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Manipulating the Amen Break in Cubase/Nuendo
With the recent revival of Jungle, Future Jungle and Jungle breaks I thought it would be nice to put together a tutorial on how to manipulate that most...
Jack Wiles
28 Jul 2011
Music & Audio
'Mini Semi Truck' Modeling - Day 7
Today we bring you day 7 of the 'Mini Semi Truck" tutorials series by Cgtuts+ Co-Editor Ben Tate. The 'Mini Semi Truck' tutorial series focuses on the...
Ben Tate
28 Jul 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
Create a Surreal Advertising Photo Manipulation
Today we'll take inspiration from the surrealist art movement, which began shortly after the first world war. The influence of surrealism can still be seen...
Mark Mayers
28 Jul 2011
Design & Illustration
Style Mixing, Lifestyle Illustration - Adobe Illustrator CS5
In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how a mixture of styles can produce and effective lifestyle illustration, while giving thought to basic body...
Sharon Milne
28 Jul 2011
Design & Illustration
Quick Tip: 3 Tools for Making "Instant" Custom Post Types
Custom post types are all over the place nowadays... but what if you want to get your feet wet with custom post types without all of the hassle of coding...
Joell Lapitan
27 Jul 2011
Code
JavaScript Enlightenment: Now Available
I'm pleased to help promote the follow-up to Cody Lindley's fantastic jQuery Enlightenment eBook, appropriately titled, JavaScript Enlightenment. Building...
Jeffrey Way
27 Jul 2011
Code
Fixing Bugs in AS3: Introduction
In this tutorial, I’ll describe some of the basic information you need to debug your Flash applications. Finding and resolving errors in your ActionScript...
Dru Kepple
27 Jul 2011
Code
iOS Multitasking: Background Tasks
This is the third part in the iOS Multitasking Series. Compared to Local Notifications, Background Audio, Background Location, and VOIP (Not covered in this...
Jack Abeel
27 Jul 2011
Code
Extreme Makeover: jPaginator CSS3 Edition
jPaginator is a nifty jQuery plugin by Remy Elazare which combines pagination and scrolling in a simple user interface. Remy recently asked me if I would...
Ian Yates
27 Jul 2011
Web Design
Quick Tip: How to Illustrate a Cute little Octopus Mascot
Mascots can be a great asset to a company's branding, providing a face and emotion to an otherwise stale design. This illustration began as a rejected new...
Chapolito
27 Jul 2011
Design & Illustration
Tuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series: Transformers - Day 2
Today’s tutorial is a follow up explaining how to make the “TRANSFORMERS 3” flying logo style. We started with the modeling and animation technique of the...
Antonio Cerri
27 Jul 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
The Brush Panel and Using a Tablet
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a...
Martin Perhiniak
27 Jul 2011
Design & Illustration