
As a character animator, you sometimes have the luxury of being able to design your character from scratch, work out how it will be animated, produce the hundreds of drawings needed, and compile them into a single production for a single medium. More often – especially in these days of multiple formats, where video is cropping up everywhere from the internet to your mobile phone – characters start...

This comic tutorial by Emily Gonzales, word from author “I hope it will be useful to those considering using Illustrator for this type of work yet have little experience with the program itself. Please adapt the techniques to suit your purposes as required. I regularly use Photoshop for other work, and it is a common software choice for webcomic creators. However, if you are using “cel shading”...

This tutorial will guide you through the creation of your own vector graphic and show you how best to meet the specific criteria for our print process. With the two programs : Corel Draw and Illustrator, this guide will show you the process of making vector graphic and differences with both program, but the basics are always the same. Both program Corel Draw and Illustrator are vector-based graphics...

The TUTORIAL about Converting illustrator-images to a fully editable, scaleable Microsoft Word shape. Microsoft Word doesn’t support the import of any vector-based images. The only image-types you can import are converted in some crappy pixel image. Word from author “I’ve been struggeling with this for a while, and finally got a solution.” What you need is : mac OS 10. 4 or later, no...

Word from author : “In the first part illustrator tutorials of this three-part series I’ll be showing you step-by-step how to create beautiful outline art, but be sure to check out the next issue so that you can learn how to add colour, work with symbols and master the art of working with clipping masks.” In part one of his new Adobe Illustrator tutorial masterclass on digital skin art,...