You may not know this, but there are many opportunities in which you can express your artistic side by merging both your artistic AND technological side! Many artists express their work through using software suites designed to create artwork, like Photoshop and Autodesk Maya, for example. Many companies nowadays put out various 3D animation titles, and use software to touch up artistic creations. In fact, using these type of applications to output work is now a creative industry standard! But on the other hand, in order to fully use these applications to their maximum benefit, traditional animation and 2D techniques are still strongly encouraged to have or develop. Many classes I take in Multimedia still force us students to concentrate first hand on sketching on a piece of paper, or creating storyboards with index cards and not a PowerPoint presentation. This may bug a few of you, but the foundation developed by hand will make things a lot easier as you make your creations using a PC interface. Besides, you may find it fun!
Here are a few links that will help get you started on exploring:
Great tutorial sites
Digital Tutors - FREE Online Training on different multimedia applications, (i.e. Maya, Photoshop, Flash and more)!
CSS Zen Garden - A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Great community of BEAUTIFUL CSS designed pages! Learn while you explore!Phong - Great Photoshop and flash tutorials! This site is SUPER FUN, have a blast!
Digital Art Community links
HighEnd3d - Free tutorials and 3d models. Great community of creative fanatics!
Deviant Art - Online Digital Graphics Community. Great resources for learning basic drawing and advanced techniques as well!
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