Tutorials, Art and Website Design

Mark Lawrence, an amateur antiques collector from Tilehurst, paid £350 for the small artwork.

When he purchased the piece at an antiques shop in Windsor, it was thought that it was the work of Italian painter Palma Vecchio, as that is what it said on the frame.

After the deal, he took the painting to Elaine Blake, of the Museum of Reading. She said: “It was really thrilling to be brought this painting.” There, they referred him to the National Gallery, London. Experts at The National inspected the painting more closely, Read more »

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>> Create a New Folder called “Zbrush_work”.

>> Open Zbrush 2. It is advisable to close other applications to get the best performance out of Zbrush.

Zbrush has a unique and very flexible interface.

>> Hover the cursor over the Standard button on the main interface, to the top-right edge of the Zbrush window. A small tool-tip appears.

>> Whilst the tool-tip is open, hold down the Ctrl key to get a more in-depth description of the Standard function.

>> Whilst holding down the Ctrl key, also try holding down Alt to get a more in-depth description of the Standard function. Read more »

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Peter Doig (born 1959) is a Scottish-born British artist with international fame in the art world of painting.

His style is representative and thus somewhat realistic on initial appearance, in fact there is also an impressionistic quality to some of his work.

There is an interesting range of locations and people that he chooses as his subjects, and he injects extra-vibrant colour and fluidity into the subtly simplified shapes that make up his paintings. Read more »

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The original Super Mario Bros World 1-1 was used in this free playable game level (below). I’m using a wide variety of graphics to test out a multi-scrolling platform game engine I’m developing in Adobe Director.

This is a work in progress. New and different versions of the game will be posted when they are finished, visually documenting the development progress. All previous versions can be played for free in the Game Project section.

Play this demo game level for free… Read more »

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Here you can play the latest version of an experimental free scrolling platform game I’m developing in Adobe Director.

The simple platforms are just place holders to test out collisions and scrolling.

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Here are a few videos of original games that stray from the mundane, with some toppling over into a meaningful world of interactive experimental artworks… something that is gradually picking up pace in the game development field.

This trend is due to the recent mass popularity of ‘casual games’ through both mobile devices and also Read more »

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The best way of tackling The Baltic art gallery is to go straight up to the 5th Floor and admire the view of the Millennium Bridge and The Sage.

Unless you’re very lucky, this is likely to be the best art you’ll see all day.

From the fifth floor you can also look down onto the exhibition on the fourth floor. It saves you a trip down there if you’re not too keen on what you see.

Thank goodness I hadn’t read the brochure when I Read more »

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This is the first playable prototype of a free side-scrolling platform game I am developing using Adobe Director.

Everything is in early stages of development. The graphical environment elements in the initial playable prototypes are just place-holders for testing out controls, collisions, scrolling and other fundamentals.

You will need the (free) Adobe Shockwave Player (similar to Flash and made by the same people) plugin to play it in your web browser.

I’m developing much larger levels with far more elements and animation. I’ll post a playable level soon, but for now you’ll just have to hold on for this update which will include a much larger explorable world, acoustic music and sfx, and puzzle-solving elements.

You can play some of the prototypes for free on the Game Project pages.

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