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Once the script is written – how do you effective communicate the visual direction of your film? The answer is storyboards – essentially a scene-by-scene visual guide to the screenplay of the film. Storyboards are a vital part of the pre-visualization process, as well as being an important tool for preproduction and on the set.

Developed in the 1930s by Walt Disney company for their animated cartoons, they grew in popularity during the early 40s. Storyboarding a film can be as simple as crudely drawn stick figures or advanced as elaborate 3D animatics with lens and motion simulators.

Here are over 500 storyboarding tutorials, resources and tools to help you better communicate your vision.

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a collection of ways to improve the clarity of a PSD when transferred. You stay organized, your developer stays happy. Fist bumps all around.

This introduction is based on my experiences with using Protovis in my Visualization and Visual Communication class earlier this spring. While the concepts involved are really not that difficult, they are rather foreign to students who have not been exposed to functional programming. And since that is also the case for a lot of hobbyists and people wanting to do visualization who do not have a computer science background, I imagine they run into the same problems

A series on learning the basics of drawing, presented by the artist and author James McMullan. Line By Line begins with installments on line, perspective, proportion and structure, and continues from there, using examples from art history to illuminate specific issues. Pencil and paper recommended. // My overall goal, apart from helping with specific information, is to communicate the enthusiasm I feel for the immediacy of drawing. It is the activity that most engages an artist’s sense of exploration, both visually, as the artist feels out the image, new born, on the drawing surface, and intellectually, as the drawing becomes the bridge between observation or an idea and a graphic fact. //During the 12-week period of this column, I will be working on posters for Lincoln Center Theater as well as on a children’s book, and I will share with you sketches from those processes if they seem to illuminate an aspect of drawing being discussed.

In a sense, they’re meant to be that way. A good table communicates a lot of information in a concise, easy to understand way. Because the emphasis really should be on the information, over-designing a table can kill the effectiveness. However, in the right hands, clever design can not only make a table more attractive, but can actually increase readability.

Too often I notice designers and non-designers alike equating creativity with design. I find this assumption disturbing because it is one of the many fallacies that allow unskilled but creative pretenders to consider themselves capable design professionals when they’re nothing of the sort.

Creativity is not design. Creativity has nothing to do with design. Creativity is bound by no laws, rules, or strictures. Design, on the other hand, is based entirely on math, psychology, human perception, and a host of rigid rules and laws that can be broken by only a highly skilled few. Those unfamiliar with these laws and rules, and the associated sciences are by no definition designers.

To help illustrate the difference between creativity and design, I’ve put together a little quiz that references some of the fundamentals of design—and not creativity. Those steeped in creativity, but not design, will be lost. Those competent in design fundamentals will find this stuff to be elementary.

In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers (I hope) I’ve put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design. While I do provide the answers for checking your accuracy, there’s no tool here to grade you or present your score for others to see. This little exercise is just for you to see just how well you grasp some design fundamentals.

We went through Winer's HowTo: EC2 for Poets, and within 20 minutes had set most of it up. But for two instances, it went smoothly.

Брошюра Сергея Иннокентьевича Поварнина (1870—1952) — крупного специалиста в области логики — знакомит читателя с приемами и навыками рационального, наиболее производительного чтения, с психологическими основами восприятия и усвоения текста.
Брошюра впервые была издана в 1924 году. Это одно из первых руководств по методике чтения. Как писал C.И. Пoварнин в предисловии к изданию 1924 года, — это "краткое введение в искусство чтения". Брошюра не потеряла своей ценности и в наши дни. Она с интересом будет прочитана современным читателем, особенно молодежью.
В основу настоящего издания положен текст, опубликованный в 1962 году Издательством Ленинградского государственного университета. (via friendfeed)

In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Drupal-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Drupal.

Получается, что эта книга нужна почти всем, так или иначе интересующимся сноубордом. Наградой за этот интерес вам будут рисунки замечательного художника Михаила Лисового, с которым мы шесть лет в МВТУ им. Баумана рисовали трактора, похожие на танки и автомобили, похожие на трактора.
Хочу сразу сказать – в этой книге нет многого: нет прыжков и катания вне трасс, потому что учить этому бесполезно - можно только учиться; нет математических расчетов и физических терминов, потому что они утомляют; нет специальных слов и выражений, потому что они непонятны. Эта книга – всего лишь азбука, с помощью которой можно попытаться сделать первый шаг на сноуборде.
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This post features more than 40 such tutorials, including a number of video tutorials. Some deal with the basics of Wacom tablets and getting them setup correctly, while others demonstrate more advanced usage. Additionally, some of the tutorials could be completed without a tablet, but the author uses one for at least portions of the tutorial.

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With so many good teachers out there, it’s fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos.

In this tutorial you'll learn some helpful tricks and methods to improve your design techniques and modeling skills using Pro/ENGINEER.

We'll cover Advanced Geometry topics ranging from variable section sweeps to advanced patterns and warp features.

We both love sketching, creating and teaching. That's what IDSKETCHING.COM is all about.

Donnie Hoyle pulls a digital end-around on a restraining order and vandalizes a Vanagon.

Hand-drawn sketching plays an important role in the digital arts. The larger a project is, and the more concepts a client will need to see, the more sketching will prove its worth in your design process.

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No matter what you call them; ebook, white paper, or resource they all contain information that no designer should go without. (In actuality there are more than 30 files however it was a good round number for the title…)

To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, I developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash.