Abstract Cinema4d Render Tutorial

in Large Piece Tutorials, Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on April 14th, 2009

Today we will be learning how to create this awesome Cinema 4D Render. The tutorial includes information about creating a Cinema 4D render, as well as making unique materials and adding lighting to get colors. The tutorial result can be used for large pieces or small pieces such as signatures or tag art. You can download the cinema4d render at the bottom. To save some bandwidth, we’ve created thumbnails to support the tutorial. Enjoy! more

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Creating or enhancing an explosion effect

in Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on March 17th, 2009

Hey everyone, in this tutorial we will be trying to teach you how to create and enhance a massive explosion in a wallpaper, signature or whatever else you’re making. The tutorial is divided into a few sections,

  • Creating and enhancing the Explosion
  • Adding Lighting into the canvas
  • Fixing / Removing errors or bad looking sections more
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Large sprite piece photoshop tutorial

in Large Piece Tutorials, Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on February 22nd, 2009

Welcome everyone to this large piece tutorial. For the sake of bandwidth and for everyone to have this tutorial load up faster, we’ve decided to use an image sized 400 by 400. Obviously, you can use whatever size you like to make a wallpaper. Generally, wallpapers are 1024 by 768 pixels. However if you would like to create it for higher resolutions, you can try 1280 by 1024 pixels. The bigger your image, the more work it will be though!

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Cinema4d Render tutorial

in Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on February 11th, 2009

In this Cinema4D beginner tutorial I will teach you how to create a cool looking render effect for your tags or other types of art. We will be Loft Nurbs and the Freehand spline tool to create the render, and I’ll provide a good looking material to use. You can also find some good materials in our Resources section. Lets get started, here’s what we’re going to make in this tutorial:

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Depth Photoshop Signature Tutorial

in Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on January 25th, 2009

In this tutorial I will be explaining some great techniques to create Depth and how to optimize it for your signatures or other types of art, and how it can add a sense of reality to your work.

I’m going to start with this wallpaper from gamewallpapers.com:

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Text Panel Explained

in Miscellaneous Tutorials by Base on January 25th, 2009

For a lot of people, placing text in their work is one of the hardest things. Often, the text looks out of place, distorting the flow, or making it look plain bad. The key to good text in your work is creativity. This doesn’t mean you have to use advanced techniques and fonts to succeed, sometimes simple text with the right color placed in the right place will suffice. In this tutorial I will try teaching you some useful photoshop text options a lot of people dont know about.

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