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Vietnamese illustrator Lucia Pham was born and raised in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, and continues to create in the same city. This gives Lucia Pham a strong connection with her cultural and geographical roots. She mixes those inputs with her feelings, thoughts, and aesthetics. To me, this is what creates her uniqueness: blending cultural motifs and personal experiences. Lucia Pham explains how her mood and feelings affect her creative process to It's Nice That: "When I feel happy, I paint things that are lovely, sweet, with cheerful and bright colors. But when I feel tired, anxious, or sad, I also use illustration to show it, with things that are a bit weird, scary." This process feels so humble and sincere because people can't deliver the same quality every day. And it would be impossible to feel the same way every day. Lucia Pham's latest project, Dragon Spirit, is a great example of these streams of feelings. Dragon Spirit mixes 2D illustration and animation to create a bite-sized, cheerful story. https://vimeo.com/936254828

Art find its way for Lucia Pham

There is an abundance of online and offline tools on the internet right now. Some are generally useful, while others target specific demographics. But one thing is for sure: it takes time and effort to separate the good ones from the others. Ultimately, only the individual knows what is useful for them. However, we took the extra steps and created a summary of productivity focused designer tools under four main categories:

Productivity Focused Designer Tools:

- Browser-based tools - Software that runs in the background - Multiplatform gems - Flavoured with a touch of AI Naturally, there will be correlations between categories since every product aims to be convenient for every user. In such cases, we categorized them based on their strongest features. And lastly, tools are in no particular order in main categories and all descriptions were taken from the tools' websites.

1. Browser based tools

eyecannndy

"EYECANDY is a labor of love for the people. It’s something to enjoy and learn from. It’s not something you should gatekeep— It was made to blow the gates open. It’s forever WIP. It’s never 100% accurate. It’s a little messy. It’s for you. Created by Jacobi. Curated by you." Design Systems Database

"Best-in-class Design Systems with components and foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams" tooooools

"Discover free minimalist and lo-fi effects for image processing online" expense

"Effortlessly Track and Manage Expenses. Our easy-to-use platform allows you to track and categorize your spending, giving you a clear picture of your financials." timezone converter

"Timezones as a project grew out of frustration with current web-based time tracking solutions in different time zones. We didn't like them either visually or in terms of user experience (but most often in all aspects). So we got together and made our own solution. Right now the project is in its early stages, actively developing and receiving updates. There are a lot of interesting updates ahead and your feedback will be very helpful. This file is the very first version, just the web. In the future, we will share new versions and files of other projects you can use as you want and where you want. The design should be free." daybridge

"Make time for what matters We got tired of using office software to plan our personal time. So we're building a new calendar for people, not companies." Layers

"Layers is a design community platform where designers can share work, connect with other designers and build their portfolio." Restorephotos

"Restoring old photos using AI for everyone. Have old and blurry face photos? Let our AI restore them so those memories can live on. 100% free – restore your photos today." Size Calculator

"Enter any two values to calculate the third." Colorbox

"The new ColorBox allows you to create multiple colors at once, allows you to create Dark Mode color variants with one click, and gives you more controls over accessibility indicators!" Shapes

"Explore the collection of 120+ basic SVG shapes for your upcoming project. Simply click on a shape to copy its SVG code to your clipboard." ibelick

"Collection of modern, background snippets. Ready-to-use, simply copy and paste into your next project. All snippets crafted with Tailwind CSS and Vanilla CSS for easy integration." Fontanello

"Fontanello browser extension is the quickest way to find out what font a webpage is using. You simply right click on the text and Fontanello will reveal the name of the typeface and some additional attributes you likely care about." Minimal Theme for 𝕏 / Twitter

"Refine your 𝕏 experience. Remove ads, clutter, and distractions."

2. Software that runs in the background

Setapp

"Setapp membership gives you access to curated apps for Mac, web and iOS." Dato

"Menu bar calendar and world clocks, plus fullscreen meeting notifications" Spacedrive

"One Explorer. All Your Files. Unify files from all your devices and clouds into a single, easy-to-use explorer. Designed for creators, hoarders and the painfully disorganized." eagle

"Organize all your reference images in one place. A better way to collect, search and organize your design files in a logical way and all in one place." fSpy

"Open source still image camera matching." CompressX

"Compress Media Effortlessly Compress video, image, and gif with up to 90% file size reduction without significant loss of quality." Nour

"A next-gen team chat app Async and hi-fi collaboration in one app. It's fast, written in Rust." ScreenshotMagic

"Say goodbye to cluttered desktops: Screenshotmagic is a Mac app that utilizes AI to automatically provide descriptive names for your images." Getkap

"Capture your screen An open-source screen recorder built with web technology." rewind

"Your AI assistant that has all the context. Rewind is a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard. Your colleagues will wonder how you do it all." DisplayBuddy

"Control the brightness of monitors directly from your Mac. No need to touch the clunky buttons on your monitor" In Your Face

"Are you late to meetings because you don't see the notification? In Your Face blocks your screen just in time for the meeting. It is virtually impossible to miss the alert."

3. Multiplatform gems

Paste

"The clipboard as it should be Paste is a new way to keep, search, and organize everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad." Endel

"Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience." Raindrop

"All-in-one bookmark manager. Intuitive. Powerful. Runs everywhere"

4. Flavoured with a touch of AI

Stable Audio

"Create music with AI. Generate up to 3-minute high-quality audio that you can use commercially." Vizcom

"Shortest Path from Imagination to Visualization" audionotesai

"Turn Chaotic Ideas into Practical Notes. Quickly transform your thoughts and audio into professional text, with a versatile approach to expressing and recording ideas." AI Emoji Generator

"2,333,700 emojis generated and counting!" Jenni

"Supercharge Your Next Research Paper Jenni's AI-powered text editor helps you write, edit, and cite with confidence. Save hours on your next paper." typefully

Paris based graphics laboratory WIZZ created a music video for Breakbot and Irfane's single Remedy. The team mixed stop motion and 2D animation and made seamless transitions between mediums. Also director Victor Haegelin states that this quality is a direct result of close collaboration between artist and creative team. The idea was creating one minute loop that could perfectly fits into social media. The story and music takes the viewer into an another realm and when the view lose themselves to the story, it might be hard to realize the loop. The narrative is captivating enough to detach the viewer from reality. The creative team behind the video, WIZZ describe themselves as graphics laboratory and they can create with 2D, 3D, stop motion and mixed media. The music video of Remedy also awarded with best open format » music video award in The Motion Awards.

Check out WIZZ's website and Instagram! And check out Remedy on Spotify and Apple Music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kF5ls4SJOw

Credits:

Photographer Erinn Springer was born in Dunn County, Wisconsin, and completed her bachelor's degree in New York City. She is currently based in both Duluth, Minnesota and Brooklyn, New York. Erinn Springer's work is the outcome of experiencing both rural and city lifestyles. She honors the characteristics of rural life. However, amidst the predominance of urban living, people often overlook their roots in rural areas and the wisdom inherited from the land itself. The "Dormant Season" series documents her journey of reconnecting with her home state. While spending time in rural Wisconsin, she gains a new perspective on rural life, its daily rhythms, and essential aspects. As mentioned in the foreword of "Dormant Season," Erinn Springer's work raises more questions than answers about rural life and the Midwest.

To discover more, visit Erinn Springer's website and Instagram.

STEP 1: Open the /PSD/Design by Dirtybarn.psd file. Add your design according to the template. If your design is not black and white, make it black and white. We will add this design as a bump to our 3D asset. Black areas will be deeper, while areas closer to white will be less deep. You can prepare accordingly.  Note: You will see noise in the background in the work file. This noise is added to give the dotted structure of the pill. If you want to reduce it, you can reduce the opacity of these dots. Overwrite the design you made (SAVE AS->SAVE FOR WEB) on the BLENDERtexturespill.009.png image. STEP 2: At this stage, we will use Blender but only for rendering. So you will not need to know Blender at all.  1.First of all, we download Blender 3.3.  https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-3/ 2.After installing, we look at the ID of the template we like in the folder named BLENDER and double-click on the appropriate Blender file. 3.Click on the button on the right and select OUTPUT to choose which path our video will take.

4.From the top navbar, under the RENDER tab, click on RENDER ANIMATION.

Sam Wood is a London-based 3D illustrator and animator. His style is colorful, eclectic, and flashy. It feels like the Earth is augmented with more fluffy, wobbly, and floated elements. Life is boosted with neon-like lights and it's easy to lose yourself in it. Sam Wood’s work combines the versatility of 3D design and the absurdity of digital figures which they far away from uncanny or realistic. Sam Wood explains his work as “embracing odd movements”. Honestly, his style and approach are just an invitation letter to his world. While Hollywood going crazy about multiverses and extended universes, artists are already doing that for the masses. While each work is ideologically different from the others, each one borrows its insights from the same source. Sam Wood's work is an exceptional example of this as well. He says to It's Nice That, “the relationship between my analogue drawing practice and 3D design form a conversation which is always developing and changing.” Because he is still in touch with physical mediums. When the digital work is finished, he goes back to his sketchbook and draws which is one the sources for inspiration for him.

You can check out Sam Wood's work from his website and Instagram!