Monthly Archives: March 2009
CINEMA 4D is a 3-D application that is popular amongst matte painters in film production, largely due to the BodyPaint 3D functionality. It is equally popular amongst motion graphics artists, thanks to its excellent integration with compositing application pipelines, and a very artist-friendly, customizable workflow and interface. It has been...
As you may or may not know, we like to shift things above. It’s never easy to amaze readers in each and every post that is why apart from releasing free themes, wallpapers every now and again we pick a professional designs and themes, analyze it and give it away...
As a designer, Background Patterns are one of the many things which i found still fascinating myself. Have you ever wondered the seamless patterns often used in every other website backgrounds where they came from or how to create them. It’s always essential for designers to have an good understanding...
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic elements and...
One field often neglected by web developers is the proper handling of 404 Errors – the pages that visitors get when they attempt to access a page or file on your site that doesn’t exist or has been moved. While it’s usually very easy to create a custom 404 page...
Many Of you must have heard about yellowpages.com, yelp.com or DMOZ which is exactly a Link Indexing or more specifically an Online Directory Listing Solutions for variety of genre made by enhanced link directory scripts. Link directory script helps you to create and manage a web directory like Yahoo and...
When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. Why I need to look any Illustrator tutorial? Out of many reasons there are three reasons...
Motion blur is the apparent streaking of rapidly moving objects in a still image or a sequence of images such as a movie or animation. When you see a picture that showcases a motion blur in action photography, you may think only professionals can achieve something like that. But you...
Few weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Giveaway! Win 2000 Business Cards and Much More from UPrinting had announced the giveaway of total 2,000 high-quality, professional business cards and 1 free 18×24 Canvas Print to our readers. We want to thank you all for such a good...
PIXAR needs no Introduction. If you like movies then you already have seen many of Pixar films and short animations. Pixar seems to be making a simple statement about what they can do with computer animation, and they have been tremendously successful. Many of you must have remembered that how...
In a continuous growing environment, it is important that server plays it’s responsible role as required. However, there are some peak times when your server give-up or you cross your desired bandwidth limit. A server could be crashed by dozens of reasons, with each reason having several possibilities, with each...
The idea of this post is to serve as a one stop solution for the Best Blogger Templates. All of them are Free! We have provided you the links for download and demo, so you can easily go and integrate them in your blogger blog. Blogger is a blog publishing...
Today, we’ve got something special for our readers. We again came up with cool freebies giveaway as we promised. Here at instantShift we are giving out 2 copies of WordPress Designers New Premium WordPress Theme No Good News! to our followers. The No Good News theme is the perfect blend...
Autodesk Maya, or simply Maya, is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Maya is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application, with all of the tools...
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Few weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Comment and Win a Premium News Theme from WordPress-Designers had announced the giveaway of 2 copies of WordPress Designers New Premium WordPress News Theme No Good News! to our readers. We want to thank you all for such a good...