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How we came up with and drew the mascot for 404 Festival
In the coming fall the next (third in a row) festival of web developers, Internet evangelists, designers and other supporters of the industry will be held in Samara. You are welcome to learn more about the event, its history, organizers and participants here and this article talks about the mascot we developed for the upcoming event.
Tutorial: drawing a 3D character from a plain logo
Turbomilkers dig Twitter and most of us are thrilled by their ability to share their deep thoughts though this web service. When we faced the need to share the twits with twitter users from other countries, we developed a convenient service that will be translating our twits from Russian into any other language (a whole selection of languages) and post them in Twitter automatically.
“Circumcision”, a children’s holiday
Let’s recall the operating systems of the last century — the range of MS Windows up to 2000, Mac OS up to version 9. All of them supported only icons with one-bit transparency. Fortunately, the industry is moving ahead and the modern operating systems nowadays use the eight-bit transparency. However, for the sake of back compatibility Microsoft has recommended to include resources with one-bit transparency into icons made for Windows XP. With time the tinkering with turning the modern eight-bit transparency into one-bit was romantically coined “cutting edges” among icon designers. Today, I am going to talk about this “tinkering”…
Gamma Correction: We Wanted the Best, You Know the Rest
It may seem that the peaceful coexistence of two different platforms, Macintosh and PC, within one office has long ceased to cause problems. No one could imagine that it is in our age of going global and of open barriers that we’d find yet another catch in a thing as easy as preparation of pictures to show intermediate results to the client. Sit back and get all eyes on this teaching story.
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