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We are very excited to have the opportunity to interview Gary Gorzoch, Owner and Creative Director of 44M Design Studio. Gary, who has worked in consumer product and advertising promotional design for more than 25 years, recently utilized PixelSquid objects in his latest advertising campaign work created for the Dungeons & Dragons brand in collaboration with 80sTees.com. A man of …
The PixelSquid library is always growing, with more and more new objects being published to our catalog every week. Today, the PixelSquid Team is proud to announce that we’ve hit a big milestone: our catalog now contains over 40,000 objects ready to be added to your designs. To our customers who’ve been with us throughout these years, THANK YOU for …
We are very excited to have the opportunity to interview Paul Trani, Principal Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe and PixelSquid user! Paul recently demonstrated PixelSquid in a Photoshop Masterclass video and was happy to answer questions about his process, his teachings, and melding 2D and 3D art techniques. PixelSquid: Tools like Dimension and PixelSquid have made 3D more accessible …
As digital art becomes more ubiquitous, working digital artists often need to iterate on concepts at high speed. Video game 2D artist and student Camilo Polanco shows us how he uses PixelSquid objects to create a fully fleshed out post-apocalyptic mood piece, complete with aged ruins and overgrown flora, without the hassle of clipping and masking leaf-by-leaf. Read on to …
This holiday season, PixelSquid is proud to be a sponsor of Christmas Wish 2019! For the past four years, The heART Project team, led by photographer Karen Alsop, has visited hospitalized children who are unable to go home for Christmas. A green screen, talented editors, and Santa Claus are all it takes to create incredible holiday magic: family portraits that …
If you’re signing into PixelSquid for the first time in awhile, you may notice that things on our login page look a little different. We have upgraded our account system to make logging in even easier, so PixelSquid users will now log in through our parent company’s domain, TurboSquid.com. In the future, you will be able to share a single …
PixelSquid recently partnered with Chimirus, a professional digital arts training and coaching organization, to bring the people of Chicago a sold out evening of demonstrations in advanced Photoshop design techniques. Our own in-house Designer Ron Domingue was invited to demonstrate how PixelSquid can quickly import 3D stock imagery that can be fully rotated to fit your design needs, allowing you …
You may recognize Shaun Jonas’ futuristic sci-fi style from our most recent favorite new compositions newsletter. As a full-time graphic designer, Shaun uses PixelSquid to continue to improve his already excellent digital art skills. “It just allows my imagination to go wild with all the amazing 3D content and possibilities to create something spectacular. I use this tool most of …
This summer, artist (and PixelSquid Instagram favorite) Ilya Pyatygorskyy was invited to create an original art piece to display at the Borderlands exhibition in Munich by organizers at TechHunter Magazine. “The theme was The Future of Outdoors, and that sparked my interest,” said Pyatygorskyy. “Most, if not all, of my art depicts a possible future world in which humanity could …
PixelSquid is an excellent tool for building a wide range of imagery without the hassle of searching for and preparing the perfect reference image. In this latest edition of our tutorial series, graphic designer and self-proclaimed nonsense-tamer Ingo Lindmeier, aka spiel-sinn, uses PixelSquid objects to create advertising-grade imagery. This piece titled, “Guitaffe” is part of his Haushaltstier series. 1. …
