reveals how to create an impressive title animation using the two applications side by side.
  • Future horizons

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    Future horizons

    Photoshop is excellent at creating lovely verdant vistas, but as shows, its modelling and texture tools can also be put to use on projects that require a more constructed look, such as a futuristic sci-fi city.
  • Print perfection

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    Print perfection

    In the final instalment of his three-part tutorial on creating a mini magazine for print and the web, magazine design pro Dylan Channon reveals how to avoid hitches when checking your document and sending it to print.
  • Real-world effects

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    Real-world effects

    Peskimo reveals how to put your vector creations out into the real world, using and to combine the illustrations in your head with the realism of the world outside your front door.
  • Adding interactivity

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    Adding interactivity

    In the second instalment of his three-part magazine creation tutorial, Dylan Channon takes the basic layout he created in part one and adds some interactive elements to bring the design to life.
  • Poetry in motion

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    Poetry in motion

    Motion capture can generate incredibly realistic animation; but only if you have access to cleaned data. We explore the process of cleaning raw optical mocap data for yourself, using only the tools in
  • Creative cityscapes

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    Creative cityscapes

    Illustrating city scenes can be simple, but creating an idyllic place is often tricky. Ben the Illustrator, aka Ben O'Brien, uses Illustrator to create subtle effects and creative techniques that will bring a cityscape to life.
  • Design a display font

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    Design a display font

    Spacing, kerning, geometrics, ink-traps, proportions, overshoot and inspiration; we explain everything that's important when you start to create your own display font...
  • Gimme some skin!

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    Gimme some skin!

    To skin a character so that its mesh deforms correctly when its skeleton moves is one of the least-documented aspects of 3D. In this beginner's guide, we set out three of the basic techniques used to do so.
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