We bring you another free vector goodie.
This time it would be a nice selection of african animals - the lion (and lion cub), giraffe, elephant, zebra, impala, bufflo and last but not least - the rhino.

The set comes as .fla and .ai file.
You can download it here.

This artwork is released under “do whatever you want with it” licence.
It’s free to use it in personal or commercial projects.
It would be nice if you could let us know in the comments when you’ll put it into good use - but that’s not needed.

In this tutorial I’m going to write about how to prepare nice cartoon, based on simple shapes with gradient fills.
Although it’s hard to make detailed graphics this way, the cartoons have one strong advantage - you can scale it downto a very small size and it’s still clear - that’s why it’s perfect for logos and icons.

First we start with a sketch - in our example I’ve made a very nice bear - his name is Teodore.

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If you would like to learn more about how to draw cartoons, or would just like to get inspired - here are some books fror you.

Ben Caldwell (check his official site btw.) is great and very experienced cartoon designer. He share his knowledge in two tutorial-type books called “Action Cartooning” and “Fantasy Cartooning”.

There are descirbed examples of great cartoon sketches, the whole design process is shown step by step.

You can also find some design tips, commonly made mistakes - and a lot of more.

Those two books helped me a lot in my work - check them yourself, you won’t regret it.

I’ve made another goodie for you - few very nice vector characters, which you can use  freely in any project - private or commercial (just drop us a email with the info - we’re curious what you can do with those characters).

click here to download AI version

click here to download FLA version

Walking character is surly one of the hardest things to animate.
In this short tutorial I would like to show you that it doesn’t have to be that hard:)
The tutorial is aimed for Flash, but you can get the idea for any other animation authoring program.

Meet Jo&Mo.

Those two nice criminals will do their time helping you understand the way the walking is done in animation.
There are several ways how to animate a walking person - I’ll try to cover them all.
Let’s start with ways that are very easy to create, yet provide good result.

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We’ve bring to life new virtual character.

His name is Valto, and he’s a host of valto.fi site - a part of Suomen Lasten Parlamentti (Finnish Children Parliament).

Valto is a funny moose that teach children about democracy and citizenship.

We’ve also created Valto, his younger sister Taimi, some layouts for Valto.fi and SLP sites and few educational flash games as well.

visit Valto site

the Valto

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Here’s a little tutorial about how I do flash cartoons. I have to say that I didn’t go to any art school, flash school or whatever. I bet there’s a better way to do it - but I’m pretty happy with mine. (if you know how to do it better - I would love to hear that).
For this tutorial I’ll create Taimi - a little moose girl. Ok - so here we go:

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We’ve made small Easter flash animation for one of the Pepsi brands - Toma (they make juices). Sine their main target are women - we’ve designed a cartoon bunny female character for the ecard.

Animation was used as Easter ecard - a very nice one:)

click here to see the animation

animation screenshot

We’ve made web 2.0 site aimed for dog owners and dog lovers.

We’ve create cartoonish theme for the website - with very nice cartoon logo.

You can create your dog profile, make virtual friends with other pets, run your blog or post messages on forum.

There’s also a gallery section at the site.

visit Wouf.fr site

 site screenshot

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We’ve made a series of animated flash cartoons for Graphcard payment processor.

Cartoons demonstrate how to use the Graphcard service and what are the benefits.

We’ve designed “the Graphcard Duck”, who plays the major role in all the cartoons.

cartoons’ screenshots

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