Web & App Design

4 Project Management Tools for Working From Home

Work more efficiently from home and make the most of your time with these tools The evolution of technology and the democratization of the internet have made working from home a daily reality for many. Managing projects remotely means that teams can be completely decentralized–a designer in Peru can successfully work on a project for a client in Europe without ever meeting face to face. Foncho Ramírez-Corzo (@cholutions)–a digital marketing expert and consultant–embraces and applauds the home office trend. In this blog, he shares a list of project management tools that will transform your working-from-home routine and help you juggle different tasks and stay organized.

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What Kind of 3D Projects Can You Create Using Maya?

3D artist Albert Valls Punsich shows us the incredible scope of this powerful software Albert Valls Punsich (@albert_valls_punsich) specializes in creating 3D digital worlds and modeling and VFX scenarios for film and television. Part of the production company Framestore, he has worked on films such as Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

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Storyboarder: Free Digital Storyboarding Software

This tool allows anyone to create a digital storyboard in just a few seconds, as if it were on paper The maxim that "less is more" becomes especially relevant when speaking about apps. Even more so when we discover that simplifying how they work doesn’t reduce their functionality. Storyboarder, a free and open source software for sketching stories digitally, complies perfectly with this premise, getting rid of unnecessary tools and embracing extreme simplicity to make creating a digital storyboard practically the same as doing it on paper.

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Kidpofy: An App to Preserve Children's Handwriting

This site allows us to preserve children's handwriting and use it and any imaginable format Who hasn't ever seen a notebook or drawing from their childhood and been surprised to see the difference between their handwriting then, through their adolescence, to now? Its offers a special window to the past that we risk losing if we only preserve it physically. Kidpofy is a calligraphy digitization project that takes advantage of technology to preserve the handwriting of our children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces. We can then use it in postcards, letters, decorative objects, or anything else we can think of. The process is very simple: on the project's website (with optimized access for cell phones or tablets), children can write the entire alphabet following some practical guides. The letters are then stored in the project's database.

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Over 9000 Free Botanical Illustrations Made by Women

Enjoy this free collection that celebrates the work of female scientists throughout history Women have contributed enormously to biodiversity research and the study of nature. They have collected specimens, researched new species, published books and catalogs, and drawn detailed scientific and botanical illustrations. Women's contributions to science become more significant when considering the obstacles they have had to face throughout history. To honor their work, the Biodiversity Heritage Library compiled this album of female scientists' illustrations from the last three hundred years.

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Dot Lung's Favorite Social Media Tools

Discover the apps and services that will make your social media strategy stand out It goes without saying: having a social media strategy is essential for any creative. It's the best way to showcase your talent and interact with your community. But, with so much content going around, getting your own creations to stand out can be a challenge.

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12 Great Free Resources for YouTubers

These sites and tools will help you perfect and promote your channel We all know that videos are an excellent way to connect. Users prefer video content, and creativity channels are becoming more popular every day. Whether you already have a YouTube channel or are considering starting one soon, the following tools will help you reach its full potential. YouTube Studio This is the dashboard where you can start your channel and create content by uploading videos or streaming live. In this official YouTube tool, you will find helpful tips and all the relevant tools for creators to add audio, review your channels’ statistics,manage monetization, and more.

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Bring Your Drawings to Life With This App

Learn to use RakugakiAR and make your creations move around in the real world using the magic of augmented reality Have you ever imagined the characters in your illustrations coming to life and jumping out of the paper? That is precisely what RakugakiAR can do thanks to the magic of augmented reality. Created by a team of developers in Japan, this app is guaranteed to put a smile on your face from the very first time you use it.

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Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for TVPaint Animation

Discover the keyboard shortcuts of one of the most popular 2D illustration and animation programs around TVPaint Animation, with After Effects and Toon Boom Harmony, is one of the most complete and used 2D illustration and animation programs on the market. The program allows you to make storyboards, character designs, and boasts other tools that will help you create two-dimensional animations in the best way possible. A good animator needs to be fast and efficient and, as you use TVPaint Animation, you will realize the amount of time it can save you knowing these useful keyboard shortcuts. Here we compile some of the basic shortcuts on TVPaint Animation:

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7 Free Resources for Bloggers

Make the most of these online tools to improve your blog and reach the right audience For different industries and services, blogs are powerful allies when it comes to reaching your target audience. They allow you to communicate with potential clients and share products, creative processes, and future plans. Or, maybe you want to run one just because you enjoy sharing and exchanging ideas with other people working in the same sector as you. Discover seven resources that will help your blog grow without needing to be an expert in design, content marketing, or programming. Optimizing Images: Tinypng Tinypng will help you compress your images in JPG and PNG format without losing quality (in some cases you can achieve compressions of up to 70%). It’s always advisable to reduce the size of your photos so that your web page can load quicker. It has a Photoshop plugin (plus many other useful tools) that will allow you to preview your images and easily adjust their size.

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Monetization Platforms for Creatives

Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of sites like Patreon that allow you to diversify your income More and more creatives are turning to crowdfunding websites to monetize their work these days. There are different platforms where your followers can make small donations to support your creative and artistic work, but not all are alike. Learn about what should consider before choosing any of these platforms, as well as some options available to you. The first thing you should know Donations are not going to start flowing magically. It is good practice to integrate these options into your social media strategy and include information about your crowdfunding account in your social media and website profiles. For example, some creatives periodically make short videos on YouTube or on Instagram and Facebook Stories to ask their followers to contribute. Some will find creatives and projects to support using the search engines on each platform, so you must include complete information about yourself and your work.

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5 Animation Applications for Your 2D Projects

Develop your ideas, stories, and characters with these five animating programs

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40 Basic Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools

Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts for one of the most popular audio editing programs Pro Tools is one of the most popular DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) among the creative community involved in audiovisual projects. Due to its friendly interface and the wide variety of plugins it offers for recording, editing, and mixing audio, it has been one of the most recommended software packages of the last three decades for sound professionals. One of the most valued features is that it works both in MacOS and Windows, so it offers flexibility for all kinds of users. Get to know the basic shortcuts —compatible with both platforms— that will optimize your workflow. Download a PDF filw with these shortcuts at the end of this post.

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More than 270,000 Free Nature Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Discover this free catalog of nature illustrations dating back hundreds of years and boost your creativity The Biodiversity Heritage Library has been dubbed the world’s largest open-access digital library for resources on natural history and biodiversity. Right now, the world is experiencing a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change. Aware that many heads are better than one, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was launched to pull together resources from libraries all around the world, pushing to advance global research by digitizing their collections and provide free worldwide access to its catalog.

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All The Apps You Need to Create Pixel Art

Daniel Benítez shares a list of software for creating pixel art Daniel Benítez (@dabntz) is the art director and founder of Fourattic, an independent video game studio. He specializes in pixel art, a technique he used when developing the video game Crossing Souls. He uses the pixel as the smallest digital element to obtain an aesthetic similar to that of classic video games.

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8 Free Websites to Draw Poses

Discover original resources to practice your anatomical drawing Gabriel Suchowolski (@microbians) asked the Domestika community to share some of their favorite resources to practice drawing poses. Below you will find a collection of sites that were shared to help people practice anatomical drawing, develop characters, and discover new ways to approach their art. Pose Space This site allows you to search for all kinds of poses by professional artistic models. Its search engine filters photos by position, genre, lighting, nude photos, and more. There are images to view, download and buy. If you want to save poses, you will need to create an account.

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14 Free Typographic Resources

Discover free websites and tools for your typographic design projects Typography is an essential element for any design project. Regardless of your degree of experience, the sites and resources we have highlighted here will help you research, create, and play with different fonts. Research and inspiration What The Font Have you ever seen a typeface that you like but cannot identify? This site solves this problem. It allows you to upload an image match your font with one of over 130,000 fonts in its database. It will also find similar fonts you can use in your projects.

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Animating Is Child’s Play With This iPad App

Looom allows us to create animated loops on our iPad in a simple and intuitive way

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15 Free Apps and Resources to Spur Your Creativity

Check out a set of free resources to spur creativity in the time of #StayAtHome

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10 Apps for Remote Working

If you're considering working from home, these apps could be just what you're looking for Working remotely isn't just a craze, it's becoming more common every day. Buffer's State of Remote Work annual report analyses the challenges, perceptions, and advantages for professional communities that work remotely. Of all the insights the study shares, perhaps the most interesting question is: "Would you like to work remotely, at least some of the time, in your career?" The result:

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5 Reference Websites for Ad Research

Discover new sources of inspiration for your high-impact advertising campaigns Whether you specialize in design, creativity, production or another area of ​​advertising, this list of sites we have put together for World Advertising Day could prove useful to you. All of them will help you research your campaigns and find documentation of numerous other campaigns throughout history, with detailed archives organised by categories, countries and media. In addition to being excellent reference options, they offer instant inspiration, so bookmark them all!

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10 apps that we used to obsess over but are now vintage

We review some smartphone apps that you probably still have but no longer use In a world that moves at the crazy-fast speed imposed by the Internet, the popularity cycle of mobile applications seems to be getting shorter and shorter. The proof of this is that it doesn't take long to recall a good number of apps that were incredibly popular years ago but are hardly talked about anymore. We decided to pay a small tribute to ten of these apps. They are examples of compelling interface designs and clever concepts that conquered hundreds of thousands of people around the world but faded away in our memories. 1. Angry Birds Back in 2012, the name of this mobile video game was literally on everyone's lips. One of the most downloaded games in history, Angry Birds conquered millions of people around the world with its simple and addictive mechanics. Unfortunately, after knowing in 2014 that the US Security Agency had used player data to build surveillance databases, and a sequel not very well received, the game gradually disappeared.

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Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Work More Efficiently in Maya

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10 Apps to Improve Your Productivity and Organize Your Life

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The 20 essential keyboard shortcuts to boost your Cinema 4D productivity

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10 essential keyboard shortcuts to master Adobe After Effects

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