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Shico's Notebook
Registrace 30. 01. 2015
2D / 3D Artist.
My channel is a digital notebook for tips and tutorials that I use for personal reference and share with fellow artists.
Videos will be mostly covering Affinity Designer and Blender.
If you find these videos useful, please subscribe/comment/like and share to help it reach others.
Thank you for dropping by!
My channel is a digital notebook for tips and tutorials that I use for personal reference and share with fellow artists.
Videos will be mostly covering Affinity Designer and Blender.
If you find these videos useful, please subscribe/comment/like and share to help it reach others.
Thank you for dropping by!
Affinity Designer: Basic Vector Halftone
This video shows one quick way to create a "Basic Vector Halftone" using the "move/duplicate" menu in Affinity Designer.
Hope you find these tips useful.
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Thank you for watching!
00:00 - Basic Halftone
01:38 - Round Halftone
** I used text to speech software to avoid bad voice recording as I don't have the right equipment, neither the right recording environment.
Hope you find these tips useful.
Please comment/share/like to help it reach others.
Subscribe to stay posted with future tutorials.
Thank you for watching!
00:00 - Basic Halftone
01:38 - Round Halftone
** I used text to speech software to avoid bad voice recording as I don't have the right equipment, neither the right recording environment.
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Blender Tutorial: Import, Distribute and Align Multi-layered SVG (Free addon used)
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This video shows how to import a multi-layers SVG into Blender, then saving time distributing the intersecting layers using a free add-on (At the time of making this video). In short: - Install the free add-on (download link below). - Import the SVG into Blender. - Select the last curve in the outliner and move it up in the Z axis. - Press "N" to open the side panel. - In the "Item" tab, expand...
Blender Tutorial: Rig a Lock with Drivers
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This video shows how to animate a lock with "Drivers" in Blender. For this particular personal project, I wanted to animate the lock when the door slams shut without actually using keyframes. So decided to experiment with drivers to learn more about this area in Blender. Expressions used in this tutorial: - Part 1: (var - start)/(end - start) * (end - start) start - Part 2: (Credit to: Daniel V...
Affinity Designer Quick Tip: Move / Duplicate Window
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Only a couple of days ago I discovered this feature by a coincidence, and wanted to share it as it can be very handy! After recording this video, I came across a more detailed video on this feature by Andrew Buckle at Graphicxextras.com. Check out the link below for more insight on how to use it! czcams.com/video/e7n9Ss9X9qg/video.html I decided to upload the video anyway just in case any of my...
Affinity Quick Tip: Designer's "Symbols" to Photo's "Links"
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This video shows how to modify "Symbols" in Affinity Photo without the need of going back to Affinity Designer. This is not a full tutorial on "Symbols". There are loads of really good ones online that goes in depth on the matter. I just wanted to share this quick tip as I didn't see it mentioned in the tutorials about symbols, or maybe I just missed it! :) Hope you find these tips useful. Plea...
Affinity Designer Quick Tip: Reset Bounding Box
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UPDATE: Serif added a new option in the "Select" menu to "Set the selection box" (bounding box). It works on all shapes, whether it is a closed shape or not! (2.4) This video shows a quick tip on how to reset the bounding box of a shape, as there is no dedicated tool available at the moment. In short: Clicking the "Add" icon will reset the bounding box of the selected shape. However! if the sha...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Create a Tentacle & Distribute Suckers Along Path
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This video shows how to create a simple tentacle, by modifying the stroke's "Profile" and how to add and distribute the suckers (or Suction Cups) along the tentacle. I was working on a design the other day that involved creating a tentacle with suckers. While the actual tentacle was straight forward, distributing the suckers took a bit of experimenting to get it the way I want. I decided to sha...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Maintain Stroke Width and Layer's Name in Illustrator
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In this video I show how to export in SVG format to Illustrator while maintaining the stroke width. Even though some of us switched completely to Affinity, in some cases you might need to export stuff back to Illustrator (on a client's request...etc). The advantage of using SVG instead of PDF is to keep the layers as you named them. However, if you use the default SVG export, the strokes might ...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Rotate Unusual Shapes Flat on Specific Side
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In this video you will see one way of rotating unusual shapes flat on a specific side. Another quick way to do it is by using the "Point Transform Tool" as mentioned by Reddit user Trallly in the link below: www.reddit.com/r/AffinityDesigner/comments/zm4lo7/comment/j0a81ut/?context=3 Hope you find these tips useful. Please comment/share/like to help it reach others. Subscribe to stay posted wit...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Creating a Spiral
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UPDATE: Serif added a new "Spiral" tool in their recent update! (2.3) A quick tutorial showing my way of creating an Archimedean Spiral in Affinity Designer. While there are already few good Spiral tutorials out there, I am sharing my way of doing it, in case this technique (using the "Corner" tool) might came in handy for some of you who are looking to create shapes with the same characteristi...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Mirror Shapes with Equal Distance from Guideline
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This video shows how to mirror a shape while maintaining the same distance from a guideline in Affinity Designer. It takes less than a minute to create a "Mirror" object. Once it's there, it will save you a lot of time when you want to mirror multiple shapes while keeping an accurate equal distance from a specific guideline. *UPDATE* Another quicker way to achieve the "mirroring" than the one I...
Affinity Designer Tutorial: Vector Stars Background in 1 minute
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In this video I will show you how to create vector stars background quickly in Affinity Designer. I decided to make this video after I needed a quick vector star background myself and couldn't find an affinity tutorial on the subject online. I was looking to have more control on the stars (size/color/placement) after creating it. Using the dashed line was the right option for me. Thank you in a...
Another quicker way to achieve the "mirroring" than the one mentioned in this video: - Move the shape's anchor point to the guideline, then rotate it 180 degrees and flip vertically. *This also works with multiple shapes selected together.
Nicely done.
Thank you Jeremy!
thx
You are welcome!
Was just trying to work this out myself, this will make it much easier, Thank you 😃👍
You are welcome Andrew! Glad to hear it was useful! :)
What a bad video
Affinity is shit
What I have done in past with text that I have rotated and sheared was to convert to curves then ungroup, click off, then select all the letters and regroup.
It works but after that you can't edit the text again. Serif added a new option to set the selection box: - In the "Select" menu choose cycle selection to temporary reset the selection box. - Then in the same menu choose "set selection box" to permanently keep it in the new position.
Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing it!
Thank you Wil! 🙏
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Fantastic!
Thank you!
This is the strangest mirror method I've ever seen, Affinity cannot duplicate mirror from given point?!
It is strange indeed, however, that's the only workaround I found (unless I am missing something...). I just checked again to see it if they changed it with the recent update but nothing new. Hope they upgrade the mirroring feature soon.
@@shiconotebook the lack if this feature was SUCH a disappointment when I found it !
@@supafur I know what you mean, it's such a basic feature. It's been requested in the forums for years and they still haven't implemented it. BTW, in the meantime, I started using a quicker way to achieve the "mirroring" than the one I mentioned above: - Move the shape's anchor point to the guideline, then rotate it 180 degrees and flip vertically. It's not the best solution but works quicker... for now.
You are very clever in the way you use the program. Thanks.
Thank you for the kind comment! Just so you know, in the recent Affinity update they added a dedicated spiral tool, so now you don't have to use this work-around anymore :)
Perfect! Well done. Thanks.
Thank you! :)
2:15 Hey, I follow your tutorial on Ipad Affinity but stop here cuz I dont have any idea of how to paste those objects to path. Any silution?
Hi, sorry I don't have an Ipad to test this but just found a thread discussing this issue and with a possible work around. The user had a file attached but seems to be unavailable now. Do you have an access to a desktop version to create the file mentioned? If not then I will try to prepare one tomorrow and link it to this video. forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/176018-shapes-along-path-on-ipad/
@@shiconotebook wow, many thanks man. I'll try it.
@@user-xz4ny1bk8e No worries! Let me know how it goes just so I know if it works as I can't test it myself. It seems to have some issues still as mentioned by the other user but I guess it's one workaround for now.
So glad that you posted this--helped me out quite a bit! I wasn't happy with my attempts to freehand it XD
Thank you TheAjayTyler! I really appreciate your comment, great to hear the video helped you! :)
Hi Charbel, this does not work for me on a complex closed shape, just FYI! Still looking for a way to reset the bounding box on this shape. It's a shape I've subtracted from in several places. Even using intersect with a filled rectangle does not reset it. Very interesting.
Hi Vectarr, sorry to hear that the first method is not working for you! I guess it could vary depending on the complexity of the shape. It looks like the only workaround is using the second method I mentioned in the video. By grouping the shape or creating a rectangle and putting the shape inside it. I do hope they will add a dedicated reset tool in future!
@@shiconotebook In hindsight I suspect it didn't work because I have switched to their V2 of their suite. Placing in a rectangle would work, however I found exporting to SVG takes objects out of the rectangle and applies a mask to the objects that were contained, which seems to affect the outermost bounding box (and what the program considers to be the object's dimensions). However, V2 has a shape builder tool. So the solution I now use very effectively is to simply re-create the offending object with the shape-builder tool. Its clone will have a straight bounding box. Thank you for the video! I hope you keep making them!
@@Vectarr_ I didn't need to export to svg so far so didn't come across that issue but thanks for pointing it out! Using the shape builder tool seems the way to go now, haven't played around enough with it yet. Thank you! I will try my best to find useful tips! :)
Hey, just in case you didn't know, they added a new feature in the recent update (2.4) to "set the selection box". You can find it in the "Select" menu.
This method is so much better then using power duplicate over and over + you don't have to put in as much work scaling it. thank you!!!
Glad to hear you find it useful! Thank you for the comment Winston!
Excellent!
Thank you!
Thank you, thats what tutorials should look like!
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it!
Just what I needed ! Thank you!
You are welcome! Glad you found it useful! 😎👍🏻
Great tutorial! Quick and concise, thank you!🥰
Thank you Helen!! 🙏🏼😁