So, if you are the one to master 3D art in Blender software, this post will be obviously handy. Here you will find 20+ from Roman Klco’s numerous tutorials showing the process of 3D modeling. This set features 3D artworks inspired by famous movies and cartoons. Here you will find places, buildings, characters, vehicles, objects, and details that will instantly remind you of known stories. Enjoy!

Jurassic Park

The Sopranos

Iron Man’s Garage

Harry Potter’s Patronus

Hogwarts

Hogwarts Express

Simpson’s House

Bumblebee Beetle

Star Wars Stormtroopers

Star Wars Millenium Falcon

Star Wars AT-AT

Star Wars X-Wing

Knight Rider

Friend’s Central Perk

Witcher

Witcher Castle

Avengers HQ

Futurama Ship

Futurama

Rick and Morty’s Garage

Kill Bill Character

Thor Character

Check more projects by Roman Klco on Dribbble

For more inspiration, check the video tutorials on Procreate illustrations, examples of awesome 3D illustrations, black and white illustrations, 3D portraits of famous people, dog illustrations, love illustrations, and other posts from our D4U Gallery in which we gather impressive creatives to share their art with you.

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The release of the new style called Fluent Icons was announced on Product Hunt today, and we’d like to unveil a bit more about that news in our fresh D4U Review post.

The new design style contains 965 color graphics covering a variety of topics.

The bright color graphics are pixel perfect and consistent to be effectively used in user interfaces, infographics, presentations, and social media visuals. The icons can be used in personal and commercial projects, free for a link attribution. Those who have Icons8 Pro license, get the extended range of options as they can get all the icons in SVG format in various sizes.

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These product images are great to post and share throughout online shops and social media! These are also perfect to make your product catalog and it makes it so much easier for you to keep updating regularly and here is why.

They Make It Easier to Update Your Product Images

Instead of having to hire a professional photographer every time you make new designs or want to renew your products in-store or on your website, you can simply update your images with mockups that you can make in a few seconds. No need to spend a fortune on photoshoots.

What’s the great thing about mockups? You can also use the exact same image if you want to keep a style through your website, but you can also upload different angles from the same product, different colors, and anything else you need to really show you design!

What Kind of Mockups Can You Use?

There are tons of mockups styles you can use to make your images. Let’s go over some of your options.

Studio Mockups

Studio mockups are great to point all focus on your products. Lighting is very flattering, backgrounds are neat and clear. It’s the perfect image for a product to show its features with a very close look!

Context Mockups

Context mockups are great to show your products being used in real-life situations and events to show your designs’ style. You can use for example an urban setting, you can show you products in the wild, in the city, how they look on a house, and basically any surrounding you may need to give context to your products.

Mockups with Models

Again, a great mockup style to show products being used by real-life consumers! You can choose all kinds of models depending on who your product is for. There are kids, adults and seniors, all races, shapes, colors, and sizes! Plus, you can choose your model activity if you are making a sport’s product for example, if it’s for a bridesmaids party, even for dog products! There is surely a perfect mockup for your needs.

Garment Only Mockups

These are literally “garment only mockups” which means no models, just product but they can vary from studio shots to context backgrounds. The focus is completely on your product but it may also have a few other elements to accent it’s own style or usability.

Mockup Type According to Its Use

Depending on what kind of products your designs are for, you can choose a different type of mockups, for example, apparel mockups for any apparel product. Print mockups show branding material like flyers, posters, business cards and more. Devices mockups are great to show apps or websites and how they look on different technological devices like phones, tablets, computers, kindles, smartwatches and more.

Making a Mockup Is Easy

This is certainly a task for everyone, designer or not, the time you can save on your work by using mockups is precious. Making a mockup takes only a few seconds. Basically, you start by choosing the right mockup for your design (this might be the most difficult part since there are so many options). Depending on which site you are using to make your mockups, you will be finding different filter options or even tags. Use your filtering options to get to the right mockup for you and consider all the styles we have mentioned before.

1. On Placeit, for example, to choose the right template, and you may use tons of different tags, filters, and even a search bar to find exactly what you are looking for.

2. After, you simply have to drag and drop your design or upload it from your computer. You can adjust your design as many times as you need to get a perfect product mockup.

3. When you are done you simply have to click on the download button. Now, your downloading options on Placeit are the following: you may get a PNG file with great quality to post and share anywhere or you may choose a high format image for large scale printing purposes.

To Wrap It Up

So to recap, mockups are a great tool for any kind of designer due to how versatile they can be. You can find tons of different mockup styles that can perfectly suit your designs work to showcase them in the best way. They look professional and because it is so easy to make a mockup, you can update your content constantly with new images and with new designs as often as you need.

Save tons of hours on photoshoots and editing with pre-made templates that allow you to show your designs using fantastic looking mockups. Get as many images as you want all under a budget, this may vary greatly depending on which website you decide to use, but most places will give you mockups for a very fair price.

Placeit, for instance, gives you unlimited downloads with your subscription, yes that’s right, unlimited downloads. You can find product mockups categories like tote bag mockup, hoodie mockup, mug mockup, bag mockup, coaster mockup, apron mockup and so much more!

About the author: that’s the guest post by Valeria Santalla is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer and writer that loves to create branding images for local business, collaborating at Placeit.net one of the largest logo maker and design template library website.

Check 17 trends in graphic design and illustration, get inspired with collections of creative logos and packaging, and review 6 stages of branding design

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The tech world continues to evolve and provide people with problem-solving tools for different fields. UX designers are often under pressure and need to provide a high-quality outcomes within strict deadlines. That’s why it’s important to have a set of effective design tools that would advance the workflow. In this article, we have gathered a list of useful tools for UI and UX designers based on our experience and additional research. Let’s see what they are.

Illustration by Tubik

Wireframing and prototyping tools

Sketch

Sketch app is by far the most demanded tool among interface designers. The biggest advantage Sketch provides to its users is a simple and clear functionality. It can be used as a prototyping tool as well as the software to create icons and illustrations. The program is vector-based and gives the opportunity to work with layers and shapes which can be easily manipulated via the tools panel.

Moreover, the tool provides effective guidelines, for example, you can see dimensions of the components and spacing between them only by holding the alt key. Due to the concise functionality, the program is light, so it works much faster not overloading the computer which saves time (and nerve!) for designers. Yet, there is one specific feature about Sketch: it works only on Mac and there are no exceptions.

Adobe XD

New approaches in UI and UX design encouraged software developers to upgrade their products and even create new ones focused on specific tasks such as layout structuring. Adobe group wasn’t an exception so they launched their newest product Adobe XD (experience design) in 2016. It came as an alternative to Photoshop and Illustrator for UI and UX designers and managed to receive quite high ratings.

This program is specially meant for UX designers creating wireframes, interactive prototypes, and vector design. It is a good chance for Adobe fans to come back to the familiar tool with the significant upgrades focused on the user interface design. For those who are new to web design, XD interface may seem a bit difficult to figure out. Adobe XD is now available for both Mac and Windows 10 operational systems.

Figma

It is one of the most trending design tools today which brings innovative solutions and opportunities for UI designers. First of all, it is the professional design tool which is based on the web enabling design teams to collaborate in real-time working on one page. Also, designers can even export CSS right inside the program which enhances the communication with a development team. Figma allows for creating wireframes, prototypes, and vector icons for free just by signing-up but it works only for individuals while teams need to pay for it. In addition, the app is available for various operating systems.

Lunacy

Lunacy started as a Sketch files viewer for Windows users, but now it’s full-scale graphic editing software that enables Windows users to open, create and manipulate Sketch files. It is especially helpful for the teams whose members work on the computers with different operating systems. Therefore, for different stages of a process, it may be the way to make the flow more productive and friendly to all the participants – designers, developers, clients, and managers. What makes it even more attractive, it’s free for everyone.

Interactive prototyping

Marvel

Marvel is a free cloud-based tool for interactive prototyping which requires no coding skills. You can download wireframes from Sketch and Photoshop or even take a photo of a sketch made on a paper and then create realistic prototypes of a mobile app or website. Marvel offers to create unlimited projects for free with commenting on your first 3 projects. Also, you can get a paid premium plan with unlimited projects and comments along with removed Marvel branding and more additional features.

InVision

It is a free tool for creating interactive prototypes. InVision got the popularity since it enables to import files easily files from Sketch or Photoshop and build animated design. Interactive prototype in InVision looks like the real-life project because designers can link the pages simulating the usage of a real website or mobile app. Moreover, InVision helps to improve feedback process allowing to provide comments right on a prototype.

One more special feature is organizing UI components in different columns showing the status such as to-do, in progress, or approved. This way both a client and designer can control the workflow more efficiently.

Principle

This is a simple app which aims at creating animated UI design. The significant feature of Principle is that it can work even offline so your work progress doesn’t depend on the quality of the Internet connection. Interactive prototypes can be easily converted into a GIF or video and be shared in a portfolio on Dribbble or elsewhere. The interface of this tool is quite similar to Sketch app, so it would be easy to use for many designers. Also, an interesting feature is that you can preview designs on iOS devices. And here comes a pitfall. Principle software is only available for the iOS system, so Windows fans need to look for alternatives.

UXPin

The UXPin team is known as experts in user experience design field who constantly share their knowledge in various books and articles. Their product, UXPin editor, is a web-based tool for prototyping which can be used for creating wireframes along with high-quality mockups and turning them into interactive prototypes. Also, designers can download their wireframes from Sketch or Photoshop for prototyping in UXPin. In addition, the software can automatically generate style guides and specs for developers.

Color choice tools

ColorHexa

This is a free web-based tool helping to generate effective color schemes. You just need to enter a color value into the search field and you get detailed information: tints, shade, and tones as well as the alternatives and suggested color schemes. One of the biggest privileges of this tool is that it shows how a color will be perceived by people affected by a color vision deficiency. This way designers can make sure that their design will look good for users with colorblindness too. In addition, ColorHexa provides alternatives for color in different formats.

Paletton

Paletton is a free web tool assisting to pick color harmony for user interfaces. It is the software which UI designers have been using for color choice for a long time. Paletton has a simple functionality: people need to choose a color on a color wheel or enter its value and the tool generates beautiful schemes. Also, users can choose a type of color scheme and see similar schemes in different tones.

Flat UI Color

The flat design direction keeps being popular so a tool for choosing flat colors is a must-have. Flat UI Color is a website providing sufficient flat color schemes. All colors contain the HEX codes which can be copied right into the main software like Photoshop or into a style guide. The app has a narrow focus but it’s extremely useful for those who often work with flat design.

Material Design Color Tool

Color Tool is a free web-based app which is a part of Google’s material design resource which many of you may be familiar with. The app is focused on mobile design providing material color schemes. Users can try schemes on mobile templates which are also available in Color Tool. In addition, you can find the data on the accessibility of the chosen color schemes and adapt it if needed.

Pictaculous

To find color inspiration many designers go searching for beautiful photos. Pictaculous helps to analyze colors presented on images and output similar color schemes. You just need to upload a photo from a computer and you get exact colors with the HEX codes right at your disposal. In addition, the suggested color schemes can be saved as Adobe Swatch file.

Typography tools

Google fonts

Typography is one of the basic parts influencing user experience of digital products. That’s why it’s important to have handy tools helping to create effective typography.

Google fonts is a popular free web application featuring over 600 font families. Each of them can be previewed in different size and within a custom text. Also, you can see the loading time of each font so that you could make sure it wouldn’t take too long. Google fonts provide the data on embedding specific fonts into a product. You can just copy the code generated specifically for the chosen font in the right section of HTML document.

Typekit

Typekit is a time-tested tool with a library of fonts. Here you can find the variety of fonts from the classic one to the brand new choices. To use Typekit you just need to subscribe and get the access to all fonts. The tool has a clear interface with all the essential data about fonts including weight and style. Even more, it allows for seeing each font in different sizes and some colored backgrounds.

Fontjoy

One of the biggest dilemmas in typography creation is font pairing. There are thousands of fonts and it can become an endless process of choosing a perfect match. Fontjoy is a handy tool for font pairing integrated with Google fonts library. You can just choose fonts setting the right characteristics like size and weight.

This free tool pulls a full library of fonts straight from Google Webfonts and curates them together on one page. Then you choose which font(s) you’d like to test including the size, weight, and line height on the page and wait for the match. In addition, you can regulate how contrasting or similar you want a pair to be just by using a slider on the top of the app.

Typetester

Sometimes we can’t decide which font of the two chosen suits better. Typetester is a quick solution for testing and comparing fonts. It provides previews of multiple fonts on one page with their parameters including leading and tracking. Fonts can be chosen from different sources such as Google fonts or Apple Mac defaults and tested by adjustment of their size, alignment, as well as with customized text and backgrounds.

Calligraphr

Custom fonts is an effective way to add originality to a product. Calligraphr can create fonts based on handwriting. You need to download a template with your writing and the tool will generate it into vector fonts. After they are generated you can edit the details to polish your custom font.

Icons and graphics tools

Icons8 app

Icons8 is an app for Windows and Apple containing about 90,000 icons for digital products. Even more, every day new icons are added to the library. The app guides you through the library helping to find the right pack of icons by categories. Here you can find icons for iOS, Android and Windows platforms available in various formats. The selected pack can be copied right into Sketch, Figma, and others. Moreover, all icons can be recolored and resized in your editor. Icons8 allows downloading PNG icons on 100×100 for free. If you want to get access to all the icons in different formats, you can get a paid license.

Free Icon Maker

If you don’t like any of the icons found on the Web you can make them by yourself. Icons can be created in one of the visual editors such as Sketch, Illustrator, and Figma, or you can apply some free web-based tools. Free Icon Maker allows for creating and editing icons online. When you register there, you are free to use all the features such as downloading icons from the SVG files to modify them in this tool.

IconJar

Designers often download hundreds of icon packs and then it becomes hard to find the right one. IconJar is an effective organizer providing folders for specific icons. For example, if you need to find a “home” icon, you can search for it by the name and the tool will show you the icons from all sets. IconJar is available only for MacOS but soon there may be a Windows version. The program is paid but it has a free trial.

Ouch

UX designers that aren’t skilled in drawing can face the problem of the boring content for app screens and web pages. Ouch helps creators to overcome the lack of quality graphics. At the moment, the resource presents illustrations in 14 styles for 23 typical UX screens such as “fatal error”, “message set”, “downloading”, “subscribe” and many others. You can use them free for a link to the resource or buy the license to get the access to editable files and use the graphics without credits.

Collaboration tools

Trello

Our personal preference for projects monitoring as well as in-studio information flow is Trello. This tool is simple, effective, clear, and intuitive. This tool for communication provides clear systems of boards and cards which have a gear deal of features. It makes possible to split any task into sprints and enables us to carry out the project providing constant updates and presenting images. It is easy to set deadlines (due-dates), delegate specific tasks to specific people, create checklists and mark out the most important and urgent tasks. It also has one more really precious feature. Trello has not only thoroughly thought-out website but also efficient and smart applications for iOS and Android. This gives an additional opportunity for fast feedback so it saves time, efforts and makes management of the projects very comfortable for the customers. Trello is a great option for creating the spot where designers, project managers, and customers could together make a fast and effective workflow.

Zeplin

A successful design project is built upon effective communication of the creative team and clients. Zeplin is a platform for enhancing the collaboration between designers and developers. The major feature is a detailed style guide generator which makes sure design elements are implemented appropriately. Designers can upload wireframes from Sketch adding them to project folders in Zeplin. This way developers get all the data about designs including sizes, colors, and CSS suggestions for UI components.

Presentator

Presentator is a free web-based collaboration tool enabling to share designs with team members, developers, and clients. You can download a file and decide on permissions to it. For example, some may have full access with the ability to leave comments while others may have read-only access. The biggest advantage of this tool is that it’s absolutely free for everyone.

A useful tool works effectively only for those who know what they are doing. So, don’t forget to constantly learn and improve your professional skills. Stay tuned!

Originally written for Tubik Blog
Title illustration by Ouch

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Today D4U Review issue introduces a new service by the Icons8 team called omg-img. Its main goal is to make embedding vector icons in HTML super simple, and it uses a huge collection of icons which is continuously growing and at the moment presents about 50K items available. Users do not even need to insert a Javascript code. This was done with support from a production-scale CDN service provided by KeyCDN.

Users can select icons from more than 10 different styles, specify the size of the icon (up to 512px), and even recolor it. Each style has the size it’s designed for, in other words, pixel-perfect size:
iOS: 50×50
Windows 8: 26×26
Windows 10: 32×32
Android 4: 24×24
Android 5: 24×24
Color: 48×48
Office: 16×16, 30×30, 40×40, 80×80

The team keeps developing and testing the service: a couple of useful features are already being prepared for the next release:
– ability to specify the size as 2x, 3x, etc. instead of in pixels in order to keep correct proportions from the pixel-perfect size for each platform
– adding icon effects like background and a horizontal flip (direction).

Full product description and all the links can be found here. At the moment, all the mentioned functionality is available for icons in png format. The same performance is coming soon for svg and will be open for all the users who have an Icons8 license.

By Icons8, the team behind the great collection of icons for different purposes

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