Course page for Creative direction - illustration and design
Creative direction: illustration overview
Creative direction: design intro
Creative direction: design advanced
Course overview - Creative direction - illustration and design
Tohungia ki te paetukutuku - Welcome to METAVERSE (a collection of links to help guide artistic direction); Primarily Illustration & Design.
As a developing designer/illustrator you'll need to investigate visual direction, processes and techniques. Thorough process and investigation is paramount to the success of your final work.
Access to the ChipandChuck.co.nz website:
Technique, tools, drawing, form and fuction
Illustration links and techniques. Use the below web URL's together with your own discovery to search out and explore top illustrators and styles you relate too...
Stetchbook Pro illustration techniques. Great starting guide to syle and technique
New line art Illustrations by Patrick Seymore
Finding beauty in everyday: Illustrator Sukanto Debnath
FZD Conceptual art design school - Singapore
FZD design school YouTube channel - Singapore
SVA: school of visual arts (cartooning) - New York
Illustrator Travis Colurn: Making the old new again
Children's book illustration styles
Lauren Brevner: How instagram changed this artists life
New Zealand illustrators:
Taking charge of Adobe illustrator and vector art - Nigel Buchanan
From traditional illustration to digital 2D, 3D and animation. Full service illustrator Gerad Taylor
From full-time illustrator to full-time painter: Ross Jones
Watermark: New Zealand's very own full-service illustration studio
Illustration techniques:
CTRL+PAINT: Gradient painting with Photoshop - core principles
Brushboost: Photoshop gradient painting with paintbloom - speedpainting exercise
Waterfall and landscape with Photoshop - speedpainting exercise
Waterfall landscape view with Sketchbook Pro - speedpainting exercise
Aaron Blaise - Digital Photoshop illustration techniques
Michael Halbert - Scraperboard illustration
Sara Pepes - Character Photoshop illustration techniques
Ameur Makhloufi - Hyper real illustration techniques
Eder Carfagnini - 3D Illustrator/animator
Trent Kaniuga: From the Corner Comic Book Store to Acclaimed Concept Artist
Sketchbook Pro: youTube channel
Adobe tools: Tutorials for beginner and Advanced
Animation:
Okay Samurai: Character Animator tutorials
YouTube tutorial: Character Animator tutorial from class workshop (23rd Aug 2017)
YouTube tutorial: Character Animator puppet set up
YouTube tutorial: Character Animator - Teach your character to walk
REALLUSION - CrazyTalk Animator 3: Compeditor animation package to Adobe character animator
Eran Helleli: Flat colour animation
Adobe Animate: Introduction to 2D animation
Dynamic form, fashion and comic art:
Burne Hogarth: Drawing the human head
Burne Hogarth: Dynamic figure drawing
Fashion illustration imagery and styles
Marcos Mateu-mestre: comic imagery
Marcos Mateu-mestre: image blog
Working with a Wacom tablet:
Advertising, graphic design, type and production
Design links and techniques. Advertising design, graphic design, type and tutorials. However to showcase the design process (whether illustration or graphics) - Develop a well crafted visual workbook to present ideation through to implementation. Refer to example below. Click the link to review the tutorial: Setting up a digital workbook from InDesign...
Adobe colour wheel: enhance your colour selection
Emigre - type design: Professional font foundry
Fontshop: Professional font foundry
Jessica Hische: Design and Type
Identify your Font: Type identification tool
Chineasy: Chinese made easy and fun to learn
Rolls Royce: A little more up market than most websites
Define direction, process and form
Design links from static to motion and interactive.
Design beyond the page and screen - Es Devlin: performance and projection design
Oskar & Gaspar: stage and precision projection design at it's best
Amon Tobin: ISAM - projection mapping
Google guide to making great websites
Responsinator: test your web on a variety of displays
Kurzgesagt: icon, animation and great infotainment based story-telling
Typeform: humanising the art of online form design
Madmapper: projection mapping - learn the the tools
Universal Everything: Installation Art
UI and UX design
Adobe UX Design topics for PC and Mac
Adobe UX Design tutorials from beginner to experienced
Adobe UX Design: Lay out and design your app or website
Adobe UX Design video tutorials
ISF: Interactive shader format
Bird sounds: An experiment with AI
Wilderness downtown music video: An experiment with Google and Chrome
Web, UI, UX design companies and options
XD - UI prototyping: 30 features for UI design with XD
Adobe Photoshop: Design for mobile and web using artboards
NODERO: App design and development
Webflow interactions without code
Coolor.co: Colour scheme generator
OBS: Open Broadcaster Software - VIDEO screen recording
Umajin: App design for the designer
AI gets real with Soul Machines
Hitrecord: Opportunities online
RESN: Creative agency of the year
Kyle McDonald: Interactive designer
Design Thinking
Jinlop Lee: Designing for the five senses
A clever idea
NY Design garbage: Justin Gignac
Trello: Organise your projects
Design year 3 recommended web links
DRIBBBLE: Be inspired by Dribbble designers
The design reality
Intellectual Property
AJ Parks: Law and Intellectual Property
AJ Parks: What is Intellectual Property and why is it important to you