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Tutorial: Sketch and Toon | Cel Rendering in Cinema 4D In this tutorial you will learn the process for rendering various line types using Sketch and Toon and the Cel Renderer in Cinema 4D. Starting with the Cel Render effect, […]

University Hospitals Illustration Breakdown Every week while driving to Tri-C to teach, I would pass the University Hospitals building and think to myself ‘I want to illustrate this’. I love the contrast of the big curved elements against the angular […]

The Graphic Designers Guide to Motion Graphics Triplet 3D will be releasing an in-depth motion graphics tutorial through Go Media’s arsenal (http://arsenal.gomedia.us/tutorials.html) at the end of September 2013. The tutorial specifically focuses on using vector shapes for 3D motion graphics. […]

One Drawing a Day: Lakefront Restaurant Illustration I decided to take a different approach with this illustration. I started off by importing existing models of boats from 3D warehouse into SketchUp, then building/designing the architecture around the environment. Typically, I’ll […]

One Drawing a Day: SketchUp to Photoshop For this weeks ‘One Drawing a Day’ I focused on completing another illustration based off of an existing SketchUp model I created. The images below are all the post-production steps done in Photoshop. […]

Tutorial: Create a Tim Burton Inspired Concert Poster Using Cinema 4D and Photoshop In this tutorial I’ll guide you through the process I used to create a concert poster using Cinema 4D and Photoshop. The topics that will be covered […]

One Drawing a Day: SketchUp Model to Photoshop I really enjoyed getting back into SketchUp over the past several weeks. Instead of doing quick 30 minute ‘sketches’ per day, I ended up completing an illustration. For the next two weeks […]

Tutorial: Model a Glass Pitcher in Cinema 4D In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to model a pitcher in Cinema 4D. In this video I will demonstrate modeling of the pitcher with a spline and lathe NURBS, making it editable […]

One Drawing a Day: SketchUp I’ve been receiving a lot of SketchUp files from architects lately for architectural illustration work. Since switching over to Cinema 4D a few years ago, I have not used SketchUp for 3D modeling or rough […]

Sketchbook, One Drawing a Day: Clouds For this weeks sketchbook drawings I started playing around with Photoshop brushes and experimenting with different looks for clouds. Using photographs as reference, I created 30 different gradients for the sky colors. The gradients were used […]