BlackMoon Design

In this post I’ll show how to create a fantasy illustration in Gimp. We’ll design a (rather sexy) fairy.

Here’s short (6 minutes) tutorial showing how to separate a complex object in GIMP. It’s extremely useful for cutting out hair blown in the wind.

Before:

After

You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.

In this tutorial we’ll create a simple (yet very usable;) AIR application.

This is a calculator widget with custom, chrome window.
The main point of this tutorial is to show how to create chrome windows, add your own window managment functions (to close, minimalize and move the window) and create key based events.

I would like to demonstrate what you can do with Gimp in creative photo manipulation.
Gimp is a very powerful tool – and you can have it for free at http://gimp.org
Here’s the photo we’ll start with:

The photo itself is very nice – but the only thing that annoys me are the people all over the beach.
(I [...]

One of the most common tasks I do with Gimp is to seperate a part of the photograph, so I can use it in my Flash projects later. At first I had problems when it came to a objects with hairs – fortunately I’ve learnt quite easy way how to do it. So – here [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]