Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Popping the Illustrations



Narrating words through visual stimulation using Illustrator is the way to be creative while making either presentations or projecting really good artwork.  There are times when people or companies use this form of technology advancement to showcase their brand or service with humor with a cartoon illustration.  This really makes for good reading and tickles the funny bone.  The common usage of computer graphics uses either Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most of the pieces.  The cutting edge and innovative usage changes the shape of the content delivery.  Using this user friendly software is not rocket science because it works for even the less creative individual who would like to pep up his / her presentation.  Adding something different and making the artwork creative is surely going to warrant a high five! Step by step guidelines are available online making it a tad easier for the lesser known mortals who do not have the specialized skills in the domains specified.   

There are many forms of illustrations that one can incorporate in a presentation.  However, before projecting something rather out of the box, one must bear in mind that the concept must be well liked and appreciated all around.  Taking into account the pulse of the audience would make half the job complete!  Well intended and creative elements in a graphic piece should make the people across you enjoy and articulate what you would like to project without too many reasons.  Infusing the genius of Illustrator in the illustration using the popular art form would certainly ink the deal. 

Pop art is another form of creative genius that has made its presence felt for a long time.  The concept is not really about the entire artwork per se but by the strokes that lead to the attitude of the overall design, slide, diagram, etc.  Infusing a wee bit of irony in the narrative makes the use of this form of pronto popular artwork well liked and appreciated by all audiences.  
There are guidelines aplenty on the internet about how one can go about infusing pop art into basic photographs which makes for interesting and extremely intelligent overtones. Basic digital images can also be converted to pop art making the image stand out differently.  

For example- if one would like to create a funky card for the holiday season using the imagery of perhaps a family picture fused with the pop art theme adds humor to the card.  

Or even wedding pictures that capture the hidden element of humor can be displayed for one and all to look at the albums with a cartoonish feature and would certainly be a feather in the couple’s cap.  Because this would be a once in a lifetime, rather unique take on the whole reception or snapshots as well.  Humor infused across boundaries enthuses laughter all around and by incorporating the genius of Illustrator in the illustration by using pop art would be a sure fire way to get people guffawing and starting the work day in good spirits.  After all who said humor is a damp squib anyways?  And using the technology of Illustrator for any illustration would highlight the overall content.

Monday, August 13, 2012

The Artistic World of Illustration


Human beings have always shown great affinity towards images. Whether they are in color or monochrome, still or moving, each and every form of image has been a source of our fascination. Even a simple illustration arouses several feelings in our minds like setting up ripples in clear water.  The reasons behind these feelings being aroused in our minds might be the fact that we like to be more inclined towards believing what we see than experiencing it through any of our other senses. This development hasn’t been sudden, but has been one of our inherent qualities since the day we started visualizing the world. As a child, our notions and perceptions were always molded with the help of this illustration. It also helped us to frame in our minds, as to what was the right keyword that could be associated with an image. But, when set free, these illustrations were combined with several other forms that led to the development of Pop Art, which was completely dissimilar to constant stream of Fine Arts.
Pop art is one of the various kinds of illustration that have changed the way we visualize the images. Developed in the decade of 1950’s in Britain and USA, the art was conceptualized by bringing in the informality in the art. Descriptive new forms and patterns were incorporated, that marked a difference in the art. This alteration in the consensus brought in several different changes in the way one used to view, design, draw, or paint a picture. The pop art, however, had several intricacies for the experts, or any other person who had an affinity towards fine arts, to comprehend with. It followed the principle of defining a new theme of dynamicity in to the existing theme of abstract art. Bringing an image out of its real background into a scenario that is completely in contrast to it, or combining the image or a part of it with another item with which it is in complete discord were a few such situations that were introduced by pop art. The inclusion of pop art was mainly done to symbolize an incongruity with the usage of characterless rudiments. The art has mainly been subjugated to the field of advertising, logo designing and comic book illustration amongst others.
Apart from pop art, several other forms of illustrations were also conceptualized and materialized. These forms, like engraving, etching, linocut, intaglio, cartoons, woodcut and several others have been incorporated by several illustrators. The insinuation of technology led to further development in this field with the inclusion of various other fields like graphical illustration, fashion designing amongst others. It was the development, deployment and popularization of different technologies like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, InkScape, SerifDrawPlus and GIMP amongst others that brought a new revolution in the field of arts and illustration. The growth of these technologies has also brought in new aspects in the development of the art of illustrating our visions as well as introducing several flavors of pop art into it.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Promote your Business with Animation


In today’s business competition is intense. To get the competitive edge in the business, attractive designs, communication visuals and easy to use fabulous web presence is essential. This can be done through 3D Animation. Using 3D Animation can be the key to attract and retain customers.

Lot of companies need to showcase their product through their websites. Using 3D Animation can give a vivid image of the products than normal flat 2D Animation. Even text designed with 3D animation in webpage and promotional product can bring more appeal. 3D animation can also be used for flashing logos, online catalog, interfaces and for 3D Animation Wallpaper.

3D Animation gaining popularity compared to 2D Animation because of some advantages. Once upon a time 3D animation was only possible with the high end workstations. But now computers are becoming cheaper with more powers. So, 3D animation is possible in less cost and has become accessible to small companies even to individuals.

3D Animation is created by using state of the art software like 3D Studio Max which very powerful in nature. 2D Animation is done using software Adobe Flash which previously were done by hand sketches and putting transparent sheets on each other to make the character movement.

The greatest advantage of 3D Animation over 2D Animation is its capabilities to move. 2D Animation can only move on horizontal and vertical axis that is X axis and Y axis. On the other hand 3D Animation can move both the axis as well as Z axis. It gives the 3D Animation tremendous power like the real camera. The camera works like zooming and panning is possible in 3D Animation whereas 2D Animation requires drawing of larger image to have a closer look.

3D Animation Wallpaper has become popular after the 3D animation and 3D art has evolved. 3D Animation Wallpaper is used by the computer users to make the computer screen lively. 3D Animation Wallpaper is usually free and made by companies for advertising the company name. However, 3D animation Wallpaper takes significant computer resources. Sometimes a driver is required to run the 3D animation Wallpaper which might not be safe for computer.

GIF Animation can be used where resources are limited and portability is concern. The word GIF means for Graphics Interchange Format. In 90s GIF Animation was the most popular for animation. However gif animation using bitmap image format have some limitations. GIF Animation supports 8 bits per pixel and thus only allows 256 colors in each frame at the time of GIF Animation. That is why GIF Animation cannot be used for color photographs and for images that have continuous color stream. GIF Animation is suitable for simple images like graphics and logos contain solid areas of color.

Even if there is increasing popularity of 3D animation, 2D Animation Studios are still there. 2D animation studios are required for jobs like making TV Serial, TV Ads, 2D Animated Movies, Cartoons Films, Games, Home Videos, Websites and E-learning. A lot of websites still using Flash based animation. So, it evident that business firms still need to hire the 2D Animation Studios for their professional works.

Lots of 2D Animation Studios working around the world. New animators who are coming to animation world may consider working in 2D Animation Studios. 2D Animation Studios paid quite well but the animator may decide first if he would be working freelance or on the salary basis for the 2D Animation Studios.